EXERCISE:
PHONETICES AND VOCABULARY
I. PHONETICES
Write the words from the box in the correct part of the table, according to the stress pattern.
Examinee
Interviewee
Trainee
Absence
Devotee
Committee
Coffee
Nominee
Referee
Trustee
Refugee
Expellee
Addressee
Jubilee
Guarantee
Divorce
Payee
Sudanese
Burmese
Lebanese
Maltese
Nepalese
Congolese
Japanese
Vietnamese
Chinese
Senegalese
Togolese
Viennese
Annamese
Oo
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OO
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Ooo
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OOo
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OoO
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OooO
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II. VOCABULARY: Fill in each blank of the passage with the words in thebox.
A snack
Open
Gardens
Start
Stay
Go to work
Close
Finish
Life in Britain
Homes: Most British people live in houses, not flats. Most houses have (1)__________.
Daily life: Most office workers (2)_____________ at about nine o’clock in the morning and finish at about five or six in the evening. People don’t go home for lunch. People usually eat a big meal in the evening – they just have (3)___________ at lunchtime.
School life: Children start school at about nine o’ clock and (4)___________ at about half past three. Most children have lunch at school. Children (5)___________ school when they are four or five years old and leave when they are sixteen or eighteen.
Shops and restaurants: Shop (6)______________ at about nine o’clock in the morning and (7)____________ at about ten in the evening. Normally, they don’t close for lunch. Most shops open on Sunday, too. Many supermarkets (8)___________ open twenty-four hours, but most pubs and restaurants close at about eleven o’clock in the evening