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Study Notes
Conversation
- A conversation between two people, discussing their siblings and jobs
- One person's brother is a doctor, and the other person's sister is a journalist
- They discuss whether their siblings would get along, given their shy and quiet nature
Pronunciation and Intonation
- Practice listening and repeating conversations with a focus on intonation and rhythm
- Use rising intonation for echo questions (e.g. "You are?")
- Practice responding to sentences with an echo question and then stating whether you are the same or different
Grammar and Vocabulary
- Review of grammar and vocabulary for:
- Present perfect (simple and continuous)
- Illness and treatment
- Consonant and vowel sounds
- Adjective and related sentence structures
- Clauses of contrast and purpose
- Business and advertising
- Changing stress in nouns and verbs
- Relative clauses
- Prefixes
- Word stress
- Colloquial English
Q&A and Interviews
- Q&A format is used in publications to interview people in the news
- Personal questions are often asked, and the respondent must answer truthfully
Grammar Exercises
- Complete questions with one or two question words or an auxiliary verb
- Identify questions with auxiliary verbs, no auxiliary verbs, and those that end with a preposition
- Practice inverting subject + auxiliary verb order to make questions
Pronunciation Exercises
- Listen to questions and identify the one that sounds more friendly and interested
- Practice intonation, stress, and rhythm in questions to sound more friendly and interested when speaking English
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Description
Practice your English conversation skills with this short dialogue between two people discussing their siblings' careers and personalities.
