Unit 1: Language Focus

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
/ z / / s/ / iz /
Check the correct column pronunciation of each of the letter S
purposes, smiles, teaches, misses, advantages, sees, maps, cats,
glasses, boxes, cups, robs, lives, reads, books, laughs, wishes, beds, digs,
lengths, calculates, washes, rises, stages, learns, comes, goes, days,
wears, churches, pages, attacks, pens, potatoes, matches, cats, tigers,
graphs, eats, fills, brings, loves, suggests, stamps, moves, cries, songs,
faces, girls, oranges, keeps, troops.
/ z / / s/ / iz /
Smiles, sees, robs,
lives, reads, beds,
digs, learns, comes,
goes, days, tigers,
potatoes, pens,
wears, fills, brings,
loves, moves, cries,
songs, girls
Maps, cats, cups,
books, laughs,
calculates, attacks,
cats, eats, graphs,
suggests, stamps,
troops, lengths,
keeps
Purposes, teaches,
misses,
Advantages,
glasses, boxes,
wishes, washes,

rises, stages,
churches, pages,
matches, faces,
oranges
Check the correct column pronunciation of each of the letter S
purposes, smiles, teaches, misses, advantages, sees, maps, cats,
glasses, boxes, cups, robs, lives, reads, books, laughs, wishes, beds, digs,
lengths, calculates, washes, rises, stages, learns, comes, goes, days,
wears, churches, pages, attacks, pens, potatoes, matches, cats, tigers,
graphs, eats, fills, brings, loves, suggests, stamps, moves, cries, songs,
faces, girls, oranges, keeps, troops.
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 
    
  


 

Further Pracce
I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the
other:
1. A. talks B. laughs C. weighs D. misses
2. A. robs B. studies C. learns D. invites
3. A. rents B. lends C. borrows D. calls
II. Choose the best answer among A, B, C, or D.
1. When I last saw him, he _____ in London.
A. has lived B. is living C. was living D. has been living
2. We _______ Dorothy since last Saturday.
A. don’t see B. haven’t seen C. didn’t see D. hadn’t seen
3. The train ______ half an hour ago.
A. has been leaving B. left C. has left D. had left
4. Jack ______ the door.
A. has just painted B. paint C. will have painted D. painting
5. My sister ________ for you since yesterday.
A. is looking B. was looking C. has been looking D. looked
6. I ______ Texas State University now.
A. am attending B. attend C. was attending D. attended
7. He has been selling motorbikes ________.
A. ten years ago B. since ten years C. for ten years ago D. for ten years
Answer: Further Pracce
I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the
other:
1. A. talks B. laughs C. weighs D. misses
2. A. robs B. studies C. learns D. invites
3. A. rents B. lends C. borrows D. calls

II. Choose the best answer among A, B, C, or D.
1. When I last saw him, he _____ in London.
A. has lived B. is living C. was living D. has been living
2. We _______ Dorothy since last Saturday.
A. don’t see B. haven’t seen C. didn’t see D. hadn’t seen
3. The train ______ half an hour ago.
A. has been leaving B. left C. has left D. had left
4. Jack ______ the door.
A. has just painted B. paint C. will have painted D. painting
5. My sister ________ for you since yesterday.
A. is looking B. was looking C. has been looking D. looked
6. I ______ Texas State University now.
A. am attending B. attend C. was attending D. attended
7. He has been selling motorbikes ________.
A. ten years ago B. since ten years C. for ten years ago D. for ten years