3. PRONUNCIATION: /ə/ sound in comparatives

Listen and repeat the examples.

(Phát âm: âm /ə/ trong so sánh hơn. Nghe và lặp lại các ví dụ.)

1. cleaner

2. safer

3. It's nicer than New York.

4. I think Gino's is cheaper than Luigi's.

Now indicate the word whose bold part differs from the other three in pronunciation.

(Bây giờ chỉ ra từ có phần in đậm khác so với ba từ còn lại về phát âm.)

1. a. cleaner       b. woman       c. mother     d. man

2. a. nicer           b. safer           c. about      d. any

3 a. cheaper        b. bigger         c. compete   d. tutor

4. a. larger          b. enter           c. grammar d. verb

PRONUNCIATION

Choose the word which has different sound in the underlined part.

UNIT 1:  Sounds /ɜ:/ & /ə/

1.   A. prefer                                      B. dinner                                C. water                                  D. brother

2.   A. turn                              B. put                          C. burn                       D. fur

3.   A. further                         B. answer                   C. future                     D. teacher

4.   A. learner                         B. prefer                     C. sister                      D. return

5.   A. concern                       B. control                   C. correct                   D. hot

UNIT 2: Sounds/f/ & /v/

1.   A. surf                              B. roof                        C. of                            D. father

2.   A. laugh                           B. though                   C. cough                     D. enough

3.   A. of                                 B.funny                      C. wife                        D. bookshelf

4.   A. fork                              B. vampire                 C. move                      D. of

5.   A. rough                           B. fast                         C. although                D.ferry