This document contains materials from an English language class covering pronunciation and listening skills. It includes a phonetic chart, examples of minimal word pairs that differ by a single sound like "truck" and "track", and an exercise identifying words with the sounds "ʌ" and "æ". It also addresses syllable stress patterns and paraphrasing sentences. Discussion questions are provided about consumerism, environmental footprints, and happiness levels over time. An optional extension task involves preparing a short presentation on one of the discussion topics.

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Pronunciation and
Listening
EAP5A week 1 Monday AM

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Phonemic Chart

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Pronunciation: Minimal Pairs
ʌ æ
truck track
cut cat
hut hat
bun ban
bug bag
uncle ankle

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Minimal Pairs (Cont.)
Practice: Which sounds are ʌ and
which ones are æ?
1. More stuff equals less happiness.
2. We’ve become such good shoppers
that we need even more space.
3. I bet that among other things this gave
you less freedom.
4. Our happiness levels flat-lined.

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Syllable Stress
Put the following words from the video into the
correct column.
happiness, industry, possessions, apartment,
arteries, familiar
0oo o0o

6. Word Stress
Speakers often stress important
words.
Listen to the first 2 sentences of
the talk. Which words does the
speaker stress?
“What's in the box? Whatever it is
must be pretty important, because I've
travelled with it, moved it, from
apartment to apartment to
apartment.”

7. Paraphrasing Group work
After paraphrasing the sentences, go back
and try to paraphrase the underlined
vocabulary.
You may use nominalisation, change the
way that nouns are connected, or use a
synonym.

8. Group Discussion
Do you think that people consume too much?
What do you think you could buy less of?
Do you ever think about your ‘environmental
footprint’? What could you do to reduce it?
Do you think people are about as happy now as
they were 50 years ago? Why/why not?
What do you think that the speaker had in his
box?

9. Extension task (optional)
With a partner, write notes for a short, two-
minute presentation answering one of
these questions.
1. What could you do to reduce your
environmental footprint?
2. Do you think people are about as happy
now as they were 50 years ago? Why/why
not?