A. First practise the sound /ae/ in some of the words from the dialogue. Read the words aloud or visit the website to practise.

1. Allen salad habit travel Janet absent sandwich contracts cancelled

2. animals Africa antelope Annabelle Anthony passengers anchovy

3. alligator advertising

Which of the list of words (1, 2, 3) above have the word stress patterns below? The big circles are the strongly stressed syllables and the small circles are the weakly stressed syllables.

a) Ooo      b) Oooo       c) Oo

1. He hasn’t done the backup.

2. Aaron doesn’t have to come back,

3. The computer has crashed.

a) ooOooO  b) oOoooOo   c) OoooOooO

1. Aaron works at the Ajax Travel Agency.

2. He’s on holiday in .

3. His boss is Mrs .

4. Aaron left an and on his desk.

5. He to contact Anthony about the of  he on .

6. Aaron has a habit of being from work.

7. Aaron booked a to San with three an anteater, an , and an .

8. The computer has and Aaron hadn’t done the up for the programmes. Mrs Allen is very .

9. The best advertising have been because of Aaron’s bad .

10. Aaron doesn’t to come to the agency because he’s been .