Ship Or Sheep - Unit 46: n (nose)
Listen to the minimal pair sentences again and match each pair with the stress patterns (a—e) below. The big circles are the strongly stressed word in the sentence and the small circles are the weakly stressed words.EXAMPLE a) oooO Pair 4: I want a comb. / I want a cone.a) oooO b) ooO c) oOoooOd) oOooOe) ooOoNotice that the weakly stressed words are said more quickly, and that the pronunciation of some words changes if they are weakly stressed, e.g. /ɒv/ becomes /əv/, is /ɪz/ becomes /z/ or /əz/, a is pronounced /ɔ/.
Pair 1: The mile is very old. / The Nile is very old.
Pair 2: This is mine. / This is nine.
Pair 3: He loves mummy. / He loves money.
Pair 4: I want a comb. / I want a cone.
Pair 5: He’s proud of his name. / He’s proud of his mane.