Presentations: The Top Course Unit 173
Listen to the recordings to practice this study group.
Repeat each line after the speaker.
Practice one group at a time.
Start with Part A Phonetics then Part A English. Then go on to Part B.
Unit 173 Part A Phonetics |
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1 b l æ k m eɪ l ɪ z ð ə k r aɪ m ə v 'θ r e t n ɪ ŋ t ə r ɪ 'v iː l |
Unit 173 Part A English |
| 1 Blackmail is the crime of threatening to reveal ... 2 substantially true information about a person ... 3 to the public, a family member, or associates ... 4 unless a demand made upon the victim is met. 5 He had accused the Minister of the Interior ... 6 and police chiefs of taking bribes from drug traffickers. 7 I wish my husband were going to be here for our anniversary. 8 I wish he could take some time off from his busy job. 9 Working hard or hardly working? 10 I wish it weren't too late to apologize now. |
Unit 173 Part B Phonetics |
| 11 ɪ f j ʊ ‿ w ‿ iː (t) f r uː t ɔ n ə n 'e m t i 's t ʌ m ə k 12 ɪ t w ɪ l p l eɪ ‿ j ‿ ə m eɪ dʒ ə r əʊ l t ə d iː 't ɔ k s ɪ f aɪ j ɔː s ɪ s t ə m 13 s ʌ 'p l aɪ ɪ ŋ j uː w ɪ θ ə ɡ r eɪ (t) d iː l ə v 'e n ə ɡ iː f ə w eɪ t l ɔ s 14 ə n d ʌ ð ə l aɪ f æ k 't ɪ v ə t iː z 15 aɪ w ɪ ʃ ð æ t iː m eɪ l h æ d k ʌ m s uː n ə 16 aɪ w ɪ ʃ m eə r i k ʊ d h æ v s iː n ɪ t b ɪ 'f ɔː ʃ i h æ d l e f t 17 w ɪə ɡ əʊ ɪ ŋ t ə b iː l eɪ t aɪ w ɪ ʃ j ʊ w ʊ d h ʌ r i 18 ɪ f l ʌ v ɪ ŋ h ə w ʊ d b iː ə s ɪ n aɪ w ɪ ʃ t ə s ɪ n f ə ð ə r e s t ə v m aɪ l aɪ f 19 b e t ə t ə ʌ n d ə s t æ n d ə l ɪ t l ð e n t ə m ɪ s ʌ n d ə s t æ n d ə l ɔ t 20 ɪ f j ʊ l e n d s ʌ m w ʌ n t e n j uː r əʊ z ə n – n e v ə s iː ð æ t p ɜː s n ə 'ɡ e n 21 ɪ t w ə z p r ʌ b ə b l i w ɜː θ l uː z ɪ ŋ b əʊ θ ə v ð e m |
Unit 173 Part B English |
| 11 If you eat fruit on an empty stomach, 12 it will play a major role to detoxify your system, 13 supplying you with a great deal of energy for weight loss ... 14 and other life activities. 15 I wish that email had come sooner. 16 I wish Mary could have seen it before she had left. 17 We're going to be late. I wish you would hurry. 18 If loving her would be a sin, I wish to sin for the rest of my life. 19 Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot. 20 If you lend someone ten Euros, and never see that person again, 21 it was probably worth losing both of them. |