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Johan Edo Lab Nomber Tu
Johan Edo Lab Nomber Tu
3-What are the three words Callum says some people might have mispronounced?
The three words Callum say are: regularly, ethnicity and anaesthetist.
4-What was the result of the survey applied to 3,000 British people when asked to
pronounce words in English?
- The survey results were that the most mispronounced word was phenomenon
followed by anaesthetist and remuneration.
6-In the British language about how many sounds, do we need in order to speak
English clearly?
-In the British Language in order to speak English clearly we need to pronounce
around 44 sounds.
8-What does the newspaper that published the results say about the
mispronounced words? What do they call those words?
-The newspaper that published the results refer to this mispronounced words as
tongue twisters
9-According to Callum, what do native speakers do when they do not know how to
pronounce a word?
-Callum say that when native speakers don’t know how to pronounce a word they
search for another word or rewrite to avoid using that word.
10- How many sounds do experts say we need to be able to pronounce so that we
can speak English clearly?
-Please go to question # 6 because I already wrote this answer and I don’t have
time to rewrite it because I am a very bussy man.
Episode 1: Mobile Phones
1-What does Doug tell Jackie about her phone at the beginning of the
conversation?
-Doug asks Jackie if she have got her mobile.
2-How many different names for a cellphone does Doug mention in the
conversation? What are they?
-Doug mentioned 3 different names for cellphones: a cell phone, a cellular phone,
a c phone. They are options for a question that Doug asked Jackie.
7-Mention two reasons people give for living with or without cellphones.
-One staff worker said that It organizes everything she does in work and in her
private life so she can’t live without it.
Another man said that he could live without his cellphone because it’s not no
important for it.
10- Could you live with or without your cellphone? Why/why not?
-Yes I could, because I don’t like technology, I prefer communicating traditionally,
with letters and smoke signals.