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7. A: What (da Vinci / do) well?
B: He (do) everything well!

8. Where (I / buy) guitar strings around here?

5 PRONUNCIATION. Read the chart and listen to the examples. Then complete the exercises.

PRONUNCIATION Can and Can’t

In affirmative statements and questions, the /]/ sound in can is reduced to a schwa (/"/)
sound. In negative statements and short answers, the /]/ sound is fully pronounced.

Examples:
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I can hear you. I /M"P/ hear you. Can you see me? /M"P/ you see me?
I can’t see you. I /M]PV/ see you. Yes, I can. Yes, I /M]P/.

A Listen to these students. Write can or can’t.
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1. My teacher draw very well.

2. I understand modern art.

3. My friends and I get together often.

4. I speak more than one foreign language.

5. In my opinion, art change how people think.

B Work with a partner. Read the sentences in exercise A to your partner but say can or can’t
depending on what is true for you.

My teacher can’t draw very well.

HA Schult exhibition, Under
the Pyramids, Egypt, 2002

TK

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