SCHWA WITH PRONOUNS AND ADJECTIVES

Listen to the sentences and complete. Write the pronoun and the contracted form from 1 to 6. From 7 to 14 write the pronuoun or the possessive adjectives.




1- I'll ask her.
2- I'm coming.
3- He's finished.
4- They're hungry.
5- We've seen him.
6- She's angry.
7- Can you give it to them please?
8- Did you meet their daughter, Catherine?
9- I don't think he likes her .
10- What did she say to them?
11- Where did she buy her guitar?
12- What's his mother's name?
13- Where are your parents from?
14- We bought presents for our children.

SCHWA IN AUXILIARY VERBS

Listen to these questions. Please note how, in fast speech, the speakers pronounce many of the questions with only three syllables. The rhythm is OooO in most of them.Write down the words between the two stressed ones. The auxiliary verbs are : do-does-did-have-has-will-are.

1- What do you want?

2- What does he do?

3- Where have you been?

4-Where did he go?

5- What did he do?

6- Where do they live?

7- What did he say?

8- Where will they work?

9- What did you see?

10- Where have you gone?

11- Who did we meet?

12- Where will he sit?

13- When will it end?

14- Where have you been?

15- Who has she asked?
16- What do you do? I'm a doctor

16- Where do you live? I live in Kingston, Jamaica

17-Where do you work? I work in the University Hospital.

18- Are you married?  Yes, I'm married. My husband is a teacher.

19- What does he teach? He teaches History and Geography.

20- Where does he teach? At the Grove Road Secondary School.

21- Where did you meet him?  I met him when I was on holiday in Florida.

22- When did you get married?  We got married in 1999.