MP Board Class 11th English A Voyage Workbook Solutions Unit 1 Sounds in English
1.1 Sounds in English
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Exercises
A. The vowel sounds in English
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Question 1.
Listen and repeat the following words in pairs.
Answer:
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Question 2.
Listen and repeat the following words in triplets and pairs.
Answer:
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Question 3.
Listen and repeat the given words in pairs.
Answer:
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Question 4.
Listen and repeat the following words in pairs:
Answer:
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B. The Consonant Sounds.
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Exercises
Question 1.
Listen and repeat the following words in pairs:
Answer:
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Question 2.
Given below are words which have different sounds. Listen carefully and repeat them.
Answer:
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Question 3.
Repeat the following more than once. These are tongue twisters that will help you in making your pronunciation better.
1. Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry
2. Mr. Smith’s fish sauce shop
3. Shy Shelly says she shall sew sheets.
4. Fat frogs flying past fast
5. Which-witch wished which wicked wish?
6. Swim, Swam, Swin!
Swan swam back again
Well swum, swan.
7. Once one was a race horse
two-two was one, too.
When one-one won one race
Two-Two won one too.
8. Betty Botter bought some butter.
But the butter was too bitter.
So Betty Botter bought some better butter
To make the bitter butter better.
Answer:
For self attempt
Reductions :
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Exercises
Question 1.
Now read the following sentences aloud as instructed.
A- Which one you want? This one?
(pronounce ‘do’ reduced)
B : No.
A- Well, Which one you want?
(Pronounce ‘do’ strong)
B : one (Pronounce ‘that’ strong)
A : Which one?
B- The one I’m pointing to?
(Pronounce ‘that’ strong)
C- Why don’t you try rm stop? (reduced ‘to’)
D- I’ve tried rm (strong ‘to’)
E- I’m surprised find driving so difficult.
(reduced ‘you’)
F- Well, how did stop? (strong ‘you’)
When structure words begin with “h” e.g. her, his, him etc. the initial “h” often disappears.
Answer:
For self attempt
Question 2.
Practice saying the following without pronouncing “h”
- Did ( )e go?
- Give (f)im the pen.
- Is (h)e there?
- Leave (f)er alone.
- When did (f)e go there?
- Who did (f)e talk to?
- Have you talked to (f)im yet?
- Did you ask (f)im?
- “What did (f)e say?
- Did you ask (f)im who (f)e was with?
Answer:
For self attempt
Question 3.
Read aloud and learn these rhyming proverbs.
Haste makes waste.
Love many, trust few always paddle your own canoe.
If you snooze you lose.
A stitch in time saves nine.
Two in distress make trouble less.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Finders, keepers; losers, weepers.
Early to bed, early to rise makes a person healthy, wealthy and wise.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Trouble comes double.
A friend in words and not in deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
When money talks nobody walks.
When the cat’s away the mice will play
No pain no gain
Answer:
For self attempt
1.2 Word Stress
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Exercises
Point out the number of syllables in the following words.
Take the help of a dictionary.
- register – three
- degree – two
- vitamin – three
- attempt – three
- exercise – four
- sudden – two
- vocabulary – five
- twelfth – three
- gypsy – three
- universal – three
- exchange – three
- bottle – two
- collective – four
- ask – two
Stress in words
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Exercises
Question 1.
Look up a dictionary and mark the stress and pronounce the words aloud.
airport, ship wreck, selfish, appointment, economy, economical, beginning, aimless, exposure, introduce, introduction, celebrate development, beautiful, answer, careless, remember, credit, realize, realization, reply, waiting, lazy, laziness, perhaps.
Answer:
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Question 2.
Mark the stress and pronounce the following words as nouns/ adjectives with accent on the first able and as verb with accent on the second syllable.
- absent – accent
- addict – conduct
- content – contract
- convict – decrease
- desert – export
- frequent – increase
- perfect – present
- record – import
Answer:
For self attempt
1.3 Intonation
See Workbook Pages-11-13
Exercises
Question 1.
Try and say the following utterances in a falling tone:
- ‘Sit ‘down.
- ‘Thanks.
- ‘Tell him a ‘story.
- ‘Do it ‘now.
- It’s ‘nine.
- ‘What are you ‘doing?
- ’She is ’beautiful.
Answer:
For self attempt
Question 2.
Try and say the following utterances in a rising tone :
- ’What is his, name?
- Good, morning.
- ‘Are you, going?
- ’When shall we, meet?
- ‘Go and, do it.
- ‘Will you answer the call?
Answer:
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Question 3.
Listen carefully and mark each sentence with correct stress and intonation.
- Don’t ask foolish questions.
- What a marvelous idea!
- Where are you going?
- It’s impossible.
- You must learn how to do it.
- Place it on the table.
- Wasn’t that gracious of him?
- How extraordinary!
- Take it back.
- He is wearing a cap.
Answer:
For self attempt
Question 4.
Listen carefully and mark each sentence with correct stress and intonation.
- Good morning.
- You are a scientist, aren’t you?
- Is he present?
- I can buy you the gift (if I get the money)
- Put it on the desk.
- Where can we meet?
- Don’t disturb the child.
- How old are you?
- It was my mistake.
- Pass the salt please!
Answer:
For self attempt
Question 5.
Listen carefully and mark with correct stress and intonation. (Combined tones.)
- I think it’s quite clear, on the whole.
- Will you be staying there for long?
- What he meant by it, I can’t imagine.
- He was right nevertheless.
- I’d buy a new one, if I could afford it.
Answer:
For self attempt
Question 6.
Try to say these sentences in a falling rising tone.
- You are slow (though I understand your point of view).
- It’d be better to try (even if you don’t succeed).
- I would love to go (If I can get the permission).
- It is very short (we like tall shapes).
- I like playing (but I don’t get the occasion).
- I love knitting, (but I can’t sew).
Answer:
For self attempt
Verb with Prepositions
See Workbook Page-23-24
Exercises
(a) Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions:
- You must concentrate on your studies.
- The teacher said. “Boys, listen to me”
- I was marveled at his sense of humour.
- The hakim cured him of his disease.
- The workers are protesting against the cut in their wages.
- I am waiting for your reply.
- She invited me to dinner.
- Don’t compare me with my brother.
- Refrain him from taking any rash action.
- We take pride of our heritage.
(b) Fill in the blanks in this story :
Shravan is an orphan who came to Delhi from his village in Bihar in search of work. His father kept a shop, but was tricked of it by a deceitful uncle. Despair drove him to alcohol and gambling, and he died of a stroke soon after.
Shravan worked in a tea shop in his village for a while. He moved for the more lucrative environs in Delhi, where his elder brother Gopal had preceded him. Following a brief spell of unemployment and a short shell as an assistant in a car park, he joined a tea shop.
c) Put an appropriate preposition after the verb in each sentence.
Then use your own ideas to complete each sentence. One is done for you.
- I broke her glasses and she made me pay
- I am excited because I am going to play
- He was not paying attention and crashed
- I have to stay home tonight and prepare
- All the furniture in the room belongs
- Whether or not we go out depends
- There was so much noise that I could not concentrate rm
- In my opinion, an ideal breakfast consists of
- It was an awful hotel and we complained
- We only had one sandwich, so it was divided