Read the sentences (1-6) aloud. Each contains one feature of fast speech from the Learn this! box. Can you say where in the sentence it occurs? 1 l've got two or three dictionaries. (point 1) 2 Is this your address? (point 1) 3 I've got a bad cough. (point 4 We went ten-pin bowling. (point 2) 5 She's my best friend. (point 3) 6 This coffee tastes bad. (point 3)
a) Cambridge is formed from a variety of institutions, isn't it?
b) All the colleges are self-governing institutions within the university, aren't they?
c) It does not have a main campus, does it?
d) The university also operates eight cultural and scientific museums, doesn't it?
e) Cambridge has educated many prominent scientists, politicians, lawyers,
philosophers, hasn't it?
f) There are 31 colleges with 18,271 students with 9,823 academic and
administrative staff members at Cambridge University, aren't there?
g) No college is as old as the university itself, is it?
h) Cambridge is now the only remaining United Kingdom university with femaleonly colleges, isn't it?
a) Cambridge is formed from a variety of institutions, isn't it?
b) All the colleges are self-governing institutions within the university, aren't they?
c) It does not have a main campus, does it?
d) The university also operates eight cultural and scientific museums, doesn't it?
e) Cambridge has educated many prominent scientists, politicians, lawyers,
philosophers, hasn't it?
f) There are 31 colleges with 18,271 students with 9,823 academic and
administrative staff members at Cambridge University, aren't there?
g) No college is as old as the university itself, isn't it?
h) Cambridge is now the only remaining United Kingdom university with female only colleges, isn't it?