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d Let's Learn the Sounds
FOR SAMPLE ONLY
A. Practise saying these words after your teacher.

diary textbook laughter scornful mechanical probably
geography superior dispute loftily centuries differently

B. Repeat after your teacher. Practise the ending sound /k/.

back pack prick quick hack cock
flock check stick kick slack stock

C. Repeat after your teacher. Practise the vowel sound /ʌ/.
hum hut until such but one

some company other under much country

Let’s Listen

Listen to your teacher or the tape and complete the text.
The _________ takes place in the year _________, where teaching is
performed by computer-like _________ with vast information stores.

The protagonists of this story are two _________, Tommy and Margie.
Tom, the older child, finds a _________ in his attic. He is very _________
by the object because the words on the page do not _________ like
the words on the _________ of their _________ teacher.

The book describes the __________ from centuries earlier, where
there was a __________ as __________ that gave homework and
asked __________ to his students, and all the boys and girls went into a

__________ building. Margie is very __________ but her mother calls
her __________ it is time for school. __________ for Tom and Margie
takes place at __________ in a room where they do __________ and
hand it in through a __________ slot in a mechanical teacher.

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