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Cut along the lines to separate the cards.
For this activity, you can either:

a) shuffle all cards and ask students to match the corresponding ones;
b) separate the two types of cards and give them to two groups. Students have to mingle in
order to match the pairs.
Explain that the unstressed forms of some words are also reduced e.g. does and her.
All phonetic transcriptions are based on the British pronunciation (RP).