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1. Too much exposure to ultraviolet light is bad for your skin.
2. That meal was very unappetizing.
3. He was deliriously happy after winning the lottery.
4. My uncle was a theoretical physicist.
5. Tuberculosis is a terrible disease.
6. I have cousins who live in Scandinavia.
7. Schizophrenia is a mental illness.
8. He failed his last exam spectacularly.
9. I have an appointment to see a radiologist. 
10. Faster than light travel (FTL) would revolutionize astronomy.
11. Uranium is a radioactive mineral.
12.  My son lives in Pennsylvania. ***
13. I took advantage of my opportunity to overinflate the basketball.
14. She enthusiastically participated in a computer camp.
15. Mr. Jones is notoriously unreliable.
16. The ghost materialized at the foot of my bed.
17. Kilimanjaro is a famous mountain in Africa.
18. A person who steals stuff all the time is a kleptomaniac.
19. Please come home immediately. I need help.
20. If you fall into the North Atlantic Ocean, you will probably die of hypothermia.
21. You can see examples of hieroglyphic writing on Egyptian tombs.
22. Bats use echolocation to catch their prey.
23. He is always exaggerating his wealth and intelligence.
24. She is rich and lives extravagantly.
25. Life is unpredictable, so flexibility is a good skill to have.
26. If you are disobedient at school, you will be punished.
27. I like to watch documentary films.
28. That ballet had wonderful choreography. 
29. My history professor is not very communicative. 
30. The blood coagulated on the floor of the cafeteria.
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1. My idea was rejected for being too risky. 
2. Lightning struck a tree and set it on fire. 
3. I’m not crazy about the American ‘R’ sound but it’s everywhere. 
4. My dog ran after a car yesterday. 
5. This is a sentence without any ‘R’ sounds. Well, almost. 
6. My reward for working for so many hours? A headache and a sore throat. 
7. If I were rich, I would travel around the world. 
8. The railroad tracks run near my house. 
9. My father was a firefighter in his youth. 
10. The watchers were angry at the bad actor. 
11. The buyer asked the baker to create a tall birthday cake with blue frosting. 
12. The biker asked me for a favor. 
13. We weren’t eager to sit on the floor. We would have preferred chairs. 
14. The rarest rabbits are raised by ranchers. 
15. My granddaughter is a good reader. 
16. If you dry grapes, they turn into raisins. 
17. Grrrrrrrr is the sound a dog makes when it growls. 
18. Do you have a favorite recipe for scrambled eggs? 
19. Sometimes I have to reboot the hard drive in my computer. 
20. I’d rather read an interesting book than watch boring TV. 
21. The word “internet” contains “R”, as do these words: rain, raise, real, recite, recall, and reduce. 
22. He agrees with me that it is cold in the arctic. 
23. I never argue with a cardiologist about arteries. 
24. He put on an apron and started to prepare dinner. 
25. The three bears in the barn set off an alarm last April. 
26. Robert Frost was a celebrated American poet. 
27. A large number of health-care workers are going on strike. 
28. I like to buy fresh pears at the farmers’ market. 
29. Last year I studied French, history, geography, chemistry, and astrophysics. 
30. If you’re hungry, you should have some bread and butter. I have orange marmalade too, or strawberry jam if you prefer. 
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1. I want some earthworms for my birthday.
2. There are three thieves in my bathroom.
3. My brother has a theory about everything.
4. He put toothpaste on a feather and brushed his teeth.
5. Mother’s panther loves the bathtub.
6. There are three thousand therapists in New York City.
7. Would you prefer something for dinner or nothing?
8. I wear thick clothing in the winter.
9. Thankfully they stayed together during the marathon.
10. Don’t try to breathe beneath the water.
11. I took an oath to follow the path of truth and honesty.
12. I put on a bathrobe and stood in front of the fire to thaw out.
13. Do you have the strength to carry your father across the river?
14. He was the ninth man to go south today.
15. Whether you agree or not, there are those who will follow me, I think. 
16. Therefore thirty of us will attach the giant thermometer to the thickest tree.
17. Roses are thorny plants.
18. My grandfather looks youthful.
19. She has a sore throat and a bad cough.
20. Thirty is more than thirteen, and thirteen is more than three.
Note that in compound nouns, both words are stressed. Here are some examples:
Handshake
Caveman
Sunburn
Toothbrush
Goldfish
Desktop
Railroad
Bodyguard
Sailboat
Birdhouse
Firefighter


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Minimal pairs with /s/ and /z/.
/S/ is unvoiced (no vibration in the vocal cords). /Z/ is voiced (the vocal cords are vibrating).
Listen:  ssssssssssssssssss
Now listen to /z/: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
1) Ace — As
I have the ace of spades.
There are two letter ‘As’ in the word ‘algebra’.
2) dice — dies
He threw his dice and got a seven.
This annual flower dies when winter comes.
3) ice — eyes
I love ice cream.
You have beautiful eyes.
4) loose — lose
Oh, no! The cow got loose again!
Did you lose your keys again?
5) muscle — muzzle
I go to the gym every day to build muscle.
My dog tries to bite people so he has to wear a muzzle.
6) gross — grows
My dog threw up his breakfast. It was gross! (Disgusting)
My neighbor grows beautiful flowers in her garden.
7) place — plays
Is this the place where he plays tennis?
8) sink — zinc
If you drop zinc into water, it will sink.
9) sip — zip
Please sip your drink slowly.
I forgot to zip my suitcase.
10) said — zed
He said he would be home in time for dinner.
“In England, the last letter of the alphabet is “zed”. In the US, it’s “Z”.
This podcast ends with a discussion of “minimal pairs” and how to use them in language learning.
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1) Oops. Wait a minute. I have to tie my shoelaces.
2) I did some backbreaking work yesterday. Now I have a terrible backache.
3) Some kinds of seaweed are edible.
4) Arizona is running low on groundwater.
5) This applesauce is delicious. Is it homemade?
6) The police put handcuffs on the burglar.
7)  I need a haircut. I think I’ll get one tomorrow afternoon.
8) I climbed to the hilltop barefoot.
9) She lives in a very high-tech house full of gadgets.
10) Are you a homeowner? No, I live in an apartment.
11) The astronaut went on a spacewalk. Now he’s lost somewhere in space.
12) For my birthday I got a new basketball.
13) There’s a big snowman in my bathtub.
14) For breakfast I had a sports drink.
15) I met my stepfather at a bookstore.
16) The view from the top of Mount Everest is breathtaking.
17) She loves blueberry ice cream.
18) My step-sister is a famous storyteller.
19) We launched a lifeboat to escape the sinking ship.
20) The lifeguard used a loudspeaker to make an announcement.
21) Too much sunshine can lead to sunstroke.
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"We had a plain, simple, unpretending, good hotel, in Baden-Baden—the Hôtel de France—and alongside my room I had a giggling, cackling, chattering family who always went to bed just two hours after me and always got up two hours ahead of me. But this is common in German hotels; the people generally go to bed long after eleven and get up long before eight. The partitions convey sound like a drum-head, and everybody knows it; but no matter, a German family who are all kindness and consideration in the daytime make apparently no effort to moderate their noises for your benefit at night. They will sing, laugh, and talk loudly, and bang furniture around in a most pitiless way. If you knock on your wall appealingly, they will quiet down and discuss the matter softly among themselves for a moment—then, like the mice, they fall to persecuting you again, and as vigorously as before. They keep cruelly late and early hours, for such noisy folk."
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1-We had a plain, simple, unpretending, good hotel, in Baden-Baden
2—the Hôtel de France
3—and alongside my room I had a giggling, cackling, chattering family 
4-who always went to bed just two hours after me 
5-and always got up two hours ahead of me. 
6-But this is common in German hotels; 
7-the people generally go to bed long after eleven and get up long before eight. 
 8-The partitions convey sound like a drum-head, 
9-and everybody knows it; but no matter, 
10-a German family who are all kindness and consideration in the daytime 
11-make apparently no effort 
12-to moderate their noises for your benefit at night. 
13-They will sing, laugh, and talk loudly, 
14-and bang furniture around in a most pitiless way. 
15-If you knock on your wall appealingly, 
16-they will quiet down and discuss the matter softly among themselves for a moment—
17-then, like the mice, they fall to persecuting you again, 
18-and as vigorously as before. 
19-They keep cruelly late and early hours, for such noisy folk.


A Tramp Abroad is a book by Mark Twain. It was published in 1880. It is freely available online in various formats. Here is one link:  https://www.gutenberg.org/files/119/119-h/119-h.htm


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