This is a follow up to my post “Sell or Sale?” There is also an extended version article on this topic on Medium, plus a longer version of these Practice Exercises on my Patreon page!!

Listening and speaking practice with word pairs.

Practice 1.  Listen and imitate both words below.

Practice 2.  Listen and guess: You will hear just one of the words – which one do you hear?
(The answers are at the bottom, below the image)

1. based/baste — best 2. braid – bread 3. fail — fell 4. gate — get 5. jail — gel 6. late — let

7.  lace — less 8.  main/mane — men 9.  pain — pen 10. raced — rest 11. rake — wreck 12. raid/rayed — red

13. taste — test 14. take – tech 15. wait — wet 16. wane — when 17. waste/waist — west 18. whale/wail — well

ANSWERS for Practice 2

1. based/baste 2. bread 3. fail 4. gate 5. gel 6. late

7.  less 8.  men 9.  pain 10. rest 11. wreck 12. raid/rayed

13. taste 14. tech 15. wait 16. wane 17. waste/waist 18. well