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Choosing classes

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Understand plans and opinions in a campus conversation.

Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.

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Words to know

statistics
The study of numbers and data.
required
Officially necessary.
section
One group of a course that meets at a particular time.

Answer key

  1. Are you taking statistics next semester?The stress in “statistics” is on “tis”.
  2. I have to, it's required for my major.At the end of a clause, “to” keeps its full form: “I haf-too”.
  3. I heard the professor gives a lot of homework.“A lot of” sounds like “a-lo-tuv”.
  4. Maybe, but her lectures are supposed to be excellent.“Supposed to” sounds like “s’pose-tuh”.
  5. Then let's sign up for the same section.“Sign up” means register.