Read the following sentences. Find the compound nouns and circle their stressed parts. Then, listen to check your answers. Track 48

1 How much time do you spare daily to do your homework on weekdays?
2 You can take some cookies from the glass jar on the kitchen counter.
3 The public is against the idea of building skyscrapers in the city centre.
4 I’ve read in the newspaper that many people claimed to reach the North Pole first.
5 The railways have been heavily used in the suburbs of the city in the past year.
6 Mum makes salads with wooden knives lest vegetables lose their vitamin content.
7 She’s meeting her housemate at the train station in two hours.