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Day 4 - Happy Badge Day
Episode 201126 / 26 Nov 2020

5 Days of tips and challenges to help you improve your pronunciation
Welcome to Day 4 - Today's challenges
Here is Tim's question for you today:
- What does the word pernicious mean?
- Where in the word does the stress fall?
You can find the answer to this question in this video from the series: Pronunciation in the News. In this series the pronunication of words and phrases from real BBC news reports are highlighted. The reports are read by different presenters with different accents.
>> FOLLOW THIS LINK TO FIND THE ANSWER TODAY'S QUESTION
Tim's Homework
The series Pronunciation in the News features in a BBC Learning English course called English You Need. The course has 30 units and each unit has a Pronunciation in the News video. Why not check some of those out as well?
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Don't forget to come back for Day 5 to find out the answer to Tim's question. For more pronunciation practice, try The Sounds of English.
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