B. Pronunciation

B. You can find the following regular verbs or past participles in the article on Alfred Hitchcock on pages 8-9 of English Now No 90. Read the rules in A and then choose the correct ‘-ed’ sound.

1. If you have watched an Alfred Hitchcock film, it would be natural to think that he were a scary person.
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2. Sadly, his father died the same year.
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3. Perhaps his strict education and his loneliness influenced his strange sense of humour and love for the macabre?
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4. At 20 years of age, young Hitchcock worked as a designer for Henley's, a telegraph company in London.
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5. False accusations, confusion and surprise endings were present in almost all of his creative writings, and his colleagues loved them.
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6. Title cards were filmed texts on cards that film directors inserted between scenes in a silent film.
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7. Title cards were filmed texts on cards that film directors inserted between scenes in a silent film.
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8. In 1922, his first project, NUMBER 13, was cancelled because of financial problems.
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9. Hitchcock married Alma Reville in 1926 and they had a daughter, Patricia, in 1928.
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10. In 1927, Hitchcock's first thriller, THE LODGER, about a serial killer in London, was released.
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11. It was an instant commercial success and catapulted him to fame.
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12. Hitchcock liked to make cameo appearances in his film.
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13. Hitchcock left England with his family in 1939. REBECCA was the first film he directed in the US and it won an Academy Award for Best Picture in 1940.
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14. This genre was such a success with audiences that it inspired Hitchcock to create more of them, most notably THE BIRDS in 1963.
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15. This quote is pertinent to his death, as ‘The Master of Suspense’ died quietly in his sleep at home in 1980, surrounded by his family.
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B. Pronunciation

1. If you have watched an Alfred Hitchcock film, it would be natural to think that he were a scary person.

2. Sadly, his father died the same year.

3. Perhaps his strict education and his loneliness influenced his strange sense of humour and love for the macabre?

4. At 20 years of age, young Hitchcock worked as a designer for Henley's, a telegraph company in London.

5. False accusations, confusion and surprise endings were present in almost all of his creative writings, and his colleagues loved them.

6. Title cards were filmed texts on cards that film directors inserted between scenes in a silent film.

7. Title cards were filmed texts on cards that film directors inserted between scenes in a silent film.

8. In 1922, his first project, NUMBER 13, was cancelled because of financial problems.

9. Hitchcock married Alma Reville in 1926 and they had a daughter, Patricia, in 1928.

10. In 1927, Hitchcock's first thriller, THE LODGER, about a serial killer in London, was released.

11. It was an instant commercial success and catapulted him to fame.

12. Hitchcock liked to make cameo appearances in his film.

13. Hitchcock left England with his family in 1939. REBECCA was the first film he directed in the US and it won an Academy Award for Best Picture in 1940.

14. This genre was such a success with audiences that it inspired Hitchcock to create more of them, most notably THE BIRDS in 1963.

15. This quote is pertinent to his death, as ‘The Master of Suspense’ died quietly in his sleep at home in 1980, surrounded by his family.