Learning English

It's time to get to the bottom of Mr Hyde's strange behaviour...
How do you think the story will end?

A) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde are the same person - but Dr Jekyll feels so guilty about Mr Hyde's behaviour, he kills himself
B) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde are not the same person - but together, they kill David
C) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde are the same person - but Mr Hyde feels so guilty about Dr Jekyll's behaviour, he kills himself
D) Something else 

To do

Watch the video and find out which option is correct. And listen out for four more uses of sound.

ነቲ ቪድዮ ብምዕዛብ ነቲ ስራሕ ዕመምዎ

To do

So, the correct answer was A) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde are the same person - but Dr Jekyll feels so guilty about Mr Hyde's behaviour, he kills himself.

Now lets practise the different uses of sound. Have a go at this quiz.

Over to you

We asked you to tell us a story using as many of the phrases with sound as possible:

• sound out 
• by the sound of it 
• sounds 
• doesn't like the sound of [something]
• not a sight or sound of [someone]
• sounds strange
• sound
• sounds as though 
• sounds like 

Your stories

Aki Sato, Japan

When I was a child, I believed the habitat of fairly and used to put my head into imaginations every day. However, it sounds very strange to my friends and they leave me alone. I hate the sounds they talk to me as if I am a insane. One day, I had been sitting into my favorite swing chair and day dreaming about good folks all day, suddenly I heard a sound of beautiful melody, and it sounds like a ancient festival. It was very exciting and fascinating, so I began to dance alone. As soon as I danced ackamaraka, a lots of fairies came flying to me from somewhere and they took my hands. We danced in a big circle, and then my lonely and tiny room was filled with our enormous laughter. Although I wish to stay with them a little bit more, they'd vanished when my mother came into my room to get me up for dinner. I wish to play with them again, but there was not a sight or sound of them from that time.

BBC Learning English says:

Thanks for your story! Don't forget to use the past form - sounded - when you're talking about things that happened in the past!

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TeresaLV, Spain

Jane had sounded out Gina about the gift she had received: a ring, to discover if she was conscious of the engagement she was accepting with it. They had been friends for a long time ago, but Jane didn’t meet the boyfriend’s Gina yet. By the sound of it Marco was a busy business man, friendly, polite and attentive, in addition to good looking guy. Actually, when Gina talked about their relationship it sounded almost unreal. There was only one thing which sounded strange and happened once a year: he disappeared for three weeks without any way to contact him.

Jane didn’t like the sound of the situation that her friend was telling her. Gina can’t explain it despite she and Marco were living together near of five years. During those three weeks there wasn’t a sight or sound of him, not even his mobile phone had tone or any sound. He never mentioned it until a few days before he leaves, and he said that it was a family tradition, it sounded as though it was not unusual.

Jane suggested that Gina had to know the truth if she was going to marry him and both friends began looking into it. What neither of us could imagine was the real Marco’s identity: it sounded like he was an alien who needed to regenerate his body during three weeks every year to carry on living on Earth…

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Mario, Italy

By the sound of it, the carousel of pain has started off once again with his unreal silence that sounds like a requiem with rows of houses sounding like raped with bare hands digging into memories and remains of daily lives in search of life with many lives either broken or changed forever with journalists sounding out survivors by asking absurd questions with rescuers yelling “Is there anyone?” at piles of rubble but there’s not a sight or sound with many people who obviously don’t like the sound of this reality By the sound of it, sooner or later the carousel of pain will stop, but sooner or later it will resume when we least expect it.

BBC Learning English says:
A powerful piece, Mario. Thanks.

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Bernard

Once upon a time lived a grandmother and her grandson in certain island near Indian Ocean. And when her grandson reached of age she decided to sound him out about their past. It sounded strange when he had told names of his parents and the farm which he had inherited. But he doesn't like the sound of their past story. Because by the sound of it made his blood run cold. And it sounds as though his grandmother had been waiting for him all long to come of age in order to reveal it to him. It really sounded like good timing that he was now twenty years old. But the grandson was still curious about the monster which had a sounds of thurderstorm and eyes like lightning  as it had described by his grandmother. However he had never seen sight or sound of a such monster during his whole childhood.

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Virendra 

Astrology always fascinated me. It sounded very interesting to me. So after finishing my school i decided to be an Astrologer. I sound this out with my parents But they didn't like the sound of my decision. My idea sounded strange to them since it was not convention carrer option in over area. To them my idea sounded as though i'm taking a huge risk with my career. Hence by the sound of it i decide to give up my idea. And hence i became an Engineer in place of an Astrologer.

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Anna Maria Rovira

Yesterday my friend Paul said me: "Perhaps sounds strange, sounds I've not a sight or sound of my girlfriend Mary since last week" I tried to sound out with her boyfriend Paul, but I don't like the sound of what he said me. He was worried for to sound a thing about Mary, and then he explained to me: "Sounds like I heard from her sister's husband, sounds as though that Mary want to break up with me, because she's fall in love with my best friend Peter". And then I replied: "Don't worry!! By the sound of it, you're the only one man for Mary. You must to give her just the chance of talk about it."

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Next

That's the end of Session 4. In session 5, Tim's in the pronunciation workshop. Don't miss it!