Prof Francisco Zabala – 2014 Morphemes & Pronunciation: Plurals, the Genitive & 3rd Person Singular Simple Present Read this text Focus on the pronunciation of plural countable nouns, nouns in the genitive and verbs in the simple present, 3rd person singular Transcribe the endings inside the slanted bars Ganesh’s Job / / Ganesh Ray works for a computer company in Los Angeles, California / / / / He writes computer programs But he doesn’t go to LA every day In fact, he / / / / doesn’t live in the United States He lives in India / / / / Every day he takes the bus into Bombay and he goes to an office there / / / / The computer company delivers information to him by e-mail He analyses / / / / the information on a computer and then he sends the program back to / / California The company doesn’t the work in the US because it costs less to it in / / Asia, as salaries there are much lower Also, India is twelve hours ahead of / / / / LA This means that the computer company transfers information at the / / / / end of the day and Ganesh uses it when it’s night time in the USA When / / he sends the programs back, they arrive in California before the company starts in the morning / / Adapted from Hutchinson, T (1999) Lifelines elementary Workbook Oxford: Oxford University Press (page 33)