Around 500,000 China-Japan trips canceled after travel warning-IPA to Text Writing level 2

“Travel warning” Exercise 1: Write full sentences from the phonetic symbols 

/ʧaɪˈniːz/ /ˈtʊərɪsts/ /rɪˈsiːvd/ /ə/ /ˈseɪfti/ /ˈwɔːnɪŋ/.

                                                             
/ˈɑːftə/ /ðə/ /ˈwɔːnɪŋ/, /ˈtrævᵊləz/ /ˈkænsᵊld/ /əˈbaʊt/ 491,000 /pleɪn/

 /ˈtɪkɪts/ /tuː/ /ʤəˈpæn/.

                                                            
/ˈmeni/ /ʧaɪˈniːz/ /ˈtʊərɪsts/ /ˈvɪzɪt/ /ʤəˈpæn/.

“China-Japan trips” Exercise 2: Fill in the missing vowel letters 

Th  y  are the  b  ggest  gr   p of  vis  tors.

In the f  rst nine m  nths of 2025, alm  st 7.5 million Ch  nese people  w  nt  to Japan.

People w  rry about  s  fety.

Now, they do not  tr  vel  to  Japan.

“Travel warning” Exercise 3: Fill in the missing consonant letters 

So  e  people  sa   tourists  may     oose  Europe and

Sou    east Asia  in    ead.

The Nikkei  sto     index went  do     .

Companies  lo  e  money.

“Travel warning” Exercise 4: Group words with the same vowel sounds

/ɪ/: /eɪ/:
/æ/:
/aɪ/:
/iː/:

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