Test your understanding of the material from Lesson 8 with our online test.
There are twenty questions and the pass mark is 85%, so you need 17 correct answers to pass.
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#1. True or false? It is worth learning spelling rules, even though they do not work all the time.
#2. The stressed vowel sound in 'beach' is __________.
#3. The hidden sound in 'stupid' is __________.
#4. The word 'quarter' begins with a __________.
#5. In a cc connection, when the first syllable ends with 't' and the next sound is a consonant, a glottal stop should be used, for example:
#6. Unusually, the letter 'a' in 'yacht' represents the short vowel sound __________.
#7. All of these words contain a silent letter apart from __________.
#8. These word pairs are homophones, apart from __________.
#9. The vowel sound in the suffix of the word 'alien' is __________.
#10. Minimal pairs are word pairs that sound exactly the same apart from one sound, for example: __________.
#11. Loan words are words which are borrowed from another language, for example 'eureka' from Greek, and 'baguette' from __________.
#12. In English we tend to include loan words in the language without changing the __________ to match the English pronunciation, for example 'restaurant'.
#13. The letter 'r' in garage represents a __________ sound.
#14. If a regular verb ends in 't' or 'd' we __________ pronounce '-ed' as an extra syllable, e.g. 'wanted' and 'added'.
#15. If a regular verb ends with a vowel sound, '-ed' is pronounced as __________, for example: agreed, delivered, and replied.
#16. If a regular verb ends with an unvoiced consonant sound, '-ed' is pronounced as __________, for example: baked, stopped, and walked.
#17. True or false? The word 'label' is regular because it matches our stress and sounds rules, i.e. it's a two-syllable noun stressed on the first syllable, the stressed sound follows the vcv rule, and the suffix has a schwa.
#18. In a one-syllable word with the pattern cvc (consonant-vowel-consonant) the vowel sound is usually __________, e.g. 'bag'.
#19. If you are having problems with pronouncing a word from its spelling, try looking it up in a __________.
#20. Research shows that __________% of elementary-level words (in a survey of 1392 words) follow our rules in terms of spelling and pronouncing the stressed vowel sounds.
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