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Quiz
Discussion
- Research online and discuss: why does English spelling give us a variety of spelling patterns for the same sounds? Does your L1 do the same? If yes, why?
- Before it is discussed in the next unit, speculate as to why z is – overwhelmingly – the most common sound to appear at the end of a syllable in English.
Practice
- Say the groups of words on slides 7 and 8 out loud. Notice the different ways of spelling the same sounds.
- Choose a sound, e.g. v, and write two-word phrases with words in the group by adding words which start with either a vowel or consonant sound, e.g. ‘have a cake’ (CV) = HA VA CAKE and ‘have lunch’ (CC) = HA FLUNCH. Practice saying them out loud.
- Write two-word phrases for each of the four sound pairs to show how the voiced consonant sound changes to unvoiced, e.g. ‘buzz which’ = BU SWHICH.
Further Study
- 5 Rules for Predicting Sounds from Spelling in English
- Spelling Rules
- Hard Words – FREE Online Course