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WARMING UP
TASK1. Can you underline the silent written vowel in these words?
medicine, Catherine, restaurant, business, pageant, evening, magician, aspirin
TASK 2. Can we identify the silent E in all these words:
Suffixes: blameless, hopeful, announcement, judgement, tiresome
Names: Charles, Philippines, James, Giles, Wales
LANGUAGE PRACTICE
TASK 3. Read aloud the words in the box and answer the questions below.
close, recipe, Nike, lake, tome, Chile, coyote, hole,
Apache, these, write, karate, apostrophe, rose, nose
Q1. Which is the main difference of these two groups with a final –E?
………………………………………….
Q2. Sort them out. Group 1: close, ………………………………………….………………………………….
Group 2: recipe, ………………………………………….………………………………………….
Q3. Why the group2 is comporting differently? ………………………………………
Q4. Are these words of English origin? ….………………………………………….
TASK4. Pay attention to the letter E and increase the 7 given lists with the words from the box below.
1- (at the end, to make a double vowel): toe, shoe, blue
2-(in the middle):evening,every,vegetable,surgeon Tuesday, Wednesday……………………………
3- with <ie> piece, niece, brief, chief, achieve, ……………………………
4- with <er> interesting, literature, temperature, monastery ……………………………
5- with palatal sounds (French words) > ocean, surgeon ……………………………
shovel, lately, grief, Peugeot, Noel, juice, Joel, bone, thieves, literature, pigeon, bore, spoken
Pron11.2 Silent vocalic letters: A –I-O-U 3 level 10 min
GOAL. To become aware of how the stress or the suffixes make silent letters.
TASK 1. Pay attention to the letters <a> & <o> and increase the five given lists with the words from
the box below.
Silent <a>: 1- unstressed syllable –AR: separate
2-ending –ALLY or -ARY: musically, realistically, contemporary ……………………………
TASK 2. Pay attention to the letter <I> and increase the four given lists
1- in the combination <UI> : fruit, suit, friend, suitable, nuisance, ……………………………
TASK 3. Pay attention to the letter <U> and increase the four lists with the words in the box below.
1- Gutural sounds /gu/ /q/ in (French words): critique, guard ……………………………
2- /g/ sounds (other than French): guerrilla, tongue, guilty, guess, ……………………………
3 - aunt, laugh, gauge (n,v) ……………………………
4- unstressed syllables: ………………, ………………..
LANGUAGE PRACTICE
TASK 3. Q1. Which is the main difference of these two groups with a final –E? silent or /i:/
Q2. Sort them out. Group 1: close, lake, tome, hole, these, write, , rose, nose
Group 2: recipe, Nike, Chile, coyote, Apache, karate, apostrophe,
Q3. Why the group2 is comporting differently? they have an extra syllable.
Q4. Are these words of English origin? No (1French, 2,5 Greek: apnea niché = wingless victory, agood brand
for Sports!), American sources.
Task 4: 6, 2, 3, 5, 6, 1, 3, 4, 5, 1, 7
shovel, lately, grief, Peugeot, Noel, juice, Joel, bone, thieves, literature, pigeon, bore, spoken
TASK 6. Silent <i>: business, crUIse, jUIce, basiN, carrIAGE (-AGE: unstressed ending)
soCIal, suspiCIous, obseSSIon, compulSIon, diverSIon
TASK 7. Silent <u>: rogue, draught, guest, unique, guidance, guise, guinea, guardian,
Task 8. Open
Pron 11.3 Fishing silent consonants 3 level 15 min
GOAL. To become aware of the regularities of the silent consonants in English spelling.
TASK 1. Observe that several elements can be silent in English pronunciation. Underline them:
The shepherd is going to give the calves a foreign medicine from his own honest veterinary. (6
words)
The wrong advertisement was humbly released without much talk in the island (6 words)
There will be doubt if she knew about the right answers before Wednesday (5 words)
She fastened the belt around her waistcoat and couldn’t reach for the aisle (4 words)
Did the ninja often crack almonds with her sword in the gaol? (4 words)
TASK 2. Identify the silent letters in each list. Describe their sound context and explain what they
have in common. (check the ones you don’t know :-)
LIST1. little, written, borne, done, Joel, rotten
LIST2. chalk, talk, could, walk,almond, palm, would,
LIST3. write, know, wrong, who, knight, wrist, whore, kneel,
LIST4. high, night, though, drought, light, height,
LIST5. handkerchief, waistcoast, handsome, sandwich
LIST6. hasten, castle, whistle, fasten, answer, Greenwich
LIST7. debt, receipt, doubt, climber,thumb
LIST8. honest, heir, hour, pneumonia, pseudonym
LIST9. black, apple, science, scissors, dubbing, adolescent
GOAL. To become aware of the regular patterns of four silent consonants in English spelling.
WARMING UP
TASK 1. Find the 4 silent consonants in this list and underline them.
folklore, scepter, yolk, subtle, Thomas, lamb, stalk,
bomber, isthmus, napalm, salmon, Lincoln
TASK 2. Collect other specimens and observe how we may organise the letter B.
Notice the Bomb word family: bombing, bomber, bombs & bombard
Q1. Is it always silent? ………………….
TASK 3. Try to do the same with letter L following the directions given below.
COMMENT:
TASK 6. Collect other specimens with silent H and try to organise them somehow as in task 3.
LETTER H: heir, herb, honest; ghetto, ghostly; rheum, rhyme, myrrh; halleluiah; isthmus
Thomas, Theresa, Anthony, Thames, rhyme, Oprah, Halleluiah, Hannah, Messiah,
letter H
FOLLOW UP
There are many forieng waords that follow the sound of origin, like French words. Find them.
pron11.3 Fishing Silent consonants
TASK 1:
The shepherd is going to give the calves a foreign medicine from his own honest veterinary. (6 words)
The wrong advertisement was humbly released without much talk in the island (6 words)
There will be doubt if she knew about the right answers before Wednesday (5 words)
She fastened the belt around her waistcoat and couldn’t reach for the aisle (4 words)
Did the ninja often crack almonds with her sword in the gaol? (4 words)
TASK 2 & 3. 1 I 2D 3G 4E 5B 6A 7F 8H 9C