{"id":11444,"date":"2017-11-01T10:53:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T02:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/?p=11444"},"modified":"2018-09-19T22:48:36","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T14:48:36","slug":"teacher-diaries-ms-jaye-love-speaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/2017\/11\/teacher-diaries-ms-jaye-love-speaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Diaries: Ms. Jaye – Love Speaking"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was young, despite the fact that I was a good speller, I actually didn\u2019t know how\u00a0to pronounce most of the words that I could spell! Consequently, I used not to be a good speaker\u00a0since I couldn\u2019t get the words out of my mouth!<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t understand how useful Phonics was until I first learnt it at university, as required\u00a0by my major. Compared to the old days, many schools are teaching Phonics now. How lucky the students are\u00a0nowadays!<\/p>\n

However, as English doesn\u2019t have a perfect letter-sound correspondence, there are some\u00a0words that even using Phonics one cannot figure out their exact pronunciations. Let\u2019s have a quiz\u00a0to see if you can find out these tricky words in disguise!<\/p>\n

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  1. The \u2018p\u2019 in which word is silent and not pronounced?\n
      \n
    1. psychologist<\/li>\n
    2. photosynthesis<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
    3. The \u2018t\u2019 in which word is silent and not pronounced?\n
        \n
      1. soften<\/li>\n
      2. brighten<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
      3. The \u2018h\u2019 in which word is silent and not pronounced?\n
          \n
        1. hereditary<\/li>\n
        2. heir<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
        3. The \u2018l\u2019 in which word is silent and not pronounced?\n
            \n
          1. folk<\/li>\n
          2. fold<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
          3. The \u2018d\u2019 in which word is silent and not pronounced?\n
              \n
            1. handsome<\/li>\n
            2. hedge<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
            3. The \u2018k\u2019 in which word is silent and not pronounced?\n
                \n
              1. knead<\/li>\n
              2. kale<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
              3. The \u2018w\u2019 in which word is silent and not pronounced?\n
                  \n
                1. western<\/li>\n
                2. wrestle<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
                3. The \u2018b\u2019 in which word is silent and not pronounced?\n
                    \n
                  1. childbirth<\/li>\n
                  2. debt<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                    Check the dictionary if you don\u2019t know the answer!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                    When I was young, despite the fact that I was a good speller, I actually didn\u2019t know how\u00a0to pronounce most of the words that I could spell! Consequently, I used not to be a good speaker\u00a0since I couldn\u2019t get the words out of my mouth! I didn\u2019t understand how useful Phonics was until I first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":11448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[713],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11444"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12298,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11444\/revisions\/12298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}