Subject: English Diction. Week 2, Topic: Sound variants of the letter 'A' || by @udyliciouz || 10% payout to @steemkidss

in Steem Kids & Parents3 years ago (edited)

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Introduction

Welcome to todays' diction with @udyliciouz, last week, we talked about Intonation. The meaning of intonation, types of intonation with examples. We practice some reading as well as some standard expression.
Today we will be move to something else.

We will be considering the sound variant of the letter 'A'.

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Lesson 2

Sound variants of the letter 'A'

English language has two sets of letters. There are letters of the alphabet used for spelling and letters of the sound system used for pronunciation. Every letters has its likely sound or sounds. All vowel letters have more than one sound. Let us take a look at the sounds of the letter 'A'.

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Lettter 'A' has over nine different sounds.

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Practice Reading

The following sentences contains the different sounds of the letter A. Read it with the right intonation, pronunciation and fluency.

  1. My father is a medical doctor.
  2. Can you speak Latin?.
  3. Please pass the ball to her
  4. We are travelling to the village tomorrow.
  5. Let's take a walk.
  6. Many students were absent yesterday.
  7. What is your area of concern?.
  8. My brother bakes bread
  9. There is no water in the house.
  10. Dont play with the rake.

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Standard expression

Wrong: Escort me to my mother's shop.
Right: Accompany me to my mother's shop

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Say these words together

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Conclusion

Letter A is a vowel letter and vowel sound number one. It has nine different sounds. It can makes both short and long Sounds.

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 3 years ago 

This is a great one. Keep up the good work.

 3 years ago 

Thanks so much @steemkidss. I appreciate

 3 years ago 

Thank you for this lesson. I have really learnt a lot from it. But it seems the video does not have sound. Kindly check on it.

 3 years ago 

There is sound in the video sir. Thank you fo r going through my post

That's wonderful, please keep up the good work

Awesome and educative. Thank you

This is awesome, you did great @udyliciouz. I love it,

 3 years ago 

Thanks so much my love

 3 years ago 

This is interesting, and may i appeal to friends of kids that this post is not just for kids, Adults can also benefit from it if you follow along.Thank you for posting this @udyliciouz.

 3 years ago 

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 3 years ago 

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You are really doing great in teaching our kids on Steemkids community, i love you to assist @prudent85 and me too my kids enjoyed 2st edition am sure the will this too as we are going to watch it together tomorrow

 3 years ago 

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Amazing lecture as always ma'am. I have benefitted from this....thank you so much

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