CHAPTER 16 SOME IMPORTANT CONSONANTS Part I: Silent Letters

CHAPTER 16

SOME IMPORTANT CONSONANTS

Part I: Silent Letters

1. The following words all contain silent letters. Pronounce and underline the silent letters like this:

Examples:        honest              flight  

castle  

daughter

hour

listen

designer

could

knife

answer

comb

autumn

would

foreigner

handsome

tomb

knight

yacht

Wednesday

receipt

Christmas

write

suit

half

sword

often

Check and repeat the words. Make sure that you do not pronounce the silent letters!

2. Practice

Pronounce these sentences correctly!

1. The handsome foreigner listened to my daughter.
2. The white whales swim under my yacht.
3. Could I have a receipt for that?
4. They found an iron sword in the knight’s tomb.
5. I couldn’t find the answer

3. Work on your own

Make sentences as many of the words contain silent letters above as you can!