Beginner Class #1

We began our Beginner night classes a few weeks ago. These lessons aren’t just terribly clever, but they might be helpful for someone.

For our first night of Beginner class, we worked on English phonetics. Not the most exciting of lessons but necessary, nonetheless. We went through the alphabet and discussed the sounds that each letter makes, including words that exemplify those sounds. After going through the alphabet, we played alphabet BINGO (big hit).

A:

1. apple

2. ankle

3. always

B: boy

C: makes the “s” sound when followed by “e” or “i” and the “k” sound when followed by “a,” “o”, or “u”

1. cat

2. circle

D: dog

E:

1. egg

2. evening

F: father

G: generally, makes the “j” sound when followed by “e” or “i” and the “gh” sound when followed by “a,” “o,” or “u”

1. go

2. giraffe

H: Hello

I:

1. in

2. I

J: juice

K: kitten

L: lemon

M: mother

N: never

O:

1. offer

2. open

3. do

P: please

Q: is almost always followed by a “u”

1. queen

R: rabbit

S: makes two sounds, “s” and “z”

1. sorry

2. knows

T: Tuesday.

U:

1. umbrella

2. Tuna

3. Put

V: very

W: water

X: very rarely used at the beginning of a word.

1. extra

Y:

1. Yellow

2. happy

3. Why

Z: zebra