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WEEK 2
Speech Work: Monophthong (Revision)
- /i: / e.g. beat, seat, neat, key, meet, lead, beast etc.
- /i/ e.g. bit, sit nymph, kid, skill, nip, bib etc.
- /e/ e.g. bed, bread, said, many, red, leopard. etc
- /æ/ e.g. cat, lack, pack, cab, cast, blast
- /a: / e.g. car, dart, calm, heart, clerk
- / ɒ / e.g. pot, what, gone, mop mob, etc
- /ᴐ:/ e.g. war, pork, saw, sword, craw, law.
- /u/ g. good, cook, put, could, should, look
- /u: / e.g. pool, blue, screw,
- /Ʌ/ e.g. cut, come, blood,
- /з:/ e.g. first, purse, earn,
- /Ә/ e.g. about, baker, sailor,
Vocabulary Development: (Suffixes-Noun Derivation)
Content: Noun Derivations
A suffix is the part of a word which is put after a given word also to form a new word. You can see this in these diagrams.
Im-possible – Meaning – Ful
Some suffixes can help us form nouns from other words. Let us look at some of these in the table below.
Suffixes | Original | New word |
-ness | Happy
wicked like good gentle tired rough |
happiness
wickedness sickness likeness goodness gentleness tiredness roughness |
-ment | punish
move nourish establish amaze agree disappoint |
punishment
movement nourishment establishment amazement agreement disappointment |
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