Sunday, 7 July 2013

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Letter(s)                    Phoneme                           Word
[e]                           /e/                                  egg           32
Sean likes to sing the song, “To Be Happy”.                 
His sister, Jean, always likes to sing along.
        To be happy, I eat well (/wel/);
I sleep well,
I play and pray well.
        I work as well.
        I try everything (/ˈevrIθIŋ/)
to the best (/best/) I can
to be (/ bi: /), to be, to be happy.
       
[e ]      / e /                  egg                                           33
Sean is sick in bed (/bed/).                                                         
His face is really red.
His neck is red, too.
He eats so much less (/les/).
He only wants an egg (/eg/)
from the nest (/nest/).


[ e ]              /e/            egg                                           34
There are quite many hens in the coop.                                       
The coop is really in a mess (/mes/).
Sean’s mum wants to sell off all the hens.
She often tells Sean about the ten men
who mended the fence (/fens/)
and how the hens pecked them.
She had to lend them umbrellas (Umˈbrelǝs)
to defend (/dIˈfend/) themselves
and shooed the hens away.
The ten men spent the whole afternoon
 mending the fence (/fens/)
and defending themselves (/ðəmˈselvz/)
from the peck (pek) of those hens.

[e ]              / e /                  egg                                   39
Dr Vet, Sean’s dad has a fishing net.                           
It is always wet (/wet/).
He has a pet called Jet.
Jet wears a bell around his neck
It always gets excited
when the sun sets.
Dr Vet, Sean’s dad lets it go out at sunset.
Jet will feel upset
if it does not go out at sunset.
Yesterday he nearly met (/met/) with an accident.
 when he went out to smell (/smel/) around
and to meet his friends.
Jet was so frightened
that all his fur stood at its end.


[e]               / e /                  egg                                   36
Sean’s dad is a vet.                                                           
He always wears a vest (/vest/).
He likes to take a rest
at noon and at sunset.
He likes to take a rest (/rest/)
in an easy chair
beside a chest of drawers
next to a desk.
He has a big shelf to his left (/left/).
Nowadays he is so worried
about the different pests in his garden.
He feels rather restless
at the thought of all those pests.


[ e ]              / e /          egg                                           37
Sean has a friend called Hed.                                      
He likes to eat bread (/bred/).
He can eat a loaf of bread at one go.
He always has a headache (/ˈhedeIk/)
if he does not have bread.
He is only eight
but he weighs (weIz) seven times his age.
His height, well, is only one hundred
and twenty-seven (/ˈtwentI/) (/ˈsevn/) in cm.
He is really heavy (ˈhevI).
Then Ted, Hed’s dad, never hesitates to say,
 “Son, you are overweight.”
Hed’s mum, Ned is upset, too.
She never hesitates to comment,
 “Son, you are obese.”

[e ]              / e /                  egg                                   38
Hed knows being obese is not good to his health. (/helθ/)             
He knows, “Health is more important than wealth.” (/welθ/)
He still remembers his dead (/ded/) pet hamster, Wai-I.
It died of a heart attack being so fat.
Hed’s mum, Ned and his dad, Ted want him
to get ready (ˈredI) for a weight loss.
They want him to eat less bread
 and exercise more than Toss, their neighbour.
He always hold his toy weapon (ˈwepǝn)
and cries, “No! No!"
 
 
Vowel varying in length      
                        / eI /                                 / e /                          39
1.             bail                                   bell                  
2.             bait                                   bet
3.             fail                                    fell
4.             hail, hale                           hell
5.             lace                                   less
6.             lane, lain                           len
7.             late                                   let
8.             mane, main                       men
9.             mate                                 met
10.             pane, pain                                pen
11.            pate                                  pet
12.            paste                                pest
13.            quail                                 quell
14.            raid                                   red
15.            sale                                   sell, cell
16.            sate                                  set
        17.            tale                                   tell
18.            taste                                 test
        19.            wait                                  wet          

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