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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