Social Class

English Language

What language is spoken the most in your country?

Do you have a second language in your country?

Where is English found?

Does your language have words adopted from English?

Mandarin, strawberry is 草莓 (cǎo méi)

Mandarin: 三明治 (sān míng zhì)

Why is English important for an individual to learn?

Why are you studying English?

Can you write in cursive?

Do you have pen-friend/pal?

If yes, what languages do they speak?

Can you name any languages that are no longer spoken?

Ancient Greek slowly evolved into modern Greek

Latin slowly evolved into modern Italian

Where are we?

Biblical Hebrew

Do you think that disappearing languages should be protected?

What languages are spoken the most throughout the world?

How many languages do you speak?

Is the classroom the best place to learn?

LAST ONE STANDING

• STUDENT GIVES A STUDENT A NEW THEME EACH TIME
• KEEPING WITH THE TOPIC "RED"
• SIT OUT IF GET BUZZED

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"ought"

• Bought - "bawt"
• Brought - "brawt"
• Tough – “tuff”
• Through – “throo”
• Dough – “doe”

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Homophones

• Two, too and to (all pronounced like “too”)
• Through, threw (both pronounced “throo”)
• New, knew (“niew”)
• Not, naught, knot (“not”)

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Silent

• K - know, knee, knight, knob
• L - should, walk, talk, half
• P - cupboard, psychology, psychiatrist
• S – aisle, island
• T - whistle, glisten, listen, hasten, fasten
• W - who, write, wreck, wrong

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“swallowed syllables”

• Different – “diffrent”
• Every – “evry”
• Aspirin – “asprin”
• Temperature – “temprature”
• Vegetable – “vegtable”
• Comfortable – “comftable”

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Silent

• B – dumb, thumb, plumbing
• D - sandwich, Wednesday
• G - sign, align, foreign
• GH - daughter, night, light, right
• H - why, honest, hour, honour
• U - guess, guilty, guitar

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Other mentions

• GH ('F') as in - cough, trough, enough, rough, laugh
• CH ('K') – character, chemistry, Christmas, stomach, ache
• EA ('EH') - breakfast, head, bread, lead, instead

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Some More

• EA ('EI') – break, steak
• EA ('EE') – beak, weak, streak
• OU ('UH') - country, double, enough, tough

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