Tuesday, January 25, 2005

要前不要後

英文拼音有句順口溜:

When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking

意思即是若果你看到ea,ai,oa你可以

只讀e不讀a(例如read)
只讀a不讀i(例如wait)
只讀o不讀a(例如boat)

考驗

ea
sea tea pea flea leap heap reap eat seat meat heat beat neat read lead bead weak peak leak each teach beach peach reach leaf leave weave breathe peace ease disease please cease east beast team beam scream mean bean dean lean jean meal seal deal steal

ai
aid paid maid laid raid faith waist raise aim claim main pain plain gain rain brain drain Spain faint paint saint sail bail fail rail hail mail nail pail jail snail

oa
soap boat oat coat goat road load toad oak coak cloak coast boast toast roam foam goal coal

Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Magic E 神奇E

Magic E神奇E是讀英文的重要規則,能令你單看拼字已能成功讀出數百個生字。規則是這樣的:
字尾的e犧牲了自己不去發聲,像一個金剛環套在孫悟空頭上一樣令a,e,i,o不能在頑皮,一定要像自身作字母時的讀音一樣發音,即是a,e,i,o就讀a,e,i,o。看以下的例子:

make
theme
five
rose

字尾e不發音,a,e,i,o就讀a,e,i,o。餘下的動作就像是砌Lego一樣,把所有音節連起來就是了。

m+a+k = make
th+e+m = theme
f+i+v = five
r+o+s = rose

看,不到一分鐘你已學了英文拼讀最重要的規則。以下的生字,無論你認識與否,你已經有能力靠自己正確讀出。

plane Jane cane sane waste paste haste taste baste base case chase lace face pace race mace place date skate gate late fate mate shame lame came tame take cake sake wake lake shake

bike hike pike like ride hide bite kite spite white quite wine shine mine line time lime

eve cede

bone cone lone hone scone throne clone phone stone hope mope cope drove wove home dome tome poke woke