Appendix 7 – silent letters
Look up the proper pronunciation of these words in your dictionary, choose the words
with silent letters and underline them.
mother
silent
knife
half
Christmas
wrong
hotel
son
book
comb
autumn
answer
cousin
cupboard
sun
paper
sky
map
swim
why
write
island
talk
wrist
know
hour
oven
come
read
The key for the teachers:
knife, wrong, answer, write, know, half, comb, cousin, island, hour, come, Christmas,
autumn, cupboard, why, talk, wrist, doubt
doubt