THE ENGLISH ALPHABET AND SPELLING
The English alphabet contains 26 letters. The letters have their unique way of
spelling and spelling is very important when it comes to giving names, surnames, email addresses and learning new words.
This is the English alphabet:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
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You can learn to spell in several ways. One of them is by putting the letters in
similar sound groups.
i:
e
ei
ai
ju
E
B
C
D
G
P
T
V
F
L
M
N
S
X
A
H
J
K
I
Y
U
W
Q
You can use the same sound groups to find difficult pairs and learn the
difference in spelling:
AEI
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CS
GJ
UY
KQ
XH
Since some of these letters can be rather tricky, you can connect words to the
letters so you can learn them easier.
Words
A – it’s the first letter of the alphabet!
E – e-mail; e-book; e-bay
I – I (am) - јас
J – as in DJ - диџеј
U – You (are) - ти
Y – Why? (зошто?)
C – see (гледа)
X – ex - екс, поранешен
R – are (you are)
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O
R (ar)
Z (zet)
Try to spell these!
CSI
FBI
BBC
CNN
PC
USB
VIP
DJ
IQ
LA
UK
USA
USSR
DVD
TV
AXN
Use your imagination and creativity! Try to find your way of doing this and
share it with the rest of the group!
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THE ENGLISH ALPHABET AND SPELLING
Exercises:
1. Write sentences by spelling the capital letters:
- Hi! How R U? ________________________
- GR8T! And U? ________________________
- Not very good…
- Y?
________________________
- I’m tired. I have to go.
- OK, C U!
________________________
- C U L8TR.
________________________
2. Write your name, surname, address and email address and try to spell them
3. Spell these words:
letter
summer
antimatter
space
jinx
junk
queue
daily
quality
4. Try to spell the sentences:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Jackdaws love my big sphynx of quartz.
*These sentences contain all the letters from the English alphabet!
5. Write a word in English for each of these letters and spell the words!
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
Made by Bojan Lazarevski
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