{"id":110,"date":"2018-02-26T16:54:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T16:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hilderstone.net\/?p=110"},"modified":"2018-02-26T16:54:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T16:54:26","slug":"week-commencing-monday-26th-february-sounds-and-spelling-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/week-commencing-monday-26th-february-sounds-and-spelling-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Week commencing Monday 26th February:  SOUNDS AND SPELLING Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This week we&#8217;re looking at spelling and pronunciation. This can be a big problem when you&#8217;re learning English! Often two words include the same combination of letters but are pronounced in very different ways. Sometimes they look very different, but are pronounced in a similar way. It can be confusing!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Try these two exercises.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>A) These words have the same vowel sound but different spellings. Can you guess and then complete the words with the correct vowels? (A,E,I,O or U)<\/p>\n<p>1) Many people drink this in the morning. It&#8217;s often made from oranges or apples: J _ _ C E<br \/>\n2) This is something we all need to stay alive! F _ _ D<br \/>\n3) How to get from one place to another: R _ _ TE<br \/>\n4) The opposite of a lie is the TR _ TH<br \/>\n5) How you eat a toffee or gum: CH _ W.<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>B. Can you say which word has a different vowel sound in each group of words?<\/p>\n<p>1) love move glove<br \/>\n2) some come home<br \/>\n3) good flood should<br \/>\n4) wood good blood<br \/>\n5) great seat heat<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>____________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Answers:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hilderstone.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/quiz-of-the-week-answers-26022018.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-121\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.hilderstone.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/quiz-of-the-week-answers-26022018.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"92\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hilderstone.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/confused-face.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-102 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.hilderstone.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/confused-face-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/confused-face-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/confused-face-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/confused-face-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/confused-face-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/confused-face.png 958w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HilderstoneBroadstairs\/?fref=mentions\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=6583668183&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D\" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show=\"1\">Hilderstone College<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hilderstone.ac.uk\/about\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;-U&quot;}\" data-lynx-mode=\"asynclazy\" data-lynx-uri=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hilderstone.ac.uk%2Fabout%2Findex.html&amp;h=ATMVWfe1rCbbL8bcNatkjiYNhCS0FKJYVJXUY9Ika2py2_XqwdlBMLqvH6LOZZosF_6xmGIo-oMgU8yZUfUdmnbJMMD_7XJWh561QM_iU4W5Xi5RjrZr3NomVcz9HVvbrQ\">http:\/\/www.hilderstone.ac.uk\/about\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we&#8217;re looking at spelling and pronunciation. This can be a big problem when you&#8217;re learning English! Often two words include the same combination of letters but are pronounced in very different ways. Sometimes they look very different, but are pronounced in a similar way. It can be confusing! Try these two exercises. _____________________________________________________________________ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[21,26,31,32,39,46,47,48,57,59,68,69,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}