IELTS Preparation Series 2, Episode 22: Phonics
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Hello. I'm Margot Politis. Welcome to Study English, IELTS preparation.
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Have you ever wished you knew more words when you were reading or listening? Well, today
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we're going to show you how you can - just by guessing!
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It will take a little bit of effort, but you can learn strategies to help you guess the
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meaning of words you may not know.
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One of the strategies is using context to guess unknown words.
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But what is context? Well, context includes the words, phrases or sentences before and
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after the unknown word, which helps make the meaning clear.
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Let's consider an example. Today's story is about helping children learn to read.
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Here, Chris Brooks is using the phonics method. If you don't know what the phonics method
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is, can you work it out from the other words used by the reporter? Listen carefully.
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Chris Brooks is teaching Ashley with what's called the phonics method, which was used
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by most teachers til the '50s. It breaks words down into their individual sounds.
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Well, as you've seen, Sonya, what we've done is we've worked with some letters that have
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a variety of sounds, so the letter 'c' had two sounds, the 'k' sound and the 'ss' sound,
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and you can see with our colour-coding, one's purple and one's black, and the same with
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the letter 's', it has a 'ss' sound and 'zz' sound, so they're their common sounds.
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The reporter uses the following words and phrases:
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teaching
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phonics method
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used by teachers and
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breaks words down into their individual sounds
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So we can guess that phonics is a method used by teachers that breaks words down into their
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individual sounds.
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So using the context, the words surrounding the word phonics, we have some understanding
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of it.
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Let's now listen to Chris Brooks again. What other words or phrases help us with the meaning
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of phonics?
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Well, as you've seen, Sonya, what we've done is we've worked with some letters that have
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a variety of sounds, so the letter 'c' had two sounds, the 'k' sound and the 'ss' sound,
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and you can see with our colour-coding, one's purple and one's black, and the same with
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the letter 's', it has a 'ss' sound and 'zz' sound, so they're their common sounds.
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Chris uses the phrases:
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some letters that have a variety of sounds
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the letter c had two sounds
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the k sound and the ss sound
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colour-coding
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the letter s
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a ss sound and zz sound
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So we can guess that the method focuses on letters that have a variety of sounds, for
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example letter c, which has two sounds - k and s.
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We also know that colour coding is used to help recognise common sounds, and that the
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letter s has an ss sound and zz sound.
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So, we have quite a bit of information about phonics now. From the various contexts we've
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listened to, can you guess the meaning of the word phonics? How would you define it?
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Here's a possible guess:
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