Lesson 4 - E bet

To produce the /E/ sound, let the middle part of the tongue bunch forward while
the tip of the tongue is against the back of the lower front teeth. Lips and teeth are
slightly parted in a half smile position.

This sound does not occur in the final position.

Sound-Spelling Pattern

e get bed fell

a any many
says
ai against said
ea bread thread
breakfast
30%
ie friend

WORDS

adept said dead

any tremble trek
egg senate ledge
eligible sweater reckon
else west etch
flexible infection trench
weapon gesture dredge
leather second editor
blemish engine treasure
pen bench fence

PHRASES

1. met the deadline 6. seven to eleven

2. test with death 7. meant something else
3. an excellent lecture 8. a September wedding
4. a precious engine 9. a dreadful spectacle
5. fences and hedges 10. a genuine leopard

SENTENCES
1. Everyone said that November seemed endless.
2. Eddy made an effort to excel at baseball.
3. Eventually Ella will enter university to study engineering.
4. Wednesday will be the seventh day that the hens have laid eggs.
5. Bens friends went to Edmonton, spent all their money and had
nothing left to show for it.
6. Helen put the letter in an oversize envelope that will inevitably be
sent back to her for extra postage.
7. Jerry is a gentle man, elegant in his manner of dressing, clever in
his business and welcome in any environment.
8. Yesterday the television announcement said that a heavy duty
machine operator was found dead after the accident at the
construction site.
9. Marriage is a commitment that is tested many times and whether a
couple survives depends entirely on their never-ending determination
to remain friends.
10. Among the wedding presents they received were a bed, a kettle,
an electric range and a cute teddy bear.

SELECTIONS

Very old age is known as senility. It marks the time when the person loses
practically all of his abilities. His memory is gone and his mind wanders. Often, he
becomes helpless and must be fed and kept clean. Most of his time is spent in sleep.
Indeed, he becomes like the infant except that he faces the end of life rather than the
beginning.

Im sure you like to go there

To see your feathered friend
And so many goodies go there
You would like to comprehend.
- from The Donkey Bird

CONTRASTIVE PAIRS

fell fill pet pit

pen pin head hid
set sir mess miss
send sinned spell spill
tell till hell hill
.
1. bread in the bin 6. a fence sitter
2. a deaf prince 7. hit on the head
3. a pit in the hill 8. spilled in the mess
4. filled to the brim 9. a pen and a pin
5. sit on the sala set 10. led to sin
tongue twister

A black hen went to France to get a pat on the back from the ten tan franks who
had friends that sell pens and bags from the land that smells to men and hags out of a well
that sang when the jackass danced and wept to the knell of a rusty old bell from the
church around the bend where the lambs were pressured to defend, blend and mend with
hands.