Lesson 7: Different Patterns of Long Vowel “I”

1. Words with long vowel I

I-E: bite, cite, dime, file, hide, jive, kite, life, mine, knife, pile, quite, rice, site, time,
vine, wife, white
I: tiger, lion, environment, advertise, exercise, admire, desire, entire, require,
advise, invite, beside
IGH: high, nigh, sigh, thigh, bright, fight, flight, fright, knight, might, night, plight,
right, sight, slight, tight;
- delight, nightmare, twilight, highlight…
EI: height
Y: by, my, cry, dry, fry, fly, ply, sly, spy, shy, sty, why;
- apply, comply, imply, supply, defy, deny, rely, reply, July, identify, magnify, -
byte, rhyme, cycle, dynamic, hyphen, hydrogen, pylon, python, typhoon, hygiene,
IE: die, lie, pie, tie

2. Practice reading
Ships and Planes
Ships and planes are different, they still make friends. Ships can run on the sea
while planes can fly in the sky. Some ships are very big and high. They are even
bigger and higher than planes. Ships can carry many of things. Planes are faster
than ships. Planes often carry people. The biggest planes can carry up to five
hundred people. At night, it is still bright inside ships and planes because they
have many lights. When planes fly over the sea,they can see ships. Ships and
planes are happy because they think they are helping people.

- List five words that have short vowel /i/:

- List five words that have long vowel /i/:

3. Questions:

3.1 What is the difference between ships and planes?

3.2 What do ships often carry?

3.3 What do planes often carry?

3.4 Why are ships and planes still bright at night?

3.5 Why are ships and planes feeling happy?