4.4 Summary Achievement test数字时代的商务英语写作.pdf

Unit 4 English Sounds and Spellings 4.4 Summary and Achievement test Summary English spelling is not a strictly regular alphabetic system in which one letter always stands for one sound and one sound only.  Certain vowel combinations have more than one pronunciation pattern.  Consonants can join together to form one sound only. Summary  Some letters are pronounced or silent depending on their position in a word.  Some letters have no phonetic value, but act as silent modifiers.  Certain consistent features or patterns can be identified within them, for example, the invariable representations of roots and grammatical endings. Summary The peculiarities of the English spelling system derived from its highly involved language history, which includes multiple foreign influences and the acquisition of many loan words. Summary Despite the fact that English orthography violates the one sound one symbol principle, it is by no means defective. English spelling is based on morphological and lexical as well as phonological regularities. Summary Differences between English and Chinese sound-spelling correspondences can often be the source of mispronunciations. The spelling system of Chinese is more straightforward than the English spelling system in representing sounds. Summary A systematic study involves  the pronunciation of the English sound and spelling;  the ability to distinguish between consonant letters and vowel letters;  the identification of affixes and  the number of syllables a word has. Achievement test 1 Match the words that rhyme in the two columns. Column A Column B head meet