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Unit 1: The basic 'Building Bricks' of the English language
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Unit 1: The basic 'Building Bricks' of the English language

Unit StartPage 1: An introduction to vowels and consonantsCourse Test: An introduction to vowels and consonantsPage 3: An introduction to vowels and consonantsCourse Test: Y: When is it a vowel? When is it a consonant?Page 5: Y: When is it a vowel? When is it a consonant?Page 6: Ways of spelling consonant and vowel soundsCourse Test: Long and short vowel soundsPage 8: Long and short vowel soundsCourse Test: An introduction to syllablesPage 10: An introduction to syllablesCourse Test: Introduction to prefixes and suffixesPage 12: Introduction to prefixes and suffixesCourse Test: SuffixesPage 14: SuffixesCourse Test: Spelling terms testPage 16: Spelling terms testUnit End

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An introduction to syllables

Syllables are the number of beats in a word.

To work out how many syllables are in a word, we can clap each beat:

help with syllables
Hap-py Birth-day to you

Happy has two beats so we would clap two times.

Birthday also has two beats. To and you only have one beat/syllable.

Try these words, selecting the correct number.

Say each word aloud.
Count the number of syllables.
Select the correct number of syllables.

Number of syllables:
London 1     2     3     4     5     6    
Singapore 1     2     3     4     5     6    
Atlanta 1     2     3     4     5     6    
Madagascar 1     2     3     4     5     6    
France 1     2     3     4     5     6    
Philadelphia 1     2     3     4     5     6    
Uganda 1     2     3     4     5     6    
Moscow 1     2     3     4     5     6    
Spain 1     2     3     4     5     6    
Argentina 1     2     3     4     5     6    

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