Spelling list: ph words - set 1

English words which come from Ancient Greek spell the /f/ sound with the letters ph. You can practise spelling the f sound by working through this list of ph words.

photograph	My camera takes a good photograph.
paragraph	He wrote a detailed analysis of the paragraph. *
autograph	She got the film star's autograph.
biography	Have you read the rock star's biography?
geography	At school, Geography was one of my favourite subjects. *
telephone	Have you got the store's telephone number?
microphone	She talked into the microphone.
saxophone	She plays the saxophone in a jazz band.
spherical	Spherical means round in shape.
atmosphere	The writer varies her sentence lengths to create a tense atmosphere.
stratosphere	The stratosphere starts 10 kilometers above the earth's surface.