4 b.

Underline the silent letters in these words.

Example: know

a.	daughter daughter		d.	knife knife		g.	answer answer
b.	castle castle		e.	wrong wrong		h.	wrong wrong
c.	whale whale		f.	Christmas Christmas		i.	born born

j.	walk walk		m.	guess guess		p.	night night
k.	autumn autumn		n.	car car		q.	laugh laugh
l.	birth birth		o.	comb comb		r.	work work

4 a.

Silent letters. English spelling is not phonetic, so there are many silent letters in English words. Practise saying these words.

	knee /niː/			weigh /weɪ/
	write /raɪt/			hair /heə/
	white /waɪt/			knight /naɪt/
	talk /tɔːk/			eight /eɪt/
	listen /lɪsn/			hard /hɑːd/
	climb /klaɪm/			hour /aʊə/

Recording 46, page 70
Exercise 4c Listen and check.

a

daughter

b

castle

c

whale

d

knife

e

wrong

f

Christmas

g

answer

h

born

i

walk

j

autumn

k

birth

l

guess

m

car

n

comb

o

night

p

laugh

q

work

Recording 47, page 70
Exercise 5 Listen to this telephone conversation. Why don't the gentlemen understand each other?

■ Hello, are you there?

□ Yes, who are you please?

■ I’m Watt.

□ What’s your name?

■ Watt’s my name.

□ Yes, what’s your name?

■ My name is John Watt.

□ John what?

■ Yes, are you Jones?

□ No, I’m Knott.

■ Will you tell me your name then?

□ Will Knott.

■ Why not?

□ My name is Knott.

■ Not what?

□ Not Watt, Knott.

■ What?