الدرس الثالث : تعليم الانجليزية مع البي بي سي

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اعزائي الحلان معا نتابع الدرس الثالث من تعليم الانجليزية عبر موقع قناة البي بي سي العربي[/color]

عنوان هذه الحلقة هو :

سؤال و جواب!

الرابط ادناه

رابط الدرس

الحلقة الثالثة

و هذا نص الحوار

Tommy writing from New Zealand asks "When should we pronounce 'ph' as 'f' and what's the difference between the different 'f' sounds'?"

Kaz explains that the /f/ sound in English has four spellings:

With one 'f' as in these words: 'fall, fill, fit, famous and fantastic'.

With two 'f's as in: 'off, coffee, sniff, effect, effort and efficient'

With 'gh' as in: 'laugh, rough, tough and enough'

With 'ph' as in: 'philosophy, telephone, phrase and pheasant'

These 'ph' words come to English from Greek.

Some words have the letters 'p' and 'h' together but they are not pronounced /f/. Common examples include words with the preposition 'up'. For example: 'uphill, uphold and upheaval'.

Said from Egypt wrote to us with the question 'what's the meaning of the words 'dust' and 'rust'.

Rasha says that in Arabic 'dust' is: تراب

and 'rust' is: صدأ

Kaz mentions two nice expressions with these words: If you used to know something well but you've forgotten much of what you once knew you can say that you are 'rusty' in that thing. For example: 'I'm afraid my French is a little rusty'

The expression 'bites the dust' means to die, fail or to be defeated. It's also a dramatic way of saying that something is finished. For example in this headline: 'Two more companies bite the dust as economic recession deepens'.


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