Lesson 5 - Family
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This page: Learn words with silent letters in English.

There are many English words that have letters that are not pronounced (silent letters). The silent letters are shown in red in the list below.
| Wednesday | write |
| knee | foreign |
| knife | debt |
| knock | listen |
| know | answer |
| talk | Christmas |
| half | vegetables |
| could | two |
| walk | island |
Select the word that is spelled correctly.
Write the words that are dictated.
Write a sentence using one of the words from this lesson.
example
I like to talk on the phone with my sister.
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