Lessons Unit 3, lesson 23
Join the halves: m + at → mat
You know beginnings (ma, si, to) and endings (at, it, op). A whole word is just both halves said as one breath: m…at — mat. s…it — sit. Read each sheet below, find the beginning and the ending you already know, then say them as one word.
What do the marks mean?
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Now say it yourself
Read each word from its sheet, out loud, three times. Where there's a play button, listen first and copy what you hear. Slow is fine — speaking clearly matters more than speaking fast. Tap a word's microphone to record yourself and see which sounds landed.
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Two halves, one breath
Every word on this page is a beginning you've already practiced — m, s, t, f, h, k — joined to an ending you've already practiced, like at, it, or op. The only new skill here is timing: saying both halves in a single breath with nothing between them, so m + at becomes mat, not two separate pieces.
The most common mistake
The most common mistake is adding a tiny extra vowel between the consonant and the vowel, so mat comes out as "muh-at" or sit comes out as "suh-it." English consonants at the start of a word attach directly to the vowel with no schwa in between.
Read each pair slowly first, beginning then ending, then squeeze them together faster and faster until they land as one word: hen, hop, kid. If you find yourself pausing between the two halves, that pause is exactly the gap you're training away — a real English word never has it.
That's the whole trick of reading English aloud: every word is halves you already know. The next unit turns this into real vocabulary, easiest first.