This year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination has been a peculiar one. Unlike the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination that ‘escaped’ the COVID-19 saga, WAEC got caught in the web of the pandemic — as far as the WASSCE schedule is concerned. But it is great that, after much anxiety and confusion, the exam has finally started.
How are you, my dearest candidates? I hope Mathematics, which you started with on Monday, was good. I hope you will carefully read this article because it has the potential to help you in the oral aspect of the English paper also holding in a few days. It is like a revision that will touch on key areas of the segment.
Often, the examiner also wants to be sure whether or not you know the differences between the pronunciations of f and v, s and z. This means that, as a student, your pronunciation should stand out – from that of the crowds who say ‘foice’ instead of ‘voice’, and those who say ‘soom’ instead of ‘zoom’! And I am sure that is what many people blow every day! It can be a little more complicated when we consider the fact that in common words where you think you have and should say.
Coupled with words having s and z are those with sh. You should get their articulation right. Which of these, for instance, hasPardon me for not using the appropriate phonetic symbols here. I have to leave them out because they might get messed up in the course of production. But the fact is that many people do not know the differences in the pronunciations of words such as tree and three, wet and wealth, thee and deep.
Assuming you are asked to pick a word that rhymes with disgrace from among grace, great, ungrateful and disgraced, what will you go for? You dare not go for great, ungrateful and disgraced. The reason is that it is only ‘grace’ that really rhymes with ‘disgrace’.All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.
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