Jobs and Roles in Home and Community
Primary 4 · English
Jobs and Roles in Home and Community
Lesson 5 of 5
30 min
Put your finger on your lips and say “Shh!” Now pretend to be a train: “Choo-choo!” These are two different sounds, and you hear them in lots of words about jobs at home: wash, dish, chores, kitchen, fetch.
Today you will learn to hear and spell sh, ch and tch.
Soft and long, like wind: shhh.
shop, shoe, sheep, shelf, shirt, wash, dish, brush, fish, finish
Short and strong, like a sneeze: ch!
chair, chicken, children, chores, cheese, teacher, bench, lunch, much, church
After a short vowel at the end of a word, the ch sound is often spelt tch. The t is silent!
fetch, catch, match, watch, stitch
You also find tch inside a word: kitchen.
I fetch water. We watch the football match.
Wash the dish and brush the shoe,
Fetch the water, feed the chickens too!
Sweep the kitchen, dust the chair,
Children's chores are everywhere!
sh words: wash, dish, brush, shoe. ch and tch words: fetch, chickens, kitchen, chair, children's, chores.
Speak: Say the chant with a friend. Put your finger on your lips for every sh word, and move your arm like a train for every ch word.
Write: Make three lists, sh, ch and tch, with at least four words each. Then write three sentences about your jobs at home, using one word from each list.
Tip
Shh is soft, ch is strong. wash the dish; children's chores.
Short vowel at the end? Add a silent t: fetch, catch.
Write your answers in your exercise book, then check.
Fill in sh or ch: a __air to sit on
Answer: chair (ch)
Fill in sh or ch: wa__ your hands
Answer: wash (sh)
Fill in ch or tch: I ca__ the ball.
Answer: catch (tch)
Which word has a ch that sounds like k: chicken, school, lunch?
Answer: school
Write a sentence with one sh word and one ch word.
Answer: Example: The children wash the dishes.
What you learned today
Sources and credits
Quick check
Which word is spelt correctly?
