Lesson №5

In this lesson we are going to take a look at the letters «seen» and «sheen». These letters are easy to learn as they have equivalents in English. This is how they look:

«Seen» and «sheen» look alike and differ from each other only by the presence of three dots on the top of «sheen». You can recognise these two in a word by the three «teeth».

The image of the letter «seen» consists of two elements: the three «teeth» and a semicircle.The teeth are written on the line, and a semicircle is written under the line. This letter has all four forms of spelling.

The letter «seen»

By its sound it is similar to the English «s» like in the word «sir». The letter «seen» with vowels:

This is what the letter «seen» looks like in various positions:

The letter «sheen»

The sound of the letter «sheen» is to be compared to the combination of «sh» in English (not «ch»), like the sound at the beginning of the word «shark». The letter «sheen» with vowels:

This is what the letter «sheen» looks like in various positions:

Attention:

The «teeth» of seen and sheen have to be written on the line, while the semicircle (or «tail») is to be under the line.