2025-03-27
15 分钟Hello and welcome to the English Like An Aided podcast.
My name is Anna and you're listening to week 12, day 4 of your English Fibre Day, the second season.
With this series,
you're getting a healthy daily dose of English vocabulary so that you can start to feel more like yourself,
a confident version of yourself when communicating in English.
So let's begin as we always do with our snapshot.
Due to the decline in literacy rates,
teachers decided to focus more on phonics where students break words down into letters and their corresponding sounds.
However, with limited classroom time,
they had to squeeze out other subjects to make room for the extra reading practice.
This shift in priorities was necessary but it left little space for creativity in the curriculum.
Okay, let's dive into our vocabulary then, starting with the noun literacy.
Literacy.
We spell this L-I-T-E-R-A-C-Y.
Literacy.
Literacy.
Literacy is the ability to read and write or more generally the ability to understand and use various forms of communication effectively.
Here is an example sentence.
Digital literacy is becoming increasingly important in today's technology-driven world.
Next, we have the noun decline.