NB 1 & 2 - Revising the Alphabet

Dear students & readers of this blog,

These days we are revising the alphabet, and how to spell words.

These are the letters of the English alphabet. As you can see, they are the same as in the Spanish alphabet. But how do you pronounce them correctly? Would you like some help? You'll find the pronunciation between brackets. But be careful, that's not a phonetic transcription!!!!

The video below illustrates the way we traditionally learn the alphabet:





This is another video about the alphabet in English. But there is a small difference. Can you tell me which one it is?




But there are other ways to learn the alphabet. One of them is by associating the letters to a colour that rhymes with them, as you can see below:

The Alphabet Pyramid from leticiaeoimairena

Thanks to Maite García-Saavedra for this wonderful resource!

Here you have some famous acronyms that, of course, include letters of the alphabet:

EU = European Union
CIA = Central Intelligence Agency
UFO = Unidentified Flying Object
L = Learner
B.C. = Before Christ
A.D. = Anno Domini
NHS = National Health Service
Ph.D.: = Doctor of Philosophy
SOS = Save Our Souls
IQ = Intelligence Quotient
NATO = North Atlantic Treaty Organization
PC = Personal Computer
MTV = Music Television
OK = Okay (other version: zero killed)
USA = United States of America
UK = United Kingdom
CD = Compact Disc
VIP = Very Important Person/People
BMW = Bavarian Motor Works
DVD = Digital Versatile Disc
FBI = Federal Bureau of Investigation
BBC = British Broadcasting Corporation
GMT = Greenwich Mean Time
MPH = Miles per hour
DIY = Do it yourself
VAT = Value Added Tax
NASA = National Aeronautics and Space Administration
HIV = Human Immunodeficiency Syndrome
IRA = Irish Republican Army
MP = Member of Parliament
PM = Prime Minister

S-E-E  Y-O-U  S-O-O-N!!