‘No student left behind’: phonics push for disadvantaged schools

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/no-student-left-behind-phonics-push-for-disadvantaged-schools-20210421-p57l0n.html

Could you read the word “intravenous” when you were in grade 3? Did you know the superlative suffix for “pretty”?

It’s Wednesday morning at Chelsea Primary, a state school in Melbourne’s south-eastern sandbelt, and these questions are being put at rapid pace to a composite class of grades 3 and 4 students.

Disadvantaged 就是現在常見的詞 “弱勢的” 族群的意思。讀成：

這裡說，您在小學三年級時，會讀 “Intravenous” 這字嗎？當然，這是英語國家（澳洲）的小學 3 年級。Intravenous 我使用的機會很多，因為我是醫師！😄！就是靜脈注射的意思。讀成：

Superlative Suffix 就是比較級的最高級的字尾。

Superlative 讀成：

Suffix，字尾，找不到單純 suffix 的發音。這 YouTube很長，老師在 47 秒處，發了 suffix 的音：

至於，Pretty 的比較級字尾（suffix）您應會吧！？

Pretty，Prettier, Prettist（superlative suffix；最高級字尾）！