- Phonics workshop draws interest from parents

Phonics workshop draws interest from parents News Story

September 22, 2020

Hira Naeem | Staff Correspondent TBT | Beaconhouse Girls Campus Sahiwal

Sahiwal: Phonics workshop was arranged for parents of nursery and kindergarten students to familiarize them with phonics at the campus in a bid to ensure optimum learning. It contained phonics of English as well as Urdu. Adhering to the SOPs given by the government, parents were called in two different time slots to ensure social distancing. Parents enthusiastically participated in learning diagraphs, graphemes, trigraphs, and other techniques commonly used in phonics.

Word of The Day

zephyr

[ZEFF-er]

(noun)

1: a breeze from the west.
2: any of various lightweight fabrics and articles of clothing.

Synonym: air, breath, breeze, puff, waft
Antonym: gale, furious wind

Example(s) of use;
- "There was not even a zephyr stirring; the dead noonday heat had even stilled the songs of the birds." — Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876

Origin
For centuries, poets have eulogized Zephyrus, the Greek god of the west wind, and his "swete breeth" (in the words of Geoffrey Chaucer). Zephyrus, the personified west wind, eventually evolved into zephyr, a word for a breeze that is westerly or gentle, or both. Breezy zephyr blew into English with the help of poets and playwrights, including William Shakespeare, who used the word in his play Cymbeline: "Thou divine Nature, thou thyself thou blazon'st / In these two princely boys! They are as gentle / As zephyrs blowing below the violet." Today, zephyr is also the sobriquet of a lightweight fabric and the clothing that is made from it.

Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zephyr#synonyms, https://www.synonyms.com/antonyms/zephyr
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