Showing posts with label Commonly Misspelt Words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Commonly Misspelt Words. Show all posts

Friday, 22 July 2011

Commonly Misspelt Words

As the school Preliminary Examinations are just round the corner, I thought it would be timely and useful to share with everyone some words that are commonly misspelt.

Commonly Misspelt Words in English - Spot the Mistakes!


- Seperate
- Definately
- Manover
- Occurence
- Unneccessarry
- Questionair
- Consience
- Curiousity
- Enviroment
- Beleive
- Arguement
- Embarassment
- Explaination
- Desribtion

Let's find out what the correct spelling should be...Commonly Misspelt Words in English - Spot the Mistakes! Usually I tell my pupils to think of a one-sentence story to remember the tricky words.

- Seperate            - Separate
- Definately          -  Definitely
- Manover   - Manoeuvre
- Occurence        - Occurrence
- Unneccessarry - Unnecessary
- Questionair - Questionnaire
- Consience           - Conscience
- Curiousity   - Curiosity
- Enviroment          - Environment
- Beleive             - Believe
- Arguement    - Argument
- Embarassment     - Embarrasssment
- Explaination - Explanation
- Decsribtion           - Description

Strategy
There are strategies to help with spelling. You can think of a one-sentence story to remember how to spell the tricky words. Try this strategy. My pupils have found it very useful.

Separate              -  I am sad to be Separated from my Pa (father)
Conscience  - Science has no conscience.

Search for commonly misspelt words on Google to learn more about them. Have fun!

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