Do you make lots of spelling mistakes?
Do you have difficulty remembering the correct
spellings of words?
Well, in this lesson, I’m going to teach
you an easy, three-step method to improve
your spelling and write correctly without
making mistakes.
So let’s talk about that.
OK, the first step of this exercise is to
find your spelling mistakes.
You do this by checking your own writing.
If you are a student, then I’m sure you
write a lot.
If you work, you might write emails or reports.
So, at least once per week, take your writing,
and try to find spelling mistakes that you
have made.
Now, I know that this can be difficult – you
don’t know what mistakes you’re making.
So there are two great ways to know your mistakes
– the first is to ask someone else to read
your work and underline or circle any errors
(and also give you the correct spellings).
The second option is to take your writing
and type it (or copy/paste it) into Microsoft
Word.
The software will then underline your spelling
mistakes for you and give you the corrections.
This way, you can identify your own errors.
OK, let’s do an exercise to understand this
process: Here’s a short text that I wrote
– there are five spelling errors in it.
Stop the video, try to find the mistakes,
then play the video again and check.
OK, here are the answers: ‘a lot’ should
be spelled with a space.
‘Definitely’ has no ‘a’ – it should
be an ‘i’.
‘Received’ is written with ‘ei’ not
‘ie’.
‘Rhythm’ needs to have an ‘h’ after
‘r’.
And ‘schedule’ needs to start with ‘sch’.
OK, did you find them all?
Alright, so like this, you identify the words
that you are spelling incorrectly and learn
their correct spellings.
And now comes the important part – record
the correct spellings of these words.
That means, you should note down the correct
spellings of all the words you spelled wrongly
in a notebook or in a file on your computer.
You should write the spellings on one side
of the page, and on the other, you should
write the phonetic transcription – that
is, the same word in pronunciation symbols
– this will allow you to see the difference
between the spelling and the pronunciation,
and you will also be able to test yourself
later.
Now, I know that you don’t know all of these
symbols, that’s OK – they’re very easy,
you can find them by looking up each word
in a dictionary.
So just like I have done here, you should
take all of the words – note down the correct
spellings, and also note down the phonetic
transcription.
Finally, the last step is review the spellings
regularly.
You do this so that you don’t forget the
correct spellings.
Make one day of the week your spelling improvement
day (maybe Saturday or Sunday).
On this day, test yourself on the spellings.
To do this, open your notebook and hide the
spellings.
Only look at the pronunciation symbols.
Now, can you give me the correct spellings
of these words that we just learned?
Stop the video, try to write down the correct
spellings, then play the video again and check.
OK, here they are.
Did you get them all right?
So, you should do this for your own spellings
that you write down.
By testing yourself, you will remember the
correct spellings and you will not make the
same mistakes again.
You should do these three steps regularly
– find your mistakes, record the correct
spellings, and test yourself regularly.
As you do this, you will start to collect
more and more words.
This means that your mistakes will reduce,
and eventually, you will be able to write
without making spelling errors.
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