MANY CHILDREN CAN'T SPELL SHAKESPEARE

Dr ken Smith suggests:

"University teachers should simply accept as variant spellings those words our students most commonly misspell."
He added. "All I am suggesting is that we might well put 20 or so of the most commonly misspelled words in the English language on the same footing as those other words that have a widely accepted variant spelling."
He said the word "judgement" was already accepted as a variant of "judgment", adding: " So why can't "truly" be accepted as a variant spelling of "truly"?

He blamed failings in the school system declaring:

"There was little evidence of students having been taught the relevant rules at school, or of the students having been corrected for obvious and frequent errors."

Jack Bovill, chairman of the Spelling Society, said its national survey had shown up to 54 % of people couldn't spell words such as "embarrassed", "separate", "accommodation", "millennium" and "friend".

He said the society did not advocate changing the spellings.

By Laura Clark
Education Correspondent
Daily Mail, Thursday, August 7, 2008

THE WORDS THEY COULDN'T GET RIGHT

20 COMMONLY MISSPELLED WORDS THAT SHOULD BE ACCEPTED BY UNIVERSITIES

Arguement for argument

February for February

Wensday for Wednesday

Ignor for Ignore

Occured for occurred

Opertunity for opportunity

Que for queue

Cue for queue

Kew for queue

Speach for speech

Thier for their

There for their

Truely for truly

Twelth for twelfth

Wierd for weird

Sieze for seize

Liesure for leisure

Nieghbour for neighbour

Foriegn for foreign

Mispelt for misspelled


Daily Mail, Thursday, August 7, 2008

BAD SPELLING

Daily Mail, Thursday, August 7,2008

"BAD SPELLING? IGNOR IT"

"Faced with a flood of basic spelling mistakes, you might expect a university lecturer to demand his students pay more attention to the dictionary.
But one don is so fed up with having to correct his undergraduates' errors that he is calling for something rather more unorthodox - a spelling amnesty.
Dr Ken Smith is urging colleagues to turn a blind eye to the 20 most common slips - such as "Febuary", "ignor" and "speach" - and view them instead as variants of standard spellings.
Writing in the Times Higher education magazine, the senior lecturer in criminology at Buckinghamshire New University said? "Teaching a large first-year course at a British university, I am fed up with correcting my students' atrocious spelling. Aren't we all?"

SNAP GAME

Prepare some pair cards with irregular verbs (present and past) and play memory game until the participants are familiar with the verbs in the two tenses.

The funniest part of the game is to distribute the same number of the cards among the group and play snap.

Snap is a popular CARD GAME in which the object is to lose all the cards.

In the game the entire pack of cards is dealt out among the players in face-down stacks as equally as possible. Play proceeds with the players taking it in turns to remove a card from the top of their stack and place it face-up on a central pile. Everybody has to say the verb on it and the one that makes the pair.

Eg: FIND - FOUND or FOUND - FIND.

The person who makes a mistake or does not know the verb takes all the pile. The player with the most card loses.