In each answer below the candidate has (more or less) understood what should go in the gap but has made a mistake while writing it, meaning they will get no point for that answer in the exam. Find and correct one mistake in each line. There are lots of different kinds of mistake (i.e. not all grammar mistakes).
alaska
april
german
september
baggige
balans
extra shugar
femail
footwhere
four six months
gymnastiks
helthy diet
huge sports sentre
ice creem
jeography
kanteen
kontract
mistery
playgraund
reserch area
scool
seeing dolfins
there friends and some banks
two noisy
video kameras
between ten to twenty
eating the grape
eight month
landings
long hours of works
more vitamin
seven day
some waters
three hundred kgs
wools
casual sumer wear
edible papper
swiming
marmaleid
barieties
bideo
firm animals
looftops
ruggage
wildlife project with rocal schools
aples
autumn sience lectures
new skils
wite
dis-agree
diveing
horses riding
noisey car park
selfconfidence
studentes
un well
watertaxi
week end
wild life park
softdrink
their dreamday
tree branchs
Discussion
What kinds of mistakes are there in each section above?
Match them to these categories:
Silent letters
Capital letters
Wrong sound
Word formation
Grammar
Different letters with the same pronunciation
Magic E
How can you make sure you don’t make each of the categories of error above?
Discuss the questions above in more detail with the specific questions below:
Silent letters
Why is it easy to guess that “white” needs an “h”?
Why does “skill” need “ll”? What kinds of words end with a single “l”?
Capital letters
What kinds of words take capital letters?
How can you avoid problems with capital letters in the exam? What is the FCE policy on small and capital letters in the listening paper?
Word formation
Why is “horses riding” wrong? What is the general rule about compound nouns like this?
Why is “dreamday” not likely to be a single word?
Why does “branches” need “es” but “students” not need “es”?
Why do “dis” and “un” attach to the word? How are they different from “dream” and “tree”?
Grammar
Why do “eight months”, “more vitamins” and “seven days” need “s”?
Why can’t “some water”, “landing”, “long hours of work” and “wool” take “s”?
Different letters with the same pronunciation
Why is it easy to guess that “gymnastics” doesn’t end in “k” and “canteen”, “camera” and “contract” don’t start with “k”?
Why is it easy to guess that “female” isn’t spelt like “mail”, “footwear” isn’t spelt like “where” and “their friends” isn’t “there friends”?
How does the normal pronunciation of “four” and “for” vary?
Why isn’t “geography” pronounced with a hard “g” like “game”?
How is “ph” always pronounced? What other words use this spelling?
Magic E
How would “sumer”, “papper” and “swiming” be pronounced?
Tactics
When should you double check your spelling?
What should you do if there are extra words which might not be necessary for the answer and you aren’t sure about?
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Hello, wondering where can I find the answers?
Didn’t make an answer key, I’m afraid. We just went through it in class.