For the updated 2015 exam
All of the answers below are real ones from official Cambridge FCE exam papers, but with an error in each case. Correct the errors in each line.
- Januery
- chessed
- discaunt
- carm
- fether
- forists
- gluves
- grean badge
- helmit
- histery
- imiges
- jeography
- jym
- moniter
- nite
- streat markets
- teecher
- tracs
- notiseboard
- passenjers
- riport
- sciense
- seets
- sholders
- sports bagg
- starta
- winta
- Merch
- cantrols
- caraban
- fast team
- northarn
- perty
- house riding
- trouble writer
- sanrise
- silber
- berrys
- farmings
- fishings
- seven hundreds
- 35 pound
- some human
- three thousands
- little mouses
- Tshirt
- air port
- inter net
- plat form
- magazin
- motorbaik
- grate name
- funny dairy
Hint 1: The words above are in sections by the problems the answers have
Hint 2:
Match these problems to the sections above, and use that to help you correct them
- Compound noun formation
- Different words with similar spellings or pronunciations
- Homophones (= words with the same pronunciation but different spelling)
- Minimal pairs (= two sounds which are similar to each other)
- Need a “Magic E” (“e” making the previous short vowel sound into a long sound like that letter’s name)
- Plurals
- Spellings that would also be pronounced that way but don’t exist in English
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