Hi there, it's Asiya. When you are taking your IELTS exam, spelling matters. It affects
both your listening and writing scores and in this video I will explain you how
exactly your spelling affects your scores and also show you three steps to
spelling English words correctly I share the tools I use myself and I can
guarantee if you do what you learn from this video you're going to improve your
spelling so let's get started
as I've mentioned your spelling effects your listening and writing scores in
IELTS listening if you write down the correct word but you make a mistake when
spelling it you are not going to get a point for this answer. In IELTS
writing 25 percent of your score depends on your vocabulary and in order to get
band 7 you may only make occasional errors for band 8 rare errors and if you
make some errors you're not gonna get more than band 6 for your vocabulary
even if your vocabulary is really wide and you know lots of complex words and
that's just because you're making spelling errors so let me show you 3
steps to improving your spelling step number 1
what country is your spelling from? in IELTS you can use spelling of any
english-speaking country the UK USA Australia Canada you choose but you have
to use the spelling of this one country consistently so choose your country and
I'm going to show you some of the differences in spelling between British
English and American English in British English words like centre fibre metre
theatre end in RE in American English it's ER also in American
English the letter U is dropped from words like colour flavour neighbour labour
humour and so on in American English many verbs are spelled with Z apologize
recognize and this letter is actually called ZI in American English in British
English these verbs can be spelled either with Z or with S Nouns like
analogue catalogue dialogue end in GUE in British English and they often end in G
in American English similarly the word programme ends in MME in British English
and simply in one M in American English so once you've decided what spelling
you're gonna use it's time for step two check your spelling in order to correct
your mistakes you need to find out what those are so you need to check your
writing let me show you some of the apps I use first of all I wanna say I don't really
life the Microsoft Office spelling check for two reasons
first of all it corrects a number of mistakes automatically so you
wouldn't even know that you make a mistake in this word well you see what
happens another reason I don't really like it is Microsoft Office doesn't
spot if you type a wrong word for example I can't hear you
you see nothing happens for more advanced spelling check I use Grammarly it
picks up wrong words for example I can't hear you or how to make fewer mistakes
and what you see is a free desktop version if you want to find all your
mistakes you still have to use a human proofreader
I like Text Ranch you can submit your text and it will be checked by an editor
who is a native speaker and a check of a task 2 essay will cost you around 3 US
dollars so let's take a comment that Rosbeidy left on my videos about how
to write complex sentences so we submit it we choose if it's British
English or American English and what style of text this is
basically how formal or informal it should be it's ready in a couple of
minutes and then you see the original text at the bottom the new edited text
at the top and you can click and see all the corrections so here both your
spelling mistakes and your grammar mistakes will be corrected and once you
know what errors you make it's time for the next step step number three make a
list of words you have trouble spelling and learn it you may use a notebook if
you write down a word by hand you memorize how to spell it especially if
you write it a few times it may sound dull but at school I did it a lot
today I prefer apps because I can access them from anywhere and the app I'm going
to show you is called the Cambridge online Dictionary it's free and it
allows you to create your own lists of words such as new words pronunciation and
spelling search a word you spelled incorrectly add it to your spelling list
and once you have a few words in it go into the practice mode
read the definition and type the word underneath then we can check if you
managed to spell it correctly this time around or not yet
if you follow the three steps I showed you today if you work on your spelling
it will improve and if you feel that you also need to expand your vocabulary then
watch my video about five ways to learn English words fast and easily thank you
so much for watching me today good luck with your preparation bye