Hello friends, welcome back.
Are you struggling with spelling? Spelling words correctly
in the English languge.
Friends, English can be a little tricky. Words such as
knock
and phone sound one way, when we say them
outloud,
but they are spelled completely differently.
In this video lesson, I'll be sharing some tips with you
you can use to improve your spelling, and I will
teach you how to reduce your spelling mistakes.
Friends, before we learn how you can reduce your spelling mistakes,
it is important to understand why is spelling
so important.
Friends, as we know, writing is such a crucial part of
English fluency, and in order to be able to write properly
in English, you have to be using different words,
different expressions, but you also have to be able to spell
correctly in English.
Friends, if you're applying to study at an university, if your studying
at university at the moment, or if you're in high school,
and you're writing essay to be marked,
so, you're being graded,
a part of your grade will be on spelling.
If you're preparing for IELTS or TOEFL,
you'll be
marked down due to spelling mistakes.
If you're a business professional, and if you're
persistenly writing e-mails and you're making spelling mistakes,
or you're maybe writing some documents in English,
people may not take you seriously. You may have some
issues in communication at work.
Spelling is such an important part of developing your writing
and ultimately your English fluency. Remember,
friends, consistency is key. While I'm explaining
these tips, try to understand: Okay,
when can I use this tip, and how can I be consistent
in my learning, so that I can reduce my spelling
mistakes. By you watching this video lesson,
I'm assuming that you're already writing on a cosistent basis.
So, you're probably writing essays, you're writing e-mails,
you're probably writing texts or
something in English. You've noticed that you
do make a lot of spelling mistakes.
In order to reduce those mistakes, I want you to
understand where are you writing in English.
Are you writing on a piece of paper, or are you
writing on a computer.
Let's begin by looking at you writing on a computer.
Friends, a lot of my students use Autocorrect,
and they also use an application call Grammarly to correct
their mistakes.
Friends, these applications are great. So, if you're using
Autocorrect on Microsoft Word, or you're using Grammarly,
you will see that they will automatically correct your
mistakes. But, you're still
making those mistakes.
If you truly want to improve your spelling skills,
I suggest that you don't just automatically correct
your mistakes.
Friends, write down all those words on a piece of paper,
or in your notebook. Write them down,
so that you know, you know in the future that you have
a problem spelling these words. Now, while you're
looking at that notebook, and you're looking at the words that you've
misspelled, you may see that there's a common trait.
There are certain words that you're consistently
misspelling. Friends, there are many rules,
common rules we have in the English language we have when it comes
to spelling. There are many, also,
exceptions and contradictions
which you do need to take into account.
Once you've identified your common mistakes
by seeing them... by seeing them in Microsoft Word,
or if you're seeing them in an e-mail,
and you've written them down in a notebook, try to
group the mistakes. Try to see the common mistakes
that you're making, and try to find the rules that apply to those
spelling mistakes.
Okay, so you understand, to improve your spelling, you have to be writing.
If you're writing on a computer, don't use the Autocorrect
on auto-pilot, think about it, think about
your spelling mistakes by writing them down on a piece of paper.
In a notebook, in a journal,
and try to learn the rules, contradictions
and exeptions when it comes to spelling in English.
Now, another thing that you can to do really master
those rules, expections and contradictions
is to make sentences with those words.
So, you have a notebook, you know the words which you consistently
misspell, write them down,
write those words down, write them down
five, ten times, and then make sentences
in written form in English with them.
I know friends that it does sound a little repetitive,
but by doing this, by constructing sentences
with those words, with the correct spelling,
you're training your brain to think in English and you will remember the correct
spelling in the future.
I cannot highlight enough the importance of writing
consistently in English. Especially
to reduce your spelling mistakes. Friends,
the more that you're writing in English, you'll notice the mistakes
that you're making, you can identify those mistakes
by writing them down in your notebook,
and then, by practicing.
Practicing by making sentences with those words
so that you can reduce your spelling mistakes and improve
your spelling.
But maybe you're the type of learner that you don't write consistenly,
maybe you write once, or twice a week,
or maybe once a fortnight, but you really
want to improve your spelling.
Friends, what you can do to improve your spelling is
dictation. Now, don't be
scared of dictation, dictation shouldn't be boring,
you can do it in a fun way.
Friends, you can combine improving your listening skills and
your spelling skills at the same time, by listening to something
in English. Find something
to listen to in English with a transcript,
and try to dictate. Write down
on a piece of paper everything that you hear.
A great resource that you could be using to improve your
dictation skills and ultimately, your spelling skills
and also your ability to think faster in English
is podcasts.
Friends, if you don't know, I have a great podcast,
you can listen to, the Using English TP podcast.
With each podcast episode there is a full
transcript.
Podcasts are great. Many podcasts out there have
listening materials. So, you're listening
to English being used, and you have
a transcript. Use this transcript to improve
your spelling.
Now, what you can do is listen to
an audio.
So, listen to a natural conversation, listen to somebody ranting on
in English and dictate.
Write down on a piece of paper everything
that person said. Now, I know that many podcasts
episodes, some go for 10 minutes, some go for an hour
long. You don't need to be doing this for an hour,
or two hours, you do this for
2 to 3 minutes every day, you will see improvements.
What I want you to do is listen. Listen to
the audio,
and press pause at 10 to 20 second intervals.
Press pause and write down everything that you've heard
on a piece of paper.
Write it down, and then hit play again and do the same.
So, keep listening, listen at
10 second intervals, write down exactly everything
that you've heard, and then press play
again, and do this for about 2 to four minutes
every day.
Now, I want you to use the transcript.
Many podcasts have transcipts out there for you
to use. Use the transcript to check your spelling.
Okay, so, you listened
to an audio, you've listened to a podcast,
or to some conversation, and you've written down
you've dictated everything that you've heard
I want you to compare what you wrote down
the spelling that you've used, in comparison
to that transcript. Friends, by doing this little
activity, you will notice, that, okay,
you're struggling, first of all, to understand that word,
but you're also struggling to spell that word correctly.
By doing this consistenly, you will be checking
checking that you are spelling words
correctly. And also,
you will be consistent.
The more that you do this, you'll notice some common
mistakes, so, some common words that you're consistently
misspelling, you can put those words
in your notebook, remember that notebook
at the beginning of this lesson, put them there,
you can construct words, sentences, so
do a little extra practice spelling these
words, so that you can reduce your spelling mistakes.
I would like to highlight that it's very important
to be doing this consistenly. When I say
consistently, I don't mean for an hour, or for
five hours, every single day. When I
mean consistently, I mean about
2 to 3 minutes every day. You do
this for about 2 to 3 minutes every day,
be that if you're writing something down on a piece of paper,
you're identifying your spelling mistakes, and you're writing them down
in your notebook, and then you're constructing sentences
or if you're listening to an audio,
to a podcast, to the Using English TP podcast,
and you're dictating, so, you're writing it down on a piece of paper,
everything that you've heard,
you're putting all those words that you've misspelled
in your notebook, and you're constructing sentences
with them, you will see that in very fast
time, in a very short period of time, you're spelling
will improve.
You don't need to be doing this for hours and hours a day,
also friends, you will pick up on the rules.
You'll notice that those words that you're putting in your notebook,
you'll notice the patterns.
And you'll be able to better
identify this patterns when you're listening,
when you're listening to these words being pronounced
outloud, and you're also notice these patterns when you're writing in English.
There you have it friends! Use these tips,
use this tips consistently, so that you can score
high, be that on your essay, so that you can perform better
on your proficiency exam, so that you can sound smarter.
So that you can sound smarter when your writing e-mails, and
you avoid spelling mistakes in written communications.
Friends, I'd love to hear
from you. These tips are shared on a regular basis in
the Using English TP classroom.
But maybe you have other tips you have used
to improve your spelling, and to improve your written English.
Tell me in the comments below
this video, what tips have you used
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