Information for teachers
Students can make a lot of mistakes in writing, even when they are quite advanced. Sometimes they do not notice a wrong spelling, and sometimes one word is not only spelt wrongly, but it also changes into another word as a result.
Most of the exercises in this section are designed to give students practice in looking for small differences in detail, such as a word spelt wrongly, which can change the meaning of a sentence. Certain words have one letter missing, or one or two letters too many. The students need to look carefully to find out the words which need to be changed. The letters in question are alphabetical and not phonetic, and they alter the spelling, though, of course, this in turn alters the pronunciation. You may wish to focus on the resultant change in pronunciation as a result of the missing or extra letters, as well as the changes in meaning. Other exercises are just humorous plays on the meanings of words.
Most
of the exercises are suitable for intermediate students, though some are
quite advanced and would involve some extensive dictionary work, which is often a
useful activity in its own right. We believe that it is up to each teacher
to judge whether a class can cope with an exercise. Of course, apart from
helping with spelling, error correction, dictionary work and vocabulary learning, the
exercises are designed to be amusing so that students can enjoy playing
with the words and seeing some of the amusing results. You could even get
them to design exercises of their own.
Click on the links below to look at the free sample sheets.
| In another world 1 | Literal meaning of words derived from Latin and Greek |
| In another world 1 gapfill | Literal meaning of words derived from Latin and Greek |
| In another world 2 | Literal meaning of words derived from Latin and Greek (subscription only) |
| In another world 2 gapfill | Literal meaning of words derived from Latin and Greek (subscription only) |
| In another world 3 | Literal meaning of words derived from Latin and Greek (subscription only) |
| In another world 3 gapfill | Literal meaning of words derived from Latin and Greek (subscription only) |
| One consonant missing - Fatty foods | Find and put in the missing consonant |
| One consonant missing - Fatty foods gapfill | Find and put in the missing consonant |
| One consonant too many - Farm Animals | Find and take out the extra consonant |
| One consonant too many - Farm Animals gapfill | Find and take out the extra consonant |
| One consonant missing - Special Occasions | Find and put in the missing consonant (subscription only) |
| One consonant missing - Special Occasions gapfill | Find and put in the missing consonant (subscription only) |
| One consonant missing - Sport | Find and put in the missing consonant (subscription only) |
| One consonant missing - Sport gapfill | Find and put in the missing consonant (subscription only) |
| One consonant too many - Animal Features | Find and take out the extra consonant (subscription only) |
| One consonant too many - Animal Features gapfill | Find and take out the extra consonant (subscription only) |
| One vowel missing - Bears | Find and put in the missing vowel |
| One vowel missing - Bears gapfill | Find and put in the missing vowel |
| One vowel missing - Detective story | Find and put in the missing vowel |
| One vowel missing - Detective story gapfill | Find and put in the missing vowel |
| One vowel missing - Entertaining Children | Find and put in the missing vowel (subscription only) |
| One vowel missing - Entertaining Children gapfill | Find and put in the missing vowel (subscription only) |
| One vowel missing - History | Find and put in the missing vowel (subscription only) |
| One vowel missing - History gapfill | Find and put in the missing vowel (subscription only) |
| One vowel missing - Invitation | Find and put in the missing vowel (subscription only) |
| One vowel missing - Invitation gapfill | Find and put in the missing vowel (subscription only) |
| Knock out two | Find and take out the extra two letters |
| Knock out two gapfill | Find and take out the extra two letters |
| Replacements | Find the wrong letter and replace it (subscription only) |
| Replacements gapfill | Find the wrong letter and replace it (subscription only) |
| Swap Two | Change the positions of two letters (subscription only) |
| Swap Two gapfill | Change the positions of two letters (subscription only) |
| Word games answers | Answers to all the games in this section (except for subscription only activities) |
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