How to Solve Spelling Mistakes in English Basic English Tips

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improving your English spelling this is

something many of you have asked about

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spelling I’m going to talk about a few

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spelling competitions in in like

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improving your English spelling that uh

actually I’m going to talk about this

rule I before E except after C I will

talk about this later this is this is

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begin with tip number one I laid

everything out here the first tip is the

most basic thing but I think it’s the

most important thing you can do to

improve your spelling and that is read

read so it’s it’s really important

because the words are written on the

page you can see the spelling it can

help you better understand grammar so

it’s like it’s like a full package

really it’s like spelling and grammar

and you get to find like writers you

enjoy and stories you enjoy I would say

this is something you should probably

expect to do every day constantly like

it’s something that you need to do all

the time so not just reading like you

know one hour a month or something but

just reading a little bit every day so

another point about this though is be

maybe careful I don’t want a careful but

please choose carefully the things that

you read so if you want to improve your

spelling make sure you choose things

that are edited so

that means someone checked the text to

make sure it’s correct so make sure

you’re reading things that are correct

if you read only like Twitter or

Facebook or other social media posts

there’s a chance that the English is not

correct also like we’re human we make

mistakes typing mistakes typing mistakes

are called typos so there’s that kind of

danger also sometimes people

intentionally that means they

purposefully use incorrect grammar or

incorrect spelling for a variety of

different reasons so I would recommend

when you read choose books or choose

magazines or choose like online

newspaper resources this is a great

thing to do if you’re not sure where to

start a good I think tip is to think

about your hobbies or your job so what

is it that you need to know or you want

to know how to do you want to know more

about that

and look for online a resource in

English that you can read about so like

a blog you follow like if I wanted to

find information about editing or

English teaching I could find and I do

check blogs and articles regularly about

that topic so this is a great and

important step for your spelling and for

a grammar as well and for just language

learning in general so this is our first

tip reading please read please read

everything’s for you okay let’s go on

then to the next tip next tip is very

different from from the first one the

next tip is actually a game maybe some

of you know these these are called

crossword puzzles crossword puzzles so

we can break this down cross you can see

this is one example I made a very simple

example here cross is this motion so if

they’re moving across these are words

that cross each other this is a very

simple example of a crossword puzzle

so puzzle it means like kind of a game a

thinking game a crossword puzzle is a

word game essentially so when you make

or when

you do a crossword puzzle each of these

each of these like rows of boxes this

should become one word each of these

should become one word and your job in

doing the puzzle you have to decide the

correct word that fits into each box and

they have to connect so this means you

have to spell things perfectly you

cannot make a mistake because if you

make a mistake the puzzle you can’t

complete the puzzle so let’s try one I

made a really really simple crossword

puzzle here so let’s imagine let’s look

at this one as number one across so if

the tip here every every crossword

puzzle

has a set of clues for each line so if I

say for number one it’s a sour yellow

fruit that’s our yellow fruit I have to

think okay what’s one word that means a

sour yellow fruit if you think you know

the answer you can send it in the chat

you know if the timings right but you

think you know the answer and it but it

is lemon so you can see each letter fits

into one box that’s kind of the idea

that is the idea of a crossword puzzle

here so we need to think about what goes

this way and what goes that way so you

have to kind of think about all the

different things that will fit into each

of these boxes so maybe like down here I

could say let’s see something that costs

no money something that costs no money

so here it’d be like f REE free and then

some word needs to like connect these

two so you have to think of all these

like different words that might fit and

try different words so some people when

they feel really confident in these

crossword puzzles they will write

crossword puzzles in pen so that’s kind

of like a confidence move for sure

yeah nice one and nice thanks for

sending your ideas there for sure

so these are really fun to do you can

find very difficult ones so these aren’t

just about words and vocabulary also

when you get to advanced levels of

crossword puzzles you need to know about

science about history about literature

you have to think of lots of different

things to get the word correct so I

would recommend if these are new to you

start with some easy ones you can just

google do a quick google search for like

free and easy crossword puzzles to

practice so this is an example of a

really basic one these are much much

larger actually I just chose a couple of

easy words to begin with but this is the

idea the words need to fit together in a

puzzle like this this is really really

fun okay so please check this out it’s

great to practice your spelling and it’s

fun to do you can do it alone or with

friends so give this a try

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as always we have free stuff for you

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one you might check out a nice free

thing you might check is this a business

English PDF so this is for free you can

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this this is just one example but this

is a free PDF you can download so when

you’re writing business emails spelling

is extremely important like if you don’t

use the correct spelling it might look

really bad it probably will look really

bad so these are probably some good

phrases to know if you’re using English

at work maybe take a look at this just

to get a couple of

useful expressions like Oh like back

here is job titles this is another thing

it’s important to spell correctly so

maybe take a look at this and try to

review the spelling for the words you’re

going to use at work very important I

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next spelling tip the next spelling tip

is number three number three okay number

three number three here is spelling

contests it’s spelling contest so I

mentioned this at the very beginning of

today’s lesson we have in the United

States a spelling contest for I think

elementary school and mainly for junior

high school students I’m not sure the

age limit on it but we have a spelling

contest it’s called the spelling bee the

spelling bee this is a national contest

for kids to improve their spelling and

like to compete against each other to be

the best speller in the country actually

so why did I include this here because

the spelling contest has some rules that

I think are really helpful for people

who are studying English and who are

studying spelling so I’ll tell you like

the basics of this contest the basics of

this contest in the contest I

participated in this in like fourth

grade I won my school’s contest and

fourth

yeah anyway the the the contestant will

stand on the stage and an announcer what

they call a pronounced er someone will

say a word to the contestant the

contestant has to spell the word

correctly if the contestant makes a

mistake

they’re out of the competition so this

is a spelling contest a spelling contest

for kids but kids can ask questions to

help them guess the correct spelling of

the word so those are the things I

wanted to mention for spelling contests

some things kids think about when they

participate in this contest and that you

can think about are one they can ask

about the definition the definition of

the word so definition means what does

the word mean definition sorry it’s hard

to see that’s des i n i t io and

definition so the definition of the word

they can ask what’s the definition of

the word to guess how to spell it they

can also ask about the part of speech

part of speech how is the word used in a

sentence is it an adjective is it a noun

so they have to ask about or they can

ask about how the word is used in a

sentence the part of speech of a word

how is it used they can also ask for an

example an example of the word in a

sentence so when you’re looking at a

word that you don’t know as well you can

think about the way the word is used in

the sentence to that might help you a

little bit another thing they can ask

about the language of origin the

language of origin of the word so

language of origin foraging means like

the original place the original place

the word came from so maybe the word

originally originally came from the

Greek language or originally came from

German or originally came from Spanish

so the language of origin is something

else you can think about finally

they can ask about alternate

pronunciations alternate means different

alternate pronunciations alternate

pronunciations of the word so this means

is there a different way to pronounce

the word you might think mmm I know a

word that sounds kind of similar but I’m

not sure so there might be alternate

pronunciation so these are all things

that you can think about when you’re

reading a word and when you’re trying to

spell a word like thinking about all

these little things over time after like

you’ve studied for a while you will

start to find some patterns in speech so

these are all things that I think can

help learners and anyone interested in

studying spelling so check out the rules

for the spelling contest I know this is

a lot and it’s hard to see if you want

more details google the spelling bee the

spelling bee contest the spelling bee

competition all the rules are on their

website so check that out okay then this

then this part this goes into my fourth

tip for today my fourth tip for today

please read some comments

oh no I’m missing comments probably this

class is not live it is live Adriano ah

hello from Vietnam and hello to

everybody in the comments okay all right

hi um if you have questions let us know

someone says they have participated in a

spelling bee that’s nice that’s cool

yeah it’s good it’s fun it’s positive I

think okay um let’s go into the fourth

tip is it okay I’ll go into fourth tip

now yes okay alright so fourth tip this

continues into the fourth tip which is

to learn some basic spelling rules and

by this I mean some very common ways for

example to end words or common

exceptions or things that are a little

different some examples of this are

words that end so this this - means like

before the end of a word in plus T

Oh N so like shun that shun sound like

celebration invitation for example so

tion makes that shun sound so that’s a

rule that you can remember tion mix-up

shun sound another one is this a BL e

ending Abel Abel so what’s a good

example is one so it has that sort of

sound but think about words that end in

these kinds of sent a letter patterns so

these are a couple examples of rules

another one I put ad here Edie it’s hard

to see sorry easy because Edie has a few

different pronunciations there’s the it

there’s the end and then there’s the the

soft D ending so just remember your past

tense regular past tense spellings as

well another one to remember is words

that end in gh like enough for example

so enough makes an F sound when we

pronounce the word enough it sounds like

an F at the end of the word but the

spelling is g' HGH so these are a few

things to remember a few kind of

exceptions differences to remember other

things depending on your language you

might have trouble or it might be

difficult to remember certain like

differences between letters some very

common examples I’ve seen with students

are first the th sound versus the S

sound so a great example is think versus

sync like how do I remember like like I

need to make sure to always use the

correct spelling th like I’m thinking

about and sync like the place where you

wash your hands

s so think about those words that are

always difficult for you and try to

focus on those practice those a lot

until you can remember them yeah think

and let it sink in nice one

okay another great example of this is

our vs.

our versus Elle this one is difficult

for some people to remember especially

where like the the American English our

sound is not common in your language but

it’s really important to remember these

this is one where like choosing the

wrong spell can cause miscommunication

so for example like fry and fly if you

spell that wrong if you choose the wrong

one you could miss communicate or like

lice and rice is another classic example

so these are words that have totally

different meanings it’s important to

remember the correct spelling so to

remember that practice it will take some

practice okay oh also yeah I wanted to

introduce one more thing actually

control this can we see today’s

thumbnail sorry like over here thank you

okay this is another example of a rule

so remember that not all rules are 100%

like usable all the time they’re not

perfect all the time this is a very

famous example of a common rule I was

taught this rule when I was like an

elementary school student I remember

this rule but this rule is not always

true so I’ll read it it’s hard to see

maybe the rule is I before E except

after C I before E except after C so one

common problem is even for native

speaker children is remembering is it I

first is it I first when you’re trying

to spell something so for example a word

like science let’s let’s keep that there

I’ll put a word here here’s a great

example here’s a word that kids have

problems with the word science so we use

this rule this I before E except after C

here we have a C in the word and then I

and E come after that so this is an

example where we

have a seat therefore I should come

before II I should come before II I

before E except after C but it’s not

always true so you have to think about

like there are some general rules that

you have to kind of keep in your head as

a good guideline but then you have to

remember there are cases where it

doesn’t always apply so like an

exception to this is the word weird

weird so there’s no C here but he

becomes or II comes before I so it’s

like these are some kind of exceptions

yeah cheese

chief works though chief works though so

C chef so keep in mind that there are

some of these rules yes there are some

of these rules but they’re not always

like perfect guidelines so keep that in

mind and if you can remember these

little patterns if you can like invent

your own pattern it might be good for

you yeah there is another example to so

ii and i are commonly confused alrighty

so let’s stick one more break da da

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today’s lesson if you are just joining

is about ways to improve your english

spelling i showed you guys this business

english PDF before but maybe another

important situation i know many of you

are students i know a lot of you are

students so when you’re at school it’s

also important to have good spelling so

this means of course these are phrases

you can use in class but maybe just a

couple of expressions to think about for

your school experience in general these

like your school subjects are a good

example of some things where you know

spelling might be difficult so like in

chemistry for example there are some

difficult to spell words i think so you

can consider something like

this-this-this is free by the way you

can download this on the website this

could be something good to review to

review your spelling or just to think

about for your studies to couple

vocabulary words there anyway those are

all of the ones all of the free PDFs

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please go to English class 101.com and

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they are PDFs so I have I have a bunch

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but there are like what are we at like

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can download these are all free pdf so

if you don’t have internet access when

you want to study that’s okay you can

download these to your computer or like

to your smartphone so you can check them

anytime so yes they are PDFs you can

print them as well if you prefer that

check it out they are for me okay

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last couple things yeah the last couple

things for today’s lesson our last tips

for today tada let’s go to number five

number five is watch English media with

subtitles watch English media with

subtitles subtitles so this is like the

words that appear at the bottom of the

screen I know many of you watch our

videos with subtitles that is perfect I

think that’s a great idea

so one it’s great because maybe you can

catch all the words that the people are

saying on whatever you’re watching

that’s one but two if your subtitles

have been properly prepared your

subtitles will have the correct spelling

of the words that the people are using

so this is a great way to practice

spelling and it can help you when you

find a new word you have properly

prepared I mean if the subtitles have

been spelled properly that’s what I mean

that’s what I mean

so watch English media with subtitles so

you can see like on our YouTube channel

our a lot of our videos have subtitles

on them it does take time to prepare

subtitles but there are also automatic

subtitles you can check as well so but

we do try to put subtitles on our video

so if you have not seen that on the

YouTube channel there is a little I

think it’s a CC button you can click

that button and turn on subtitles if the

video has some subtitles prepared so

please check that out

that is a good resource a good way to

practice your spelling and to like be

able to understand more of a

conversation to you okay so that’s

another one you can do that with TV with

movies YouTube videos all kinds of stuff

alright

so that’s another big tip really good

one I do that when I practice the other

language I’m studying okay o TI hi t

fellas Ellen Show is fascinating yeah

that’s a great idea a talk show doing a

like

watching a talk show can be really

really good because you always have the

same host in front of you like you know

the host in the hosts way of speaking

but the host will have guests on the

show and so you kind of get to see ways

like other people speak so talk shows

can be great hmm okay ah let’s continue

to the final tip for today final tip for

today is maybe the most well I’ll just

say practice practice is the final tip

for today this is there’s no there’s no

replacement you have to practice so that

means like I said studying is a form of

practicing that means writing words I

find personally that physically writing

not just typing or texting the words

that I’m studying but physically writing

the words helps me to remember it more

so that could be helpful for you a

method of practice so make sure to

practice other ways you can practice

honestly you can play like spelling

games with your friends you can play

spelling games you can try word games

like I talked about here there are lots

of word games online as well if you’re

just Google for like English word games

or vocabulary games you can find a lot

and a lot are really simple too

so just find fun and interesting ways to

practice and you might be surprised to

at how much fun it is to play a spoken

word game to that’s something I did and

sometimes do with friends and family now

so practice and find some ways to enjoy

your practice that’s very important so a

good one oh yeah another common one

maybe you know this is the game I want

right here

Scrabble there’s a game called Scrabble

I’m out of space where could you guys

see uh-oh are you gonna write it there

Scrabble and can you write words with

friends dude sorry

Scrabble uh-oh sorry words with friends

is the name of the game

I want to give a couple recommendations

for phone-based

word games that you can try that are

actually really really fun yeah thank

you that’s perfect

okay so a couple quick recommendations

if you if using your phone is something

you prefer you can try these two things

scrabble is a very famous board game

that’s a word board game that’s this

essentially however with Scrabble you

have to create this and then your

friends have to make new words from your

words so Scrabble is really really fun

but if you don’t have that game if you

don’t have like a group of people it’s

not easy to do you can find this words

with friends is basically Scrabble but

it’s on your phone and you can play with

people from around the world if you

don’t have a friend to play with it will

match you with someone so this is a

really fun way to play to play this kind

of game so give it a try it’s really

really fun and actually in this

application if you spell the word

incorrectly it will give you a

notification so this can be a really fun

way so you can download this free from

the app store you’ll lose friends I hope

not I hope you don’t lose friends so

this is a great way you can start

practicing with a game today okay but

that is it for today so those are six

things you can think about to improve

your spelling I hope that you found

something new and/or interesting I think

personally I like crossword puzzles I

don’t do them very often but they’re

really really fun so check them out and

of course practice and of course try to

create things yourself that’s also

really really useful yeah yeah so good

luck improving your spelling it’s tough

but it’s always happening it’s always

going on alright we have to finish

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