Dictation (Commonly Mis-spelt Words)

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In today’s English Language class, We will be working on our Dictation. We hope you enjoy the class!

 

 

CONTENT

Some words are commonly misspelt for the following reasons:

1. transpositions of letters e.g., “ie” and “ei” as in:

believe                      ceiling

fierce                         deceive

field                            seize

 

2) assimilation of a letter as in:

debt ‘b’ is not pronounced

listen ‘t’ is not pronounced

honest ‘h’ is not pronounced

pneumonia ‘p’ is not pronounced

sword ‘w’ is not pronounced

 

3) The contemporary convention of shortening some words as in:

Exam                         –                       Examination

Libry                           –                       Library

Lab                             –                       Laboratory

Program                   –                       Programme

 

4) Some different letters are pronounced alike:

gh                   f                ph                   ff

cough             half         graph            cuff

g                     gue

big                  fatigue

 

s                       z

feasible           zebra

 

ck                    c                      k                      que

cock              zinc                 pink                boutique

 

 

5) words with double consonants as in:

committee

accommodation

professor

 

6) Noun plurals as in:

baby              babies

body              bodies

wife                wives

 

7)       Word class as in:

Noun                        verb

Practice                    practise

Licence                     license

Advice                      advise

 

 

EVALUATION

Correct the following words.

1. Refferred
2. Reservation
3. Segregation
4. Installation
5. Accummulation
6. Boundries
7. Residue
8. Jerminate

 

REFERENCE

Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary; English Grammar by P.O Olatunbosun.

 

READING ASSIGNMENT

Read page 97-98 of English Grammar by P.O Olatunbosun.

GENERAL EVALUATION/REVISION QUESTIONS

• Use a pronoun or an adverb as sub-ordinate conjunction to fill the space in each of the sentences.

1. 1. 1. Ladi is the student _______ solved the problem
      2. The book _________ I read has forty pages.
      3. The student _________ he flogged wept bitterly.
      4. She arrived _________ we expected her.
      5. He will eat ___________ you give him.

 

• Fill in the gap with the correct letter(s).

1. 1. 1. privile_e   (g, dg)
      2. boyco_    (t, tt)
      3. d_lapidated   (e,  i)
      4. extra_dinary   (o, or, au)
      5. di_atified  (s, ss)

 

WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT

Do tests for continuous assessment nos 1 (1 – 10) and 2(1-5), page 155 of Effective English Bk3

 

 

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