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Unit 19: I'm really sorry...
Adverb positions

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  1. 1Pop-ups
  2. 2Hidden talents
  3. 3Can't buy me love
  4. 4Travellers' tales
  5. 5The colleague from hell
  6. 6Jurassic mystery: unpacking the past
  7. 7Career changes
  8. 8Art
  9. 9Project management
  10. 10The dog ate my homework!
  11. 11The diary of a double agent
  12. 12Fashion forward
  13. 13Flat pack skyscrapers
  14. 14Extreme sports
  15. 15Food fads
  16. 16Me, my selfie and I
  17. 17Endangered animals
  18. 18A nip and a tuck: cosmetic surgery
  19. 19I'm really sorry...
  20. 20Telling stories
  21. 21Fakes and phrasals
  22. 22Looking to the future
  23. 23Becoming familiar with things
  24. 24From rags to riches
  25. 25Against the odds
  26. 26Our future on Mars?
  27. 27Where is it illegal to get a fish drunk?
  28. 28Dodgy dating
  29. 29Annoying advice
  30. 30I'll have been studying English for thirty weeks

Session 1

Theatre or theater? In this session we look at words with more than one spelling

ክፍለ-ስራሓት ናይዚ ምዕራፍ

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Activity 3

So many spellings

Disc or disk?

Do you listen to music on CDs? Back in the year 2000, 2.5 billion music albums were sold on CD around the world. The number has fallen since then, but the compact disc is still used widely in the music industry.

Another way to store information is on a hard disk. Your computer has one inside, and you can also buy an external hard disk if you need extra space.

Just as technology changes over time, so does language. As you probably noticed we used two different spellings there - disc and disk.

ነቲ ጽሑፍ ብምንባብ ነቲ ስራሕ ዕመምዎ

Disk is generally used to talk about computing, and disc is used for CDs and when talking about machine parts. As we heard in 6 Minute Vocabulary, disk is more common in American English, but many people use either spelling in British English.

The important thing to remember is that you will see both spellings! And whenever you learn a new word, check to see if it has more than one spelling.

In the meantime, here are a few more for you: inquire / enquire, aging / ageing, and yoghurt / yogurt.

To do

So, you think you know your spelling? Time to test yourself! In this quiz each question has three options: two are acceptable spellings, and one is an incorrect spelling. You have to find the incorrect one. Good luck!

One of these isn't right...

6 Questions

In each question there are three options. Two are acceptable spellings, one is wrong. You have to choose the wrong spelling.

ኣገናዕ፡ ፈተናኹም ዛዚምኩም
Excellent!Great job!ሕማቕ ዕድል!ዘመዝገብኩምዎ ነጥቢ ...:
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End of Session 1

We hope you're now more confident at analysing / analyzing how words are spelt / spelled! Join us in the next session when we look at this unit's grammar: adverb position in sentences. In 6 Minute Grammar, Catherine's wearing a hat which is quite brightly coloured...

ናይ ስዋስው ክፍሊ

ምሉእ መወከስ ስዋስው ተመልከት

Session Vocabulary

  • Some words have two possible spellings in British English, for example analogue, disc, enquire.  Sometimes the second spelling comes from American English.

    Disc can be spelt d-i-s-c or d-i-s-k for computing terms.

    Some words ending in -ise or -yse are spelt -ize and -yze in American English. That spelling is generally accepted in British English too.

    apologise (BrE) / apologize (AmE/BrE)

    The past form of some verbs can be spelt in two ways in British English. But the -ed ending is preferred in American English.

    spelled / spelt (BrE) / spelled (AmE/BrE)

    Other words have two spellings, not from any American influence.

    all right / alright, barbecue / barbeque, racket / raquet

    Some American English spellings are not accepted as correct in British English. Two common examples are words with ou in them and words ending in -re.

    colour (BrE) / color (AmE), centre (BrE) / center (AmE)

ምሉእ መወከስ ማህደረ-ቃላት ተመልከት

መራገፊ ማእከል

ትሕዝቶ ናይ ሓድሽ ትምህርቲ