Expand your vocabulary and improve your spellling by trying our range of activities.

an ESOL student practising spelling

Word endings

Do you want to get better at spelling? Would you like to know more about how to spell word endings? Do these activities and improve your spelling.

Missing letters

missing letters

When you add word endings to some words you have to think about what happens to the letters in the word. Some go missing and some stay the same.

Common spelling mistakes

Even British people find spelling English words difficult. In these activities, you’ll learn some of the spellings that native speakers most often get wrong.

Silent letters

Do you want to get better at spelling? Would you like to know more about silent letters? Do these activities and improve your spelling.

Spelling the ‘sh’ sound

The ‘sh’ sound (/ʃ/) can be spelled with the letters ‘sh’, but do you know other letters that we can use? These activities look at other ways to spell ‘sh’.

Place in the UK

Would you like to know more about places in the UK and how to spell them? Do these activities and improve your spelling.

Transport

Can you spell ‘bus’, or ‘car’ or ‘ticket’? Practise spelling different types of transport in these activities.

Homophones

What do you notice about these words; ‘no’ and ‘know’ - ‘by’ and ‘buy’? Their pronunciation is the same, but the spelling is different. Words like these are called ‘homophones’. These activities help you to learn and practise 24 of them.

Free time

Would you like to improve your spelling? These activities will give you lots of practise in spelling some free time activities. How many of the 18 words can you spell correctly?

Words ending in 'e'

Some words lose a final ‘e’ (e.g. hope > hoping). But some words keep the ‘e’ (e.g. hope > hopeful). Do you know the spelling rules for when to lose the final ‘e’?

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