IELTS Academic Writing- Spelling Rules

Spelling rules for IELTS Academic Writing

Find at least one mistake in each of the lines below.

• The lain graph gives data on…
• The table illustreits…
• Thees diagrams show...
• The shaded area indiceits…
• I will descraib the overall trend and then…
• I therefore conclud that….

 

• From then on it declained until…
• The most straiking part of the bar chart is…
• After a period of fluctuation, the demand stabilaized around a new level of…
• It fell fairly slowly but then daived to…
• After remaining steible for a few weeks, it…

 

• It almost flattened out but then diped once again to…
• It droped to a new low of…
• … has been geting a lot of newspaper coverage recently.
• To summarize what I have writen above,…
• I will look at this mater from both sides, then…

 

• The process involvves…
• , which is convertted into…

 

• The government have raissed…
• … is increassing…
• decreassed

 

• …bouncced back almost to its original level of…
• …peakked at…
• …rocketted to a new high of…
• bottommed out

What are the rules for each of the sections above? Use them to help check your answers.

Match the rules below to the sections above, and use that to help check your answers. 

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• “Magic E” after a single consonant makes a short vowel sound “say its name” (in other words makes the sounds of the letters A, E, I, O and U in the alphabet)
• Suffixes like –ed and –ing after a short vowel sound and a single consonant make it “say its name” (in the same way as “magic E”)
• Short stressed vowel sounds need a double consonant after them to protect them from being changed by the suffix
• You don’t need double letters after two vowels and/ or long vowels
• You don’t need double letters after unstressed vowels, even if they are short
• You don’t need to double a consonant when you already have two consonants

Word formation spelling rules for IELTS Academic Writing

Find at least one mistake in each of the lines below.

• The pie chart shows three categorys of…
• rose steadyly

 

• considerabley
• arguement
• pureity

 

• The most noticable similarity between the two countries is…
• managable
• changable

 

• substantialy
• Personaly,…
• Initialy,…
• gradualy
• finaly
• realy
• apparantly
• definately
• succesful
• pollusion
• The flow chart explains producion of…
• fluctuasion
• parsial
• physisian
• electritian
• optitian
• inercia

 

• dramaticly
• basicly
• physicly

 

What are the rules for each of the sections above? Use them to help check your answers.

Match the rules below to the sections above, and use that to help check your answers.

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• -c changes to –cally.
• e is usually knocked off
• …but sometimes e is needed to keep the soft sound
• y changes to i
• the root word is usually not changed, with the suffix just be adding to the original word

Do the same below, thinking about what kind of error there is in each section to help. There may be two errors (of the same kind) in one line this time.

• After declining for a couple of years, it botomed out at…
• The folowing stage is…
• This reocurs…
• … shows a rather different patern.
• … is almost the exact oposite.
• aproximately

 

• These two sauces of information will be examined in turn.
• The mane trend over the entire period shone is…
• The top roe of the table represents…
• It rapidly rows but then fell to a new low of…
• It reached a peek of 23% and then slowly…
• After the hole procedure,…

 

• The left-hand colum of the table shows…
• The figure climed from this low point to reach a new hi of…
• Althou the arguments for… are also quite convincing,…
• As should be clear from the arguments above, the … outwei the …
• Thruout the period shown,…
• Nowdays…

 

• The first thing that can be notised looking at the line graf is…
• The vurtical axes shows…
• The horizontle axis represents…
• Over the following three years, this amount gru by over 50% to…
• It baunced back but didn’t reach its previous level.
• grajually
• creap up
• During the first staje of the prosess…
• compearing… to…there is nearly the same amaunt of...
• In the following paragraf,...
• I will explain the key feachures and then…
• For instanse…
• On balans, I would say that…
• In modurn sosiety…
• There are many advantadges to this
• In my own experiense,…
• … is a major exseption…
• We can therefor…

 

• After this, it crushed and…
• It experienced a substantial lies of 45% in just two years.

 

• It fluktuated between 7 and 8.5%.
• Subsekwently,…

Match the sections above to these descriptions:

• Consonant combinations which are never or rarely used in English words
• Double letters needed (even though it would be pronounced the same way with a single letter)
• Minimal pairs (= two different words that only vary by a single sound)
• Silent letters
• Homophones (= spellings which would be pronounced the same way but which aren’t correct because they have different meanings)