2018 Blog Round Up
Happy New Year!
Whether you are a regular user of our site or someone who's just signed up, we hope 2019 will be a great year for improving your spelling. Here are some of our favourite blog posts from 2018:
- We began the year with a tour of our site to help you make the most of Spellzone. What your favourite feature on the Spellzone website?
- As usual we looked at pairs and groups of confusing words and shared tips and tricks to help you tell them apart. This year we looked at: balmy vs. barmy, by vs. bye vs. buy, capital vs. capitol, father vs. farther vs. further, faun vs. fawn, hair vs. hare, heir vs. air, hoard vs. horde, infer vs. imply, moot vs. mute, and yolk vs. yoke.
- As a resource for our students who are learning English, we continued looking at the definitions of popular idioms in the English language. In 2018, we looked at idioms about autumn, birds, circles, emotion, fear, insects, royalty, sleep, space, squares, and summer.
- We shared six tips for lesson plan success and five tips for exam day success.
- To help our students feel confident with their grammar and punctuation, we looked at brackets, bullet points, ways to end a sentence, colons, and commas. We also created a punctuation guide containing all our advice from over the years.
- We wrote about four famous people with dyslexia and their achievements.
- We shared tips for planning your work, tips for expanding your vocabulary, and tips to help you improve your writing. To help you make your writing as dynamic as possible we looked at the difference between the active voice and the passive voice and how to use idioms to express yourself. We also shared writing prompts and ideas.
- While exploring interesting aspects of the English language, we looked at French expressions in English, German loanwords, key spelling differences between British English and American English, Shakespearean quotes about love, Janus words, popular idioms and their origins, and words you only hear at Christmas.
What did you enjoy most on our blog in 2018, and what would you like to see more of? Which articles have you found the most useful? Let us know so we can make 2019's articles as good as possible. You can contact us via Facebook, Twitter and email, or by leaving a comment below. We'd also love to hear what your 2019 spelling resolutions are.
Once again, from the whole team at Spellzone, we wish you a very Happy New Year!
02 Jan 2019
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