![]() Students then spell the words on the list to the class who write them down as they are given. ![]() Using a dictionary or other available resources, students write down five words and deliberately misspell one of them. The game is over when only one student remains in the game. If a student isn’t able to spell the word correctly then they are out of the game and the next student attempts the word. Think of a word and ask the student on your left to spell it, for example, tomato. If successful that student asks the next student to spell a word which begins with the last letter of the last word, for example, orange and so on. This activity is also a good lead-in for a speaking activity.įor more dictation activities see this page of dictation activities. To make it more difficult, dictate the word string backwards. If you dictate questions, they can then discuss the answers in pairs and small groups. It doesn’t matter if they miss some letters, they should be able to self-correct after the dictation. For example:ĭictate at a relatively swift pace to prevent students from anticipating what letter is coming next. If that’s the case, here’s a handy template.ĭictate a statement or question for the students, one letter at a time, as a string of uninterrupted letters. You could also get students to do this in pairs. It should look like the table below (unless you teach an Americanised alphabet then ‘Z’ will be in the second box.) Group the lettersĭraw a table like this on the board, students draw the table in their books and add the remaining letters of the alphabet, invite a student to complete the table on the board. The NATO alphabet remains ubiquitous in ceremony - it comes up often in The New York Times’s crossword entries - but in practice, it’s somewhat niche.If you find the hanged man image a bit morbid or culturally sensitive then draw a digital style figure 8 on the board and remove a part every time the students are wrong until there is nothing left.Īfter playing on the board a couple of times you can invite students to come up to the board with their own words or play a couple of games with their partner. In a version used briefly by the British Royal Army, the spelling alphabet begins with Ack, Beer, which is what I say when I realize I’ve shown up empty-handed to a party. The NATO Alphabet we know today (which begins with Alfa, Bravo, Charlie) was adopted officially in 1956 by the International Civil Aviation Organization, after earlier iterations such as the Able Baker alphabet proved inadequate. Phonetic alphabets, also known as spelling alphabets, came to prominence on the global stage in the mid-20th century, as world wars made urgent the need for clear, quick and secretive communication among Allied forces. Though it’s tempting to consider whether things would have gone differently in the Bible if we had been offered a phonetic alphabet instead. ![]() Millenniums into human civilization, we’re no closer to completing the proverbial tower. “So the Lord scattered them from there all over the earth, and they stopped building the city.” “Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other,” reads the story of the Tower of Babel in the Book of Genesis. Breakdowns in communication are a tale as old as biblical time.
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