Difficult names checking/ clarifying speaking

Checking clarifying English names

checking clarifying/ UK culture/ spelling

Student A

Choose a section below, and make sure you know how to pronounce the names in that part. Say and spell the place names for your partner as quickly as possible. The first team that has written all eight names in the section that they chose with no mistakes is the winner. You cannot look at what your partner is writing, but you and they can check and clarify in any other way. Your teacher will check when you think you have finished, and let you try again if there are any mistakes.

Difficult Australian place names to spell

  1. Sydney Harbour Bridge
  2. Melbourne
  3. Kalgoorlie
  4. Adelaide
  5. Whitsunday Islands
  6. Byron Bay
  7. Hobart
  8. Ayers Rock

Difficult British place names to spell 1

  1. Loch Ness
  2. Birmingham
  3. The Midlands
  4. Leicester Square
  5. Llandudno
  6. Loughborough
  7. Edinburgh
  8. Blenheim Palace

Difficult British place names to spell 2

  1. Piccadilly Circus
  2. Carlisle
  3. Dumfries
  4. Norwich
  5. Caernarfon
  6. Worcester
  7. Taunton
  8. Omagh

When your teacher stops you, look at all of the names and ask about any you have questions about.

In the left-hand column below, write phrases that the person listening could have used, along with other similar phrases.

In the right-hand column below, write phrases which the person who was saying the names could have used, along with similar phrases.

Student B

Choose a section below, and make sure you know how to pronounce the names in that part. Say and spell the place names for your partner as quickly as possible. The first team that has written all eight names in the section that they chose with no mistakes is the winner. You cannot look at what your partner is writing, but you and they can check and clarify in any other way. Your teacher will check when you think you have finished, and let you try again if there are any mistakes.

Difficult Australian place names to spell

  1. Broome
  2. Port Macquarie
  3. Adelaide
  4. Derby
  5. Meekatharra
  6. Roebourne
  7. Cape Leeuwin
  8. Mount Kosciuszko

Difficult New Zealand place names to spell

  1. Auckland
  2. Whangarei
  3. Thames
  4. New Plymouth
  5. Franz Josef
  6. Blenheim
  7. Stewart Island
  8. Napier

Difficult British place names to spell

  1. Eastbourne
  2. Bournemouth
  3. Southwark
  4. Earl’s Court
  5. the Isle of Man
  6. Salisbury Cathedral
  7. Durham Cathedral
  8. London Dungeons

When your teacher stops you, look at all of the names and ask about any you have questions about.

In the left-hand column below, write phrases that the person listening could have used, along with other similar phrases.

In the right-hand column below, write phrases which the person who was saying the names could have used, along with similar phrases.

Checking understanding phrases presentation

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Put the phrases below the fold into the right boxes above:

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  • Do you know what I mean?
  • Can you repeat the last part?
  • Have I explained myself properly?
  • Do you see now?
  • Let me just check if I understand…
  • Is that clear (now)?
  • Can you explain that using different words?
  • I’m lost.
  • Did you say…?
  • Got it?
  • What does the word “…” mean?
  • Can you spell the first word for me please?
  • Sorry. Do you mean…?
  • Are you sure you understand?
  • Are you following me?
  • Can you say that again more slowly?
  • Sorry, I’m not following you.
  • You’ve lost me.

Do the same with other place names (the Student B ones if you haven’t used those yet, the extras below, and/ or your own ideas, as your teacher tells you to). Do it the first time with the phrases above to help. Switch roles and do it with only the mixed phrases to help. Then do it a third time with no help.

Extras: Student A

Difficult Australian place names to spell

  1. Cairns
  2. Maroochydore
  3. Leigh Creek
  4. Perth
  5. Warrnambool
  6. Launceston

Difficult to spell famous British people 1

  1. Sean Connery
  2. Margaret Thatcher
  3. Louis Theroux
  4. Prince Charles
  5. The Duke of Edinburgh
  6. Sacha Baron Cohen

Difficult to spell famous British people 2

  1. Henry Purcell
  2. Ralph Vaughan Williams
  3. Sir Isaac Newton
  4. Horatio Nelson
  5. Guy Fawkes
  6. King Henry VIII

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Student B

Difficult to spell famous British people 1

  1. Florence Nightingale
  2. David Attenborough
  3. J.R.R Tolkien
  4. Agatha Christie
  5. John Logie Baird
  6. King Arthur

Difficult to spell famous Australian people etc 1

  1. Shane Warne
  2. Steve Irwin
  3. Harry Kewell
  4. Kylie Minogue
  5. Danni Minogue
  6. Ian Thorpe

Difficult to spell famous Australian people etc 2

  1. Kyle Sandilands
  2. INXS
  3. Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  4. Dame Joan Sutherland
  5. Guy Pearce
  6. Steve Waugh

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