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Someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business is a tourist.

Words beginning with th...

Though he thought it through, it still failed. Check your spelling of KS3 words beginning at th.

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives." - Henry David Thoreau.

Thoreau's description of creating mental pathways refers to the way in which habits are developed. These can be physical habits, such as those which create a path on the ground, and mental habits, such as those which shape a person's view of the world.

Thoreau surely did not have spelling in mind when he compared the physical and the mental formation of paths, but it is true that spelling habits develop through repetition, too. This is why practice really does help a person become a confident speller. It is equally true that repeatedly misspelling words becomes a habit which is difficult to break. Try to develop good habits from the start when you learn a new word by paying attention to how it is spelled.

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'The horse t------- its rider'
threwe
through
threw
thrugh
Be careful not to get "threw" mixed up with its homonym "through"!
2.
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From one side of an opening to the other
thruogh
threwe
through
threw
The -ough spelling here makes an "ew" sound, which can be rather surprising when learning to read! It's odd that "though" and "through" are pronounced so differently
3.
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A publication that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms) for the words of a given language
thesaurus
theasaurus
thaesaurus
theesaurus
A "thesaurus" sounds as if it might be a type of dinosaur! Did you know that the word comes from the Greek for "treasury"?
4.
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On the day after the present day
tomorrow
tomorow
tommorrow
tommorow
Remember: one m and double r. It can be helpful to split the word into parts: to-morrow
5.
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A sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner
tournement
tourenament
tournament
taurnament
The a of the unstressed second syllable might be the trickiest letter to remember here
6.
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The act of travelling or sightseeing
toreism
tourism
taurism
toureism
If you can spell "tourism", you'll easily manage "tourist"
7.
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An apparatus used to measure temperature
thermometre
thermmometer
thermometer
thermmometre
The words "thermometer" and "thermal" are related
8.
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Someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business
tourist
taurist
torerist
toureist
Take "tour" and add the suffix -ist
9.
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The commercial buying and selling of goods and services
traede
traid
traide
trade
So many ways to make an "a" sound: a-e, ae, ai, ay. Can you think of any more?
10.
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The quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume
timebre
tiembre
timbrer
timbre
"Timbre" is a French word, which accounts for the -re ending
You can find more about this topic by visiting BBC Bitesize - Spelling

Author:  Sheri Smith

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