Conference aims to 'replace English spelling system'

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Question 1

1. True. “… a conference this year to update the traditional English spelling system to make learning easier.”
2. False. “… plans to host the first International Spelling Congress.”
3. False. “The intention is that the preferred new system should run alongside traditional spelling as an informal alternative and, if it gains sufficient support among English speakers, would eventually replace it.”
4. True. “1 in 6 people in the UK are functionally illiterate with children no better at spelling than their parents’ generation.”

Question 2

1. English spelling is so complicated because there are letters that are not pronounced; there are also different spellings for the same Word and not  all the words are spelt according to the rules.
2. Some British people who find spelling a difficult task use technology to correct their productions.

Question 3

1. Update
2. Alike
3. Monitor
4. Support
5. Awareness

Question 4

1.  Mr Linstead said that the case for updating traditional English spelling was based on the growing evidence that their extremely irregular spelling system had a substantial economic and social cost.
2. If English spelling were not irregular, the English Spelling Society wouldn’t have been created.
3. Existing evidence for the costs of traditional spelling will be publicized.