The Reading / Listening - Spelling Mistakes - Level 0

Everyone makes spelling mistakes. In the UK, a political party misspelled the name of its own country. The mistake was on a chocolate bar. The word "Britain" was spelt "Britian". The political party was giving the chocolate to people at an event. The party said the mistake was because of a "printing error".

Social media laughed at the mistake. A journalist wrote that the party couldn't spell the name of its country. A different party said the political party "can't proofread". Earlier this year, another party misspelt the word "Scottish". It made a handout that said "Your Scotish Labour candidate," missing a "t".

Try the same news story at these levels:

    Spelling Mistakes - Level 1 Spelling Mistakes - Level 2   or  Spelling Mistakes - Level 3

Sources
  • https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/06/conservative-party-misspell-britain-conference-chocolate-bar
  • https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/embarrassing-chocolate-bar-handed-out-32623227
  • https://metro.co.uk/2025/10/06/kemi-badenoch-makes-wonky-spelling-error-tory-chocolate-bar-24356118/


Make sure you try all of the online activities for this reading and listening - There are dictations, multiple choice activities, drag and drop activities, sentence jumbles, which word activities, text reconstructions, spelling, gap fills and a whole lot more. Please enjoy :-)

Phrase Matching

Paragraph 1

  1. Everyone makes
  2. In the
  3. a political
  4. misspelled the name of
  5. The mistake was on a chocolate
  6. The word "Britain" was
  7. people at
  8. a printing
  1. UK
  2. its own country
  3. spelling mistakes
  4. spelt "Britian"
  5. error
  6. an event
  7. party
  8. bar

Paragraph 2

  1. Social media laughed
  2. A journalist wrote
  3. the party couldn't spell the
  4. the political
  5. spell the name
  6. the political party can't
  7. It made
  8. missing a
  1. a handout
  2. proofread
  3. at the mistake
  4. "t"
  5. that
  6. of its country
  7. party
  8. name

Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps

Everyone (1) _________________________________________________. In the UK, a political party misspelled the name (2) _________________________________________________ country. The mistake was on (3) _________________________________________________. The word "Britain" was spelt "Britian". (4) _________________________________________________ was giving the chocolate (5) _________________________________________________ an event. The party said the mistake was because of (6) _________________________________________________.

Social media (7) _________________________________________________ mistake. A journalist wrote (8) _________________________________________________ couldn't spell the name of its country. A (9) _________________________________________________ the political party "can't proofread". (10) _________________________________________________, another party misspelt the word "Scottish". It (11) _________________________________________________ that said "Your Scotish Labour candidate," (12) _________________________________________________.

Put a slash (/) where the spaces are

Everyonemakesspellingmistakes.IntheUK,apoliticalpartymisspelle
dthenameofitsowncountry.Themistakewasonachocolatebar.Thewo
rd"Britain"wasspelt"Britian".Thepoliticalpartywasgivingthechocolat
etopeopleatanevent.Thepartysaidthemistakewasbecauseofa"printi
ngerror".Socialmedialaughedatthemistake.Ajournalistwrotethatthe
partycouldn'tspellthenameofitscountry.Adifferentpartysaidthepoliti
calparty"can'tproofread".Earlierthisyear,anotherpartymisspeltthew
ord"Scottish".Itmadeahandoutthatsaid"YourScotishLabourcandidat
e,"missinga"t".

Student survey

Write five GOOD questions about this topic in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

(Please look at page 12 of the PDF to see a photocopiable example of this activity.)

Discussion — Write your own questions

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

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STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

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Free writing

Write about this topic for 10 minutes. Comment on your partner’s paper.

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Answers

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