6 Minute Vocabulary - Words with double letters

This is the BBC . This podcast is supported by advertising outside the . This is a download from BBC Learning English to find out more , visit our website . Six minutes from BBC Learning English dot com . Hello and welcome to Six Minute Vocabulary with me , Catherine and me , . In this program we're looking at spelling and the area spelling . We're looking at today is words with double letters . Let's start by listening to David . He's a student welfare officer at a university and he's welcoming a new student to the campus . And while you listen to David , here's a question for you . What word means the room's flats and houses that people live in ? Here's David . Congratulations on getting a place at our university . It's a brilliant opportunity , and I'm sure that you will be happy and successful here . I'm here to help you find accommodation . We've got rooms , flats and houses all over the city , but I recommend that you apply as soon as possible so you're not disappointed . Here's a list of addresses . David there and we asked , what's the word for rooms , flats and houses that people live in ? And the answer is accommodation . It is . And accommodation is one of our words with double letters . So , , how do you spell accommodation ? A double C o double m o t i o n well , double fan . Now listen to this clip , which six words have double letters . Congratulations on getting a place at our university . It's a brilliant opportunity and I'm sure that you will be happy and successful here . So we had getting with double T , brilliant with double L , opportunity with double P , will with double L and also happy with double P and successful with double C and double S . Correct . And now let's take a look at some spelling rules . The first rule is about verbs . If the final three letters of a verb are consonant , vowel , consonant , we double the final consonant before we add or . So get spelt G.T. becomes getting with double T and begin and then G i n . So it becomes beginning with double N . Now our next rule is to do with short vowel sounds . So , can you demonstrate please . Some short vowel sounds are all a . And that's enough , thank you . I know so many long vowel sounds . Who is ? Ah , a yes , thank you , Finn , very well demonstrated . So when there is a short vowel sound before a consonant like R in hubby , we often double the consonant after it . The short R and happy gives us a double P , the short all an opportunity gives us another double P and the short F in brilliant gives us double L and this can happen more than once in the same word . So in the words successful , we get a double C and a double S and in accommodation we get a double C and or double M easy . Exactly . And lots of short words like summer coffee , apple and will follow this general rule . So let's listen to another clip and put this general rule to the test . OK , listen carefully . But I recommend that you apply as soon as possible so you're not disappointed . Here's a list of addresses . So following the rule , we've got recommend with all possible with all double s and disappointed with a double P o six minutes from BBC Learning English dot com . And we're talking about words with double letters , right . Quiz time No . One . Is there a double N in the verb happening ? No , there isn't . Well done . Number two , are there any double letters in the word immediately ? Yes , there is a double M . Very good . Number three , which of these words have a double C occasion accident succeed ? And the answer is they all do all have a short sound followed by a double C. . Then trick question was indeed . It's also the end of the quiz . And you're brilliant with double L. If you got all of those questions right . And now here's a top tip for vocabulary learning . If you're struggling to learn the spelling of a word , get a keyboard and type it a hundred times and your fingers might learn the spelling more quickly than your brain . What do you think then ? Would that work for you ? My fingers are much quicker than my brain , Katherine . Yes , probably . It's a good idea . It's a very good tip . And there's more about this at BBC Learning English dot com . Join us again soon for more six minute vocabulary . Hi . Goodbye .