INDIA SPELLING BEE: May 2019

Friday, May 31, 2019

YOUR WORD FOR THE DAY IS HERE...

HOW TO USE THIS WORD TO IMPROVE YOUR VOCABULARY

READ THE WORD CAREFULLY
WRITE THE WORD IN A SENTENCE
MAKE AT LEAST FIVE DIFFERENT SENTENCES WITH THE WORD
TRY AND USE THE WORD AS MANY TIMES AS POSSIBLE DURING THE DAY

THAT'S IT ! DO THIS AND SEE YOUR VOCABULARY AND SPELLING GET BETTER EACH DAY !

Thursday, May 30, 2019

YOUR WORD FOR THE DAY IS HERE...

HOW TO USE THIS WORD TO IMPROVE YOUR VOCABULARY

READ THE WORD CAREFULLY
WRITE THE WORD IN A SENTENCE
MAKE AT LEAST FIVE DIFFERENT SENTENCES WITH THE WORD
TRY AND USE THE WORD AS MANY TIMES AS POSSIBLE DURING THE DAY

THAT'S IT ! DO THIS AND SEE YOUR VOCABULARY AND SPELLING GET BETTER EACH DAY !

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF UN PEACEKEEPERS, MAY 29

"For millions in conflict-affected situations around the world, peacekeeping is a necessity and a hope. Let us work together to make peacekeeping more effective in protecting people and advancing peace."

— UN Secretary-General António Guterres

2019 Theme: “Protecting Civilians, Protecting Peace”

The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, 29 May, offers a chance to pay tribute to the uniformed and civilians personnel’s invaluable contribution to the work of the Organization and to honour more than 3,800 peacekeepers who have lost their lives serving under the UN flag since 1948, including 98 last year.
The theme for this year’s Day is “Protecting Civilians, Protecting Peace” to mark the upcoming 20th anniversary when for the first time the Security Council explicitly mandated a peacekeeping mission (UNAMSIL in Sierra Leone) to protect civilians.
Over the past 20 years, protection of civilians has increasingly been at the heart of UN peacekeeping. Today, more than 90% of our peacekeepers serving in eight peacekeeping operations -- in Abyei and Darfur, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Lebanon, Mali and South Sudan – have protection of civilians’ mandates. These peacekeepers put themselves in harm’s way to protect civilians from violence every day.
The first UN peacekeeping mission was established on 29 May 1948, when the Security Council authorized the deployment of a small number of UN military observers to the Middle East to form the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) to monitor the Armistice Agreement between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
Since then, more than 1 million men and women have served in 72 UN peacekeeping operations, directly impacting the lives of millions of people, protecting the world’s most vulnerable and saving countless lives. From Cambodia to El Salvador, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Timor Leste, and elsewhere, UN peacekeeping has helped countries move from war to peace.
Today, in 14 peacekeeping operations on four continents, it deploys more than 88,000 military and police personnel -- from 124 Member States -- nearly 13,000 civilian personnel, and 1,300 UN Volunteers. Despite the size and breadth of its operations, peacekeeping’s budget is less than one half of one percent of global military spending. Peacekeeping has clearly proven to be a solid investment in global peace, security and prosperity.
Last year, the Secretary-General launched a new initiative, "Action for Peacekeeping (A4P),” calling for refocusing peacekeeping with realistic expectations; making peacekeeping missions stronger and safer, and mobilizing greater support for political solutions and for well-structured, well-equipped, well-trained forces. Over 150 Member States and regional organizations endorsed the ‘Declaration of Shared Commitments’ for A4P demonstrating a high level of support for the initiative.
At the UN Headquarters in New York this year, the Day will celebrate on 24 May. The Secretary-General will preside over a wreath-laying ceremony in honour of all peacekeepers who have lost their lives while serving under the UN flag last year. In addition, the Dag Hammarskjöld Medal will be awarded posthumously to the peacekeepers, who perished while serving in the cause of peace in 2018.

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YOUR WORD FOR THE DAY IS HERE...

HOW TO USE THIS WORD TO IMPROVE YOUR VOCABULARY

READ THE WORD CAREFULLY
WRITE THE WORD IN A SENTENCE
MAKE AT LEAST FIVE DIFFERENT SENTENCES WITH THE WORD
TRY AND USE THE WORD AS MANY TIMES AS POSSIBLE DURING THE DAY

THAT'S IT ! DO THIS AND SEE YOUR VOCABULARY AND SPELLING GET BETTER EACH DAY !

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

YOUR WORD FOR THE DAY IS HERE...

HOW TO USE THIS WORD TO IMPROVE YOUR VOCABULARY

READ THE WORD CAREFULLY
WRITE THE WORD IN A SENTENCE
MAKE AT LEAST FIVE DIFFERENT SENTENCES WITH THE WORD
TRY AND USE THE WORD AS MANY TIMES AS POSSIBLE DURING THE DAY

THAT'S IT ! DO THIS AND SEE YOUR VOCABULARY AND SPELLING GET BETTER EACH DAY !

Monday, May 27, 2019

SPOT SOME ERRORS - WIN SOME PRIZES.

We have placed some spelling errors in various places like our website, blog, emails, contest pages, pamphlets, leaflets, posters etc. etc.

These are dynamically placed and it is not necessary that they all have errors.

Go through all our communication carefully and should you spot an error, fill-in your details and mail it to us and you will receive a gift.

It is important to not only spell correctly but also spot misspelled words.

So get started and be careful when reading anything.

You can also share some interesting typos / spelling errors and we will publish selected ones. If your contribution is published you will also get a gift.

You can send a mail to dm.indiaspellingbee@gmail.com
Please mention your name, email, profession, phone no., brief description of what you are submitting. Attachments can be also sent.

CORRECT SPELLINGS - MAKE IT A HABIT

Correct spelling can be easily inculcated into our habits, if a little attention is paid to it. Most spelling mistakes are silly mistakes caused by lack of focus and concentration. We are not talking about the really tongue-twisting words here, that no one has ever heard of..

We are talking of words that are a part of everybody's general vocabulary. Words that we use in our daily lives many times and yet misspell them. Words like ACCOMMODATE, TUITION, COMMITTEE, PROFESSION etc.. to name a few.

Don't we all hate seeing our name misspelled ? Isn't it an automatic reaction to correct it at once ? Well it is the same with everyone else.

Wrong spellings can also create a lot of embarrassment, financial losses, misunderstandings and in today's digital world wrong results in google searches !

So let's all try and work on our spellings, get children to focus on correct spellings !

It is not all that difficult.

A few fun facts :

DO YOU KNOW, an average teenager or young adult has a working vocabulary of 5000 - 10000 words only. Out of these the majority of words are those which we do not misspell like HE, SHE, HIM, HER, IT, A, AN, THE, CAT, DOG, CAR..... ETC ETC.

So if we look at where we go wrong it is only about 1000 - 2000 words that we misspell in our vocabulary. So if can just work on these 1000 - 2000 words, we would improve our spelling significantly.

It is towards this that we have compiled a list of the 1000 most commonly misspelled words. These are all words that we come across and also use. These have been compiled on the basis of more than 10000 spelling contests held with about 2.5 MILLION students !

As a sample, get a FREE COPY of the 100 most commonly misspelled words HERE and NOW !

Click HERE and get the download immediately !