for elementary studets:
thirteen(th), thirty, thirty-third, Thursday, five, fifteen, fifty, fifth, fifty-five, fifteenth, health, hundred, together, thought, thoughtful, southern, thousand, enough, write-wrote- WRITTEN, appear, forgotten, luggage
words with silent letters - eg. handsome, (see my worksheet on silent letters) - 160 SILENT LETTERS words
doubled consonants- past simple/gerunds - eg. stopped, controlled, begged, planned, chatted, recommended, arrange, appear, appeared, agreed, knitting, clapping, stirring ... and other - eg. adjectives - funny; TOMORROW !, weekend, intelligent, omelette, scissors,
"double trouble" - balloon, committing, happiness, willingness, accommodation, assessment, embarrass, coffee, cassette, address, football,
ying gerunds - studying, worrying, carrying, copying, crying, frying, hurrying, bullying
adjectives/adverbs - careful, carefully, careless, carelessly, happily, hungrily...
pairs - recipe - receipt, desert - dessert, ...
less common words - appearance, accidentally, appointment, ceiling, jealous, spinach, ...
Go though the list of vocabular your students are supposed to know (check the wordlist of your textbook)
I have read an old vocabulary list of "English File Elementary" and I have found these "difficult" words or words with very different pronounciation + spelling:
dinner, famous, answer, flight, guess, language, piece / peace, pronunciation / pronounce, rubber / robber, Wednesday, biscuit, cheeseburger, competition, teeth, glasses, footballer, high, hour, midday, passenger, question, difference, imagine, leave / live, poison, musician, wedding, bottle, business letter, spaghetti, questionnaire, unusual, revision, direction, disappear, businessman, hairdresser�s , straight, traffic lights, continue, accident, neighbour, photographer, through, receptionist, beautifully, common, dangerous, knowledge, superstitious, endless, percentage, statue, brightly, aisle, professional.
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