ORAL SPELLING BEE CONTEST RULES

1. The list of words is according their grades.

2. The oral contest will take place in the school (Instituto Vigotsky).

3. Once everybody is in the place, the teacher will go over the rules for the
oral contest and call roll for the second time.

4. The speller will stand up, listen to the word, a sentence, and the
repetition of the word, which the Proctor is entitled to repeat again.

5. The Spelling Bee will be conducted in rounds. Each speller remainingin the
Spelling Bee at the beginning of a round will speak one word inthe round.

6. The English teacher can disqualify a speller for failing topronounce any
letter correctly like r or the I, or a, i and e.

7. The speller may not go back and correct any letter once he or she starts
to spell the word. Under no circumstance will the speller be asked to
correct the misspelling of another speller, except for when there is a tie
between the last two remaining spellers.

8. If the speller decides to spell the word "door" ("d-o-o-r" or "d-double o-r")
both ways are correct as long as he/she pronounces the word, then
spells the word and once more repeats the word.

9. When the word is an open compound word (ice cream) the speller must
say "two words, i-c-e, take a pause, c-r-e-a-m" and repeat again (ice
cream). When it is a hyphenated compound word (warm-up), the speller
must say "warm-up, w-a-r-m hyphen u-p" and repeat"warm-up" again.

10. When the word has an apostrophe, such as o'clock, the speller mustsay
the word, and while spelling it he/she must say "o-apostrophe- c-l-o-c-k",
and repeat the word one more time.
11. If the speller forgets to say the word first and starts to spell it, he/she
is disqualified.

12. Disqualification will also happen when he/she forgets to say the word
at the end of spelling.

13. If a speller fails to spell a word, he/she will drop out of the contest
and the missed word must be correctly pronounced and spelled by
the Proctor and a new word will be given to next speller.

14. In the final match, when one of the two final spellers misspells a
word, the missed word must be correctly spelled by the remaining
speller, plus the next word in the Proctor's list. If the word is not
spelled correctly, it will be given to the other speller who missed the
previous word, if that spellers spells it correctly plus the next word in
the Proctor's list, then that speller will be declared the winner. If both
spellers fail, a new word will be given to break tie. This will be done
following the same procedure until one of them spells out the other
word, or until there are not any words in the list. In that case, the
proctor will choose a word that is not in the list.

15. A maximum of 15-30 seconds will be allowed to spell the word; all
spellers should be informed about this rule in advance.

16. If there is an interruption of noise (siren, alarm, door, etc.) the Proctor
must stop and repeat the word he/she has said.

17. When a speller misses a word, he/she must wait in the assigned area
until the contest ends.

18. If the student spells another word that is not the one asked by the
proctor even if the word is spelled correctly will be disqualified.