Practise/practice - please tell me I'm not cracking up

[MirandaGoshawk]

I'm doing an online TEFL course. I'm not very far into it and have found 'Practice makes perfect' (which is fine), but also these shining examples (cut & pasted):

a) When it comes to freer use, in follow up practise, it
b) Examination Practise Task

c) 1. Just do controlled practise tasks.
?
d) ? Examination practise task: Presentations
e) followed by lots of interactive practise.
f) Stages of a Presentation, Practice and Production lesson

Only (f) seems to me to be correct. AIBU? Or have I missed something?

BTW the writer of the course is Australian.

Practise is a verb, practice is a noun - so I'd agree that only (f) is right. Maybe in Australia it's different

It works like advice/advise (noun/verb). Advice/advise is easier to remember as they are pronounced differently.

It is very common not to know the difference (IME) as I have explained this to colleagues (professionally qualified graduates) who were amazed by the revelation.

Thanks for that. I hope an Aussie will come along & tell me! I know in the US they tend not to use -ice, if it was -ise all the time I could cope with it, but he uses both wrongly.

I was taught a very useful trick by an English teacher - substitute 'advise' and 'advice' in your head when deciding whether to use practise or practice. So now I don't have to think about whether its noun or verb.

Cross post!

So, breatheslowly, he is wrong & I'm right? Yes? Yes?

Yes - definitely. And while the average person has no idea, an English teacher should know the difference.

i know in american english both are spelled practice.

i assume aus eng does ours or theirs.
it'll never be practise as a noun.

I've emailed them and told them I'm 'confused' and could they please explain, but guess what? No reply. I also ran a couple of the instances through Spellcheck & put them in as Aus English - they came out as wrong (and same usage as UK).

I have to say that this course is pretty crappy. Needs a good proofreader! I've offered but again, no reply

nickels US is practise, isn't it?

no, it's practice.

i've got a spellcheck on firefox, and when i type practise it says it's wrong, but practice is fine.
it also tells me colour is wrong,so that's how i guessed it's US.

Oh right, that's a new one on me

it's also another thing i learned on MN.

Better than school, eh?

Whatever you paid for that course it was too much! I am a lawyer- I have a Practising Certificate, which means I am qualified to work in legal practice.

It was cut-price. It was cheapo & was therefore a gamble but I have a couple of friends who've done the 'proper' course (which lasts a month or so & is 100% commitment, homework every night etc), & I thought it would give me a head start if/when I do a 'proper' course. Which I think it has. Some of it will be useful. But yes, the writer of the course has a mental block with practice/ise. And still hasn't replied to either of the two emails I've sent!

Tries to remember...

if you can put "a" or "an" before the word/phrase then it is a noun. ( a b c )

(Do you think I could sue school for being so useless?)

Rinkan -surely you practise in a legal practice?