Practise/practice Australian English - Could an Aussie shed light please?

[MirandaGoshawk]

Continuing a previous thread a few weeks ago, but problem was unresolved.

I am doing a TEFL course that has been written by an Australian. I can't work out the rules for practise/ice based on his use. I have cut & pasted the following, for example, and run it through spellcheck as Australian English and it comes up as 'no problem':

'Upon completion of the practise exam, students should check and analyse answers in pairs or as a whole group. Encourage conversation and debate about the process to give students practice thinking about it.'

In the above, UK would be 'practice exam'. So, English use for verb/noun is same as advise and advice, and US seems to be just -ice. So what's Australian, please?

It's wrong.

Australia is the same as UK
see here

it's Practise as a verb
practice as a noun.

he's got it the wrong way round.

Upon completion of the practise exam, students should check and analyse answers in pairs or as a whole group. Encourage conversation and debate about the process to give students practice thinking about it.'

The first should be practice, and so should the second - because there he's using practice as a noun.

I would agree with you for UK but I don't understand why the Aussie English spellcheck doesn't have a hissy fit over the first one? (Cut & paste it & you'll see what I mean.)

Actually I've just changed to UK English ont eh above and spellcheck lets the first one through as OK too but there's a red line under when I put it into US English.

Maybe spellcheck is just wrong now that would be a first and it should be as UK.

it's because the grammar check isn't on, i assume.

practise is a correct spelling, but not in the context. so it wouldn't throw up an error unless it knew the context was wrong.

US english doesn't allow practise at all. it's practice for both

Your link says that some people in the US use both, like we do. But yes, most use -ice, as I was surprised to discover from a MNer who lives there.

As nickel said, spellcheck doesn't know whether a correctly-spelled word is being used incorrectly, so it's a red herring as both spellings are correct. Put the sentence "he agreed in principal that the school principle had to resign" through spellcheck and you won't get any red lines either.

Oh!

I didn't realise that, no wonder I've always found spellcheck to be pretty useless. . I'll have another go. Thanks!

The course is doing my head in. Nearly every page has something like this:

Discussion and Practise Activities

AAARGH give me strength or a large brandy