Lesson video

Hello, my name is Mr. Byrnie-Smith and today I'm going to be teaching you some spelling.

I'm really looking forward to it and it's going to be a lot of fun.

In today's lesson we're going to be looking at some I-N-G present tense suffixes.

Now, if you haven't yet watched lesson 12 of 20 for this unit, I really recommend you go and do that first.

If you do, you'll be in a really good place to learn in this lesson.

Here's the agenda for today's lesson.

Firstly, we're going to look at some key vocabulary that we're going to use today.

Then we're going to recap some spelling rules.

After that we'll learn a brand new spelling strategy and finally, we're going to do our test.

In this lesson, you're going to need an exercise book or paper, a pencil and then finally, please, please, please, don't forget your brain.

If you need to run off and get this things now, pause the video.

Here is the key vocabulary for today's lesson, my turn, your turn.

Suffix.

A suffix is a group of letters at the end of a word that change its meaning.

Verb.

A verb is a doing or being word.

Past tense.

Past tense means in the past, something that has happened previously.

Present tense.

Present tense means in the present, something that is happening now.

As an added extra, lets look at this term.

Irregular verb.

An irregular verb is a verb that does not follow the normal spelling rules or patterns.

That's going to be very important for today's lesson.

These are the four rules we use when adding the I-N-G suffix to make a present continuous or present progressive verb.

The first rule is, just add I-N-G.

In this instances its not necessary to change the verb before adding I-N-G.

The second rule is double the consonant and add I-N-G.

In some verbs there is a short vowel sound, if that's the case, before you add I-N-G its necessary to double the consonant at the end of the verb.

The third rule is remove the e and add I-N-G.

Some verbs end in an e.

In this instances, its necessary to remove the e before adding I-N-G.

Lastly we have, ends in y, add I-N-G.

When we add I-N-G to make a present progressive verb, if we come across a verb ending with y, we just need to add I-N-G.

Easy.

Let's have a practise, the quick challenge.

Here we have the four rules and I have given you a verb.

Your job is to try and put this verb into the present progressive tense using I-N-G.

First think about the rule we need to apply, then have a go.

To do this you will need to write down both, the present tense form and the I-N-G present tense form.

Our first verb is, write.

Pause the video and have a go.

Okay.

In this instance the rule that applies is, this one, write ends in an e, therefore before adding I-N-G, we need to remove the e.

Write becomes writing.

Our new verb is flow.

Pause the video and have a go.

Okay.

Here, the rule we need to apply is, this one, we just need to add I-N-G.

Flow becomes flowing.

Here we have a new verb, multiply.

Pause the video and have a go.

Okay, great.

This is the rule we need to apply.

Multiply ends in a y, therefore we can just add I-N-G without changing anything.

Multiply becomes multiplying.

Last one, hum.

Pause the video and have a go.

Okay, great.

The rule that applies in this instance is, this one, hum contains a short vowel sound, /a/.

Therefore before adding I-N-G, we have to double the consonant.

Hum becomes humming and there is our doubled M.

Here is the verb meet.

I have had a go at adding I-N-G but I'm having difficulty, which is fine, in fact its very useful to make mistakes like this because ultimately its helps you learn.

So lets make the most of it.

We have two options here, both spelled slightly differently.

I need your help picking which one is correct.

For one that isn't correct, I would like you to think about what I've done wrong and even why I have done it.

Pause the video and have a go.

Okay.

The correct option is, this one.

When there is a long vowel sound, before the final consonant, what you need to do is add I-N-G.

There is no need to double the consonant at the end.

Not with the long vowel sound.

If the vowel sound before the consonant is long, just add I-N-G.

Next word, flop.

I have tried and I have struggled, which is fine and here I have two options.

Pause the video and help me out.

Okay.

Flop becomes flopping and is spelled like this.

Since contained a short vowel, we have to double the consonant at the end before adding I-N-G.

If the verb ends in a single consonant and has a short vowel sound before the consonant, double the consonant and add I-N-G.

Our new verb is bite.

I had a go and I have two options.

Pause the video and help me out.

Okay.

Bite becomes biting and is spelt like this.

If a verb ends in e, we have to remove the e and add I-N-G.

Bite does end in an e, therefore before we add I-N-G, we have to remove the e.

Last one, replay.

Pause the video and help me out.

Replay becomes replaying.

I just add I-N-G because my verb replay ends in a y.

If the verb end in y, just add I-N-G.

It is not necessary to replace the y with an i.

Here I have two new verbs, box and tie.

Lets see what happens when I put this into the present progressive tense.

Box becomes boxing and tie becomes tying.

I would like you to pause the video and think carefully.

Do these words follow the rules that we have learned today? Box contains a short vowel /o/ and tie ends in an e.

Something doesn't look right.

Pause the video and have a think.

Okay.

These are irregular verbs that means they do not follow the rules you would expect them to follow.

Box contains a short vowel, so you would expect to double the consonant at the end.

However, that is not what you do in this case.

Tie ends in an e.

So you would expect to remove the e before adding I-N-G but as you can see that is not what you do in this case.

In spelling there are a lot of exceptions to the many rules that we put in place to understand how to spell.

Exceptions make spelling tricky but they are also really, really interesting.

I would like you to try really hard to spot any exceptions whenever you practise and learn.

Time for us to start a new strategy.

This strategy is called the colour strategy and I must admit its one of my absolute favourites and I hope it will be one of yours too.

I think you can probably guess that it contains lots of, colour.

This is how you do it.

Here I have the word eating which is one of my spelling words.

When I apply this colour strategy, I've put blocks around the word, however I want to.

This depends entirely on how you see the word then I colour the blocks in.

I have had a go with eating and this is what it looked like.

When I look at the word eating, I see the -e and the -a as one block because they are the similar size.

Then I see the -at as something that kind of sticks up above the rest of the word, so I put it into its own purple block.

Finally I have the I-N-G which in my mind has to stick together and I put a block around those too.

The question is, why is this strategy useful? Why do we do it? There are a few reasons.

The first reason is it helps us interact with the word.

That means we have to really get to know the word in order to use this strategy.

The more we get to know the word the better we can spell it.

Secondly, it helps us think about the shape of the word.

Sometimes if you have a good understanding of what a word roughly should look like its easier to spell it.

Finally make use of colour.

When you use colour, everything becomes a little brighter and bolder and sometimes that makes it easier to remember.

Lets have a go on this spelling word, hurrying.

This is what I have done.

For me the H stands alone its very tall so I put it in its own block and then the U-R-R they seem to be all of very similar shape and size so I blocked them together.

They Y hangs down below so I have given it it's own block.

And then as I said before, I just have to put the I-N-G together and there they are in green I-N-G.

Time for you to have a go.

Lets use our new strategy on some of this weeks' spelling words.

I suggested four for you here, however you can use whichever words you want to.

Pause the video and have a go.

Time for this weeks' test.

For this weeks' test, I'm going to read out all ten of our words very slowly and carefully.

I'm going to put them in context for you.

Which means I am going to put them in appropriate sentence.

I would like you to pause the video whenever you need time to write this down.

Don't feel as if you are being rushed by me, you can pause the video whenever you like.

Okay.

The first word is, eating, eating.

The vicious fish is eating its prey.

The second word is, floating, floating.

The predator is floating menacingly in the depths.

The third word is fighting, fighting.

The animals are fighting to the death.

The fourth word is chatting, chatting.

The kids are chatting to each other.

The fifth word is swimming, swimming.

I am swimming in the sea.

The sixth word is grinning, grinning.

He is grinning from ear to ear.

The seventh word is glaring, glaring.

They are glaring at each other.

The eight word is protruding, protruding.

The strange fish has an antenna protruding from its head.

The ninth word is hurrying, hurrying.

I am hurrying to finish my breakfast.

The tenth word is destroying, destroying.

They are destroying the abandoned building.

Okay, great.

Fantastic job, well done for all of your hard work.

You've done really well.

In a second I'm going to reveal the correct spellings.

Is there anything you have got wrong, don't worry about it, its not a big deal.

What I would like you to do however, is write out the correct spelling.

That's really important.

Getting spellings wrong is really not a big problem, in fact it helps us learn.

Generally the word you get wrong often, end up being the words that you know the best.

So don't see that as a big deal, its really not.

Here are his weeks' spelling words.

If necessary you can pause the video, check your spellings really, really carefully and as I just mentioned right now, write out the correct spelling next to any that you might have got wrong.

Pause the video now.

Well done.

That's the end of the lesson, you've done really well and I'm very impressed.

This is what we have covered today, we have looked at key vocabulary, we have recapped the rules, we've learned a new strategy and we've done a test.

Which I think is an awful lot of learning, so well done.

I'm really impressed and you have completed your lesson.

Thanks a lot for joining me, bye.