Lesson video

Hi there, my name is Mr. Byrne-Smith.

And today I'm going to be teaching you spelling.

In today's lesson, we're going to look at homophones, well lot's to do and it's going to be really fun.

So let's make a start.

This is the agenda for today's lesson.

First, we're going to look at key vocabulary, then we'll investigate and generate rules, before finally setting this weeks spelling words.

In this lesson, you will need an exercise book or paper, a pencil, and of course your brain.

If you need to run up and get any of these things, please do that now.

Okay, let's go through this, my key vocabulary.

My turn, your town.

Definition, the definition is the meaning of a word.

Adjective, an adjective is a word that describes a noun.

It tells you what it's like.

Noun, a noun is a person, place or thing.

Homophone, now you might have noticed that the homophone definition is blank.

That's because we're going to figure it out together now.

Here we have two words threw and through.

Now before we go on, I think it's important to explain to you that homophones come in pairs.

And here, we have a pair of homophones.

However, what actually is a homophone? Well, the first thing I've noticed is that these two words sound the same, threw and through.

However, they're definitely not spell it the same.

We have T-H-R-E-W, and we have T-H-R-O-U-G-H.

So we know these are a pair of homophones.

I think so far it's fair to say that homophones are words that sound the same, but are spelled differently.

Now I wonder about there meaning, do they have the same meaning or do they have a different meaning? Let's look a little bit more closely of there meaning.

okay, this could be helpful.

Here we have a depiction of the two words on the left hand side, we have somebody throwing a ball, okay? So this threw is the past tense of the verb to throw.

You might say he threw the ball across the room, okay.

But our second through, here we have a picture of a door.

This through means to go in one side and out the other side of something.

You might go through the door in one side and out the other side, okay.

So two distinctly different meanings, two distinctly different spellings, but the same pronunciation.

Here we have the two options, I'll let you to help me complete these sentences.

He mm the ball to his teammate, they walked mm the open door.

Pause the video and have a quick go now.

Okay, he threw, that spelling the ball to his teammate.

They walked through the open door with that spelling.

So here we have two definitions.

Now, one of these defines homophone really well, and the other one doesn't do quite such a good job.

Two more words that sound the same but have a different meaning and spelling.

Two words that are spelled the same, but are pronounced differently.

Hm, okay.

I'll let you to have a careful thing, which of these is correct? Pause the video now.

So the correct definition is this one, two or more words that sound the same, but have a different meaning and spelling.

And now we have our definition.

A word that sounds the same as another, but differs in meaning and spelling, great.

I think we're now in a really good position to go on and explore some homophones.

Let's investigate and generate some rules.

Here we have another pair of homophones, tale and tail.

So the first version of this word, T-A-L-E is another word for a story.

He told a tale.

We sat down to listen to a tale together.

It's a certain type of story.

The other type of tail, T-A-I-L is the body part of some animals, it's an appendage that sticks out the back of lots of animals, not all animals, but some animals.

You find one on a cat and a dog and on some monkeys.

Let's have a go at putting these into sentences.

She told a fascinating with a flick of its, the cat was gone, okay.

I'm going to give you one last pick at the two words next to their pictures, and then you can have a go.

There they are, off you go, pause the video, okay.

So she told a fascinating tale.

With a flick of its tail the cat was gone, excellent.

Now the slight issue with homophones is that in order to learn the spelling, in order to learn which version is used in which instance, you have to rely on seeing the word, because obviously they sound the same.

This means you have to practise the words in context.

That means in a sentence.

If you just practise looking at the word or writing over and over again, yes, you'll know how to spell it, but when you know which one to use probably not.

So when it comes to practising homophones, we don't just practise the spelling, we also practise the meaning lots and lots and lots.

That's the key, and there are the pictures.

Let's have another go.

We have stare and stair.

The first stare S-T-A-R-E is to look intently at something with lots of concentration.

The next step S-T-A-I-R is the singular of stairs.

Now a set of stairs are the things that you use to walk up or down a story in a building.

Stair is one of them.

So here we have lots of stairs in this picture.

If you are to pick out one of them, that would be a stair.

So let's see if we can put these into sentences.

I tripped over the last mm, on the way to my bedroom.

All I could see was the blank mm on his face.

I'm going to give you one last glimpse of the pictures alongside the words and then I'd like to have a go.

Here they are.

Okay, pause the video and have a go.

So I tripped over the last stair on the way to my bedroom.

All I could see was the blank stare on his face.

And there are the pictures.

Here we have three words.

Now, two of these words have a homophone and one of them does not.

I'm going to read each of them out loud, and I'm going to explain the meaning of each of these words.

Your job is to see if you can figure out which of these does not have a homophone.

So we have flower.

A flower is a type of colourful plant.

We have animal, animal is a type of living thing.

Humans are technically animals, other examples are dogs and cats and lions.

Then we have night, night refers to a period of the day during which most people and things sleep when it gets dark.

So have a very careful thing, which of these have homophones and which don't.

Pause the video now.

Okay, flower does have a homophone.

It's spelled like this F-L-O-U-R.

It's a substance that is used to make things like bread and cakes.

Animal does not have a homophone and night does.

So animal is the odd one out.

The homophone for knight with a K at the front is the name of a warrior from a certain period in history.

This type of warrior doesn't exist anymore, but they were very common over the last few 1000 years.

Animal of course does not have a homophone.

So let's see if we can really solidify this definition, make it really, really super strong.

I'm going to make a start.

Here we have our definition but we've got some missing gaps.

The four missing gaps are homophones, different spelling, same sound, different meaning.

We just need to figure out what goes where.

Something are words that have the something, but a something and a something.

Well, it doesn't make much sense at the moment.

Let me make a start to get you off.

Okay, so homophones are words that have the mm but mm and a mm.

I'll let you to have a careful think, you have three options left.

Pause the video, off you go.

Okay, homophones are words that have the same sound, but a different spelling and a different meaning, okay.

We've got that definition down now, we've got it water type.

Okay, it's time for us to set some spelling words.

For each of these words, I'm going to read you a sentence.

Now this is more important than ever.

Otherwise, I'd just be repeating pairs of words that sounded exactly the same.

So listen very carefully, very carefully to the sentences I offer.

Remember when we write these down, we need to make sure that we get the spelling correct.

If you get it wrong now, then you'll be practising the wrong spelling for the next few weeks, which we do not want, so be very careful.

Number one, through.

He walked through the door, through.

Number two, threw, she threw the ball right over the house.

So we've done those two early on in the lesson, in this point on, we might be encountering brand new spellings.

Number three hole, hole.

The hole in the wall was big enough to fit in.

So this type of hole is a kind of a hollow.

You can find these maybe in the floor, in the wall, it's a little gap.

Number four, whole.

I'll take the whole cake, please.

This type of whole refers to the entirety of something, all of something.

New, new.

These shorts on you, I haven't worn them before.

Six, knew, knew.

This is a version of the verb to know.

They knew something strange was going on.

Might, might.

Now this actually has two meanings.

The first is a type of a verb, it's called a modal verb, it basically suggests that something could happen, but we're not certain about it.

For example, I might go to the shops.

I don't know that it's happening for sure, but it's a possibility.

The other option is a Nan, which means strength.

It's another word for strength.

You might say she lifted it with all of her might, which is the same saying she lifted it with all of her strength.

Mite, Mite.

Now this spelling of the word mite refers to an insect.

A very small insect, which often spends time on other animals like dogs for example, and it can be quite irritating it often bites them.

I've got an example for you.

The dog was covered in mites.

See, see.

I can see the mountains from here.

This is a verb describing something you do with your eyes, when you take things in through your eyes, you're seeing.

10, sea, sea.

This is a reference to the water which covers the vast majority of the earth.

This word is often used in conjunction with other words, for example, seaside, we swam in the sea.

Okay, so there are 10 words.

Well done, that's the end of the lesson.

Today, we have looked at key vocabulary, we've investigated in generating rules, and we've set our spelling backwards for this unit, which is quite a lot.

So well done.

Remember, when you practise, you need to be focusing on little and often, it means a few minutes a day, which is much, much more effective than doing it all in go at the end of the week.

Well done for your hard work.

That's the end of the lesson, bye.