Lesson video

Hi there.

My name is Mr Byrne-Smith.

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

In this lesson, we're going to be looking at two suffixes, the -ify and -ise suffixes.

We're going to be practising and applying on knowledge of these two suffixes.

If you haven't yet watched lesson two of 10, I really recommend that you go back and do that first.

Let's make a start.

Here's the agenda for today's lesson.

First we going to look at some key vocabulary.

Then we're going to recap the spelling rules.

After that we'll learn a new strategy, before finally doing our test.

In this lesson you will need, an exercise book or paper, a pencil, and then last but not least your brain.

Now if you need to go off and get any of these things, please pause the video now.

Okay, let's go through some key vocabulary.

My turn, your turn.

Suffix.

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

Verb.

A verb is a doing or being word.

Noun.

A noun is a person place or thing.

Root word.

A root word is the most basic version of a word, it has no prefixes or suffixes attached.

Let's recap the rules we've learned so far.

So we're currently looking at the -ify and -ise suffixes.

Now these two suffixes, they work quite similarly to one another.

That means we can look at them and investigate them at the same time.

Here, we have four root words.

We have two root words to which I'm about to apply the -ify suffix, and two root words to which I'm about to apply the -ise suffix.

We have simple and class, and apology and vocal.

Now, before I do that, I'd like your help figuring out what word class these four words belong to.

In order to do this, I'd like you to put them into a sentence, and then try and understand the role they're playing in that sentence.

Are they behaving as adjectives? In which case they'd be describing a noun, or as nouns, in which case there'd be a person, place or thing? Or perhaps they're behaving as verbs, in which case they'd be doing or a being word? I'd like you to have a go with these four, pause the video now.

So simple is adjective, class is a noun, apology is a noun and vocal is an adjective.

How about when we add the suffix? Does our word class change? And if so, how? Simple becomes simplify, class becomes classify, apology becomes apologise, and vocal becomes vocalise.

Now in order to understand the effect of our suffix, what it's done to our root word, we need to look at these four new words and figure out which word class they belong to.

Adjective, noun or verb.

Remember, put them into a sentence, pause the video now.

Okay, so four verbs, they're all turned into verbs.

So I think we're in a position to put together a rule.

The -ify and -ise suffixes often turn words into what? Help me out, pause the video.

Okay, the -ify and -ise suffixes often turn word into verbs.

Fantastic.

What a good starting point for the rest of this lesson! So here we have the -ify and -ise being used on four root words, simple, class, apology and vocal.

They've become simplify, classify, apologise, and vocalise.

Now, if you look very carefully at these changes, you can see that two of our root words have had to change when they've had the suffix applied.

Two have not.

I'd like you to help me figure out which two have changed, and which two have not.

Pause the video, have a very careful look.

These two have changed.

If we look really carefully at simple, in order to become simplify, it's necessary to remove the e.

With apology, something very similar happens.

In order to turn apology into apologise using the -ise suffix, it's necessary to remove the y, which you can see has happened here.

So that's removed the e and removed the y, very familiar sounding rules.

Let's see if it happens in any other instance, here we have note, glory and category.

Let's have a look and see if that same rule applies.

Let's see if we'll have to remove the e and remove the y.

Note becomes notify, and yes look at that, we've had to remove the e before adding the -ify.

Glory becomes glorified, same again.

We've had to remove the y.

Finally category, what do you think category is going to become? Categorise.

And look at that, we've removed the y.

So I think we're in position now to say that if a word ends in e, you have to remove the e before adding the suffix.

If the word ends in y, you have to remove the y before adding the suffix.

So here are our three rules.

Often it's necessary to just add the suffix.

Sometimes you must remove the e and add the suffix.

In other instances, you have to remove the y and at the suffix.

Let's have a practise.

So, we have a root word.

It's energy.

Our job is to add the appropriate suffix.

Now, this is tricky.

First we have to identify with rule to apply, but we also have to think about which of our two suffixes applies, -ify or -ise.

My top tip is to try them both out loud, try both of your options out loud and I predict that you'll hear it immediately.

Pause the video and a have a go.

So firstly, we need to apply one of these rules.

Now energy ends in a y, therefore we have to remove the y and add the suffix.

So we've removed the y, but which suffix do we add? We've got -ify or -ise.

Well the answer is -ise energy becomes energise.

Let's have another go.

In this instance, our root word is advert.

Pause the video and have a go.

So our root word advert does not end in an e or a y.

So there's nothing to remove.

That means in this instance we just add the suffix.

Now, do we add -ify or -ise.

Advertify, advertise.

Now I've said it out loud.

It sounds quite obvious to me.

Advert becomes advertise.

Okay, next word.

Pure.

Pause the video and a half ago.

Now I can see straight away that pure and in an e.

Therefore, we have to remove the e and add the suffix.

In terms of suffixes is we have those two choices, ify and -ise.

Pure could become purify, or it could become purise.

But once again, one of those is sounding a lot more familiar than the other.

The answer is purify.

Now we see the e has been removed.

Challenge number two.

We have a sentence here with the root word in place.

Now it's not going to make sense to the root word.

We're going to need to turn the root word into a verb using -ify or -ise.

The question is which one? Again, I really recommend that you rely on your instincts here.

If you say the two options out loud, it suddenly becomes quite obvious, which of the two sounds right? If you want water to leave it in the freezer for a few hours.

If you want water to something, leave it in the freezer for a few hours.

The root word is solid.

The two options are solidify and solidise.

Now think very carefully about your two options.

This is a verb which means to become solid.

So water, if left in the freezer becomes solid.

Pause the video and have a go.

Solid becomes solidify.

If you want water to solidify, leave it in the freezer for a few hours.

Next sentence.

She was feeling very anxious and found it difficult to vocal a single sound.

Now obviously vocal is not correct.

That's our root word.

That's the word that needs to change.

Our two options are vocalify and vocalise.

Try them both out loud, try them both in the sentence, see which one sounds right.

This is a verb which means to make vocal, which means to say out loud.

Pause the video and have a go.

She was feeling very anxious and found it difficult to vocalise a single sound.

The class were feeling sleepy so the teacher tried desperately to energy them.

Energy is our root word, that's the one that needs to change.

We have two options, energify and energise.

Pause the video and have a go.

The class were feeling sleepy so the teacher tried desperately to energise them.

Once again, really sounds obvious when you say it out loud, it sounds like a word you've heard before.

That's because it is a word you've heard before.

Whereas energify is probably almost certainly not a word you've heard.

You must pure the water before you drink.

Our two verbs are purify or purise.

Have a careful think, which of these do you think is correct? Pause the video and have a go.

You must purify the water before you drink it.

Once again, really, really, really relying on how the word sounds and how familiar it sounds.

That's a very important.

Time for us to learn a new strategy.

This strategy is called create a word search.

It's exactly as it sounds, we're going to use our spelling words to make a word search of our own.

Now, there are a few rules about how to do this.

Not many, but a few.

We're going to make a start with the word purify.

There it is written out on the right hand side.

The first thing I'm going to do is to put it in a grid.

Now you can create a grid of your own, or if you have squared paper handy, you could use that.

If you are to make one of your own, I recommend using a ruler to ensure that the lines are nice and straight.

In terms of the size of the grid, that's really dependent on how many words you want to include.

If you want to include lots and lots and lots of words, some of which are quite long, you'll need a big grid.

Today I'm just going to use three words, and none of them are especially long.

So I'm using a grid of eight by eight, which I think is about right.

First thing you do is you put your first word into the grid.

You can see I've done that with purify.

Next word is vocalise, so I need to find a spot for vocalise.

Now, we need to make sure it fits.

It can overlap with other words, but only if they share a letter, I decided to put it down the side.

There is vocalise.

My next word is notify.

Now for notify, I thought I could share the i in the word purify, that way they could both use the same i, and I could have them cross over.

This is what it looked like.

Now today, I'm only using three words.

So I'm actually not using more than that.

Typically I would, but this is quite a quick way of just representing how to do it.

So I think three is just about right.

The last stage of the process is to fill in all the gaps.

Now you fill the gaps in with random letters.

So trying to make sure there isn't any kind of pattern, because that might be confusing.

I would just pick a random selection, which I've done here.

All of a sudden my words have disappeared.

Now you could probably still find them, since were only there a second ago, but for somebody coming across this for the first time, it might be a bit trickier, which is exactly what we want.

If you don't carefully, spend a few seconds, there they are.

And there's our word search compete.

These word searches you can do yourself, I find sometimes if you put them down for a few hours, by the time you pick them up again, you've actually forgotten where you put the words.

So it's quite a challenge to find them again.

Alternatively you could give it to somebody who hasn't seen you put it together, for him it will be a real challenge.

The question is, why is this a useful strategy? Why does it work? Why does it help? Firstly, you get to interact with the word.

You get to look at all the letters contained within a word very carefully.

And you have to think about them carefully too.

Secondly, you have to familiarise yourself with a size and shape of certain words.

You need to understand whether or not they'll fit in certain spots.

The more you do that, the more familiar you become with the size and shape of a word, and therefore its spelling.

Finally, it helps you find links between words.

There are letters and suffixes that lots of words have in common.

When you put together a word search, you find a lot of these links and patterns, which is really useful.

Time for you to have a go.

Let's use our strategy on some of this week's spelling words.

I'm giving you three suggestions here, you can use any suggestions you like.

You don't have to use these three, and you don't have to use only three, you could use more than that if you'd like, it's completely up to you.

Pause the video now and have a go.

Time for this week's test.

Now the first thing I'd like you to do is write the numbers one to 10, pause the video now and do this.

I'm going to read each word carefully and slowly, and I'm going to put it into context.

Please, please, please pause the video at any time.

There are loads of strategies you can use to help you.

You could write a few options and pick the one which looks right or the one which sounds right.

You can slow down, you can take a deep breath and spend a bit longer over a particular word.

Don't feel as though you have to rush through these.

This isn't something to get stressed or panicked about.

Number one, purify.

They had to purify the water before they could drink it.

Purify.

Number two, notify.

Make sure you notify the chief about the new baby.

Notify.

Number three, modify.

I want to modify my boat so it's faster.

Modify.

Number four, intensify.

Film directors use music to intensify the mood.

Intensify.

Five, solidify.

If you want to solidify water, put it in the freezer.

Solidify.

Six, apologise.

She felt like her grandfather should apologise to her.

Apologise.

Seven, capitalise.

Let's capitalise on the break in the storm.

Capitalise.

Eight, energise.

We have to do something to energise the rest of the village.

Energise.

Nine, vocalise.

If you have something to say, vocalise it.

Vocalise.

10, advertise.

Companies use TV to advertise their latest products.

Advertise.

Okay, well done.

We're going to go through the answers now.

You must be careful to write out the spellings of any word that you might not have got right, that way you know which ones to work on.

But also it gives you a chance to see which letters you got right which I think is really important.

Purify, P-U-R-I-F-Y.

Two, notify, N-O-T-I-F-Y.

Three, modify, M-O-D-I-F-Y.

Four, intensify, I-N-T-E-N-S-I-F-Y.

Five, solidify.

S-O-L-I-D-I-F-Y.

Six, apologise, A-P-O-L-O-G-I-S-E.

Seven, capitalise, C-A-P-I-T-A-L-I-S-E.

Eight, energise, E-N-E-R-G-I-S-E.

Nine, vocalise, V-O-C-A-L-I-S-E.

10, advertise, A-D-V-E-R-T-I-S-E.

There are the spellings for this week.

Well done.

That's the end of the lesson, you've done really well.

Look at everything we've done.

Key vocabulary, we've recapped rules, we've learned a new strategy and we've done our test so well done, I'm really impressed.

And that's the end of the lesson.

Bye.