Lesson video

Hello everybody, my name is Ms Chamberlain Webber.

And I'm going to teach you spelling today.

I'm so excited about today's lesson because we're looking at the English language and where some of the words actually came from.

Did you know that the English language developed over a long period of time and had influence from lots of other cultures and languages? We're going to look at one in particular in this lesson and see how the patterns, from all that time ago, still used in our spelling and our language today.

Let's get started.

The structure of today's lessons starts with key vocabulary.

Then we're going to investigate and generate rules.

And finally, I'm going to set you 10 to spelling words.

Please make sure, you have got a pencil and paper for today's lesson.

It also need to be in a calm, quiet space so that your brain is ready for your learning today.

Pause was the video here, If you need to get yourself paper or pencil.

Key vocabulary, here are the three key words we'll need in today's lesson.

My turn etymology, your turn.

Etymology is the term used to describe the origin, all source of a word, where that word comes from what language it comes from, or maybe where in the world it comes from.

Word class, Word class, is a group of words, which perform the same way in a sentence, for example, a noun is a word class, so is a verb.

Can you think of anymore? An adjective, an adverb and so on.

Ancient Greek is the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD.

So a long time ago.

Investigate and generate rules.

What do these words have in common? Let's say them together, 'school', 'chorus', 'anchor', 'echo'.

I won't need to think about how these words sound similar.

Think about that word class and their spellings.

Pause the video here.

Okay, what did you notice about the spelling of these words? Two letters are the same.

Can you tell me what they are? There's a 'C 'and 'H' together in every word.

Now, perhaps you spotted something interesting about the sounds of these words.

What sound is the 'C' and 'H' together making? School, chorus, anchor, echo.

Pause the video here to give yourself some thinking time.

'C' and 'H' in these words are making thee sound /k/ Which is odd because usually in words, we often see these two letters together, making the /ch/ sound like in chocolate or children, but all four of these words are similar because of the sound /k/.

Can you tell me where in the word the sound tends to be? Well, there isn't much of a pattern.

It seems to be in the middle or the beginning of the word.

Let's look at these two words a bit more closely.

What's a school? Well, the word class is a? Noun, it's a place.

A school comes from Greek etymology.

Remind me what that means again? It came from the Greek word that meant a lecture place.

Not only has the spelling and the way we say the word come from ancient Greek, but the meaning is the same to.

Our second word.

'Anchor', What word class is anchor? It's a noun.

It's a thing.

It's a thing we put down into the water when we're trying to secure a boat and it has the same etymology it's from Greek.

What have we learned so far? I want you to read the sentence, and pause the video, thinking about what should go in the missing places.

Lets read this one together.

Words that contain the /k/ sound spelt 'CH' often come from what etymology? Greek etymology.

Now how fascinating is that? We've got words we use today that came from all that time ago in ancient Greece.

Which other words do you know, might come from Greek with the sound /k/ and the spelling 'CH'? Pause the video and see if you can think of anymore.

How about 'stomach' or 'archive'? Are you ready to investigate another spelling pattern? Here are four words.

What do they have in common? My turn, then you'll turn.

Muscle, scene, fascinate, descend.

Think about the spelling and the sound in these words, pausing the video here.

Well, can you point out the two letters that are the same in each word? It's 'SC' and tell me, what sound is being made in each of these words, pause the video if you need more time.

The sound is in 'muscle', 'scene'.

It's the /s/ sound, but the spelling is with two letters, 'S' and 'C' these come from Greek etymology too.

Firstly, 'muscle', What world class is a muscle.

It's a noun it's a thing.

So, looking out where it comes from.

the Greek word was very similar 'musculus' and 'fascinat'.

This time, the word class is a verb.

To fascinate, is to really surprise or really amaze someone.

The etymology is also from Greek and the meaning very much the same.

What have we learned so far complete the missing words with the correct vocabulary.

Pausing the video here.

Right, read it with me.

Words that contain the /s/ sound spelt 'sc' often come from Greek etymology.

I wonder, if you can think of any other words with this same pattern in them.

Pause the video and write some down.

I think you're working really hard.

Discipline and crescent, science, perhaps? Feel free to keep looking for these letter patterns in words.

And writing them down, even after this lesson.

Time for our last letter pattern.

Four words here, let's read them together.

Alphabet, physical, graph, photo.

Pause the video and decide what is similar about these words? Maybe you can spot something that's different too.

Okay, point at the two letters that are the same in each word, 'PH' this time, the sounds very different to how the letters are written.

Take a minute to think about the sound in each of these words made by the 'P' and 'H' letters.

The sound is /f/ alphabet, physical.

Did you notice anything else about these words? Well, the spelling pattern 'PH', actually can come anywhere in a word.

We have it at the beginning of the word and which word? 'Physical'.

and 'photo'.

And it comes at the end of the word in 'graph'.

And in the middle of the word in 'alphabet'.

Are you ready to look at two more in detail? We've got 'alphabet' and 'physical' lets start with 'alphabet'.

What word class is 'alphabet'? It's a noun a thing, and the etymology is very interesting.

The Greek word, it came from, 'alpha' and 'beta'.

The first two letters of the Greek alphabet.

'Physical' has the same word class.

It's also a noun and comes from Greek etymology 'physica', which is related to natural sciences.

Time to fill in this sentence with the missing words.

Pause the video.

Okay read it with me.

Words that contain the /f/ sound spelled 'PH', often come from Greek etymology.

So let's look at what we've learnt so far.

Here are the three sounds which spelling's make these sounds in the words from Greek etymology.

Pause the video to give you some thinking time.

The /k/ sound in words is made by? the letters 'CH'.

The /s/ sound, the letters 'SC' and the /f/ sound the letters 'PH'.

I'm going to test you here, giving you two spellings of the same word.

I want you to point at the correct spelling to go in the missing space.

Use an anchor to secure the boat underwater.

The correct spelling is 'anchor' with a 'CH'.

Here's another one.

What is the correct spelling for 'photograph' to go in this sentence? Read it on with me.

I used my new camera to take a photograph.

point to the correct one.

It's the middle one with the 'PH' spelling of the what sound? /f/ sound.

Okay Point out the correct spelling of 'descend' to place in this sentence.

Pause the video for more time.

Let's read it together.

The aircraft began to descend toward the runway.

'descend' with the Spelling 'SC'.

You're ready for your spelling words.

Please have your pencil and your paper ready, because we're going to be writing, a list of 10 spelling words.

I'm going to go through each word individually.

Please take your time.

Pausing the video at any point to make sure you've got the correct spelling written down.

If we don't have these spellings correctly written down, it means we'll be practising the wrong spellings.

And we don't want that.

Number one, 'school'.

Yesterday I walked to school.

What two letters are making the sound /k/ in this word? 'CH' coming after the 'S'.

And remember the /o/ sound there's a long /o/ sound in this word made with two O's.

Number two 'stomach'.

I'm so hungry my stomach is rumbling.

'Stomach' also has the 'CH' letter pattern making which sound? /k/ But this time it's where in the word? At the end of the word, 'stomach'.

Number three 'anchor'.

We use the anchor to secure the boat under water.

'Anchor', has the 'CH' spelling, in the middle of the word.

And be careful.

'Anchor', sounds more like there's an 'ER' at the end, but there's actually an 'OR'.

Number four 'alphabet'.

I learned my Spanish alphabet yesterday.

'Alphabet' has two letters in it, making the /f/ sound.

What are they, 'P' and 'H'? Number five, 'physical', this time that sound 'F' made by the 'P' and the 'H' is at the beginning of the word.

P.

E stands for physical education.

Number six, 'trophy'.

My sports team won a trophy at the last tournament.

This too has the 'PH' spelling making /f/ sound.

Remember that the /e/ sound at the end of the word is made by what letter? 'Y'.

Number seven.

'Scene'.

That was a very moving scene in the play.

What's making the /s/ sound in this word? Its the 'S' and the 'C' together.

And this time, the long /e/ sound is made by an.

E' split 'E' with an 'N' in the middle.

Number eight, 'fascinate'.

That performance did fascinate the crowd.

This means everyone in the crowd was really interested in the play and the performance.

This word also has what? Two letters making the /s/ sound 'SC'.

Remember to pause the video.

If you need more time, Number nine, 'muscle'.

My leg muscles aching today.

Number 10, 'descend'.

Carefully, I took my time to descend the stairs.

'Descent' also has two letters is making the /s/ sound.

what are they? 'S' and 'C'.

Lets remind ourselves of the three different spellings we've learned from Greek etymology.

The first spelling pattern makes the sound /k/ spelled with? Two letters 'C' and 'H' Good.

Let's complete the second one together.

Words that contain the /s/ sound spelt 'SC' often comes from Greek etymology.

and finally, words that contain the /f/ sound spelt 'PH' often come from Greek etymology.

'C H', 'SC', 'PH'.

Well done today.

You've worked really hard.

I hope you practise these 10 spellings.

And see if you can come up with a list of more spellings with the same patterns in them.