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Hello, everybody.

Welcome to today's lesson.

My name is Mrs. Richards.

And in today's session, we are going to investigate French and Greek etymology.

These are my favourite lessons.

So that's get started.

In today's lesson we're going to start by exploring our key vocabulary, then we will investigate and generate rules and finally set our.

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

Pause the video and go and get any resources that you might need.

Okay, let's have a look at our key vocabulary.

There were two key terms which you're going to need to be able to understand and use in today's session.

Etymology, my turn, your turn.

Etymology.

See if you can clap it.

Etymology.

Etymology, your turn.

Well done.

Etymology is the origin or source of a word.

Where the word comes from.

Word class, my turn, your turn.

Word class.

A word class is a group of words, which perform the same function.

They perform the same way in a sentence.

Okay, let's investigate and generate some rules.

So on the board, there are four words.

I want you to work out what these words have in common.

Here are your words.

Shadow.

Finish.

Delicious.

Machine.

One more time.

Be really attentive to how these words sound.

Shadow.

Finish.

Delicious.

Machine.

Pause the video and tell the screen what these words have in common.

Okay, how did you get on? These words have a particular sound in common.

Could you hear it? Shadow.

Finish.

I think it's easy for us to spot there.

When is it the beginning or the end of a word.

Can you hear the sound in these words? Delicious.

Machine.

Yes, I can too.

Look at the spellings of this particular sound.

There are two spellings that I know already, S-H.

S-H could come at the beginning of the word or the end of the word.

And I'm also really used to using C-I, particularly when it's C-I-O-U-S as a letter string.

How about machine? Machine still has this sound, even though it's spelled C-H.

Today we're going to explore words with the sound spelled C-H.

What sound would C-H normally make? That's right,.

But here it's making , and we're going to explore why.

Here are some words with a similar spelling pattern.

Parachute.

Brochure.

A brochure is like a leaflet.

Chef.

Okay, let's look at the etymology.

The origin of these words.

The word in green has the spelling that we already know of the sound.

Spelled S-H, as in shadow.

The other two words on the board, brochure and chef have this new spelling of the sound, C-H.

Let's have a look.

Shadow is a noun and it originates from middle English and old English.

Have a look at those spellings on the board of shadow in middle English and shadow in old English.

Okay, how about the other two words on the board? I wonder what that etymology is.

Brochure.

Brochure is also a noun, but it originates from French.

Have a look at the spelling.

The C-H makes the sound.

Have a look at another example.

Chef.

Chef is a noun and it originates from French.

So words with the sound spelled C-H originate from French.

That's why they're spelled in this way.

What have we learnt so far? Words that contain the sound spelled C-H, often originate from.

Pause if you need to and complete the sentence.

Okay, let's have a look.

Words that contain the sound spelled C-H often originate from French.

This is why English is so incredibly interesting and why spelling is so interesting.

Once we begin to realise that there's a reason why words are spelled a certain way, the spelling of English words stopped being so random.

But we have to be able to spot the patterns and analogies between words and etymology helps us with that.

So, C-H isn't a random spelling of the sound.

It exists in words that originate from French.

Okay, I wonder if there are any other words in our English language that originate from French? That's have a look.

What do these words on the board have in common? Here are the two words in blue.

Dialogue.

Intrigue.

Dialogue.

Intrigue.

The two characters were having a dialogue, a conversation.

Intrigue is suspicion of something.

There was intrigue amongst the guests.

Okay, here's your next two words.

Picturesque.

Grotesque.

Picturesque.

The town was picturesque.

It was beautiful.

Grotesque.

That mask is grotesque.

It's ugly.

What do these words have in common? Can you hear or see something in common between the blue words? Can you hear or see something in common between the pink words? Pause the video and tell the screen.

Okay, how did you get on? Let's have a look first at the blue words.

Dialogue.

Intrigue.

Can you hear the same sound in both of those words? But that sound is spelt in an unusual way.

In these words, it's spelled G-U-E.

Let's see if there's a reason.

Dialogue is a noun and it originates from old French and Latin.

Intrigue is a noun as well, and it originates to a French.

These spellings aren't random.

It's because they exist in words that originate from French.

How about the second set? Picturesque.

Grotesque.

Could you hear a sound in common? Can you see a spelling in common? Picturesque.

Grotesque.

Yes, the sound.

But here it's spelt an unusual way.

Q-U-E.

Let's explore.

These words are both adjectives, that's they're world class.

And they both originate from French.

That's why this spelling exists.

So what have we learnt so far? We have three sounds on the board that we've explored.

and Can you remember the unusual spellings of these sounds in words that originate from French? Pause and write down your ideas.

Okay, should we have a look? The was spelled G-U-E.

Well done.

Like dialogue.

How about spelled Q-U-E, like in picturesque.

And spelled C-H like in chef.

Well done.

I hope you're finding this interesting.

I love this learning.

Shall we explore some more? What do these words have in common? Character.

Kick.

Technology.

Cross.

Listen one more time.

Character.

The actor played an interesting character.

Kick.

Technology.

My mobile phone is a good piece of technology.

Cross.

What sounds might they have in common? Do they have any spellings in common? Off you go.

Okay, shall we have a look? These words all have a particular sound in common.

It was the sound , well done.

Have a look at kick and cross.

Those are our easiest examples.

Here there are spellings of the sound that I recognise.

A K, a C-K, often at the end of a word, and a C.

A hard C making the sound.

How about in character and technology? Which letters were making the sound here? The sound here is formed by C-H.

At the beginning of the word in character and halfway through the word in technology.

Okay, let's have a look at this particular spelling in more detail.

Here's another word which follows the same pattern.

Echo.

And chemist.

Look.

Before we had the C-H spelling making the sound.

As in brochure.

These words came from French.

Here is the C-H spelling making a different sound.

A sound.

I wonder where these words originate from? What's their etymology? Let's have a look at these words in more detail.

Kick with a K and the C-K making the sound.

This is a noun and it originates from middle English.

With a K spelling.

Let's have a look at the other two.

Character and technology.

They're both nouns but they originate from Greek.

Character was an engraving tool.

Think about the meaning of that word, character.

Character is your personality, the traits which are engraved onto you.

Have a look at that word, technology.

Again, it's origin is Greek.

That's where the C-H spelling of the sound comes from.

So what have we learnt so far? Words that contain the sound spelled C-H, often originate from.

Pause the video and have a go.

Yes, here are words that contain the sound spelled C-H often originate from Greek.

Well done.

What do these words have in common? I wonder what language they might originate from.

Listen here.

Catastrophe.

A catastrophe is a disaster, often a sudden disaster.

Phenomenon.

A phenomenon is a fact or something that you can observe, but something which often has an uncertain cause.

Catastrophe.

Phenomenon.

What sound or what spelling might they have in common? Pause and tell the screen.

Okay, should we have a look? They should have the sound in common.

Let's listen.

Catastrophe.

Phenomenon.

Yes, they have the spelling in common.

Here it's spelt P-H.

This spelling isn't random.

It exists because these words originate from a different language.

These words are both adjectives, describing words.

And they come from Greek.

Have a look at the spellings in the examples.

These spellings in Greek have a P-H.

So when they came to the English language, they kept that spelling.

P-H sounding like.

So, so far we have the sound spelled C-H often originating from Greek.

And we have the sound spelled P-H often originating from Greek.

How about these last two words? What do these words have in common? Scissors.

Scientist.

There might be a sound that you can here in common.

I wonder if there's a spelling that you can see in common.

Pause and tell the screen.

Okay, should we have a look? Hopefully you could hear that both of these words had the sound in common.

Scissors.

Scientist.

And here they have a spelling in common, an unusual spelling of the sound.

It was S-C.

Again, this isn't random.

That spelling exists because these words originate from another language.

And that's what makes English challenging to spell but so interesting to learn.

So these words are nouns and they originate from Latin.

Okay, let's set our spelling words.

I'll read each word twice and I'll put it within a sentence to help you understand its meaning.

You can then pause the video and take the time that you need to copy this word down accurately.

Be really attentive to the spelling.

You don't want to copy the word wrongly and end up learning the wrong spelling of these words.

Number one.

Character.

My character is my personality.

The traits I have.

Number two.

Technology.

My computer is a piece of technology.

Pause the video if you need to.

Give yourself as much time as you need to copy down these words.

Number three.

Brochure.

I read the brochure about the town.

Number four.

Catastrophe.

Catastrophe, Climate change is a catastrophe.

Pause the video if you need to.

Number five.

Phenomenon.

UFO sightings are a mysterious phenomenon.

Copy and pause.

Number six.

Dialogue.

There was a dialogue between two characters.

Dialogue means conversation.

Copy and pause.

Number seven.

Picturesque.

The scenery was picturesque.

Copy and pause.

Grotesque.

That mask is grotesque.

Copy and pause.

Scissors.

Number nine, scissors.

Be careful carrying scissors.

Copy and pause.

Number 10.

Scientist.

I am learning about an important scientist.

Copy and pause the video.

Take as much time as you need now to double check that all of your spellings have been written accurately.

Okay, well done for your hard work during the session.

You finished your lesson.

I have loved teaching you.

I hope you've enjoyed it too.

See you next time.

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