Lesson video

Hello and welcome to the spelling lesson, I'm Mr. Marsh.

In this lesson we are going to practise and apply the knowledge that we gained in the last lesson about the suffix I-A-L.

Now, if you haven't watched that lesson, what I want you to do now is I want you to pause this video and go back and watch that lesson.

That lesson is lesson two of 10.

Okay, if you have watched that lesson though, then we're ready to begin.

Let's make a start.

Now, before we begin the lesson, let's just have a quick look at the agenda for the lesson.

We're going to start off by just reminding ourselves of some of the key vocabulary that's useful to know, to help us to understand the rules that we established in the last lesson.

Then we're going to recap those rules, and we're going to have a look at the spelling words from the last lesson.

And then going to move on to look at some of the exceptions, to the rules that we found in the last lesson.

Now, exceptions means things that don't follow the rules.

We then going to look at learning a new spelling practise strategy, 'cause it's great to have strategies for when we practise, 'cause that really helps us learn new words.

And then finally, at the end of the lesson, we are going to do a test on the words that we set in the last lesson.

If you haven't already got an exercise book or some paper, a pen or a pencil and a bit like I was five minutes ago, if your brain is not quite switched on yet, then I would like to pause the video now and make sure you've got those things before we start.

Okay, first thing we're going to do in this lesson is look at some key vocabulary.

My turn, your turn.

Suffix, your turn.

So suffix is a group of letters.

So the one that we're looking at is I-A-L at the end of a word that change it's meaning.

Vowel, your turn.

Now I'm sure you're really familiar, and it's just revision for Mr. Marsh telling you A, E, I, O and U are the vowels.

And you might remember in the last lesson that I told you is that every word in English language has to have at least one vowel.

But then I told you about the word sky, S-K-Y.

Now sometimes the letter Y acts like a vowel, but it's not actually a vowel.

It comes under that next piece of key vocabulary that we've got, consonant, your turn.

So a consonant is all the other letters in the alphabet, apart from A, E, I, O and U.

Okay, we've recapped our key vocabulary.

And that key vocabulary really helped us to understand the rules that we established in our investigation in the last lesson.

So let's recap those rules now, and look at the spelling words that we set.

So what we investigated last time, are words that have the suffix I-A-L at the end.

But have the shul sound at the end.

So we had special, your turn, social, your turn, potential, your turn, essential, your turn.

Okay, so they, all of those words have a shul sound at the end of the word.

But they have also containing I-A-L suffix.

And the shul sound has two spellings, C-I-A-L or T-I-A-L.

And that's what we looked at and investigated and set rules for last time.

lets focus again on C-I-A-L to start with, and let's see how much you can remember.

Pause the video, can you remember the rule that we established for C-I-A-L using the I-A-L suffix? Okay, pause the video now, have a think back to the last lesson.

Okay, now you may or may not remember, so I've given you a bit of a clue.

I have put two arrows pointing to two letters in the word beneficial and antisocial.

Maybe that helps you remember what the rule was, for when you used the C-I-A-L to make the shul sound at the end of a word.

I want you to think again, think about our key vocabulary that we've just gone over.

Can you complete this sentence? If the letter two letters before the suffix I-A-L is a then C-I-A-L is often used.

Pause the video, have a think.

Okay, what did you notice? Did the two arrows give you a clue? They're pointing at I and O.

What are I and O, I and O are vowels, aren't they? So if the letter two letters before the suffix I-A-L is a vowel, then we use C-I-A-L.

We use that if the word often there.

So it's mostly that we use C-I-A-L.

Okay, here are two words, superficial and superfitial they both the same word, but only one of them is spelled correctly.

I would like you to think about the rule that we've just learned and think hmm, that's the correct spelling.

Okay, think about the rule we've just been recapping, pause the video for me now.

Okay, how did you get on? Remember the rule is that, if the letter two letters before the suffix I-A-L is a vowel, then we use C-I-A-L to make the shul sound, or we often use it.

So again, have a think which of these then is the correct spelling of superficial.

Is that one, because we have an I two letters before the suffix I-A-L.

So we use C-I-A-L to make the shul sound.

Now superficial, I'll explain what that means to you.

I think we sort of looked at it a bit in the last lesson.

But superficial means something on the outside.

So you might talk about a building has got some superficial damage, means it's got damage on the outside of the building, but maybe there's no damage on the inside of the building.

Okay.

We're now going to have a look at words that are spelled T-I-A-L to make the shul sound at the end of the word.

Can you remember what the rule was for when we use T-I-A-L? Have a think.

I've done it again, I put a couple of arrows there to try and help you.

Here's that sentence.

If the letter two letters before the suffix I-A-L is a then T-I-A-L is often used to make the shul sound.

What do you notice about those letters that the arrows are pointing to.

Think back to our key vocabulary earlier in the lesson.

They're consonants, aren't they? So if the letter two letters before the suffix I-A-L is a consonant, then we often use T-I-A-L at the end of the word to make that shul sound.

So I've highlighted the letter two letters before the suffix I-A-L.

And in both of these words, substantial, influential is the letter N, and N is a consonant.

So recap, we use T-I-A-L for the shul sound, if the letter two letters before the suffix I-A-L is a consonant.

Okay, here's the word preferential, your turn.

I talk about someone having preferential treatment, so they kind of get special treatment.

Now, thinking back to our rule, which of these do you think is the correct spelling of preferential? Thinking about vowels and consonants two letters before the I-A-L suffix, pause the video, have a think.

Okay, so remember that was our rule, if the letter two letters before the suffix I-A-L is a consonant then we use T-I-A-L.

Have a look in each of these words, what letter is two letters before the suffix I-A-L? It's a consonant, isn't it? So that means that we use T-I-A-L here for preferential, because the letter N is two letters before the suffix I-A-L.

Okay, two sentences for you to fill out.

If the letter two letters for the suffix I-A-L is a mmhm then we use T-I-A-L.

Where as if the letter two letter before the suffix I-A-L is a mmhm then we use C-I-A-L.

Pause the video, you need to insert consonant or vowel into those sentences.

Okay, off you go.

How did he get on? Well, if you use, if we're going to use T-I-A-L often use it, then it has a consonant, two letters before the suffix.

But if the letter two letter before the suffix I-A-L is a vowel, then we use C-I-A-L for that shul sound.

Okay, so quick recap about the words that we set in the last lesson.

Let's do my turn, your turn.

Beneficial.

Official.

Artificial, now remember artificial might talk about artificial grass or something, that's like fake grass, not real.

Superficial.

Crucial.

Torrential.

Remember we talk about torrential rain, so rain it's so heavy, that when it's coming down it just bounces back off the pavement.

Influential.

Confidential.

Partial.

And potential.

Okay, great.

Those were our 10 spelling words that we set in the last lesson that follow the two rules that we've just been recapping.

Now, sometimes there are exceptions to the rules.

So we have those two rules and they're great because that means they help us in most circumstances, no most situations know how to spell words that have the shul sound at the end, but there are some exceptions and we're going to look at those now.

So I'm going to say a word, and I want you to repeat it after me.

Initial, your turn.

Palatial, your turn.

So initial, it means something happens at the start.

So it might be the your initial response.

So it might be your first response.

And palatial, well palatial has got like the word, almost the word palace in it.

So you might talk about a house being palatial, which means that a really extravagant house with lots of amazing features.

Now, these two words are exceptions to the rules that we have been looking at.

I want you to pause the video.

Can you tell me why there are exceptions to the rules? Off you go.

Remember, this was our rule.

If the letter two letters before the suffix I-A-L is a consonant then T-I-A-L is often used.

So both initial and palatial use T-I-A-L but why do they not follow this rule? Well, they don't follow the rule because they have a vowel two letters before the suffix.

They have the vowels I and A.

So they are exception to the rule here.

Here are three more words for you.

Financial, commercial, provincial.

So the word provincial.

So you might think of a province like an area.

So often we think about provincial area, maybe being somewhere outside of a city.

You might talk about commercials, it has something to do with the word commerce.

So, or you might have a TV commercial, or things that you would like money and maybe selling things.

And that's where financial comes in, we talk about finance.

Now, again, these are all exceptions to the rule that we learned.

They use C-I-A-L to make the shul sound.

Can you pause the video and tell me why you think there are exceptions to our rules? Okay, off you go.

Okay, what did you notice? Well remember the rule that we set for using C-I-A-L is, if the letter two letters before the suffix I-A-L is a vowel, then we use C-I-A-L.

Do these words follow that rule? We'll have a look.

Are N, R, and N vowels? Hmm, no they're not, are they? A, E, I, O and U.

So financial, commercial and provincial are all exceptions to the rules that we have established.

Now, the reason we've done this is that it's great to have rules and rules help us so much when we're spelling.

But sometimes, sometimes there always the are exceptions to those rules.

But if we have rules that are the most common and the most often use, then that's great, we can use those the majority of the time.

Okay, I'm now going to teach you a spelling practise strategy.

And like I said earlier on in the lesson, it's great to have practise strategies because it means that we can be more effective when we practise.

And if we're more effective, we will learn words faster, quicker and more efficiently.

Okay, I'm going to teach you about a spending strategy called naughty letters.

And I've used that word we've talked about earlier in the lesson, artificial.

Now you can see here in artificial I've made the letter, I, or one of the letters I's, much bigger.

Now I've done that here, because we now know with the rule we're using C-I-A-L when there is a vowel two letters before the suffix I-A-L.

So if I make my vowel really obvious then I know, using my rule, which of the sounds for shul I need to use.

And another option I can do is I can put it in a different colour when I'm doing a spelling practise.

So if I make the I a different colour, it makes it really stand out.

And if I know my rules really clearly, I can then use that to help me know how to spell artificial.

And I think this is a really useful strategy because helps me interact with the word, It helps me really look at it.

I can unpick it, and I can really highlight that rule.

I can highlight the rule that if the letter two letters before the suffix I-A-L is a vowel, so I made it really big in my spelling practise, then I know that it's going to C-I-A-L.

And then it's great to use colours it makes that letter stand out even more.

So I've shown you another example, potential.

Now because the letter N is a consonant and two letters before the suffix I-A-L I've made that my naughty letter, I've made that one the one that stands out, because I know my rule is if I have a constant two letters before the suffix I-A-L then I use the T-I-A-L spelling for the sound shul.

And again, I could do that in colour, just makes it stand out even more.

So what I want you to do now, I want you to pause the video and you could do it for all of the spelling words that we had in the last lesson, but I'd like you to do at least for these four words, official, crucial, influential and confidential.

So if I was going to do the naughty letter strategy in official, I would make that first I before the C my larger naughty letter or do it in different colour.

I'd put the U before the C as my naughty letter, I would then do the N and the N in influential and confidential, but the N before the T-I-A-L.

Okay, pause the video.

Maybe you can need to come back to the video in a couple of days time, once you've had a chance to practise and use this strategy.

Okay, off you go.

Fantastic.

Now that you've had a chance to practise the spellings, we're going to do a test.

You need to make sure that you have a pen and paper, and you are ready for the test.

And ready to make sure that do your best to be somewhere quiet where you can focus for the next few minutes while we do the test.

Okay.

So what I want you to do now is I want you to write the numbers one to 10 on your paper.

I want to pause the video, make sure you've done that, and then when you're ready to start unpause the video, and we can begin the test, okay off you go.

Okay, let's now start our spelling test.

If at any point you're thinking, "Mr. Marsh you're going too fast for me "slow down and slow down." Then don't worry, we all work at different speeds, and we all write at different speeds and all think at different speeds.

So what you can do, you can pause the video at any moment or maybe after each word, if you feel you need to give yourself time to think or alternative, if you think you've missed one or you aren't sure about one word, you can always go back in the video and watch the spelling test all over again, before we mark the words.

Okay, let's make a start.

Spelling one is beneficial.

It was a beneficial outcome, beneficial.

Spelling two, is official, official So it was an official document, official.

Spending three, artificial.

It was artificial grass, artificial.

Superficial.

The damage was superficial.

Superficial.

Crucial.

That information was crucial.

Crucial.

Spelling six is torrential.

It was torrential rain, torrential.

Spelling seven was influential.

They were influential person, influential.

Spelling eight is confidential.

It was a confidential document, confidential.

Partial is spelling number nine, partial.

It was a partial reopening of the park.

Partial.

And finally, spelling number 10 is potential.

They had huge potential, potential.

Okay, like I said earlier, if you think, "Oh, that went too fast." Before we have a look at the answers, you can always go back in the video.

Might be a good idea to do that anyway, and you can listen to the words that I said, and you can check your spellings.

Always a really good thing to do is to check before we mark.

So if you want to do that, pause the video now, before we reveal the correct answers.

Okay off you go.

Okay, let's have a look and let's see how we got on.

Now Remember be honest, because actually we learn the best from making mistakes.

So if you've made the mistakes, that actually that's brilliant, because that means you can correct that mistake, and we can learn from that mistake.

So let's see, let's mark our answers.

So we had beneficial, B-E-N-E-F-I-C-I-A-L.

Official, O-F-F-I-C-I-A-L.

Artificial, A-R-T-I-F-I-C-I-A-L.

Superficial, S-U-P-E-R-F-I-C-I-A-L.

Crucial, C-R-U-C-I-A-L.

Torrential, T-O-R-R-E-N-T-I-A-L.

Influential, I-N-F-L-U-E-N-T-I-A-L.

Confidential, C-O-N-F-I-D-E-N-T-I-A-L.

Partial, P-A-R-T-I-A-L.

And potential P-O-T-E-N-T-I-A-L.

Again, if you got any of those wrong, then you want to pause the video, might be a good idea to pause the video any way just to check your marking.

And if you've got an answer wrong then make sure you copy down the correct spelling for me now.

Okay.

The best thing you can do now, if you've got any of those wrong, then take them away, practise them.

'Cause I bet you next time you won't get them wrong.

But it's absolutely fine if you didn't get 10 out of 10, that's how we learn, we learn from making mistakes.

But well done and congratulations that brings us towards the end of our lesson.

That's just do a quick recap before we wrap up.

We looked at some key vocabulary, reminded ourselves of that key vocabulary, that we used when we were recapping the rules.

Then we looked at some exceptions to the rules that we established for the suffix I-A-L.

We learned that new spelling practise strategy of naughty letters, which I think is a great one in many different ways and many different words when we're practising.

Then finally we did our test and at the end.

You completed the lesson, brilliant and well done today, you've worked really, really hard.

Hope you enjoyed the lesson.

I really, really did.

I look forward to seeing you again.

Okay, bye bye.