Starter quiz
- Which word class is the word in bold in the following sentence? The villain in the story is a complicated character.
- verb
- adverb
- adjective
- noun ✓
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- Identify the adjective in the following sentence: An eerie echo bounced off the walls of the cave.
- eerie ✓
- echo
- bounced
- cave
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- Identify the words that contain the /k/ sound.
- kitten ✓
- black ✓
- chalet
- chaos ✓
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- The origin of a word tells us...
- what the word means.
- where the word originally came from. ✓
- which word class the word belongs to.
- the number of syllables in the word.
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- Identify the Greek derived spellings.
- screech
- machine
- chemist ✓
- chips
- scheme ✓
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- Correct the spellings in bold in this sentence. We can learn a new languag in the libry.
- langauge, librery
- langage, libary
- language, library ✓
- languge, libery
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Exit quiz
- Words containing the 'ph' spelling of the /f/ sound come from...
- Hindi
- French
- Greek ✓
- Germany
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- Identify the Greek derived spellings.
- phobia ✓
- rough
- fish
- telephone ✓
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- Choose the correct spelling for the word in bold in the following sentence. The climb to the top was tuph.
- touph
- tuff
- tuogh
- tough ✓
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- Choose the correct spelling for the word in bold in the following sentence: Can you come up with a catchy fraze for the poster?
- frase
- phraze
- phrase ✓
- phraise
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- Correct the spellings in bold in this sentence. The 'vearcle' sold a different 'vegeteable' every week.
- veicle, vegtible
- vehcle, vegetible
- vehicle, vegetable ✓
- vehicel, vedgetable
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- Correct the spelling in bold in this sentence. What langage does your Grandma speak?
- 'language' ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- In words of Greek origin, the letter string 'ph' makes the /f/ sound
- How to spell the curriculum words: vegetable, language, library and vehicle
- Knowing which words have Greek etymology can help us to choose the correct spelling
- Most words with the 'ph' spelling are nouns
Common misconception
Pupils will be familiar with the 'ff' and 'gh' digraph so may spell words contain 'ph' making the /f/ sound incorrectly.
Talk about the origin of words and draw links between spellings containing the 'ph' spelling sounding like the /f/ sound and where it's most likely to go in the word.
Keywords
Etymology - the study of the origin of words and the ways their meanings have changed over time
Spelling - the act of forming words by arranging letters in the correct order
Greek origin - refers to words that come from the Greek language
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