You already know the words anorak, pyjamas, bungalow and ketchup. They sound like ordinary English, but none of them started life as English words.
Today we investigate how words travel. We will notice everyday English words that came from far away, tell apart words that really match and words that only look the same, and put some borrowed words back near the places they began.
Technology words also travel. Some look related; some mean the same thing with a different shape.
Watch each pair. Show hands: same family, same idea but different word, or not sure?
No stress if you change your mind: detectives do that. You do not need to learn the foreign spellings.
Watch the Asia map on the board. Look at today's borrowed words from the start of the lesson.
Which ones belong somewhere on this Asia map, and which one does not? Help your teacher place the ones that fit, then say aloud where the odd one out began.
Great noticing if you spot which word cannot sit on this map. When a country opens, listen for which languages live there today.
Open your copy and write two words English has borrowed and where each came from.
Choose any two. Spell them carefully.
Anorak still has a suitcase sticker from Greenland. Ketchup came on a long trade journey. Both feel ordinary in English now.
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