Hello and welcome to the six month vocabulary.

I'm Catherine and I'm Finn now make sure you pay attention because we have a lot of information.

That's right.

And attention and information are a good introduction to the program.

They are they both end in which is the suffix we're talking about suffixes are groups of letters at the end of words which can change the form or the meaning of the word or both.

And we'll tell you about the three different ways to spell the suffix and we'll give you examples of words with all three spellings plus some tips for knowing which spelling to use.

We'll have a quiz and we'll finish with a top tip for learning vocabulary.

But first let's hear a news report about the theft of a valuable statue.

While you listen, think about this question, where was the statue from?

Here's the report.

A man was charged today following an investigation into the theft of valuable objects from the museum.

The man confessed after witnesses came forward with information and his description appeared in the newspapers.

In his confession.

He said that he had gained admission to the museum by pretending to be a security guard.

Police recovered items including a priceless venetian vase and an Egyptian statue.

So we asked you where was the statue from?

And the answer is Egypt.

It was Egyptian.

That's right and the word Egyptian has a suffix shun spelled T I A N.

And we usually find this spelling in adjectives that describe where something or someone comes from.

So the stolen Egyptian statue came from.

Egypt Exactly.

And the venetian vase came from venice.

In these examples, the suffix shen spelled T I A N, turns the noun into an adjective.

And these adjectives are often written with a capital letter because they come from proper nouns.

Now another example is martian and Martians come from mars.

I suppose they do.

Let's listen to another clip with more words that end in sh um see if you can spot them.

A man was charged today following an investigation into the theft of valuable objects from the museum.

The man confessed after witnesses came forward with information and his description appeared in the newspapers.

So we had three words ending in Cheyenne investigation description and information.

Now here the shen at the end is spelled T I O N.

This is the most usual spelling for Schenn.

And words with shun spelled T I O N announce.

They usually come from verbs.

So the word investigation comes from the verb investigate.

The word description comes from describe and the word information comes from the verb inform.

There are many words with this spelling of shen.

We told you to pay attention at the start of the program.

And there are other words like addition, subtraction, accommodation, population, many, many more.

So that's words with the suffix shun spelt T I O N and T I A N.

Now let's look at a third spelling of the suffix shen S I O N.

And here they are.

In another clip in his confession he said that he had gained admission to the museum by pretending to be a security guard.

So we had confession and admission.

Yes.

Now ones with the ending shun spelled S I O N are often based on words ending in or mitt like confession from confess expression from express discussion from discuss admission from admit and permission from permit.

You're listening to BBC learning english and we're talking about the suffix show we can spell it in three different ways.

There's T I A.

N.

As in Egyptian or venetian.

These are adjectives which indicates someone or something's origin or we can spell it S.

I.

O.

N.

And these words are nouns and often based on verbs ending in s like discussion from discuss or verbs ending in T like permission from permit and finally the most common spelling T I O N.

As announced like information and ambition, ambition.

Yes Katherine.

Do you have a secret ambition?

I have an ambition.

It's not so secret.

But I would love to go to africa on a safari.

What about you?

Finn?

Oh yes!

Travel as well.

I'd love to travel through south America one day.

I hope you get to do it.

Thank you quite soon.

Yes.

Now it's time for a quiz.

What is the correct spelling for the ending of these words?

Is it T I O N.

S I O N or T I A N.

Ready?

Okay number one Egyptian.

Egyptian is T I A N.

Good.

Number two permission permission S I O N and number three attention, attention ends with the suffix shin spelt t I O N.

Fantastic.

And that's the end of the quiz.

Well done if you got them right and now here's a top tip for learning vocabulary to help you learn new words, try linking them into a story.

Now this can really help you remember their meaning top tip and there's more about this at BBC Learning english dot com, join us again for more six minute vocabulary by six minutes from BBC Learning English.