--- title: Words to know, Years 5–6 (the statutory list, by idea) — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Words to know, Years 5–6 (the statutory list, by idea)», a lesson of the english course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The Years 5–6 list in England has about 100 harder words: accommodate, ancient, conscience, desperate, embarrass, n --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/14-words-to-know-years-5-6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / Words to know, Years 5–6 (the statutor… # Words to know, Years 5–6 (the statutory list, by idea) Lesson 14 of the english course of Mova's primary school: 19 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/14-words-to-know-years-5-6/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/14-words-to-know-years-5-6/0/) — The Years 5–6 list in England has about 100 harder words: accommodate, ancient, conscience, desperate, embarrass, necessary, privilege, rhythm, sincerely, sufficient, temperature and more. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/14-words-to-know-years-5-6/1/) — Many come from Latin, Greek or French, and grown-ups misspell them too. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/14-words-to-know-years-5-6/2/) — The way in is the same as before: find the tricky bit, group words that share it, and give it a story. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/14-words-to-know-years-5-6/3/) — Double letters are the classic trap. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/14-words-to-know-years-5-6/6/) — «Necessary» has one collar and two sleeves: one c, two s's. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/14-words-to-know-years-5-6/8/) — Some words hide letters that fast speech drops. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/14-words-to-know-years-5-6/10/) — Saying the word slowly, in parts, keeps every letter. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/14-words-to-know-years-5-6/12/) — In British English some pairs split by job. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/14-words-to-know-years-5-6/13/) — Advice and practice (with c) are nouns, things; advise and practise (with s) are verbs, doing words: «Take my advice; I advise you to practise». - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/14-words-to-know-years-5-6/14/) — A trick: ice is a noun. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/14-words-to-know-years-5-6/15/) — American English uses «practice» for both. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/14-words-to-know-years-5-6/17/) — These words live in letters and formal writing. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/14-words-to-know-years-5-6/18/) — A polite letter ending «Yours sincerely» that suggests a sufficient number of chairs uses three list words at once, so writing a short letter is great practice for spelling and style together. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/14-words-to-know-years-5-6/19/) — The Years 5–6 statutory list in England has about 100 words, many from Latin, Greek or French. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/14-words-to-know-years-5-6/21/) — «Embarrass» has double r and double s. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/14-words-to-know-years-5-6/22/) — «Necessary» has one c and two s's: one collar, two sleeves. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/14-words-to-know-years-5-6/25/) — «Ancient», «conscience» and «conscious» spell a /sh/ sound with ci or sci. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/14-words-to-know-years-5-6/27/) — In British English «advice» and «practice» are nouns, «advise» and «practise» are verbs; American English uses «practice» for both. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/14-words-to-know-years-5-6/29/) — Many list words, such as «sincerely», «suggest» and «sufficient», are common in letters and formal writing. - ← previous: [Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/13-words-to-know-years-3-4/) - next →: [How to learn spellings that stick](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/) - ↑ back to [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/)