Word of the Week

audience

Meaning a group of people who have gathered to listen to performance, like a play, concert, film or meeting.

Example of using it in a sentence "The audience fell silence when the curtain went up. "

Here we have the second word with our much-used Latin root words ‘aud’ meaning “to hear” which appears in nearly every body’s spelling lists.

Spelling tip: we are going to learn this word like this. We are going to remember that it is on the ‘ence’ and not the ‘ance’ spelling list.

aud + i + ence

Use the word as many times throughout the week. This can be verbally, in your written work or listen out for other people using it.