6 Minute Vocabulary - Adjectives ending with -ic and -ical

This is the BBC . This podcast is supported by advertising outside the . This is a download from BBC Learning English to find out more , visit our website . Six minutes from BBC Learning English dot com . Hello , I'm Catherine , and this is Rob . Yes , hello and welcome to Six Minute Vocabulary . Today , we're talking about adjectives that end in pronounced and adjectives , the end pronounced . First , let's listen to Hannah . She's talking about her favorite books . Our question today is why does Hannah get most of her books from the library ? Listen carefully and find out . I'm always reading . I like classic English novels by writers like Jane Austen or Charles Dickens . I also like nonfiction , especially books about interesting historical characters . I love buying books , but it's so expensive . Mostly I borrow books from the library . It's much more economical . So why does Hannah prefer to get her books from the library ? Because it's more economical . Hannah mentioned that she likes to read novels . Do you remember what type of novels she likes to read ? Listen , once again , I like classic English novels by writers like Jane Austen or Charles Dickens . Hannah said she likes to read classic novels and the word classic ends . And I see it's an adjective that describes something that's a particularly good example of a category or a particularly famous example . So novels by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens are classic because they're particularly good and very famous examples of novels , and they've been popular for a long time . So we could say they've stood the test of time exactly a bit like you wrote . Thank you . You're welcome . But be careful because people often confuse classic with another adjective , classical , now classical . And again , I see a has a slightly different meaning . It describes a formal and often quite old style of art in form such as painting , theatre , architecture and so on . Question for you , Rob , do you like classical music ? Oh , occasionally . But I do find it a bit heavy going a bit much as it sometimes seems more of a Beyoncé . Yes , that's me . Okay , so let's listen again to another clip . I also like non-fiction , especially books about interesting historical characters . Historical is another . I see L.A. and it means connected to stories about the past . So Rob , a historical character that you particularly identify with as a hard one . But I'd say Captain Cook , he to travel and he went around the world discovering new places , which is something I like to do . You do identify with him ? Yes . Okay , well , moving on now , the I see a. . Historic has a slightly different meaning . It describes something important or something that people will remember for a long time . So if something really important and amazing happens today , we'll say today is a historic day like the day Newcastle United wins the European Cup . Rob ? Okay . In your dreams , I think well , maybe . But if it ever happened , it would be a historic day . Yeah . Now , a quick pronunciation tip for you . We pronounce historic and historical with the stress on the same syllable , in both words , the talk . And it's the same with classic and classical . In both words . The stress is on the same syllable this time . So historic . Historical , classic . Classical . Yeah . Now listen again to one more clip . Mostly , I borrow books from the library . It's much more economical , so we use the adjective economical or as some people say , economical with I see a L when something is cheap or good value for money . But the adjective economic with has a different meaning . Economic means connected to the subject of money and finance . So we might say the bus is more economical than the train and we would say the country has economic problems , listening to BBC , learning English dotcom and we're talking about adjectives that end in and echo like economic and economical . And now it's time for a little quiz . Listen to this then answer question one . Question one , was that an example of classic music or was it classical music , it was classical music . Not too much for Europe . enough . Just enough . OK , question two , if you watch a film about the past , is it a historic film or a historical film ? It's a historical film . Last question . If you read the news about business and the financial markets , are you reading the economic news or the economical news ? And that's the economic news and that's the end of the quiz world . Yes , well done . Finally , here's a piece of vocabulary . Learning advice , learning vocabulary alone is OK , but it's often more effective to work together with a study partner , find someone who's learning English , get together regularly and give each other vocabulary tests . There's more about this Learning English dot com . Join us again soon for more six minute vocabulary by .