Lesson video

Hi everyone, it's Miss Van Vliet here again for another grammar lesson and today, your lesson's all about ENPs or you might call them expanded noun phrases so we're going to learn all about ENPs.

So when you are ready, let's start with our learning.

So our learning objectives for today is to explore expanded noun phrases and as I said, you will need exercise book or paper, a pencil and of course your brain and especially your grammar brain so if you need to pause the video now and go and get those things.

Okay good so you should have everything ready and it's always a good thing to be in a nice calm quiet space so that you can concentrate.

So let's get going.

So our agenda or agenda is what we're going to do so our agenda for today is that we are going to do a warm up.

We're going to think about what is an ENP and then we're going to think about other ways that we can have expanded noun phrases and then you have a task.

Okay so for the warm up of course I want you to have another think about word class and can you remember which one is which? So take a moment and pause the video and just identify each word class definition so do that now please.

Okay let's check if you've got it.

So a noun is a P,P,T a person, place or thing, your turn, good.

An adjectives describes a word, tell us what it's like, you're turn.

A verb is a doing or a being word, if you do it or you are it then the word is a verb, your turn.

An adverb describes a verb, it often ends in -ly.

I didn't really have a wrap for the last one but a preposition is a word that tells you where or when something is in relation to something else, you're turn.

Okay, let's move on.

So for this task, I'd like you to sort the words into the correct word class box.

So wealthy, what type of word is wealthy? It's an adjective so put it in the adjective box.

So pause the video and do that now.

Okay, so let's have a look and see if you got the same answers as me.

So, a victim is a noun.

A pickpocket is a noun, it's describing someone who pickpockets and cobblestones are nouns cause it's the type of stones that we use to use lots in, to put on our roads.

Adjectives, wealth is an adjective so the wealthy victim and sly is an adjective, the sly pickpockets, so it's describing the two nouns there.

Browsing is a verb when you're browsing through books so you're browsing the internet nowadays, you're doing that.

The adverbs, silently, silently browsing would mean you do it really quietly and covertly, what's the word mean? Do you know what it means, covertly Covertly, is when you're doing something without being seen and you're like hiding and you're being covert, it's like you're not being noticed and then prepositions in and on, well done.

Right, so then what is an ENP? Let's have a look.

Okay so this is Oliver and he is a character in the story 'Oliver Twist' that was originally written by Charles Dickens and has been made into lots of different films and this unit has been about Oliver Twist but don't worry if you haven't done the whole unit and you've just been asked to do this grammar lesson cause you can still do everything by just looking at the pictures.

So Oliver, there he is.

What I'd like you to do is to come up with some words to describe Oliver.

So if you're thinking of describing words, you're thinking of adjectives.

So I'd like you to pause the video and to write down some words, some adjectives sorry that describe Oliver.

So do that now.

Okay so don't worry if you weren't entirely sure because if you haven't done the rest of it, it doesn't matter at all and so here's some words and I came up with so we have shy, timid, timid is someone who's timid is, it's a bit like shy.

It's when you're a bit quiet and you're timid, you are not like an overbearing person who wants to make a statement, you are a bit more you know reserved so timid and then naive, naive and naive means when you kind of lack experience or wisdom so someone who's naive, might say like a silly thing and people go, "Oh didn't you know," and they just didn't know so it's a way of describing a lack of experience in some ways and then innocent.

So we've got shy, timid, naive and innocent.

Good, okay so here I've come up with my ENP, I've said the naive, timid Oliver so do you see that I have got my adjective, adjective noun and that whole phrase is my expanded noun phrase.

So the naive, timid Oliver is my expanded noun phrase or what I like to say ENP.

So I don't have to say expand noun phrase cause it's quite a lot to say in your mouth.

So my ENP and my ENP is my adjective, adjective noun.

That's what we use and we think about adjective, adjective noun.

So why do we call it an expanded noun phrase? Well a phrase a group of words that are connected.

In an expanded noun phrase they expand the noun so the words are all connected around the noun and it's a phrase so does a phrase have a verb? Thumbs up or thumbs down, a phrase have a verb? No, a phrase does not have a verb so in my expanded noun phrase I don't have a verb.

Okay, so here's another picture and again it's from that film 'Oliver Twist' but if you haven't seen it, you can just describe it and come up with some adjectives for this picture.

So I'd like you to pause the video and to write down sorry, some adjectives to describe that picture Okay, so hopefully you have written down some adjectives.

Here are some I came up with.

Ravenous, when you're ravenous you are really hungry.

Devious, devious is like when you are clever in a like a sly way and overworked when you've worked too hard.

So what do you think I'm going to do? Yeah I'm going to put these words and I'm going to make it into an ENP.

Oh some a few more sorry.

I've got bitter or bitter is when you're like angry negatively and abandoned is when you've been left behind.

Okay so now what do you think I'm going to do, put them into an ENP of course.

So remember adjective, adjective noun.

The ravenous, devious children so they're ravenous, devious children.

Ravenous, adjective, devious, adjective, children noun.

The overworked, bitter children.

So the overworked, bitter children.

Overworked, adjective, bitter adjective, children noun.

Okay, so now I'd like you to come up with some adjectives for this picture.

So again if you haven't seen a clip, don't worry just to see, describe what you can see come up with some words, some adjectives that describe this scene.

So pause the video and do that now.

Okay so you should have written down some words.

Here are some words that I came up with, so hungry, gloomy, vast, anxious, ragged.

Now what I'd like you to do is to put those words in the adjectives that you used and to make them into ENPs.

So pause the video and do that.

Oh before you do that though quick reminder, use two adjectives to describe the same noun.

Okay, so pause the video and do this task now.

Okay so let's just sink and here's an example I came up with and it was the hungry, vast children.

Does that make sense? Give me thumbs up or a thumbs down.

Hungry, vast children, thumbs up or thumbs down? What do you think? Well, hungry, vast children so I've got adjective, adjective noun.

Some I'm quite happy with that.

That's what I said right? I said adjective, adjective noun.

That sounds a bit weird.

Something's not quite right.

What do you think it is? Of course hungry and vast are describing two different nouns.

The hungry children, the vast table and I've put them together.

So does it make sense? Thumbs down.

That does not make sense.

I've used two of my adjectives but I'm describing two different nouns and it doesn't work.

Does now this make sense? Thumbs up or thumbs down? What do you think? Hungry, anxious children.

What do you think? Hungry? Yeah coma? Yeah anxious, coma sorry not coma, hungry, anxious children so I've got hungry adjective, anxious as an adjective, children is a noun so I'm happy with the setup and the hungry children and the anxious children so yes I am happy with this ENP because the two adjectives are both describing the same noun.

It makes sense.

Okay, what I'd like you to do now is to check that the ENPs that you made all makes sense.

So make sure that you've used ambitious language and remember to use two adjectives to describe the same noun.

So pause the video and complete the task.

Okay, well done.

So I hope you have in front of you now, some ENPs that describe that scene of children eating in the dining hall.

Okay so we've got expanded noun phrases that are ENPs but we're going to look at something else and that is that ENPs can also be used to create extra prepositional detail about the noun.

Prepositional is where or when something is in relation to something else.

So we could have a sentence like this, the tall girl by the wall was eating a sandwich.

The tall girl by the wall was eating a sandwich, with a tall girl by the wall is my entire expanded noun phrase.

All of that information is about the noun girl.

So it's the tall girl by the wall.

So we can expand our ENPs and not just have adjective, adjective noun but we can also use some prepositional detail.

So saying where or when something is in relation to something else.

Okay so ENPs can be used to create that extra zip extra sorry propositional detail about the noun.

So here's an example I came up with, the timid, hungry boy in the middle of the room looked around the hall nervously.

Where is my entire ENP now, my entire expanded noun phrase.

Have a little look, have a little think.

Pause the video and identify the entire expanded noun phrase so do that now please.

Are you ready? Just have a look and see what it is so here you go.

The timid, hungry boy in the middle of the room looked around the hall nervously.

So that entire bit there that I put in blue in bold blue is the expanded noun phrase, all of that is telling me information about that noun the boy.

So rather than saying the boy looked around the hall nervously, we've made our writing so much more ambitious and so much more exciting and that is ultimately the purpose of writing is to make it really good for the reader.

We want to excite our reader and so this, the timid, hungry boy in the middle of the room looked around the hall nervously, is much more exciting to read than the boy looked around the hall nervously.

So that's why we think about putting in ENPs.

So remember we've got adjective, adjective noun or if we want to but we don't always have to do this we can add in some prepositional phrases.

So showing where or when the noun is.

Quite tricky though to add the extra prepositional phrases.

There we go.

All clear, take a snapshot picture.

So your task now is to add a prepositional phrase to the ENPs that you wrote for this picture just before.

So remember your ENPs are adjective, adjective noun.

Now I'd like you to add a prepositional phrase.

So for example, so you could have an example like this so the vast, wooden table in the middle of the prison-like hall.

So you don't need to write the whole sentence, just adding the prepositional phrase but I just wanted to show you my examples as it might help you.

So the whole phrase there is my expanded noun phrase and then of course we've got the sad, shy boy in the middle of the table glanced around nervously.

Now remember it's an ENP would be the prepositional phrase so does that mean it would have a verb? No it cannot have a verb cause then it wouldn't be a phrase anymore.

So always check where you stop with your ENP because you don't want to be underlining or adding in verbs.

So the sad, shy boy in the middle of the table, there's no verb there.

Vast wooden table in the middle of the prison-like hall, there's no verb there.

So try and add some prepositional phrases to the ENPS that you made but I am aware it's really tricky so don't worry if you're struggling, it's okay.

Just keep it in mind for when you are doing your next bit of writing but you can do that.

You now know that an ENP is an adjective, adjective noun and you're doing that to make your writing more ambitious and exciting, really inspiring the reader and it also helps the reader to create an image you know when you have your eyes closed and someone's reading out loud to you and you can just picture what's happening, that's what you want to do with your writing and ENPs can really add to that.

So I'd like you to try this task now, give it a go.

That is the end of today's lesson on ENPs.

Keep it in mind that you can use your ENPs to make writing really ambitious and really exciting and that is of course the purpose cause that's what you want to do, you want the reader to be excited by your writing.

Fantastic job and I look forward to seeing you soon again, bye everyone.