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Hello everybody my name is Ms Butt and one of my favourite things to do is to learn new words, to expand my vocabulary.

Today, we're going to learn three new words for you to use in your BFG unit.

I hope that you enjoy today's lesson.

Okay, so in today's lesson, I'm going to introduce some new vocabulary to you.

We are going to identify some word pairs and some synonyms, and we'll talk about what they are in a minute.

And we are going to then have a go at applying these new words in sentences.

In today's lesson, you are going to need some paper or an exercise book, a pencil, or a pen and your brains.

You can pause the video now, if you need to go and get any of those things.

Okay, so I hope that you have put away all your distractions, so you are ready to start our learning.

So today's three words we're going to learn are linked to the nighttime.

And so I want us to start having you think about the nighttime and have a little think about this question.

Why do you think it is that some people are afraid of the dark? I know I am a little bit afraid of the dark.

Why do you think that is? Pause the video and have a little think.

For me, I think the reason I'm afraid of the dark is because my imagination runs wild in the dark.

So, because I can't see what's in front of me, I start to imagine things.

Maybe that's what you thought.

Here's some key vocabulary for today.

When I do this and say a word and then point at you, I'd love you to repeat the word.

Just like I say and then you say.

Synonym, did you all join in? I hope you did.

Word pair, adjective, noun.

So let's think about what these words mean.

A synonym is a word that means exactly or nearly the same as another word.

A word pair is a word that often appears together, two words often appear together, for example, a bright sun or a bright noon or a bright light.

So the words bright and light would be a word pair because quite often, those words are said together or written together An adjective is a describing word and a noun is a person place or thing and adjectives describe nouns.

So for example, if we took a thing like a flower, and then we described it with an adjective, what could we say? The fragrant flower, the beautiful flower, the red flower, any of those would work because they are describing the noun.

Are you ready to learn our first night word? I hope you are.

Maybe you could do a drum roll.

Our first night word is in fact, I'm not going to reveal it yet.

I'm going to first of all, ask you to just look at this picture because this picture is illustrating what our first word is.

Have a look and think about what can you see? What do you notice? How do you think this character here is feeling? And what is the atmosphere like? And the atmosphere means what is the mood like in this picture? Is it happy atmosphere? Is it a frightening atmosphere? I'd like you to pause the video and have a little think about what you can see.

Okay.

So this word is eerie.

I don't think you all joined in eerie.

Eerie is an adjective.

It's a describing word.

It means weird ghostly or creepy, like a dark spooky room full of skeletons.

I can see some skeletons in that room and some cobwebs it definitely looks like an eerie room to me, not, it does not look like a room that I'd want to go into in the dark at nighttime.

So let's have a look at some words.

Now, some of these words are word pairs and some of them are synonyms. Can you remember what a synonym is? That's right.

It's a word that means nearly the same thing.

So have a look at these words, atmosphere, silence, calm, weird, light and sound.

Here is the word area in a sentence.

Sophie shivered, unable to see anything in the area darkness.

If a word is a synonym of eerie, then we should be able to replace this word eerie with one of the synonyms. So that might help you to help identify the synonyms. Could you pause the video now and see if you think any of those words are synonyms to the word eerie.

I wonder if you had a go.

So the synonym to eerie is weird.

So we might describe the darkness as eerie darkness, but we might also describe it as weird darkness.

We might have an eerie atmosphere.

or that might be a weird atmosphere.

Here are some more word pairs and synonyms ghostly, mist, uncanny.

Now uncanny means strange or mysterious.

Stillness, darkness and shadow.

If you have mist, it's kind of like fog, it makes it hard to see.

Again here's the sentence so that you can try to take out the word eerie and see if any of these words could replace it.

If it can replace it, it's probably a synonym.

Pause the video and try and identify the synonyms now.

The synonym was ghostly and uncanny, Sophie shivered and able to see anything in the ghostly darkness or unable to see anything in the uncanny darkness and uncanny again means strange or mysterious.

I wonder if you got those right? Give yourself a pat on the back for having a go That means all of these words are word pairs.

So if you see the word eerie in a book, for example, it was quite often be next.

It would be paired up with one of these words.

Perhaps we could read them together.

Are you ready? Three, two, one, and eerie, atmosphere.

Imagine what that might be like, next one an eerie silence.

How might a silence be eerie? How could a silence be spooky? Maybe if you went into a room or a crowd of people that you'd expect to be very noisy, but they weren't, perhaps that might feel eerie because it would be strange that there was no noise.

An eerie, calm, perhaps there might be an eerie calm before a storm an eerie light, an eerie sound.

I hope I don't hear any eerie sounds tonight when I'm in bed.

An eerie mist that's like fog an eerie shadow.

So Sophie might see an eerie shadow lurking outside her window.

Eerie stillness and eerie darkness.

Okay.

Well done.

We have completed our first word.

Can you remember what it means? Pause the video, use the image to help you.

What does eerie mean? Well done.

It means weird, ghostly or creepy.

Okay.

Here's our second word.

Just like before, I'm not going to reveal it yet, because first I want you to use this picture to look at some clues.

What's happening in this picture? What can you see? What do you notice? How do you think this character is feeling? And what do you think the atmosphere is like? And have a look at all the little details, like what time it is on the alarm clock and try and put all those pieces together to form an opinion of what you think is happening in this picture.

Pause the video and how to think about it now.

Okay.

So hopefully you can see that this character looks a little bit stressed out and wide awake at 3:30 in the morning, and this word is sleepless, sleepless.

Sleepless means it's another adjective.

so it's a describing word.

It means wide awake and disturbed.

Like one of those nights, when you couldn't get a wink of sleep.

Can you have a think and can you remember a time when you've ever had a sleepless night? Have a think.

I sometimes used to have sleepless nights, before, if I had an exam, when I was at university or something like that, maybe you had another example.

So let's again, take a look at these words and try to decide which of them could be synonyms. Just as before I put this word sleepless in a sentence.

So if it's a synonym, we should be able to replace the word sleepless with one of these words.

Let's read the words.

Night hours, wakeful, disturbed, restless journey, city and evening.

Wakeful means that you are unable to sleep and restless in you're really fidgeting and you can't rest.

We can see those at suffixes full and less, which give us a bit of a clue about what those words might mean.

So I'd like you to pause the video and have a think about which of these words could be a synonym to the word sleepless.

Okay.

Let's see if you are right.

So the synonyms are wakeful, disturbed and restless.

I wonder people those words right.

Here are the word pairs.

And let's again, let's try and say these together.

So maybe you might have a sleepless night.

Perhaps you might have some sleepless hours.

Maybe you might be on a sleepless journey.

I've definitely had long car journeys where I've been trying to have a sleep in the back of the car, but I have not been able to get to sleep.

You might have a sleepless city.

Hmm.

That's a strange one.

How could a city, which is an object be sleepless? What do you think? Do you think it could be, due to do with something about people in the city and the lights? And everything's been wide awake all night, maybe.

And finally we had a sleep less evening.

Okay.

So just like before, have a look at the picture.

Can you remember what does the word sleepless mean? Pause the video.

See if you can tell me.

Well done.

It means that you're wide awake and disturbed.

When you cannot sleep all night.

Here's our third word.

Let's have a look at the picture.

This is our final word we're learning today.

This a very different picture and you might wonder how it's linked to the nighttime.

We're going to think about that in a minute.

First of all, what's happening here? What can you see? What do you notice? How is this character feeling and what is the atmosphere? Pause the video and have a think about that now.

Okay.

This word is silvery silvery.

Silvery is another adjective.

That means we've learned three adjectives today and they were, what was the first one? Eerie and the second one was? Sleepless, and now this one is? Silvery three adjectives.

Silvery means grey and sparkling, like an old woman's hair on a frosty morning.

How could silvery be used to describe the nighttime then, what might cast silvery light or silvery shadows.

That's right, the moon, the moon might make things look silvery at nighttime, especially if there was a full moon.

I wonder if when Sophie was asleep in her dormitory, if there was a full moon that night, when the BFG visited her, let's have synonyms and word pairs, see if you can spot the synonyms. Just like before, here's a sentence.

The silvery moon light reflected in the giant's eyes, as he stepped out into the night.

Have a look at these words and see if you can spot the synonyms. Pause the video and have a go at that now.

We've got grey, frost, silver-colored, white and hair.

Let's see if you've got the answer right.

grey and silver-colored and white three synonyms. So we could have said the grey moon night, the silver-colored moon light, or the white moon light.

We couldn't say that frost moon light or the hair moon light that tells me they can't be synonyms. They can't mean the same thing or nearly the same thing.

That means the rest, are word pairs.

And here's another set of words.

Sparkling, moon light, sheen, shimmer and glow.

And a shimmer, the sheen sorry, is like a shine that you might get off a surface.

So again, here's this word in a sentence.

Which of these words do you think are synonyms. Pause the video and have a think about that now.

Okay.

So the synonyms were sparkling and shimmer.

I wonder if you got those right.

Let's have a look now at all the other words, which means that they are all word pairs.

That means if you saw the word silvery in a book, it would most likely be with one of these words.

Let's read these together.

Silvery frost.

I love those mornings, where there's a silvery frost outside.

Silvery hair, silvery moon night, that's I think going to be the best word pair to use in our BFG writing.

Silvery glow.

That sounds lovely.

A silvery glow from the moon and finally a silvery sheen, which is like when a surface shines.

Wow, we've learned three new words you guys have done so well.

Can you remember which picture matches with which word? Sleepless, eerie and silvery have a look at the pictures, pause the video and see if you can remember which word matches which image.

Let's see if you were right.

So the first one is eerie a bit spooky.

The second one is silvery and the third one is wide awake.

Sleepless.

Well done.

Going to get a bit trickier now, are you ready? Now, I'm going to have the definitions up.

So you've got grey and sparkling, wide awake and disturbed and weird and ghostly and creepy, which definition matches which word, pause the video and how to think about that now.

Well done.

Let's see if you were right.

Eerie is weird and ghostly and creepy, silvery is grey and sparkling and sleepless means wide awake.

Well done to finish off today, we're going to have a look at putting these words in sentences and you're going to decide which word is the best fit.

Here are our three options.

And here is the sentence.

Let me read it to you.

Sophie had a, mm, night as she had a feeling, something that was going to happen.

It was the witching hour.

Pause the video and think which word fits best in this sentence.

Okay.

So hopefully you spotted that best fit in this sentence is Sophie had a sleepless night and that's because she felt that something was going to happen.

So she couldn't get to sleep.

Maybe you could steal that sentence or magpie.

Sometimes you call that sentence and use it in your BFG writing.

Let's take a look at another sentence There was something spooky about the moon that glowed with an, mm, light.

silvery, sleepless or eerie light.

Another big clue actually, because it says an and when we use the word an, instead of a, we know it's because the word that's following it starts with a vowel.

So that might give you a clue a vowel is A, E, I, O, U Do any of these words, start with vowel? Pause the video and have a think, the answer is eerie.

There something spooky about the moon that glowed with an eerie light.

Well done.

And the last one, the enormous giant had, mm, hair that sparkled in the moon light, silvery hair, sleepless hair or eerie hair, which one do you think it is? You're right.

The answer is silvery hair.

Well done.

I'd love it, if you could have a go at writing your own sentence, using the word eerie, and you can use the word pairs to help you.

So perhaps you might write a sentence about an eerie shadow or there being an eerie mist outside Sophie's bedroom or there being an eerie silence on the street.

So have a go now at pausing the video and making your own sentence.

And if you want, you could use this sentence scaffold, Sophie woke up and noticed a, or you could say, if you were going to go straight on to flow with the word eerie, you would say, Sophie woke up and noticed an eerie, and then you might complete that sentence.

Maybe you could even expand it.

Sophie woke up and noticed an eerie shadow that made her sit up in fright.

Could you now pause the video and have a go at writing your own sentence? I hope I get to see some of these sentences that you have written.

I'd now like you to have a go at writing another sentence.

And this time I want you to use the word sleepless, again you could use the word pairs to help you.

For example, you might describe Sophie's sleepless night, pause the video and how to go now at writing the sentence, using the word sleepless.

And finally, I'd like you to write a sentence using the word silvery.

Again, you could use these word pairs to help you.

You might describe a silvery glow or a silvery sheen that comes from the moon outside Sophie's window.

Pause the video and have a go at writing your final sentence for today's lesson.

Okay.

Lovely.

Thank you so much.

You have done such brilliant learning day, and I hope that you are excited that you now know three new words that you can not only use in your writing, but also you can use in your speech.

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