Lesson video

Hi everyone.

How are you doing today? I hope that you're well hope you're feeling ready to learn.

This lesson is our next lesson in the Highwayman unit and it's all about practising as adverbial complex sentences, which does sound a little bit tricky, but I know how hard you work and I know how fantastic you're going to be in this lesson.

So get comfortable and get ready to learn.

In this lesson, you will need an exercise book or some paper, a pencil or a pen and your brain.

If you haven't got any of the things that you need.

It's okay you can pause the video now and I will see you in a second when you are ready.

So in today's lesson, we will start with a writing warmup, then we're going to investigate as complex sentences, then there'll be chance for you to practise writing as complex sentences and we will finish with a true or false activity and a challenge.

So for our writing warm up, it's a spelling focus.

I've got four words on the screen, and two different ways of spelling them.

But let's just quickly say them out loud and in your head you can think about which word is the correct version of the correct spelling.

So galloped midnight, desperately and eerie.

So words that we've had over the previous lessons, but I wonder if you can remember the correct spelling.

Pause the video now and write down the correct spelling for each word.

Did you have a go? Let's check them.

So galloped, that's the one with two l's in it, galloped you can see there, midnight did you get that one? Midnight, n-i-g-h-t.

Desperately with an e-r-a-t-e-l-y after the desperately sometimes that's how I remember it desperately and eerie with ie at the end.

Give yourself a mark out of four.

I bet it was four out of four, wasn't it? So, we are going to investigate as complex sentences.

Complex sentences consists of a main clause and a subordinate clause.

And a clause is a group of words that contains a verb.

Let's read this example.

I'm going to read it and then you're going to have a go at reading it to yourself.

As the eerie moon shone down onto the bleak more, the highwayman galloped towards the inn.

So you can see that the writing in.

Oh, hang on, I forgot to give you your time to read the sentence.

Pause the video now and read the sentence aloud.

Well done.

So you can see the writing in pink, that's the subordinate clause, and the writing in green, what's that? That's the main clause.

And can you see those words that are underlined? Those are the verbs in each clause, we've got one verb in each clause, we've got the verb shone, and the verb galloped.

The verb shone in the subordinate clause, and the word galloped, the verb galloped in the main clause.

So a little bit of a thinking time question, I want you to think about what the verbs are in each clause here you can see I've got another complex sentence.

I'm going to read it aloud and you can then read it aloud after me.

As the tempestuous wind blew through the trees, eerie clouds covered the midnight sky, your turn to pause the video and read aloud.

Well done.

So you've got the subordinate clause there as the tempestuous wind blew through the trees.

You've got the main clause after that eerie clouds covered the midnight sky.

What are the verbs in that sentence? There are two on there, there's one in the subordinate clause, one in the main clause.

What are the verbs there? Have a bit of thinking time? What are the doing words? Hmm.

Should we say them together? The first one is blew and the second one is covered, well done.

And again another challenge for us to find the verbs.

I'm going to read this sentence aloud you can have a go and then you're going to think about the verbs.

As the faint moonlight illuminated the winding road, the horse's hooves thundered along the path.

Illuminated as another way of saying lit up.

And we've had that word thundered in a previous lesson, meaning galloped really quickly and probably making a lot of noise whilst the horse is galloping.

So what are the verbs in that sentence? Remember, there must be two, one in a subordinate clause, one in the main clause.

Have a really good look.

What are the doing words? Hmm, should we say them together? We've got illuminated and thundered, well done for getting those.

So how can we tell which clause is which? Cause we know we have what the clause is called, a subordinate clause and a main clause.

Okay.

How do we know which is which then? I'm going to just read that first bit to you, as the faint moonlight illuminates the winding road.

Okay, that's my subordinate clause.

Does it make sense on its own or not? 1, 2, 3 it doesn't, does it? So a subordinate clause does not make sense on its own.

It doesn't make sense on its own.

So what do you think about the main clause? What do you think? Does it make sense on its own or not? 1, 2, 3, it does.

Let's check.

Let's just read the green bits of the sentence.

Should we read it together? 1, 2, 3 the horses hooves thundered along the path.

Now that could be a sentence on its own.

couldn't it? So the main clause would make sense on its own.

It does make sense on its own.

It could be written as a sentence by itself, couldn't it? If you use as at the beginning of your subordinate clause, the sentence is an adverbial complex sentence, as is a subordinating conjunction, should we say that my turn your turn subordinating conjunction.

As the eerie moon shone down onto the bleak moon, the highway man galloped towards the end.

So the type of complex sentences that we're talking and learning about today are adverbial complex sentences, and I wonder why we would use them.

If we think about the type of writing that we're doing, writing the opening to the story.

Well we need to include lots and lots of detail in there, don't we? About the setting about the character So adverbial sentences are a good idea when you want to add plenty of descriptive detail to your writing.

And they show two things happening at once.

Let's just check on this example.

What two things are happening? Well the first thing is that the eerie moon shone down onto the bleak moor.

And tell me the second thing, the highwayman galloped towards the end.

So two things happening as complex sentence.

Next thinking time question.

How many pieces of punctuation would you use if you wrote an adverbial complex sentence starting with as? How many pieces of punctuation would you need? Would it be one, two, or three? Should we say it together? You would need three.

Should we check? Okay, so you must start off with that capital letter.

That's one.

What's the second one should we set together, it's a comma.

And then finally, of course, we have to have a full stop.

So you need three pieces of punctuation if you're writing an as complex sentence, if the as clause is at the beginning.

So it's your go to practise writing some as complex sentences.

I've put a few pictures up.

Pictures that we've seen already in our writing lessons, to give you a little bit of help.

So you need to pause the video now and have a go at writing as complex sentence.

Okay, have you had a go? So this challenge is to give yourself a tick for each of the following.

So here's one that I wrote.

As ominous clouds swirled above, a gusty wind ripped through the gnarled trees.

That sentence is really creating a picture in my mind of what the setting looks like and what's happening.

So, you need to give yourself a tick if you've got a capital letter.

What about if you remember to include your verb in your subordinate clause? My one was swirled.

What was your one? Tell me.

So give yourself a tick if you got your verb.

What do you think the next tip must be for? What have we got to remember? Comma.

Well done, give yourself a tick, if you got that one, and then our fourth one is our next verb is ripped.

So it's verb two in our main clause, and in our fifth tick must be for our full stop.

How many did you get out of five? If you need to go back and edit and check that you've got something written in, then you can pause the video and do that now.

So now it's time for you to do one more as complex sentence.

Pause the video now, maybe think about using a different picture to the one that you had before.

And you can write your as complex sentence now.

Well done, should we have a check? So we need to give ourselves a tick for each of the following things we've got.

So have I got my, let's read my one first.

As the night grew darker and darker, the highwayman thundered along the winding road.

Have I got my capital letter? Yep, I've got a capital letter.

Have you got yours? Give yourself a tick if you have.

My verb in my subordinate clause is grew.

Okay, so I can tick that off.

What was your verb in your subordinate clause, tell me.

Okay, well done.

And then my third tick is for my comma, which comes after my subordinate clause, before my main clause.

Give yourself a tick if you remember that and even if you didn't remember, and that's okay.

And then my second verb, verb two, I can see there is thundered, what was your verb two? Well done.

And then what's our fifth tick for? It's got to be for our full stop.

How many did you get out of five this time? Well done.

So, I wonder if we can think about this question now.

Where could I add an adverb for even more detail, to create even more of a vivid picture in our readers mind.

As the night grew darker and darker, the highwayman thundered along the winding road.

Okay, let's look at that verb in the main clause, thundered.

Have I got an adverb? Yes or no? I don't have an adverb there to tell the reader about how he is thundering along the winding road.

Can you think of one? Thundering slowly, would that work? Thundering urgently.

Okay, that could work.

What's your one tell me? Thank you.

I thought of this one.

I thought of rapidly, meaning very, very quickly, he thundered rapidly along the winding road.

Should we read aloud that sentence with the adverb, you can read it with me this time.

Our count is in One, two, three.

As the night grew darker and darker, the highwayman thundered rapidly along the winding road.

Can you go back and add an adverb into one of your sentences now? Pause the video Okay, time for a true or false quiz.

Are you ready? So our first true or false statement is complex sentences have two different types of clause.

What kinds of clauses? And remember, we looked at a few sentences, didn't we? With some different clauses in what do you think it is, true or false one, two, three it is true.

They need to contain a main clause which makes sense on its own.

And a subordinate clause which doesn't make sense on its own.

Ready for the next one.

Complex sentences need to have more than 20 words in them.

Well, some of your sentences that you've written might have had more than that.

They might have had exactly 20 or they might have had less, so what do feel, what do you think? One, two, three, it is false.

There's no minimum or maximum number of words, they just have to have a main clause and a subordinate clause.

Ready for the next one.

Complex sentences are the best type of sentence to write.

Hmm.

What do you think? We know that they're really useful for writing narratives, especially in the opening where we've got to include lots of detail and lots of descriptive detail.

But is that sentence true or false? Are they the best type of sentence to write ever? One, two, three, it's false.

It depends on what you want, the purpose of the sentence to be.

Sometimes it's more effective to use a short simple sentence.

Okay, we've got a challenge.

What's wrong with this sentence? As the fearless highwayman bolted across the winding path the night grew darker and darker.

But I can see my as clause, my as subordinate clause I can also see a main clause.

What's wrong with that sentence? What have I forgotten? Have you spotted it? I've forgoten my comma.

And my comma separates my subordinate clause from my main clause.

Are you ready to spot another mistake? What's wrong with this sentence? As the eerie moon shone down below, the wind.

Okay, well, I've got my as subordinate clause.

I've got my comma.

But what's wrong with it? Have a bit of thinking time.

What does it not have? It hasn't got a main clause.

So I've added one in here.

I'm going to read this sentence and then you can read it aloud As the eerie moon shone down below, the wind blew swiftly through the gnarled trees.

So I added in the words blew swiftly through the gnarled trees to show what the wind was doing.

So I added in the rest of my main clause, your turn to read the sentence aloud.

Pause the video now.

Well done, and hopefully you heard that that makes much more sense when we've got our main clause to finish off the sentence.

So you've worked really, really hard again, we did our writing warmup, we investigated and practised at writing and saying out loud as complex sentences, and we had a true or false activity and challenge.

You've worked really hard.

Again, well done.

If you'd like to, you can share your work with your parent or carer and I'm looking forward to seeing you very soon.