Lesson video

Hello everyone, my name is Ms. Butt.

And today I'm going to teach you some new vocabulary for you to use in your writing on a Christmas Carol.

Now I know that you've been really focusing on the character of Ebenezer Scrooge and Ebenezer Scrooge is one of the most grumpy men in any story.

So today we're going to be learning some words to describe anger.

So if you're feeling in a really happy mood like me, I hope you're ready to do some acting because I'm going to be asking you to do some angry acting later on in the lesson.

I hope you enjoy it.

Let's go through what we're going to do today.

First of all, we're going to introduce one word at a time.

Then we're going to identify word pairs and synonyms for each word.

And finally, we're going to apply each word in a sentence that hopefully you can use in your narrative writing on a Christmas Carol.

For today's lesson, you're going to need something to write on like a note pad or a piece of paper, something to write with like a pencil and your brains.

Please, could you make sure that you clear away anything that's going to distract you? For example, I've just put my phone away in my drawer, so it doesn't distract me.

Can you pause the video and make sure you've got everything you need and that you're ready for your learning.

Let's start thinking about this emotion called anger.

I'd like you to just think of maybe one or two little things that make you angry.

Can you think of anything? Pause the video.

Sometimes things can make us angry, which are really understandable.

And other times really silly things can make us angry.

At the weekend, I went to Suffolk and I was at the beach and in Suffolk, there are so many seagulls and they're really, really scary because they're quite big.

When I was eating fish and chips on the beach a seagull came over and was trying to take one of my chips.

And when I got back to my car at the end of the day, there were four seagull poos on my car window.

And I really like having a clean car.

So that made me really angry.

But again, it was a little silly thing.

I wonder if there are any little silly things that make you feel angry.

Now we know that with Scrooge, pretty much everything makes him feel angry.

So before we introduce our new words, let's just go over this vocabulary.

That's really important for today's lesson.

So I'm going to say each word and then I'd like you to repeat it back to me.

Synonym, word pair, adjective, noun, a synonym is a word that means nearly or exactly same as another word, like the words merry and happy.

Word pairs are words that often appear together like a bright sun, an adjective is a describing word.

And often they describe nouns, which are person, a place or a thing.

So for example, if Scrooge was the noun, cause he's the person, we might describe him as angry Scrooge but that's what we're going to try to do today.

We're going to try to land some different ways of saying angry so we're not always just saying the same word, repeating the same words again in our writing.

So let's have a look, first of all, at what our first angry word could be.

We're going to start by looking at an image.

Have a look at this picture.

What's happening here? Tell me what you can see.

Tell me what the characters are feeling.

Can you describe this picture to me? Pause the video and do that now.

Well, this is a bull and it looks to me like from this tiny little character that's bravely standing in front of the bull, this might be a bull fight because in a bull fight, these sometimes wave a little red flag like that or a little red blanket before they start.

think that that character is extremely brave to be standing right in front of that bull because the bull looks very, very angry.

I wish there was a word I could say that was better than angry because it's not just angry.

It's really, really angry.

It's got red eyes.

It's got smoke coming out of his nostrils.

Let's see what this word could be.

Raging, I say, you say raging, raging.

Raging is an adjective and it means furious or fuming like an angry bill on a rampage.

You wouldn't want to be anywhere near that raging bull, would you? It'd be terrifying.

Let's take a look at some words which could be synonyms of the word raging.

That means they're words that mean more or less the same thing.

If it's not as synonym, it will probably be a word pair.

Bull, temper, blizzard, furious, thirst, wild, debate, sea, waters, fuming, blast and fire.

to help you identify the synonyms, here's the word in a sentence.

And normally if the word is a synonym, we can replace the word reading in the sentence with that word.

It doesn't always work, but it sometimes does.

The raging blizzard shook the windows as snow battered the door.

Could you pause the video and see if can spot the three synonyms of the word raging? Off you go.

So the synonyms are furious, wild and fuming.

Think if we look at that picture of that bull, we could describe that bull as furious, wild or fuming.

That means all these other words are word pairs.

And I'm going to read these to you now.

So you might have a raging bull, a raging temper like Scrooge, a raging blizzard.

So if there was like storm and snow, if it was raging, it would be as if, it was almost like the weather is angry because it's so strong and severe.

Raging thirst.

Have you ever had that fall where you wake up in the night and you feel so thirsty? Sometimes it can happen after you've eaten really salty food that's as if your thirst is raging.

A raging debate or sometimes you see that on the news in the houses of parliament, the politicians having raging debates about things.

The raging sea, raging waters, a raging blast, and a raging fire.

If there was a region fire, it would be really difficult to put that fire out.

Now when we learn new vocabulary, it's really important that we say the words aloud, because that's the way that we remember it.

So I'd like you just like I did to read these words pairs aloud, off you go.

Okay, thank you.

Now, before we move on to our second word, I want you just to remind me, what does this word raging mean? Well done, it means furious or fuming like an angry bill on a rampage.

Let's take a look at our second illustration.

Oh my goodness, another angry character.

What's happening in this picture? What story is this picture telling? What can you see? How do you think the characters are feeling and why do you think they're feeling that way? Can you pause the video and have a close look now? Okay so it looks to me like this character is very angry.

And from looking at the clues in the picture where it says tickets and sold out, I'm guessing that this character is angry because they've perhaps been queuing a really long time to buy a ticket for a film or a band or something.

And they've got to the front and they've just said, oh, sorry, there's no more tickets.

I think there's character must be a really big fan of whatever they were about to see, to have this, to spark this really angry reaction and the character, the poor character, behind the window that's selling the tickets looks a little bit afraid because this person is having such a big tantrum.

I wonder what this angry word could be.

Furious, I say, you say, furious, furious.

Furious is also an adjective like raging.

And it means very angry or enraged.

How you would feel if all the tickets to your favourite band were sold out? So it was their favourite band that they wanted to see.

Have you ever felt curious about something? Let's take a look at words which could be synonyms of furious, fuming, customer, debate, reaction, very angry, passion, row, attack, enraged and storm.

Here's the word in a sentence.

Scrooges furious reaction to the ghosts comment showed how afraid he was.

So sometimes people get angry when actually they're afraid.

I wonder if you could pause the video now and tell me which three words are synonyms of the word furious.

Let's see how you got on.

The synonyms are fuming, very angry and enraged.

And that means the rest of these words are the word pairs which I'm going to read to you now.

A furious customer, have you ever seen a furious customer in a shop? I once did, once I saw a furious customer because they had tried to, they bought something and they tried to return it that because they'd cut the label off what they bought, the shopkeeper wouldn't let them return it.

And they got really furious and they were shouting and being quite rude.

A furious debate, a furious reaction, a theorist row, a furious attack, a furious storm.

So if you were in your bed and there was a really big thunder and lightning storm, and you were right at the sort of centre of the storm and rain was lashing at your window, you might say, oh my goodness, this is a furious storm and furious passion and passion is another word for really strong emotion.

So just as you did before, could you now pause the video and read these word pairs aloud? Okay, well done.

Can you tell me before we move on, what does furious mean? Well done, it means very angry or enraged.

Here's the, oh my goodness.

What is this image? How rude.

Can you tell me what is happening in this picture once you stopped laughing? Can you describe what you can see? Why do you think this character is behaving in this way? What's happened to cause this reaction? And how do you think they're feeling? pause the video and have a think.

Now, if I'm being a detective here, I can see that this character is got some cream in their hand and it looks like they've got a very, very sore bottom and if I look around the picture, I think I can tell why, because I have a feeling that these green plants might be nettles.

Have you ever been stung by a nettle? It really, really hurts.

If you get stung even if you just accidentally touch one net on your hand, it really hurts.

So if you fell in a patch of nettles, it would really hurt your skin.

It would really sting.

And I think that's what's maybe happened to this character because from their facial expression and their body language they look like that in lots of pain and their skin looks really red and sore.

And that looks like why they're putting cream on to try and soothe the skin.

So let's take a look at what this word is.

This word is irritated, irritated, irritated is also an adjective.

It means annoyed or a little bit angry, like your skin when you fall in stinging nettles.

So you can feel irritated at something emotionally, a bit like when I was irritated that the seagulls had pooed on my car, but you also can have irritated skin.

So if you were allergic to something, your skin might be irritated and that's like, your skin almost feels annoyed because it's like, I don't like this, what you've put on me.

And that's what we can see happening here.

The skin is irritated.

So let's take a look at which words could be synonyms of irritated.

Skin, frown, stomach, annoyed, sigh, glare, exasperated, voice, a little bit angry and nerves.

So here's the word in a sentence.

Scrooge flashed and irritated frown at the children who were playing in the snow.

Gosh, he's so mean, isn't he? Even just children paying in the snow irritates him.

I would like it if I saw children playing in the snow.

Let's pause the video now and see if you can spot the three synonyms of irritated.

Okay, good job.

The synonyms are annoyed, exasperated and a little bit angry.

It's not quite extreme as feeling raging or furious, but it's still a type of anger.

The rest of the words, therefore, are word pairs.

So let's read them now.

Irritated skin like in this picture, an irritated frown, can you all show me an irritated frown? Ooh, lovely acting.

An irritated stomach that might be if you've eaten something that doesn't really agree with you and your tummy might gurgle or bubble.

An irritated sigh.

Can you do an irritated sigh for me? Irritated nerves, irritated glare, can you show me an irritated glare? You will look very angry.

And an irritated voice.

If you speak like this, you might sound a bit irritated.

Can you pause the video now and say the word pairs aloud? Okay, brilliant.

So we've now learned our three words and here are the pictures which illustrate each new piece of vocabulary.

I'd like you to pause the video and see if you can match each word with the correct picture.

So the correct answers are, the first one is raging.

The second one is furious.

And the third one is irritated.

Now I'd like you to read these definitions, which have got a bit jumbled and I'd like you to match them with the correct word, pause the video and have a go now.

So raging means furious or fuming.

Furious means very angry and enraged and actually raging and furious are very close in meaning and irritated means annoyed or a little bit angry.

So let's have a go now at putting these words in sentences.

Scrooge was extremely, hmm, by the man warming his hands over the candle.

Which projective could we use to describe how Scrooge was feeling? Pause the video and have a think.

So the answer is irritated.

Scrooge was extremely irritated by the man warming his hands over the candle.

It's such a small thing and it wouldn't irritate most people, even that irritates him because he's so grumpy.

Scrooge's, hmm, reaction to the carol singers made everyone gasp in shock.

Normally people like seeing carol singers, but he obviously had an angry reaction.

Which word do you think fits best in here? Scrooge's furious reaction.

You might've also raging reaction.

Scrooge's, hmm, temper meant that even the smallest problem made him angry.

What do you think fits here? Scrooge's raging temper.

It's time for you now to have a go at writing your own sentences using these new words that we've learned.

Now, it can be difficult, even though you now know what these words mean.

It can be difficult to actually write them in sentences.

So I've put the word pairs here to help you.

So for example, you might pick the word pair, raging temper and then you can build your sentence around that.

You also, if you like, can use their sentence scaffold.

As the hunched old man, if you're hunched, your shoulders are hunched over like that.

As the hunched old man walked through the streets, comma, what happens next? So that's an example of a complex sentence.

The first that I've written is the subordinating clause.

And then the second part will be the main clause.

And it's got a comma to separate the two clauses.

So you could say, as the hunched old man walked through the streets, comma, and then you could try to fit the word raging in the main clause.

You don't have to use the sentence scaffold, but it's just there to help you if you would like to use it.

Can you pause the video now and have a go at writing your first sentence? Brilliant, well done.

Can you just quickly check for me that your sentence has got a capital letter at the beginning and a full stop at the end? Well done, always worth checking, No matter how old we are.

Okay, let's take a look at what I'd like you to do now.

Now I'd like you to have a go at writing the sentence, using the word furious.

And again, you can use the word pairs to help you.

For example, you might pick the word pair, row, furious route, and then you might build an idea around that.

Perhaps you might describe who was having this furious row and what they were doing as they were rowing.

Rowing is another word for arguing.

So pause the video now, pick a word path and have a go at writing a sentence.

Brilliant and finally, I want you to write a sentence using the word irritated, pick a word pair like irritated skin or irritated sigh.

And again, could you write a really ambitious sentence? Perhaps you could try to make the sentence about Scrooge.

So for example, what might he do in irritated sigh at? What kind of thing might make him sigh and when he walks through the streets, cause basically everything he sees makes him angry.

So perhaps you could use that idea or maybe he might give someone an irritated glare, who is he giving that glare to and why is he doing it? So you could use those ideas to help you to form this final sentence.

So pause the video and try to have a go at writing one last, really ambitious sentence.

Okay, brilliant, well done.

So not only have we learned these three words and what they mean, but we also know synonyms of these words and the words that obviously that often paired up with and you've written them in your own sentences.

I hope you feel really confident now that you could use these words in sentences.

And you could also use these words in your unit on a Christmas Carol, thank you so much for watching this lesson.

And if you want to share any of your work, you can get ask a parent or a carer to take a picture and you can upload it on Twitter because we love seeing the work that you're doing.

Well done for working so hard and I'll see you soon, bye bye.