Lesson video

Hello everyone, my name is Ms Butt and today I'm here to teach you three new words for you to use in your unit all about the angler fish.

I know you've already learnt so many cool facts about the angler fish, and today we're going to be using three different words to describe being underwater.

I really hope that you enjoy today's lesson.

Okay, so let's get started.

So next day's lesson, we are going to introduce each new word one at a time then we're going to look at the synonyms and word pairs for each word and finally, we're going to have a go at applying these words in sentences that we can use in our angler fish writing.

So today's lesson, you need a piece of paper or notepad because right at the end of the lesson, I'm going to ask you to write a couple of sentences, a pencil and your brains.

Can you make sure that you have everything you need now and try to carry away anything that's going to distract if you can.

Pause the video and do that now.

Okay, so let's start thinking again about the ocean.

Are you afraid of the ocean? I told you last time that I was a bit afraid of the ocean, certain things being underneath the water that I can't see.

I wonder if you are ever afraid of the ocean and if you can explain your answer by saying yes, I am because, or no, I'm not because.

Pause the video and tell me now what you think.

Thank you for answering that question so nicely.

Okay, let's have a look at our key vocabulary.

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

Synonym, word pair, adjective, noun, verb, adverb.

Let's look at what each of these words mean.

So synonym is a word that means exactly or nearly the same as another word, like marry and happy, they mean the same thing.

Word pairs are words that often appear together, like a bright sun.

An adjective is a describing word and it usually describes a noun which is a person, a place or a thing.

So any person, place or thing, you should be able to look at thing in your room now and then use one word to describe it.

That would be an adjective.

A verb is a doing or a being word.

So anything that you've done today like look, learn, eat, they are all doing words, they are all verbs.

And adverbs add some detail of how you do those things.

For example, you might greedily eat, or you might nervously read if you are reading a scary story or something like that or you might run quickly.

Often adverbs end in -ly.

Okay, let's pick our first water word for today and just like we always do, we're going to start off by looking at an illustration of this word before I reveal what the word is, because I want you to really focus on this picture and what is happening in it.

I want you to think about what you can see and about how the characters are feeling and what story is this image showing.

Could you pause the video and have a think about that now.

I think that this image is showing that this looks like some kind of fun game.

It's a fair or something called dunk the dog and it looks to me like the dog was sitting up out of the water and because the other character has hit the ball on that target, it's meant that the dog has fallen into the water and the dog looks a little bit shocked about that, but the other character looks very pleased with himself.

So wonder if this word is something to do with being underwater.

Let's have a look.

This word is immerse, immerse.

Immerse is a verb.

That means it's something that we do.

It's a doing word.

It means to dunk or plunge like pushing someone right to the bottom of a tank of water.

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

Dip, fully, quickly, immediately, submerge, deeply, wholly, completely and put underwater.

We're going to talk a bit more about the word submerge later on.

Here's the word in context, these bizarre creatures that's the angler fish, these bizarre creatures immerse themselves to the depths of the ocean to hunt for prey as they put themselves underneath the water.

So I'd like you to pause the video now and have a look at all of these words and see if you can spot any synonyms of the word immerse.

Okay, let's see how you got on.

So the synonyms of immerse are, dip, submerge and put underwater.

That means the rest of the words are word pairs and you might notice they all end in -ly.

That means that they're probably adverbs which describe how a verb is done which makes sense 'cause immerse is a verb.

So let's have a look at what we could say.

Fully immerse.

So if you fully immersed yourself in the water, it means you've gone right underneath it.

You haven't got your head up.

Partly immerse.

So if you were going to go in the sea and it was really cold, you might first partly immerse your body before you fully go under.

Quickly immerse.

Always the best way of getting into cold water if you do it quickly.

Immediately immerse, deeply immerse, wholly immerse and completely immerse.

And we could actually swap these around.

So we could say immerse fully, immerse partly, immerse quickly, that also would work.

Now it's really important when we're learning new vocabulary that we not just don't just hear the words or read them, but that we say them aloud.

So I'd like you now to pause the video and just like I did, I'd like you to read these word pairs aloud.

Off you go.

Okay, well done.

Can you remind me what does immerse mean? Use the picture to help you.

Well done, that's right.

It means to dunk or plunge.

Okay, let's take a look at our second illustration.

Ooh, what's going on here? It looks like this person and character is actually immersed underwater.

So maybe it might be a similar meaning.

What's happening here? What can you see is happening in this picture? Could you pause the video and take a moment to look at it very closely.

Okay, so it looks like, as I said, we've got a character here who is fully immersed in the water, looks like they're right to the bottom 'cause I can see the sea bed and it looks like the characters feeling extremely happy and pleased with themselves because they found a treasure chest, not only for the gold coins, but also full of dog bones.

And it looks to me like that's a dog inside that diver's suit.

So this word is submerged.

See I told you we'd come back to that word earlier.

I see you say submerged, submerged, submerged.

Submerged is an adjective.

It means completely underwater like a diver at the bottom of the sea.

Now there's a bit of a tricky thing here though that I want to just go over because if we say the word submerged with a d on the end, it's an adjective.

So for example, we could say the treasure was submerged underwater.

That's describing what happened to it, but we could also take away the d and just say submerge, which then means it becomes a verb like the word immerse.

So you might tell someone to do that.

Can you please submerge underwater? So if it's got the d in the end, submerged, it's an adjective, but submerge without the d is a verb.

It's quite tricky.

Okay, let's take a look at which words are synonyms of this adjective, submerged.

Sunk, diver, shipwreck, feet, cave, underwater, submarine, I'm a bit scared of submarines, rock, partially, at the bottom of the sea.

Here's this word in a sentence.

Divers must be completely submerged into the sea to catch a glimpse of the angler fish.

Could you pause the video and see if you can recognise any synonyms of the word submerged.

Off you go.

Okay, so the synonyms are, sunk, underwater and at the bottom of the sea.

That means that all the other words are word pairs and I'm going to read them to you now.

A submerged diver, a submerged shipwreck, I like the sound of that.

Submerged feet.

So if you put your feet into perhaps a rock pool, they would be submerged, a submerged cave, submerged submarine, submerged rock and partially submerged.

If it's partially, it means that it's, that there's part of it that is submerged and you can see that one.

I've put them the opposite way around.

You could also say submerged partially.

Okay, could you please pause the video now and read these word pairs out loud.

Thank you, right, let's see if you can tell me, what does this word submerged mean? Can you remember? Brilliant, well done.

It means completely underwater.

Oh my goodness, this is one of my favourite images.

It makes me really laugh.

So what's happening in this picture? How are the characters feeling? It looks like they're both feeling very different emotions in this picture and what do you think this image is showing? Could you pause the video and have a think about that now? Okay, so this character is actually called bare knees and it looks to me in this picture, like bare knees has dived off a cliff.

She looks extremely carefree and happy and exhilarated jumping off and into the water.

But underneath her, there's a very nervous looking little character who's out in the sea with his little float around him.

Who's looking petrified that bare knees is about to land right on top of him.

I wonder what this word is.

This word is plunge, plunge.

This is also a verb.

So it's something that we do.

To dive or plummet like when you jump off the highest rock into the deep water.

Let's take a look and see if you can spot any synonyms of plunge.

Into the water, into the war, into the sea, into the pool, dive, plummet, submerge, into darkness, into chaos, forward.

So some of these phrases are word pairs that would go with the word plunge, but some of them are actually synonyms. Here's the word in a sentence.

The angler fish plunges into the darkness where it can lure its prey.

That special light that we know it has.

So pause the video and see if you can spot the synonyms of the word plunge and remember it's a verb.

Okay, so the synonyms are, dive, plummet and submerge.

So you could plunge it through the air, but you could also plunge through the water, as we see here, the angler fish plunges into the darkness.

That means the rest of these phrases are word pairs and I'm going to read them to you now.

Plunge into the water.

It's lovely plunging into water when it's a really hot day and it cools you down.

Plunge into war.

So if you were to plunge into war, it means that you will almost like diving into a war.

Plunge into the sea, plunge into the pool, plunge into darkness, don't like it when that happens, plunge into chaos and plunge forward.

Could you please now read these words for me aloud.

Off you go.

Excellent, well done.

So we have now learned our three new words.

I'd like you to now look at these images and see if you can remember which word matches which image.

Pause the video and see if you can do that now.

Okay, so the first image shows immerse, the second image shows submerged and the third image shows the word plunge.

Now immerse and plunge are both verbs, they're doing words.

Submerged is an adjective, but I could turn it into a verb by doing what to it.

Oh, some of you got that.

If I take away the d, so submerge is also a verb, but with the d on it becomes an adjective.

Okay, let's see if you can remember now the definitions because my definitions look a little bit muddled up.

Can you pause the video and see if you can correct them for me? Okay, let's see how you got on.

So the correct definition for immerse is to dunk or plunge.

Submerged is completely underwater and plunge is to dive or plummet.

So now we're going to have a go at applying these words in sentences and try to remember if you're looking for an adjective or a verb to help you identify which is the best fit.

Here's the first sentence.

Angler fish hmm into the darkest depths in order to escape danger.

So this looks like it's something that they do.

So it's got to be a verb.

Pause the video and see if you can guess which is the best fit for this sentence.

Okay, so I have got plunge, but in fact, we could also say immerse.

Angler fish plunge into the darkest depths or angler flesh immerse into the darkest depths.

We couldn't say submerged here though, because that's an adjective and we're looking for a doing word in this sentence.

Because they can remain fully hmm for hours, they are very hard to locate.

Which word do you think fits best here? That's right, submerged.

This is describing them.

And if they're submerged, they right at the bottom which means that difficult to locate.

That means they're difficult to find.

Finally, these bizarre creatures hmm themselves in the water and lure their prey towards them.

That means kind of tempt them to come closer.

Which word do you think could fit here? Immerse, you also probably could have said these bizarre creatures plunge themselves.

You could say they plunge into the water, but not plunge themselves.

So immerse is the one that fits here.

Right, it's time for you guys to have a go at writing some sentences yourself.

So I'd like you, first of all, to have a go at writing sentence using the word immerse.

Now this is quite tricky.

It's easy sometimes easier to remember what a word means, but putting it in a sentence yourself can be much harder.

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

For example, you might say, I'm completely immersed and then with that word pair, you can build your sentence around it.

Don't forget your sentences if they're full sentences, need to have a capital letter at the start and a full stop at the end.

Here's a sentence starter that you could use.

These fascinating fish and then you could finish that off.

These fascinating fish deeply immersed themselves or could you say.

Could you pause the video and you can either write your own sentence or if you want, you can use my sentence starter to help you.

Okay, well done.

The second sentence I'd like you to have a go at writing is using the word submerged, remembering that this is an adjective.

Again, use the word pairs to help you.

For example, you could write a sentence about a submerged submarine or a submerged feet, some submerged feet.

So use, pick the word pair that you want to use and then build your sentence around it.

I always find it easier to say my sentence aloud before I have a go at writing it, and it's really important that after you've written your sentence, you go right back to the beginning and just check that it makes sense and check your punctuation.

Pause the video and have a go at that now.

Brilliant, well done guys.

I've got one final task I'd like you to do and that's to write a sentence using the word plunge.

So again, use the word pairs to help you.

For example, you could write a sentence about plunging into the pool, and again, maybe say your sentence before you write it and then read it back to check.

Pause the video and have a go at doing that now.

Well done.

You've worked so hard today and you've learned three really ambitious pieces of vocabulary.

I hope that you can remember these words and I hope that you can include them in your unit on the angler fish.

If he wants to share any of your work and your sentences that you wrote today, you can ask your parents or carer and you can upload them on Twitter.

I'd love to see some of the sentences that you've written using these three incredible words.

Thank you so much for watching this lesson and well done for working so hard.

Give yourself a big pat on the back.

Okay, bye everyone.

See you soon.