Lesson video

Hello everyone.

My name's Miss Butt and today I'm going to be teaching you use some new vocabulary.

At the moment, you're learning all about pandas and you're going to write a non-chronological report about them.

In your non-chronological report, I know you're going to be including a section on diet, so all about what the pandas eat.

So today we're going to be learning some different ways of saying the word eat so that we don't keep repeating that word in your writing.

I hope you enjoy today's lesson.

Here's what we're going to do today: first, I'm going to introduce the new vocabulary, one word at a time, and we're going to be looking at some Mrs. Wordsmith pictures, which will illustrate what the words mean.

Then we're going to identify word pairs and synonyms for each word so we have an even deeper understanding of what these words mean and how we can use them effectively and in different contexts.

And finally, we're going to apply these words in sentences.

And we'll try to apply them in sentences that will be useful for your non-chronological reports on pandas.

Right towards the end of the lesson, I'm going to ask you to write a sentence, so you will need something to write on and something to write with.

Could you pause the video now, to make sure you've got the things you need and to make sure you're calm and focused and ready to learn? Okay, let's get started.

Here's some key vocabulary we're going to be using in this lesson.

I'm going to say each word and then I'd like you to repeat it back to me just so I know we're all engaged.

Synonym.

Word pair.

Verb.

Noun.

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

For example, merry is a synonym for happy because they mean the same thing.

Word pairs are words that often are paired together.

So if we took the adjective bright, the words it might be paired up with frequently in texts or conversation would be a sun, a moon, or a light because they're nouns or things that would often be described as being bright.

A verb is a being or doing word.

So today, because we're going to be learning some synonyms for the word, eat or eating, we're going to be learning verbs because of course eating is something that we do or the animals do.

And a noun is a person, a place, or a thing.

So let's start thinking about eating.

Can you pause the video and see if you can think of as many ways of eating as possible? For example, you might chomp on an apple or you might nibble on a carrot if you are a rabbit.

Remember today we're thinking about how a Panda eats, so you might even start to think about how a Panda might eat as well.

So pause the video and see if you can come up with some synonyms for this word eat.

Well done.

I wonder if some of the words you came up with are the words we're going to learn today.

So let's look at our first eating word.

Before I show you what the word is, we're first of all going to look at this illustration.

Can you look closely at this picture and describe what is happening here? And how you would describe this character is eating? Pause the video and either have a think about it or describe it now.

Well, this character looks extremely hungry, and I can tell that because they are eating this fish in one mouthful and it looks to me like I can see some fish bones scattered around.

So it looks like this is perhaps their fifth or sixth fish that they're eating.

Let's find out what this word is.

Devour.

Devour.

To devour is a verb.

So it's a doing word.

It means to eat or gobble up when you swallow your dinner quickly in hungry mouthfuls.

Now, so that's what the verb devour means and we also have got this word voracious, which means greedy or gluttonous, like a never ending hunger for burgers.

So voracious is an adjective, it's a describing word and devour is a verb, but you might have spotted that devour and voracious both shared the same root word V O R that have been slightly adapted.

So what connects these two words devour and voracious? You might want to pause the video to have a little think about that.

So the idea of eating and consuming are important to both words, you could even include this word voracious and your non-cron reports.

You could say the pandas have a voracious appetite and devour and you could say, how much do they eat? So it's interesting to see how words are connected, and we quite often can spot root words and simple words that have a similar meaning, like with this verb and this adjective.

Okay, so I'm going to read some words to you now, and as I read them, I'd like you to see if you can spot the synonyms of devour.

Remember a synonym is a word that means the same thing.

And because devour is a verb, the synonyms should be verbs as well.

A meal.

Consume.

A steak.

A book.

A cake.

A pizza.

Your prey.

Gobble up.

Eat hungrily.

Here's the word in a sentence.

Despite devouring 38 kilogrammes of bamboo a day, the panda receives little nutritional value from this plant.

Could you pause the video and see if you can tell me which of these words are synonyms of the word devour? Okay, so the synonyms are consume, gobble up, or eat hungrily.

That means the rest of these words are word pairs, which I'll read to you now.

Devour a meal.

Devour a steak.

Devour a book.

Now, this is interesting because the rest of these look like they're to do with eating food, but I'm pretty sure people don't eat their books.

So what do you think this means if you devour a book? Hopefully you've had a little think about that.

If you devour a book, it's almost as if you're gobbling it up because you love it so much.

So if somebody devoured a book, they would probably read it in one day.

They couldn't take their eyes off it because they were enjoying it so much.

I wonder if you've ever had that experience with a book where you've been, so you've been enjoying it so much that it's almost as if you've devoured it.

Devour a cake.

Devour your prey.

Devour a pizza.

That's important when we learn new vocabulary that we say it because we don't just remember words from reading it once we need to actually say the words out loud.

So I'd like you to pause the video now and say these word pairs out loud.

And as you see them picture what it is you're reading.

So for example, devour your pray, what does that make you think of or imagine? Okay, well done.

So before we look at our second verb, quick please, could you quickly remind me what does devour mean? Well done to eat or gobble up.

Here's our second illustration, my goodness, what's happening here? How would you describe this character? Pause the video and have a think about that now.

It looks like this character has eaten a lot of chicken drumsticks.

I can almost see them all bulging out of his tummy and it looks like he might have overdone it a little bit because from the look on his face, it looks like he might be feeling a little bit queasy or sick.

This word is gorge.

Gorge.

Gorge is also a verb, a doing word, and it means to stuff yourself or overeat.

When you eat a giant mountain of food in one go and feel a bit sick.

I wonder if you've ever had that experience.

Perhaps it might be, I don't know if you go to a party or something like that, and there's so much nice food that you gorge on it, and then afterwards you think, "Oh, I think I've eaten a bit too much." Let's take a look at some words, and as I read them, can you see if you can identify the synonyms of gorge.

On junk food.

On roast chicken.

Stuff yourself.

On fruit.

On leftovers.

Guzzle.

On ice cream.

On sweets.

Or overeat.

Here's the words in a sentence, a panda's diet is predominantly, that means mainly, made up of bamboo, which they gorge on from dawn to dusk.

Dawn is when the sun rises.

Dusk is where the sun sets.

You'll notice in the sentence that I've got an apostrophe in pandas.

That's because the diet belongs to the pandas.

The apostrophe there is showing possession.

This sentence has also got a relative clause at the end of it.

The main clause is a Panda's diet is predominantly made up of bamboo, and I could put a full stop there, but instead I've put a comma and I've added some relative information about the bamboo, starting with the relative pronoun which, which they Gorge on from Dawn to dusk.

So could you pause the video now and see if you can tell me which of these words are synonyms of gorge? Okay.

So the synonyms are stuff yourself, guzzle, or overeat.

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

Gorge on roast chicken.

Gorge on junk food.

Gorge on fruit Gorge on leftovers.

Gorge on ice cream.

And Gorge on sweets.

Could you pause the video now and read these word pairs out loud? Well done.

So before we look at our final word, quickly remind me what does gorge mean? Well done.

It means to stuff yourself or over eat.

And finally, let's take a look at this last illustration.

So what's happening here and how would you describe how this character is eating? Pause the video and have a think about that now.

This character looks so hungry they almost look like they're in some kind of frenzy and they've got this sandwich.

It looks like they've torn it in half and their munching it, they've got food coming out of their mouths.

This word is demolish.

Demolish.

Demolish means to destroy or eat up.

When you gobble something up until there's nothing left.

It's also a verb, it's a doing word.

Demolish and destroy are similar, but they are not exactly the same.

What's the difference, do you think? Imagine if you were going to destroy a building or demolish a building.

Pause the video and have a think about this slight difference between these two verbs.

Okay, so demolish means completely get rid of.

So, if you were going to demolish a building you might have some kind of bulldozer and you might completely knock the whole thing down.

Destroy means damaged beyond repair, but it doesn't mean completely get rid of.

So destroy and demolish are very similar verbs, but there is a slight difference in them.

Okay, so let's take a look at which of these words could be synonyms of demolish.

Destroy.

Your lunch.

A cake.

A bridge.

A wall.

A building.

Eat up.

A house.

His argument.

And completely get rid of.

Here is the word in a sentence.

Pandas demolish the entire plant, not leaving a scrap for the smaller animals to nibble on.

So they demolish it, they completely get rid of the bamboo.

So again, can you pause the video and see if you can tell me which of these words are synonyms of demolish? So the synonyms are destroy, eat up, or completely get rid of.

The rest of these words are word pairs which I'll read to you now.

Destroy your lunch, sorry, demolish your lunch.

Demolish a cake.

Demolish a bridge.

Demolish a wall.

Demolish a building.

Demolish a house.

And demolish his argument.

So we can see that whilst this word, this verb, demolished is often linked to eating, it also can be linked to things that doesn't require eating at all.

For example, if you demolish a wall, hopefully you're not going to eat the wall, but instead you will be destroying it.

So we can see how versatile these verbs are and how can use them in many different contexts.

Could you pause the video now and read these word pairs out loud? Excellent.

Well done.

So, we have now led three new verbs.

Three new ways of saying describing eating.

Can you remember what each word is? Pause the video and see if you can tell me.

So the first word was devour, the second verb was gorge, and the final word was demolish.

I'd now like you to come up with your own definition for each word, because it's really important that we explain things in our own words.

So imagine you're talking to a younger child who has no idea what to devour, gorge, or demolish mean.

How would you define them? Perhaps you could put them in a sentence for them as well, that might help them to understand what it means.

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

Okay, so let's see how you got on.

Here are the definitions.

So devour means to eat or gobble up, gorge means to stuff yourself or over eat, and demolish means to destroy or eat up.

We're now going to take a look at some sentences.

Here's the first sentence.

As I read it to you, could you see which of these verbs you would put, you think, fits best in this sentence.

The mammals hmm all of the plan: the stem, the roots, and the leaves.

Pause the video and decide which verb you think fits best in the sentence.

Now there's a bit of a clue here because it says that the mammals hmm all of the plant, so that means they completely get rid of this entire plant.

So I think the best verb to use here would be demolish.

You'll notice in this sentence that there's a piece of punctuation called a colon.

That's where we put the two dots, one on top of the other, after the word plant.

We use a colon in this sentence to introduce a list.

So the mammals demolished all of the plants and here they are; the stem, the roots, and the leaves.

They're the parts of the plant that these mammals, these pandas, eat.

Let's look at another sentence.

Despite having carnivorous teeth, pandas rarely hmm on smaller mammals.

Scientists believe this could be due to the limitless amount of bamboo available in their habitat.

Their habitat is where they live and a limitless amount means a never ending amount.

They've got as much bamboo as they could ever want.

Okay, so carnivorous teeth, that's if you're a carnivore you eat meat.

So despite having carnivorous teeth, pandas rarely, that means they hardly ever hmm on smaller mammals.

Pause the video and tell me which verb you think fits here.

So the answer is gorge.

The clue is, is that quite often when we say gorge we say gorge on.

If you remember the word pairs it was things like gorge on junk food or gorge on roast chicken.

Here's the final sentence.

Pandas spend up to 14 hours a day hmm bamboo, which makes up 99% of their diet.

Now for this sentence you need to think carefully about the tense, because if we put one of these verbs in as they are it won't sound right.

So you might have to adapt or change the tense.

so it fits in this context.

Pause the video and have a go at that now.

Okay, so we could either say pandas spend up to 14 hours a day devouring bamboo, pandas spend up to 14 hours a day gorging on bamboo, or pandas spend up to 14 hours a day demolishing bamboo.

I've gone for the verb devouring, but any of those could work.

But if you have gorging, you'd have to say gorging on bamboo.

You'll notice in this sentence we've got a relative clause at the end.

The main clause is the first part; pandas spend up to 14 hours a day devouring bamboo.

We could put a full stop there and end the sentence, but we're adding some relative information about the bamboo.

So we've got a comma to separate the clauses and then we've got our relative clause, which starts with a relative pronoun, which.

Often relative clauses start with which, or who.

Who for a person or which for a thing or an animal.

Perhaps you could try and include a relative clause in your sentence, because now it's time for, it's your turn to write a sentence, using the word devour, gorge on, or demolish.

So it's up to you, which verb you choose for your sentence.

Or if you want to really push yourself today, you could even try to write three sentences so you have a chance of practising using each word.

It can be difficult, just to think of a sentence from, from nothing.

So try to think about your knowledge of a panda's diet.

And try to write a sentence that will be useful when you come to write your non-chronological reports on a pandas diet.

Here's some sentence scaffolds to help you.

You might start with an adverb, surprisingly comma.

Surprisingly pandas, perhaps you could then go into to talk about how much bamboo they eat, but instead of using the word eat, you could use one of our synonyms we've learned like devour.

Here's another idea; a panda's diet is predominantly made up of hmm, which hmm.

So again, we've got that apostrophe for the pandas diet, because it was saying the diet belongs to the Panda.

Predominantly means mainly, so it's mainly made up of bamboo, which, and then you could use your relative clause there to describe, what to describe, to add some relative information about the bamboo, which they gorge on from dawn to dusk, something like that.

And finally, you could include an embedded relative clause.

That's when you think of the main clause for example, bamboo makes up to 99% of their diet, but then you embed, you paste into that main clause and a relative clause, bamboo comma, which uh pandas uh have in abundance comma, makes up to 99% of their diet.

When you have an embedded relative clause, it's important that you have commas on either side of it.

So it's like a parenthesis.

Okay.

Remember the sentence starters are only there to help you.

You do not have to use them at all.

It's really useful, I find, when I try to think of a sentence to say it out loud before I write it, and then after I've written it, I always go back and check for things like missing punctuation or words, or even see if I can improve my sentence in any way.

So really take your time with this sentence or these sentences and pause the video now to have a go at writing them.

Okay.

Excellent, well done.

Well I really hope that you've enjoyed expanding your vocabulary today.

And I hope that these verbs come in useful when you write all about pandas.

Thank you so much for watching.

And if you want to share any of the sentences that you've written, you can ask the parents or carer to take a photo and you could upload them on Twitter because we always love seeing the work that you were doing.

Well done for working so hard.

Bye everyone!.