Lesson video

Hello everyone.

My name is Ms. Butt and today we're going to be learning some new vocabulary together.

Now I know at the moment you're writing newspaper reports about an event which has involved Spiderman.

And because this event has involved Spiderman, I imagine that the witnesses you're going to be interviewing will all have been very surprised and very shocked.

But we don't want to keep saying that the witnesses felt shocked or that they felt surprised.

So today we're going to be learning some different ways of referring to feeling surprised or shocked.

And hopefully these words will come in really useful, when you're doing your eyewitness reports.

I hope you enjoy the 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 Mrs. Wordsmith pictures to help illustrate what these words mean.

Then we're going to identify word pairs and synonyms, which will give us a deeper understanding of what the words mean and how to use them appropriately.

And finally, we're going to apply the new words that we've learned in sentences.

And we're going to try to write sentences that will be helpful in your newspaper reports for your Spiderman unit.

Now, towards the end of the lesson, I'm going to ask you to write your own sentence.

So you will need something to write on and something to write with.

Perhaps you could pause the video now to get the things that you need and make sure you're calm and ready and focused to start this learning.

Okay, let's get started.

I'm going to say some key vocabulary that we'll be using today, and then I'd like you to repeat it back to me just so I know we're all, we're all engaged.

Synonym.

Word pair.

Adjective.

Noun.

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

So today we'll be learning synonyms for the word surprised.

Word pairs are words that often appear together.

So if we take the adjective bright the word pairs, that might be, that might match that word would be a sun, a moon or a light.

An adjective is a describing word.

So today we're going to be learning three adjectives.

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

So let's start thinking about this emotion of feeling surprised.

Can you think of any other words to describe feeling surprised? For example, you might say shocked could be a synonym.

Can you think of any others? Perhaps you might think of one, perhaps you might be able to think of two, perhaps even more than that.

Pause the video and do that now.

Okay.

So let's take a look as our first surprised word.

Wonder if this is the same, one of the words that you just came up with.

So before I introduce the word, we're going to, first of all, focus on an image.

Take a look at this Mrswordssmith illustration.

And see if you can describe what's happening in this picture.

How is this character feeling? And why do you think they're feeling that way? So pause the video and have a think about that now.

It looks to me like this character has just found out that they've won the lottery.

They're looking at their card, which has their jackpot number and from their facial expression and their whole body language, we can tell this character is extremely, extremely shocked or surprised.

This word is flabbergasted.

Flabbergasted.

Flabbergasted is an adjective meaning very surprised or amazed.

How you would feel if you won the lottery.

I always think the word flabbergasted almost sounds like a made up word as if it's one of the words that Roald Dahl makes up when he writes in his books like the BFG.

But it's not, it is a real word.

So let's take a look at some, a set of words.

As I read these to you, see if you can spot the synonyms of flabbergasted.

Remember a synonym is a word that means more or less the same thing.

If the word isn't a synonym, it means it will be a word pair.

And we'll read those later.

Astonished, by the news, by the view, by her reply amazed, by his email, very surprised, by their offer, and by her suggestion.

So here's the word in a sentence to help you.

One witness was flabbergasted by the news that Spiderman was reported to have been at the scene.

Can you pause the video and see if out of these words you can spot the three synonyms. So the synonyms are, astonished, amazed and very surprised.

Which means the rest of these words are word pairs that pair up with the word flabbergasted.

So you might be flabbergasted by the news.

Flabbergasted by the view.

Flabbergasted by her reply or his reply.

Flabbergasted by his email.

Flabbergasted by their offer.

Or flabbergasted by her suggestion.

So imagine if he was selling something and you said you were going to charge a £100, but somebody offered you £1,000,000.

You might be flabbergasted by their offer.

Now it's really important when we learn new vocabulary, that we don't just read the words or listen to them being read, but that we actually say them ourselves.

So can you now please pause the video and read out these phrases just as I did.

Well done.

So could you tell me what does flabbergasted mean? Well done, It means very surprised or amazed.

Let's take a look at our next image that will show a word that means something similar to surprised.

So what's happening here? And how do you think this character is feeling? And what story does this illustration show? Pause the video and take a hard think about that now.

This word is speechless.

Speechless.

Speechless is an adjective meaning dumbstruck or lost for words.

How you feel when someone hangs up on you.

I think that's perhaps what's happening in this image here.

Cause I can see on the screen, it says call ended.

And this character looks very, very shocked.

So if you're speechless, it's like, you can't even think of anything to say.

You're so shocked.

What does the suffix -less mean? A suffix are letters that comes at the end of the word.

So in this word, speechless, less is the suffix.

Can you think of any other words that end in the same suffix -less? You might want to pause the video to have a think.

So here are some other words that end in the same suffix, fearless, helpless, luckless and hopeless.

These are all adjectives.

So if they end in the suffix -less, it means without.

Because if you're fearless, you're without fear.

Or if you're helpless, you're without help.

So if you're speechless, you're without speech, you've got nothing to say.

Okay.

So just as before, I'm going to read you a set of words and as I read them, I'd like you to see if you can spot the synonyms of speechless.

Remember speechless is an adjective.

So the synonyms will also be adjectives.

Utterly, almost, dumbstruck, temporarily, lost for words, practically, absolutely, totally and tongue tied.

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

A delivery driver who saw all the action unfold, said he was totally speechless when he realised what was going on.

Could you pause the video and see if you can tell me the synonyms of speechless? Let's see how you got on.

The synonyms are dumbstruck, lost for words and tongue tied.

Which means the rest of these words are word pairs.

So let me read these word pairs to you.

You might be utterly speechless, almost speechless, temporary speechless.

That means for a moment you'd be speechless, but then you'll be able to speak again.

Practically speechless, absolutely speechless or totally speechless.

Could you pause the video now and read these word pairs aloud to me? Well done.

So before we look at our final word, can you very quickly tell me what does speechless mean? Brilliant.

It means dumbstruck or lost for words.

Take a look at this final illustration.

So what's happening here? Can you pause the video and have a think about that now? It looks like this character has been zapped with a gun and is therefore completely frozen to the spot.

This word is stunned.

Stunned.

Stunned is an adjective meaning amazed, dazed or stupefied.

Like being so surprised you instantly freeze.

Take a look at these words and see if you can recognise which of these are synonyms of the word stunned.

Dazed, surprise, amazement, crowd, disbelief, horror, amazed, look and stupefied.

Here's the word in a sentence.

Stunned crowds stood staring in disbelief as they watched the chase commence.

Commence is another way of saying as they watched the chase begin.

Could you pause the video now and see if you can identify the synonyms of the word stunned? So the synonyms are dazed, amazed and stupefied.

Which means the rest of these words are word pairs.

So you might be in a stunned surprise, stunned amazement, stunned silence, stunned crowd, stunned disbelief, stunned horror, and a stunned Look.

Can you pause the video now and read these word pairs to me? Excellent.

So now we have learned all three of the adjectives we're looking at today.

Can you remember each word? Pause the video and tell me now.

So the first word we looked at was flabbergasted.

The second word was speechless.

And the third word was stunned.

I'd now like you to come up with your own definition for each word because when we explain things in our own words it can help us to remember and understand them more deeply.

So imagine that you were speaking to a little child, who'd never heard these words before and they couldn't look at these lovely illustrations to help them.

So how would you describe what these words meant? Pause the video and have a go at that now.

Okay, let me go over each definition just to recap.

So you can see how close you were.

Flabbergasted means very surprised or amazed.

Speechless means dumbstruck or lost for words.

And stunned means amazed, dazed or stupefied.

We're now going to take a look at the words in sentences.

And as you can see, I've written sentences that you could use in your newspaper reports.

So in this section of your report, you are getting eyewitness statements.

So people who were there at the scene of the crime, will be describing what they saw and how they felt.

Which is why these words are going to be really helpful.

So I've made up a name, Steve Glub reported, "I was ! one minute I'm delivering a parcel, the next I'm in the middle of a crime scene!" Can you pause the video and have a think about which adjective you would like to put in the sentence? Now you probably realise that actually all of these words could fit in the sentence.

I've gone for the word flabbergasted.

Here's the second sentence.

"At the time, I was completely.

I felt scared for my life!" Which adjective would you put in this sentence? So again, any of these could work because they're all very close in meaning.

They all mean surprised or shocked.

I've gone for, at the time, I was completely speechless.

And finally.

Famous restaurant owner, Raul Garcia claimed, " They took all the money from my restaurant.

I was !" so in the sentence, what we're actually saying is famous restaurant owner, Raul Garcia claimed and then the speech, but in brackets, we're putting the name of the restaurant.

Just adding an extra information.

So what might he be saying? They took all the money from my restaurant, I was.

Pause the video and tell me which word you would fit in the sentence now? So I've gone for, I was stunned.

It's now time for you to have a go at writing your own sentences.

So I'd like you to write a sentence using either the word flabbergasted, speechless or stunned.

If you want to really push yourself, you could write two or even three sentences and try to include each word in each sentence.

Really try to think about the context of what you're practising for at the moment in your writing unit, because this hopefully sentence hopefully, you can lift and put straight into your newspaper report.

It can be tricky just coming up with a sentence.

So here are some sentence starters that you might like to use to help you.

So you could start your sentence by saying.

One bystander reported, and then you can include one of those adjectives in your speech.

Remember when the speech comes second, you have to have a comma before it and your 66 and 99.

And the punctuation at the end of the speech always comes inside the 99.

Another sentence starter might be.

When I saw I.

Here's a context sentence.

So when I saw this thing, comma that's a subordinating clause.

What's the main clause? And perhaps in that main clause, you can describe how you felt using one of these words.

And finally.

A local restaurant owner brackets, so you can put in a made up name there, a local restaurant owner who happened to observe the scene from her flat, observe means to see the scene from her flat, commented that.

So this is an example, in the first sentence we had direct speech because we've actually got the speech punctuation.

But here we've got reported speech.

So we don't need the punctuation.

We've also got an embedded relative clause in the sentence.

The main clause is a local restaurant owner, then the name commented that, and then you'd say what they said.

But we've embedded, we've put into that, that main clause and relative clause starting with who, who happened to observe the scene from her flat.

It's a bit of extra information hugged by commas either side.

So this sentence scaffold at the end is very ambitious.

It's got brackets, an embedded relative clause and reported speech.

You could use any of these sentence stems, to help you with your sentence, or you can ignore them and come up with your own.

Whatever's easier for you or whatever you prefer.

So good luck.

Make sure you say your sentence before you write it.

And make sure after you've written it, you read it through carefully to check.

Good luck.

Excellent.

Well done for working so hard today.

If you want to share any of those sentences that you've written, you can ask your parent or carer to take a photo of them and upload them on Twitter, because we always love seeing the work that you're doing.

Thank you for watching this lesson.

And I hope that those words come in really useful, when you do your second writing outcome.

Thanks everyone.

Bye.