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Hello everyone, my name is Miss Butt and today we're going to be learning some new and exciting vocabulary together.

Hopefully these words we're going to learn today will be really helpful in your unit on the Jabberwocky.

Today we're going to be learning three words that you could use to describe fighting or battles because I know that there's a little bit of fighting in your narrative unit on the Jabberwocky.

I hope that you're ready to learn some brilliant and ambitious new words and I hope that you enjoy today's lesson.

Here's what we're going to do in today's lesson.

First, I'm going to introduce the new vocabulary one word at a time and we're going to be looking at illustrations to help us understand what these words mean.

Then we're going to look at word pairs and synonyms for each word and that will help us to understand these words even better and finally when we feel confident enough to do so, we're going to have a go at applying these words in sentences.

For today's lesson, you're going to need your brain first of all but you're also going to need something to write on and something to write with right at the end of the lesson.

So can you pause the video now and make sure that you've got the things that you need and that you take a nice deep breath and focus and make sure that you're ready to concentrate on your learning.

Brilliant, so let's start thinking about fights or arguments.

Can you come up with as many different types of fight words as you can? For example, you might have the word an argument.

You might also have the word bicker.

If you are bickering it's like when children might bicker in the back of a car maybe if they're arguing about what songs being played or something like that.

Can you think of any other words that you could use to describe a describe a fight or a battle? Okay, well today we're going to learn some so don't worry if you find that quite tricky.

So before we start looking at our new words, here's some key vocabulary that we need to understand in order to do this lesson.

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

I know it's a bit strange talking to a computer but it does help us to make sure that we're really engaged.

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

Okay so let's take a look at what these mean.

A synonym is a word that means exactly or nearly the same as another word like merry and happy mean more or less the same thing.

Word pairs are words that often appear together.

So for example a bright sun or a bright moon.

An adjective is a describing word, like the blue water bottle.

A noun is a person, place or thing and often we describe nouns with adjectives so for example, this is the bottle, that's the noun, that's the thing.

A verb is a doing or a being word, so if I said I am hungry, that being I am would be a verb but mostly we just know that these are anything that we do, it doesn't have to be something a human or an animal does, it could be something that any object does so for example, the water bottle sits on my desk, sits would be the verb that's the doing word and finally an adverb describes a verb so if the verb was running, then the adverb would be quickly running or quickly run.

It describes how the verb happens.

So let's take a look at our first fight word.

Before I reveal the word, we're going to look at an illustration.

What is happening in this picture? I wonder if you could describe it to me and describe what the characters are feeling and I wonder if you could even have a guess at what this word might be.

Pause the video and have a think now.

Okay so this rather funny image shows us that somebody has been hiding behind a bush and has suddenly leapt out and the other little character looks extremely shocked at what is happening here.

This word is ambush, ambush.

An ambush is a verb so it's a doing word and it's to make a surprise attack like a soldier leaping out suddenly from a hiding place.

So if you were going to ambush someone, perhaps you might have to hide and patiently wait, in order that you could then jump out and surprise them.

So let's take a look at some words that could be synonyms of the word ambush and remember synonym is a word that means more or less the same thing.

If any of these words aren't synonyms that means that they're word pairs.

So as I read these words to you, see if you can spot any synonyms of ambush.

Your enemy, your foe, a foe is another word for an enemy.

Your prey, lie in wait for, the army, the troops, the soldiers, trap and make a surprise attack.

Can you pause the video and see if you can find the synonyms of ambush but before you do that, let me read the sentence to you cause it might help you.

Tigers hide in the long grass before ambushing their prey.

So if a word is a synonym, often it can replace the word in the sentence.

That doesn't always work but it can help to see the word in context.

So pause the video now and see if you can spot the synonyms of ambush.

So the synonyms are, lie in wait for, trap or make a surprise attack.

That means the rest of these words or these kind of words, what would I call them, a group of words will be word pairs.

So let me read these to you.

Ambush your enemy, ambush your foe, ambush your prey, like we saw in that example with the tiger, ambush the army, ambush the troops, and ambush the soldiers.

So you can see lots of words that are linked to battles or wars that gives ambushing which we know is a doing word, is something that probably would happen a lot in wars or battles because you're going to have more, you're going to be more effective, if you surprise someone with your attack rather than if people are prepared and know that you're coming and when we learn new words, it's really important that we read them out loud because if we just read them in our heads or we just listen to them, we don't remember them.

So can you pause the video and read these words out loud just like I did.

Well done, so before we move on to our second word, I wonder if you can remind me, what does the word ambush mean? You could use the image to help you.

That's right, it means making a surprise attack.

Let's take a look at the second illustration.

What's happening here? Can you describe this picture and what is going on? Pause the video and have a think now.

Well this image is very funny because you might think if you just look to the top part of the image, that this was a plane from a war and that maybe it was going to be scattering bombs but then if you look closer down, you can see that actually that is confetti and presents coming out of this plane.

So it's a bit of a funny image.

I wonder what the word could be.

Bombard, I say you say, bombard, bombard.

Bombard is also a verb, it's a doing word.

It means to attack or batter like overwhelming someone with presence on their birthday.

Now obviously in this example, bombardment is a very positive thing.

If someone bombarded you with presence on your birthday, you would probably be quite happy but you could also bombard someone with something negative, for example, you might bombard somebody with, well I'm not going to spoil that actually cause I'd like to take a look at the word pairs later on.

Okay, so here I go.

I'm going to read out these words for you.

Now either these words will be a synonym of bombard which means the same thing or it will be a word pair.

So as I read them, see if you can spot the synonyms. Attack, the enemy, a castle, a city, barrage, him with insults, an army, heavily, batter, violently, constantly, her with texts.

So real range here of words.

Here's this word in a sentence.

The storm clouds bombarded the city with hailstones big enough to break car windows.

So there you can see the example bombarded with the city with hailstones that's quite negative unlike in this image being bombarded with presents on your birthday which is positive.

So can you pause the video and see if you can spot any synonyms of the word bombard.

So the synonyms are, attack, barrage and batter and that means the rest of the words are word pairs which I'll read to you now, bombard the enemy, perhaps in a battle, bombard a castle, bombard a city, bombard an army, bombard him with insults, insulting somebody saying nasty things over and over again.

So so far we can see that actually despite this image making bombard look like quite a nice doing word, all of these word pairs have actually shown that it can be really very negative.

Bombard her with texts.

So imagine if you suddenly if someone was going to bombard you with text messages, they just would keep on coming.

Bombard heavily and bombard violently.

Now heavily and violently are both adverbs.

They're both, they describe how the verb is happening.

So bombard is the verb that's the doing word and heavily and violently described how that is happening.

So, before we move on, I'd like you to now read the word pairs out loud just like I did.

Brilliant, well done.

So before we move on to our last image, can you just remind me? What does bombard mean? Well then it means to attack or batter like overwhelming someone with presents on their birthday.

Let's take a look at our final illustration.

What is happening in this picture? What can you see? What do you notice? How are the characters feeling? What's the atmosphere? And what story do you think this is telling? Pause the video and have a think now.

Okay wow this looks like some kind of sport.

One of them is holding a football, one of them is holding a rugby ball.

They are looking at each other in definitely a way that I can tell that they're fighting.

They do not seem very happy at all.

They've got very stern faces and they look very cross with one another.

I wonder what this word could be.

Feud, feud.

Now this is interesting because this isn't a verb, it's not a doing word.

It's actually a noun so it's a thing, a feud is a thing and it is a quarrel or argument that is never settled, like people fighting about the same thing for years.

Quite often you might have a feud so a long standing argument in sport for example, if you support football teams, Tottenham and Arsenal have a bit of a feud that's ongoing so they always are really competitive with each other particularly those teams really want to beat each other.

So it's not just an argument, it's an argument that's been going on for a long time, okay? So let's take a look at some words that could be synonyms of this noun feud.

Bitter, deadly, quarrel, vicious, family, dispute, bloody, ongoing, long-standing, vendetta and vendetta again is like a bitter quarrel that goes on for a long time.

A vendetta quite often is involved when you think of vendetta with revenge.

So someone's done something to you a long time ago so you have a vendetta against them, you want to have revenge on them.

Here's the word in a sentence.

The long standing feud between the two enemies had lasted for years.

I wonder if you could pause the video and spot the synonyms. Let me have a look how many I can see.

I found one, two, three.

I wonder if you can spot the three synonyms, pause the video and have a go now.

So the synonyms are, a quarrel, a dispute and a vendetta and that means the rest of these words are word pairs which I'll read to now.

A bitter feud, a deadly feud, a vicious feud, a long running feud, a family feud, a bloody feud, an ongoing feud and a long standing feud.

I wonder if you can now pause the video and read these word pairs out loud just so that this word sticks in your memory.

Brilliant, well done.

So now we've learned three battle or fight words.

Let's go over them one more time.

Now here you can see that my words have got jumbled up and don't match up the correct images.

So I wonder if you could pause the video and see if you can match the correct word with the correct illustration.

Let's see how you got on.

So the first one is an ambush, the second one is bombard and the third one is a feud.

Could you now match up the definitions cause again the definitions have got jumbled up.

So pause the video and read each definition and see if you can spot which word it matches up to.

Okay let's go through the answers.

Ambush is a surprise to make a surprise attack, it's something that you do.

Bombard is also a verb it's to attack or batter and a feud is a quarrel or an argument that's never settled.

I wonder, can you remember out of these three words, two of them are verbs but one of them is a noun.

Can you remember which one is the noun? Perhaps you could point at it for me.

Yeah that's right it's a feud.

So the other two words are verbs they're things that you do but then a feud is a noun, it's a thing.

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

Now I've written these sentences to match up with your unit so hopefully they'll be helpful when you're doing your writing.

As he crouched stealthily behind a tree, he waited for the right moment to the dangerous creature.

So which word fits best in here? Let's look for some clues.

If you stealthily crouch it means that you are, you're able to do it in quite a sort of flexible and a way that maybe might be really quiet so no one will be able to hear you.

So it's a subordinating clause as he crouched stealthily behind a tree, he waited for the right moment.

Now if you're crouching and waiting, which word do you think it is? Pause the video and see if you can tell me.

Well done it's ambush.

As he crouched stealthily behind a tree, he waited for the right moment to ambush the dead dangerous creature but I have forgotten something really important in this sentence.

I wonder if you will all shouting at the screen to tell me.

I've forgotten a really important piece of punctuation.

Can you tell me what it is? That's right it's a full stop.

Quite often when we're writing ambitious sentences like this, we are so concerned with trying to make it make sense and to put really brilliant juicy vocabulary into it and you can see in this sentence is a complex sentence with a subordinating conjunction as, all of those brilliant things are in the sentence, I've even remembered my comma in between the subordinating clause and the main clause but then sometimes the most simple things like capital letters and full stops go out the window and that's why it's always important when we've written a sentence to read back carefully and check and add in the full stop.

So when you write your sentences later, hopefully you guys will remember that to read back and check things like punctuation.

Here's the second sentence.

When the brave man returned home, he informed his father that the long standing with the Jabberwocky was over at last.

Which word do you think fits best here? The correct answer is long standing feud.

That was a clue there because not only was it described as long standing and we know that feuds go on for a long time but also it was it was the long standing feud.

It's a noun that we were looking for and the other two words here are adjectives.

Again this sentence is a complex sentence.

It's got the subordinating conjunction when, when the brave man returned home comma, he informed his father that the long standing feud with the Jabberwocky was over at last.

It's made up of a subordinating clause and then a comma and then a main clause.

Finally, skillfully he the Jabberwocky with powerful punches.

Which word Do you think fits in here? Skillfully he bombarded the Jabberwocky with powerful punches.

What do you notice about this example? You may have noticed that in these two verbs, ambush and bombard, they've now become, we've got an -ed on the end bombarded.

That's because we've turned this into, when we have verbs we often have to change the tense to say whether it's happened, whether it's happening or whether it's going to happen in the future.

You may also notice the sentence starts with the word skillfully.

Now that's an adverb and it says how he bombarded the Jabberwocky.

So that's another nice example for your sentences.

Perhaps you could start with an adverb and then a comma to say how the verb happens.

Okay, skillfully comma, he bombarded the Jabberwocky with powerful punches.

So I've given you lots of ideas to write a sentence but it can still be really tricky, coming up with your own ideas and coming up with a sentence.

So I'd like you to write a sentence using the word ambush but I would like you to use the word pairs to help you.

So for example, you might use the word pair, ambush the troops and then you might build a sentence around that.

You could also have a little bit of help by finishing off this sentence.

He stood still, there's the main clause, as, there's my subordinating conjunction.

So this is going to make a complex sentence, He stood still as he, what did he do? And how could you include the word ambush in that sentence? He stood still as he waited, I'm not going to give you any more help than that.

Could you pause the video and have a go at writing your own sentence now? Okay, well done and did you do what I've got to? Have you gone back and read it and check for your full stop at the end? Oh! Great well done.

Now I'd like you to write a sentence using the word bombard.

Again, use the word pairs to help you.

For example you might use the word pair violently bombard and again you might have to change it be violently bombarded.

So think about the tense that you're writing in.

So pause the video now and have a go and think about a sentence that would be helpful for when in the story, he's fighting the Jabberwocky.

Really good, well done and one final thing I'd like you to do is write a sentence using the word feud.

Again use the word pairs to help you, for example long standing feud or vicious feud because this is your last sentence, see if you can make it really ambitious.

Perhaps you could start your sentence with a subordinating conjunction like as or when or before or after.

Don't forget, if you do do that, after subordinating clause you need a comma before the main clause.

Pause the video and have a go at writing your final sentence now.

Well done, you've worked so hard, you should feel very proud of yourselves and you've learned three brilliant new words to describe fights or battles.

I hope that these words come in handy when you're writing about the fighting scene in the Jabberwocky unit.

I hope that also, you feel really proud now when you read these words and books that you can understand exactly what they mean and you can actually put them in a sentence by yourselves.

Well done for watching the lesson and if you want to share any of your sentences that you wrote, you can ask the parent or carer and you can upload the images on Twitter.

Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you soon, bye.