Lesson video

Good morning everyone, My name is Ms Butt.

Today I'm going to be teaching you some new vocabulary.

We're going to be learning three ways of saying happy, these are going to be adjectives and the reason it's really good to learn different ways of saying something is to stop us repeating the same words in our writing.

I think these words will be really useful for your unit on John Lyons' poetry because I know that lots of his poetry is about very happy things.

I hope that you enjoy today's lesson.

Okay let's get started.

In today's lesson, I'm going to introduce the new vocabulary one word at a time.

Then for each word we're going to identify the word pairs and synonyms and that's going to help us to understand this word a little better.

Finally, we're going to have a go at applying these words in sentences and hopefully these sentences, will be sentences that you could use in your unit on John Lyons.

In this lesson, you're going to need something to write on like a piece of paper or notepad, a pencil and your brains.

Please can you make sure that you have everything you need and that you've cleared away anything that might distract you.

Pause the video and do that now.

So let's start off by thinking about happiness.

You can see this character here looks very happy.

I want you to answer this question.

Do you think there are different types of happiness? Or is there just one type of happiness? Pause the video and have a think about that.

I felt lots of different types of happiness.

Sometimes I feel happy in a way that I'm not overjoyed but I just feel quite content and quite calm and that I'm enjoying myself but other times, if I've heard some exciting news or I'm at a really fun event, I feel happy in a different way.

So I think there's lots of different types of happiness, just like there's lots of different types of sadness and different types of anger.

So we're going to be learning some ways today so we could be more specific when we're describing someone's happiness and actually how happy they actually are.

These words are really.

this vocabulary is going to be important in our lesson.

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

Synonym, word pair, adjective and noun.

So the synonyms are words that mean exactly or nearly the same as another word like merry and happy.

Those two words mean the same thing.

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

Adjectives are describing words and that's what we're going to be learning today, three adjectives, so three describing words.

For each describing word we learn, we're then going to think of synonyms, so words that mean kind of the same thing and that will help us to understand what the word means.

We're also going to look at the word pairs.

So if we're learning the word for example happy, what word pairs are often matched up for that word and finally we've got nouns which are people, places or things.

Okay, let's take a look at our first happy word.

Now before I reveal the word and first of all, I'm going to show you an illustration that demonstrates what this word is all about.

So can you pause the video and have a think about what is happening in this picture? How are the characters feeling? And what story do you think this picture is telling? Pause the video and have a think about that now.

Well it looks to me like this character is feeling very very happy sleeping on top of the pile of mattresses.

I have a feeling that they might be in a shop because I can see some signs that say mattress sale, 50% off and sold.

The shopkeeper at the bottom of the pile of mattresses looks quite shocked by his facial expression that one of the customers has actually fallen asleep on the mattress and the character that's fallen asleep on the mattress is sleeping but they look very happy while they're sleeping because they're kind of sleeping with a smile.

I wonder what this word can be.

Contented, I say you say, contented, contented.

Contented as an adjective that means satisfied and comfortable like feeling so relaxed and happy that you sleep soundly.

You may have also heard the word content and content also means that you're satisfied and comfortable.

There's a slight subtle difference between content and contented.

The only difference is that contented has got an -ed on the end and that -ed implies that the contentment has been caused by something specific.

So here for example, this character looks to be contented by the fact that she's sleeping on this pile of mattresses.

So you might just say, "Today I'm just feeling content for no reason." But if you had something that made you feel satisfied and comfortable, like maybe you were cold and you put on a big smugly jumper, then you might describe that as being contented.

Let's take a look at some words that could be synonyms of contented, that means they are words that mean nearly the same thing.

Customer, smile, cat, silence, pleased, satisfied, life, face, comfortable and grunt.

Here's the word in a sentence.

The contented cat purred as he lay in the warm sun.

What's causing the cat to feel contented in that sentence? That's right, it's the warm sun.

So I'd like you to pause the video and see if you can spot out of this group of words which three words are synonyms of contented.

Pause the video and have a think about that now.

Okay so the synonyms are, pleased, satisfied and comfortable.

Can you think of a time recently when you felt contented? So when you felt satisfied, pleased and comfortable.

I felt like that recently when I lay on the beach and read my book.

I wasn't feeling so excited that my heart was racing but I just felt really pleased and comfortable to be there.

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

A contented customer.

Why might a customer in a shop be contented? What could have made them feel that way? Maybe they've just gotten to buy something and gone to pay and they said, "Oh actually this is in a sale, "it's half price." And that might have made them feel really pleased and satisfied.

Maybe it was just because they found all the things that they needed, that they were looking for.

A contented smile, I bet like we can see in this image.

Can you all show me what a contented smile would look like? Very nice.

A contented cat, maybe cause it was having too nice warm milk or lying in the sun.

Contented silence.

Sometimes it's really nice to just be able to be silent.

If two people know each other really really well and feel really comfortable around one another, they should be able to sit in silence and not feel like they have to talk to each other all the time, but they can still feel very contented in that silence.

A contented grunt.

Perhaps a pig might do a contented grunt if it was rolling around in the mud.

A contented life and a contented face.

Now it's really important when we're learning new vocabulary that we say the words aloud because that's the way that it sinks in and will remember it forever.

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

Off you go.

Okay well done.

Now before we move on to our second word, could you just remind me, what does the word contented mean? Use the image to help you.

Well done that's right.

It means satisfied and comfortable.

Let's take a look at our second image.

This is a funny image.

What's happening in this picture? Does it reminds you of a story? It definitely reminds me of a certain story.

What can you see? How do you think these characters are feeling and why? What story is this picture telling? Pause the video and describe it now.

What I can see here, is I can see this character who is looking extremely happy and excited because it looks like this very dashing young prince has put a glass slipper that fits her perfectly.

It reminds me of the story of Cinderella and I think maybe that's what the illustrators were trying to recreate.

This character looks so happy that the slipper has fitted them perfectly.

so I know that this word is going to be to do with something to do with happiness but I feel like it's going to be a bit more of an extreme happiness than the last word we looked at which was just contented, just feeling satisfied, cause this looks like a really exciting moment for this character.

Let's find out what this word is.

Gleeful, I say you say, gleeful, gleeful.

I feel like that's the kind of word that when you say it, it kind of makes you feel gleeful.

It's also an adjective and it means cheerful or merry, when you feel full of joy.

Can you think of a time recently when you felt gleeful? Let's take a look of those synonyms of the word gleeful.

Remember synonyms are words that mean the same thing.

Cheerful, grin, merry, laughter, smirk, giggle, shout, squeal, full of fun and a chuckle, that's a laugh , bit like Father Christmas might laugh in a chuckle.

People waited to get their ice cream with gleeful grins on their faces.

Could you pause the video and see if you can spot the three synonyms of gleeful.

The synonyms are, cheerful, merry and full of fun.

That means the rest of the words are word pairs, I'm going to read them to you now.

A gleeful grin, gleeful laughter, a gleeful smirk.

Quite often a smirk is a smile that someone might do when they're up to no good.

So perhaps a villain might have a gleeful smirk when they've thought of an evil plan.

A gleeful giggle, gleeful shout, a gleeful squeal and a gleeful chuckle.

Could you please pause the video and read these word pairs aloud just like I did.

Brilliant well done.

Before we move on to our final word, can you just tell me, what does gleeful mean again? Use the image to help you.

Yes well done it means cheerful or merry, when you're full of joy.

Okay, let's take a look at our final image.

What is happening in this picture? How do you think this character is feeling? And why do you think they're feeling that way? Can you pause the video and describe what you can see.

I think this character might have won an award, don't you? I can see that because they're holding up a trophy above their head.

and it looks to me like maybe this is not just an award ceremony at a school or something like this but this might be like an Academy Award because this character is dressed in black tie in a very smart suit.

and there are lights shining on them and a microphone setup.

So and this person has also won a really important prize and they look to me again not just happy, I wouldn't just say this character is happy, I would say it's more than that, It's more extreme than that.

So we're thinking now of a word that means that you are extremely extremely extremely happy.

I wonder what that word could be.

Ecstatic, I say you say, ecstatic, ecstatic.

This is also an adjective and it means blissful or perfectly happy.

How you would feel if you won an award.

Can you think of a time when you felt completely blissful and perfectly happy? A time when you were so excited by something and just so overcome with joy? Lovely well done.

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

Winner, crowd, dance, applause that's clapping.

Blissful, smile, thrilled, reaction, joy, mood and perfectly happy.

Here's the word in a sentence.

The ecstatic crowd jumped up and down with excitement.

Can you pause the video and see if you can identify the three synonyms of ecstatic.

So the synonyms are, blissful, thrilled and perfectly happy and the rest of the words are therefore word pairs which I'll read to you now.

An ecstatic winner, a bit like this person in the picture.

An ecstatic crowd, quite often if you watch something like a football match and one team scores, the supporters go wild with excitement and they are very ecstatic.

An ecstatic dance, ecstatic applause, an ecstatic reaction, ecstatic joy, an ecstatic mood and an ecstatic smile.

When you sometimes say words over and over again they start to sound a little bit funny.

I felt like that when I was reading them maybe you'll feel like that when you read them now.

Can you pause the video and read these word pairs aloud? Off you go.

Okay brilliant.

So we've now learned three different ways to describe happiness and this is really great because it means that if we want to describe a happy character in a story now, we can use these words rather than just saying happy and these different words all show different levels of happiness.

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

Off you go.

Okay so the answers are, contented, gleeful and ecstatic.

Now I'd like you to read my definitions because they've got a bit jumbled up and I'd like you to match the correct definition with the correct word.

Pause the video and have a go at that now.

Okay let's see how you got on with that task.

So contented means satisfied and comfortable.

Gleeful means cheerful or merry and ecstatic means blissful or perfectly happy.

Which of these adjectives would you use to express their most extreme happiness.

So if you are writing a story and one of your characters in your story was completely over the moon about something, which word would you use? Yeah I agree, I think ecstatic is the word that expresses the most extreme happiness.

In fact it probably goes in order of the pictures.

Contented is probably just happy but in quite a sort of calm way and then gleeful and then ecstatic.

So they're kind of in order of how much happiness they show.

Right let's have a go now at applying these words in sentences.

A smile spread across my face as I lay in the blazing sunshine.

Which adjective do you think would fit in here? Pause the video and have a think.

A contented smile.

Again, if we're contented, it often means that something is causing us to feel content and it looks like the reason that I'm feeling content here in this sentence is cause there's lovely sunshine, that's shining on me.

You'll notice that this sentence is written in the first person.

That's because it says my face and I lay so this is a sentence written in the first person because it's about myself.

Let's take a look at the second sentence.

There was applause for the colourful parade, which made some children cover their ears.

If this applause which is clapping is so loud it makes children cover their ears, which adjective could we use to describe it? I agree, I think ecstatic is the best way to describe this applause and finally, something laughter laughter filled the air as brightly dressed dancers skipped through the streets, which word would fit in here? Gleeful, in fact these words probably could all fit in that sentence and because they're all sort of synonyms for happy, that I think gleeful laughter fits really nicely and you'll notice that I've changed the first letter to a capital letter because it's the start of my sentence.

This sentence is also a complex sentence because it's got as in the middle of it.

Gleeful laughter filled the air as brightly dressed dances skipped through the streets.

As is called a subordinating conjunction and if you use a subordinating conjunction, it means you make a complex sentence with a main clause and a subordinating clause.

I wonder when you write your sentences now, if you could try and use a subordinating conjunction, like as or when or so or because or while or after or before and I wonder if you can try to write a complex sentence.

So I'd like you to write your first sentence using the word contented.

When you use a subordinating conjunction, you can put it at the start of the sentence or in the middle of the sentence.

For example, as the contented customer snuggled up on the mattress comma the other shoppers stared in disbelief or we could say, the shoppers stared in disbelief as the contented customer snuggled up on the mattresses, so we can swap the position of the subordinating clause around.

I'd like you to pick one of the word pairs and write a sentence now, for example, you might choose the word pair contented, grunt and you might build a sentence around that.

Could you pause the video and have a go at writing a sentence now? Okay brilliant well done.

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

So again pick one of the word pairs to help you, for example you might pick the word pair laughter, gleeful laughter and then you can build a sentence around that pair of words.

Again if you want to be really ambitious, you could try to write a complex sentence.

Pause the video and have a go at that now.

Excellent well done and for your final sentence using the word ecstatic, again use a word pair but also for this sentence, you could think about what you've learned so far in your poetry unit and perhaps you could try and write a sentence that you think would be useful for your poetry unit.

Perhaps you could even write a very short poem with the word ecstatic in it.

Try and push yourself because this is the last task I'm going to ask you to do today.

If not, you can just pick one of the word pairs like ecstatic mood and write a sentence about that.

So pause the video and have a go at that now.

Brilliant well done.

You've worked so hard and you've learned three really ambitious ways of describing happiness.

I really hope that these words are useful in your unit on poetry but I also hope that when you see these words now in a book that you're reading, you'll feel really confident and understand very clearly what they mean.

I find that now because I've looked at these images so much, if I see these words, I can always picture the image in my mind and that helps me to remember what the words mean.

Maybe that might happen to you.

If you want to share any of the sentences that you wrote today, then ask a parent or carer and you can share your work on Twitter because we always love to see the work that you guys are doing.

Thank you so much for working so hard today and I'll see you soon, bye everyone.