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Hello everyone, my name's Miss Butt and today I'm going to be teaching you some new vocabulary for you to use in your unit on Oliver Twist.

Now, poor old Oliver and his friends spend a lot of time feeling, exceptionally hungry.

But we don't want to keep saying, the hungry children, all the time in our storytelling.

We want different ways to describe that, that hunger.

So today we're going to be learning three different ways to describe hunger or thirst.

I hope you find today's lesson useful, and I hope you enjoy it.

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 look at illustrations, which will help us to understand what these words mean.

Then we're going to identify word pairs and synonyms for each word to give us a deeper understanding of what these words mean and how we can use them effectively.

And finally, we're going to apply these new words that we've learned in sentences, and we're going to try to make these sentences, sentences about Oliver so they're useful to use in your writing unit.

For today's lesson, you will need to do a little bit of writing at the very end.

So can you make sure that you've got something to write on and something to write with.

We're also going to need our brains.

And in order to really focus, we need to try to clear away anything that might distract us.

So can you pause the video now and get those things that you need and make sure you're focused and ready for your learning.

Okay, great, let's get started.

So here's some key vocabulary that's going to be very useful in this lesson.

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

Synonym.

Word pair.

Verb.

Adjective.

Noun.

Well done.

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

Like a synonym of happy would be the word, merry, because it means the same thing.

Word pairs are words that often appear together.

So if you had the word bright it's word pairs might be a bright sun, a bright moon, or a bright light.

A verb is a being or a doing word.

An adjective is a describing word.

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

Today we're going to be learning some adjectives because adjectives describe people who feel hungry, but we are also going to be learning one verb, which is a doing word.

So let's start thinking about hunger or thirst.

And most of us are very lucky and we get water from the tap and we can eat so that we're not, we might sometimes feel hungry in the day, but we're not ever feeling too hungry.

That hunger or thirst, if you feel extremely hungry or thirsty, can be a really horrible sensation.

I wonder if you could take a moment to think about what do you think is worse, hunger or thirst? Pause the video and have a little think and try to explain your answer.

Now of course there's not a wrong or a right answer with this, it's just your opinion.

So let's take a look at our first hunger or thirst word.

Ooh, what's happening in this picture? Before I tell you the word I'd like you to look closely at this picture and describe what you see.

Describe how you think this character's feeling Pause the video and do that now.

This character looks very hungry, doesn't she? She's hunched over with her knife and fork at the ready and her empty plate, ready to get some food.

And it looks like she's drooling, her mouth's watering at the thought of eating some food.

Definitely she's hungry, but remember today, we're trying to learn different ways of describing hunger.

Let's see what this word is.

Famished.

Famished.

This is an adjective that means very hungry or starving, how you feel when you're wild with hunger.

So perhaps if you've been doing loads of exercise all day, when you get home at the end of the day, you might feel famished really, really hungry, almost wild with hunger, like you just want to open up the cupboards and eat anything.

So I'm going to read some words to you now and as I read these words, I'd like you to see if you can identify the synonyms of famished.

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

If the words aren't synonyms, that means they're word pairs.

So words that the word, so words that famished would match up with.

So as I read, see if you can spot the synonyms. Bear.

Beast.

Very hungry.

Lion.

Children.

Starving.

Wolf.

Orphan.

Stomach.

Here's the word in a sentence and this might help you to spot the synonyms. The famished boys ran to the canteen, like a pack of hungry wolves.

In that sentence I've included a simile because I'm comparing the boys to a pack of hungry wolves using that word, like.

If we use the led like or as, it makes a simile.

Can you pause the video and see if you can spot the synonyms of famished now.

Let's see how you got on.

The synonyms are very hungry and starving.

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

A famished bear.

Ooh, I wouldn't want to come across a famished bear because it might want to eat me.

A famished beast.

A famished lion.

Famished children, a bit like at the workhouse in Oliver Twist.

Famished Wolf.

A famished orphan and a famished stomach.

Now, when we learn new words, it's not enough just to hear the words or even to read them.

What we need to do is actually say them out loud so that that way, they'll stick in our memories.

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

Well done.

So before we move on, take a look at this picture for famished and tell me one last time, what does it mean? Yes, it means very hungry or starving.

Let's take a look as our second illustration.

Hm, very different picture now.

So what's happening here do you think? How do you think this character is feeling and why? Pause the video and have a think.

It looks to me like this woman is very excited to have her coffee.

She is hunched up next to the coffee machine with her mug in hand ready.

And it looks from her facial expression like she's very eager to get her hands on her cup of coffee.

If you really, really want something, like if she wants coffee this much, it might be because she's addicted to it.

So coffee has got caffeine in it.

And if you have lots of caffeine, it means that then you want more and more of it.

So perhaps this lady is addicted to caffeine and that's why she's so desperate to get her hands on her cup of coffee.

Hm, let's find out what this word is.

Crave.

Crave.

Crave is a verb.

It means to long for or desire when you want something so much, it's all you can think about.

Have you ever had that before? When you've really longed for something, perhaps it might be a sweet treat or perhaps it might be a certain type of food.

And you can't stop thinking about it until you have it.

So this word, crave, is a verb 'cause it's not an adjective, it's not a describing word.

It's something that we do, we crave things.

Let's take a look at the word pairs and synonyms. As I read these words to you, can you see if you can spot the synonyms and there should be three of them.

Coffee.

Desire.

Sugar.

Chocolate.

Want.

Love.

Power.

Long for.

Attention.

Affection.

And food.

Here's the words\ in a sentence.

Craving love, Oliver lay in his bed and dreamt of escaping.

So you don't just crave food.

You can also crave things like love, so wanting something, that's all you can think of.

Can you pause the video and see if you can spot to the three synonyms of crave? So the synonyms are desire, want and long for.

So we could replace the word crave in the sentence.

Desiring love, comma, Oliver lay in his bed.

Wanting love, comma, Oliver lay in his bed.

Longing for love, comma, Oliver lay in his bed.

We can replace them because they mean the same thing as crave.

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

So you might crave coffee.

Crave sugar.

Crave chocolate, I sometimes get that in the evening, when I've got no chocolate in the house, I'm just really craving it.

Crave power.

Ooh, so some people perhaps want to have power.

They might, they might be really ambitious for that.

Crave love.

Crave attention.

Crave affection.

And crave food.

Now Oliver probably, is craving all of these things, perhaps not coffee, but probably he would definitely want some sugar or some chocolate.

Probably also would want some power because he's so powerless and definitely would want some love and attention and affection.

So this is a really useful word to use in your Oliver unit.

So just as before, can you now pause the video and read these word pairs out loud? Excellent, well done.

So before we move on, what does crave mean again? Well done.

And is it an adjective or verb? Great, it's a verb.

It's a verb that means to long for or desire.

A bit like this woman, longing for her cup of coffee.

Let's take a look as our final illustration.

What's happening in this picture? Can you have a close look and describe to me what you see and how you would describe this character? Pause the video and do that now.

So this looks to me, like some kind of factory, and I can see these fish are dropping into this tunnel, and then they are going along a conveyor belt.

And this character, instead of she's, it looks to me like she's moved the bucket where the fish go into and instead she's lying there, with her mouth open, waiting for fish to plop into her mouth.

It looks like she's going to be eating a lot of fish by the look of how many fish are on that conveyor belt.

So she must be extremely hungry.

Let's find out what this word is.

Insatiable.

It's quite a tricky a word to say let's split it up.

Insatiable.

Insatiable.

Well done.

This is also an adjective, like our first word famished.

It means greedy or impossible to satisfy.

So hungry you never fill up.

Well that looks like the case with this character.

Definitely this character looks greedy, but also it looks like she's never going to fill up because she keeps on eating fish, but still wants more.

I sometimes have days and I don't know what it is, I don't know if it's because perhaps the day before I'd eaten less or because I'd been in my seat a lot, I have certain days where I have an insatiable appetite and that means that no matter what I eat, I still keep feeling hungry.

I wonder if you've ever felt like that.

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

Greedy.

Appetite.

Curiosity.

Desire.

Endless.

Thirst.

Greed.

Urge.

Hunger.

Impossible to satisfy.

Here's the words in a sentence, Oliver's insatiable desire for more food meant he foolishly forgot Mr Bumble's cruelty.

Could you pause the video and see if you can spot the synonyms? I can see one, two, three.

I wonder if you can spot three as well.

Pause the video and have a go now.

So the synonyms are, greedy.

Endless.

And impossible to satisfy.

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

An insatiable appetite, a bit like I have on some days.

An insatiable curiosity.

Ooh, that would be quite a cool thing to have.

So you're so curious that no matter how much you find out, you still want to know more.

An insatiable desire.

An insatiable thirst.

No matter how much you drink, you still feel thirsty.

Insatiable greed.

Maybe Mr Bumble might have insatiable greed.

Insatiable urge and insatiable hunger.

Now remember, this is a tricky word to say, insatiable.

Insatiable.

Can you pause the video and read these word pairs out loud just like I did.

Excellent, well done.

So now we've learnt our three hungry or thirsty words.

Can you pause the video and see if you can remember what each word was? Use the images to help you.

Well done.

So the first word was famished.

The second word was crave and the third word was insatiable.

Now I'd like you to see if you can define each word.

It doesn't need to be the exact definition that I gave you earlier but try to put it in your own words.

If you were going to describe what these words meant to someone who'd never heard of them before, how would you describe them? Pause the video and try that now.

Let's see how you got on.

So famished means very hungry or starving.

Crave means to long for or desire.

And insatiable means greedy or impossible to satisfy.

Can you remember which one out of these three words is a verb? Two of them adjectives, one of them is a doing word, which one's the doing word? Well done, it's crave.

Craving is something that we do.

So let's take a look at some sentences.

I'd like you to listen to me read the sentence and see if you can spot which word fits best in sentence.

Mr Bumbles, mm, greed meant that he always wanted more food and never shared his lavish meals with the hungry orphans.

What a horrible man.

Lavish means that he's got lots and lots of lovely food, but he's so greedy he doesn't share it.

So which word would fit in here, Mr Bumbles, mm, greed.

Pause the video and have a think.

So the answer is Mr Bumble's insatiable greed.

The kind of greed that no matter how much he eats, he never fills up.

Now in this sentence, we've got two blanks.

See if you can work out which one is which, and you'll notice for crave, you've got three different options and they're the different tenses.

So if you're going to use the word crave, think about which tense would fit best.

The, mm, orphan lay awake in bed, mm, warmth and a hearty meal.

A hearty meal is a warming and warm meal, that's going to fill you up.

Pause the video and see if you can fill in the blanks for this sentence.

Let's see how you got on.

The famished orphan lay awake in bed, craving warmth, and a hearty meal.

Brilliant, well done.

I'd like you now feel final task to have a go at writing your own sentence and you can include either the word famished, crave or insatiable.

You could even write a sentence like I did here, that includes two of them in one sentence.

Or if you'd like, you could write three separate sentences that include each, each new word.

You do whatever you feel comfortable with.

Now to help you here are some sentence scaffolds.

So you can either come up with your own sentence, you don't have to use these, or you could pick one of these sentence scaffolds and finish the sentence.

The first sentence scaffold says, while Oliver lay in bed, comma, he, and then you can complete it.

This sentence would make a complex sentence because it's got a subordinating clause at the beginning.

While Oliver lay in bed comma, and then you'd have your main clause.

So what could Oliver do while he lay in bed? He could be dreaming of food.

Maybe his tummy's rumbling.

Maybe, think about how we could include one of these words.

Maybe he's craving something while he's lying in bed.

Let's go through this second sentence scaffold.

Mouth watering comma, this is a non finite clause because we've got a non-finite verb in it, watering.

Mouth watering, comma.

Hm, what could Oliver be doing as his mouth is watering? Mouth watering, comma, the famished boy, how could you finish that sentence? And finally, the third sentence scaffold is an adverb.

Desperately, comma.

So what could Oliver be doing desperately? So like I say, you don't have to use any of those sentence scaffolds, but if you can, you can pick one or if you want, you can even do all three sentences.

Pause the video and do what you like, do what you feel comfortable with now, off you go.

Excellent, well done.

If you want to share any of your sentences, then you can ask a parent or carer to take a picture of them and you can upload them on Twitter.

And that way we can see the brilliant sentences that you've written.

Well done for working so hard in this lesson.

You should be really impressed with yourself that you've now learnt three very ambitious new ways to describe hunger or thirst.

I hope that you can sneak these words into your writing.

I hope that you were also able to use them generally in life and impress people with your brilliant and broad vocabulary.

I'll see you soon, everyone, bye.