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Hello everyone, my name is Miss Butt and today we're going to be learning some vocabulary for you to use in your unit on "Oliver Twist".

Now in the last vocabulary lesson that I did with you, we learned some words to describe hunger or thirst.

And we're going to carry on on the same theme today.

So today we're going to learn three new hungry or thirsty words.

And I hope that these words are really useful when you come to your writing.

Enjoy the lesson.

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

First, I'm going to introduce the new words to you one at a time and we're going to be looking at illustrations for each words to help us understand what they mean.

Then we're going to look at word pairs and synonyms for each word.

And this is going to help us have a deeper understanding of the word and to learn to use them in an appropriate way.

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

And right at the end of the lesson, you're going to have a go at writing your own sentence.

And we're going to try and make these sentences about Oliver.

So they're really helpful for your writing unit.

So for the end of the lesson, you're going to need a pad of paper or an exercise book and a pencil, you're going to need your brains from the very beginning of the lesson.

Can you please pause the video and make sure you've got everything you need and make sure that you've cleared away anything that might distract you and that you're focused and ready for your learning.

Great, let's get started.

So here's some useful vocabulary we're going to be using today.

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

Synonym, word pair, verb, adjective, noun.

Let's go through what these mean.

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

So today we're going to be learning some synonyms for the word hungry.

Word pairs are word that often appear together.

Like 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.

Let's start thinking about hunger and thirst.

If you feel very hungry, or if you feel very thirsty, what things do you notice happen to your body? Can you pause the video and see if you can think of anything now? One thing I noticed when I'm hungry is that my tummy sometimes rumbles and sometimes it's quite embarrassing because it does it quite loudly.

Another thing I notice if I'm thirsty is that my mouth gets quite dry.

I wonder if you notice those things? So let's take a look at our first hunger or thirst word.

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

Whoa! What's happening in this picture? Can you please pause the video and take a close look at what's going on and how you would describe this character.

Off you go.

Well, goodness me, this dog looks extremely hungry.

Their mouth is wide open.

And not only are they having one whole roast chicken, but they've got another one on the other fork ready to eat.

My goodness! Let's see what this word could be.

Ravenous, ravenous.

This is an adjective so it's a describing word.

And it means hungry or starving.

When you feel like you could eat an entire roast dinner in one bite.

Have you ever felt ravenous before? I hope none of you feel ravenous now.

Let's take a look at some words that could be synonyms of ravenous.

If they're not synonyms, that means they're word pairs.

There's three synonyms in this set of words and I wonder if you can spot them as I read them to you.

Hungry, dog, appetite, hunger, wolf, piranha, they're those fish that eat the flesh of things.

Starving, beast, famished and zombies.

Here's the word in a sentence.

Oliver's ravenous appetite was never satisfied by the meagre portion of gruel that was served at the workhouse.

You may have noticed if you watched the last vocabulary lesson that we did, that two of the words have propped up here.

Famished which meant very hungry was one of them.

And the other one was meagre which means a tiny amount.

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

So the synonyms are, hungry, starving and famished.

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

So you might get a ravenous dog.

You may have a ravenous appetite or ravenous hunger.

A ravenous wolf might be on the prowl.

Ravenous piranha.

Whoa! You won't want to jump in some water with ravenous piranhas.

A ravenous beast and ravenous zombies.

Now when we learn new words, it's not enough that we can just read them or even to hear them, what I'd like you to do is say them aloud.

So you can you read these word pairs out loud just like I did.

Maybe as you say them you can do some acting and maybe make yourself act as if you're feeling ravenous.

Off you go.

Okay, brilliant.

Well done.

Before we move on, can you remind me what does ravenous mean? Yeah, that's right, well done.

It means hungry or starving.

Let's take a look at our second illustration.

Ooh, what's happening in this picture? Looks like two very contrasting characters here.

How are they both feeling do you think? How would you describe the little character that's on the floor? Pause the video and either have a think or describe out loud what you see.

Well done, I can see that one of the characters looks like they've got first of all some shades because they've got a sun umbrella, but also they're drinking a nice cool drink of water.

The other poor character, however, has got no shade and no water.

They look extremely envious of her water their tongues hanging out and it looks like they're dripping in sweat.

And I can see those little waves of heat coming off them.

Looks like they might be on a beach or a desert.

Let's find out what this word is.

It looks like it might have something to do with being thirsty rather than being hungry.

Parched, parched.

This is an adjective that means dry or thirsty, how your throat feels if you run out of water in the desert.

Gosh, you definitely would feel parched then.

You might often notice that you feel parched if you've done lots of exercise and that you haven't got a water bottle with you.

Let's take a look at some words that could be synonyms of the word parched.

There is three synonyms here.

See if you can spot them as I read the set of words to you.

Throat, lips, desert, mouth, earth, baked, thirsty, soil, dry, tongue and farmland.

Here's the word in a sentence.

After hours of walking, Oliver's throat felt parched and he longed for water.

Can you pause the video and tell me which three words are synonyms of parched? Let's go through the answers.

So the synonyms are baked, thirsty and dry.

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

Parched throat, parched lips, so if you've ever got really dry lips, you might describe them as being parched.

Parched desert, parched mouth, parched earth, parched earth or parched soil or parched farmland.

Why might the earth or the soil or the farmland be parched? What do you think? Yeah, that's right.

Maybe if there hasn't been rain in a long time, sometimes we call that a drought.

If there's been a drought where there's no rain, the earth goes really cracked and hard and parched.

And parched tongue and then parched farmland we read that one before.

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

Off you go.

Brilliant, well done.

So before we move on to our final word, can you remind me what does parched mean? Well done, it means dry or thirsty.

Let's take a look at our final illustration.

Whoa, ooh my goodness! What's happening here? How do you think this character is feeling? What story does this picture tell? Can you pause the video and describe it to me or have a think in your head? Well, it looks like we're going back from thirst back to hunger.

This character has got so many burgers that I can't even count them.

And it looks like from the look of his cheeks and what's in his mouth, he's already eaten a lot of burgers already.

Just chucking them in whole and munching them up so definitely I'd say this character is hungry.

I wonder if this works similar to the word, insatiable that word that we learned, if you watched the last lesson, where if you have an insatiable appetite, it's like you can never fill up because it looks like this character never gets filled up from what he's eating here.

Let's find out.

Voracious, voracious.

So voracious is also an adjective, a describing word and it means greedy or gluttonous.

Like a never ending hunger for hamburgers.

If it's hunger, it's never ending.

It does sound similar to insatiable.

Now the root word vor which we can see at the start, the first three letters of the word voracious, means to eat.

So why do you think these words also share the same root word? Devour, carnivore and herbivore? Do you know what devour, carnivore or herbivore mean? And then can you work out why they might all share this root word vor, which means to eat.

Have a little think about that.

Now, if you want you can even pause the video.

So the answer is that they're all about types of eating.

Devour, if you devour something that's when you eat things up in one gulp.

If you are a carnivore that means you eat meat.

So perhaps a tiger might be a carnivore.

And if you're a herbivore it means you don't eat meat, you just eat vegetation.

So for example, a giraffe is a herbivore.

So let's take a look at some words that could be synonyms of voracious.

Appetite, greedy, eater, predator, curiosity, insatiable, carnivore, ravenous, animal and reader.

I can spot one, two, three synonyms. Here's the word in a sentence.

Oliver's curiosity was so voracious that he never stopped asking questions.

So we can use voracious to describe hunger.

But also curiosity could be voracious.

Can you pause the video and tell me the three synonyms that you can see.

Well done, the synonyms are, greedy, insatiable and ravenous.

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

A voracious appetite, voracious eater, a voracious predator, a voracious reader.

So imagine a reader that again like almost just can't get enough no matter how much they read they just want to keep reading more, almost like being greedy to read which actually would be a good thing because the more you read, you can never read too much.

Voracious curiosity, voracious carnivore, and voracious animal.

So can you pause the video and one last time read these word pairs out loud.

And let me just say the word for you one more time.

It's a tricky word, voracious.

Okay, brilliant, off you go.

Excellent.

So now we've learned three new hungry or thirsty words.

Can you pause the video and just tell me what each word is? Can you remember? Well done.

So the first word was ravenous.

The second word was parched, and the third word was voracious.

Now, I'd like you to come up with a definition for each word.

That means can you describe what each word means? It doesn't need to be the same as the definitions I read earlier.

But it's always important to try to put things in your own words and explain them yourselves and that way they'll stick in your memory.

So imagine that somebody has never heard what these words are, can you describe what they mean? Pause the video and have a go.

Well done.

So let's just go over the meanings one more time.

Ravenous means hungry or starving.

Parched means dry or thirsty.

And voracious means greedy or gluttonous.

Can you remember which of these three words is the word that's linked to thirst? That's right, it's parched.

The other two are more linked to hunger.

So now we're going to have a go at applying these words in sentences that might be useful in your Oliver writing.

Which word do you think fits best in this sentence? Oliver was a mmmh eater, so the portions at the workhouse never satisfied him.

Pause the video and see if you can think which word fits best in this sentence.

Oliver was a ravenous eater.

Oliver was a parched eater.

Oliver was a voracious eater.

Sometimes it helps me to say them each option out loud just to hear which one I think sounds right.

And the correct answer is, a voracious eater, means he never fills up.

So the portions at the workhouse never satisfied him.

We can even describe those portions as meagre.

They're tiny portions.

Limping down the road comma, that mmmh boy's mouth was dry and his stooping back ached.

Which word do you think fits here? Limping down the road, the parched boy's mouth was dry and his stooping back ached.

When we're writing a narrative about Oliver, we really want our audience to sympathise with him.

So therefore we want to try and include emotive language and we want our readers to feel as sorry for him as possible.

And therefore using this kind of emotive language about him being parched and having a dry mouth and an aching back is going to really help the reader to sympathise and feel very sorry for Oliver.

You might also notice that this sentence starts with a non-finite clause.

It's got a verb, limp and then we've got -ing on the end of it, limping.

Limping down the road comma, there's our non-finite clause and then the next part of the sentence is the main clause.

Perhaps you might be able to write a sentence starting with a non-finite clause in a moment.

All Oliver had eaten was a meagre crust of bread so he felt mmmh.

Which word fits here? So he felt ravenous.

Now it's your turn to have a go at writing your own sentences.

I'd like you to write a sentence and use either the word ravenous, parched or voracious.

If you wanted to, you could write one sentence with each of the words, that's up to you.

Here are some sentence stems to help you.

You don't have to use these, but they might be useful if you're struggling to think of how to start your sentence.

The first sentence stem is a complex sentence.

It starts with a subordinating clause because it's got a subordinating conjunction, after.

After days of walking comma, mmmh how could we finish that sentence? What might Oliver do? Or how might Oliver be feeling after days of walking? Perhaps parched would be a good word to use there.

The second sentence scaffold is a non-finite clause because it's got a verb, plod, it's got an -ing ending plodding slowly plodding along comma, mmmh, slowly plodding along.

How might we finish that sentence? And finally, you could even try to use an embedded relative clause, Oliver comma, who and then you could tell to add some detail about Oliver.

And then you can complete the main clause.

For example, if the main clause was, Oliver felt ravenous, you could add the embedded relative clause, it could be Oliver comma, who hadn't eaten in days comma, felt ravenous.

The main clause is Oliver felt ravenous but we've embedded some relative information about Oliver, who hadn't eaten in days, and it's got to be hugged by commas either side.

So as we said, you can choose to use one of these sentences, or you could choose two or even three, or you can come up with your own idea.

So pause the video and have a go now.

Brilliant, well done.

If you want to share any of the sentences that you wrote today, you can ask a parent or carer to take an image, take a photo and pop it on Twitter.

We always love seeing the work that you're up to.

Thank you so much for watching this lesson.

And I hope that those you new words are useful not only in your "Oliver Twist" unit, but also that if you ever see them in books now you'll understand what they mean.

I quite often picture those images and that helps me to remember what the words mean.

Thank you for watching and well done for working so hard.

See you soon everyone.

Bye.