Lesson video

Hello everyone.

My name is Ms. Butt.

And today I'm going to be teaching you some vocabulary for you to use in your unit on Sherlock Holmes.

The ultimate you're working towards at the moment is a narrative piece of writing.

And you're writing a scene where Sherlock Holmes is a little bit restless and a little bit bored sitting in his office.

And one of the things he does as he's sitting in his office is look around quite a lot for some kind of distraction or entertainment.

So today we're going to be learning some different ways of referring to looking or seeing things.

I hope you enjoy the lesson.

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

First of all 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 identify word pairs and synonyms. We'll talk about a little bit more about what those things mean in a second.

And finally we'll apply these new words that we've learned in sentences.

And we're going to try to write sentences that will be useful in your narrative writing, right 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 at the end of the lesson.

Perhaps you could pause the video now to make sure you've got the things that you need and that you're ready and focused to start your learning.

Okay let's get started.

Here's some key vocabulary that 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, synonym, word pair, verb, adverb.

A synonym is a word that means exactly or nearly the same as another word like the words merry and happy.

So today when we're learning our words if we're learning synonyms of them it's going to help us to have a deeper understanding of what these words mean.

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

So again today we're going to be looking at the word pairs of the new words we're learning so that we can see all the different contexts that these words can be used in.

A verb is a being or a doing word.

As today we are describing different ways of how you might look at something looking is of course a doing word, it's something that we do.

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

And an adverb describes a verb.

For example, if the verb is ran the adverb would be quickly, ran quickly or quickly ran, adverbs often end in ly.

And so today we'll be looking at some adverbs which will often be the word pairs to go with our verbs that we're learning.

So let's start thinking about how we might look at something.

Can you try to think as in many ways as you can to describe how you might look at something, for example, in this illustration they might be glimpsing the mouse, because it's a very quick look and then it's gone.

Perhaps you could think now and pause the video as some different ways to describe how you might look at something.

Okay, well done.

I wonder if any of the verbs that you came up with the same as the verbs that we're going to be learning today.

So let's take a look as our first looking or seeing word before I show you what the word is.

I'm first of all going to get you to look closely at this picture.

So what's happening here? What can you see? How would you describe how this character is looking at the other characters toenails? It's a bit of a gross picture.

Can you pause the video and have a think about that now? Okay, so I can see here that this giraffe is having to really stoop down and bend his neck to look closely at this other characters toenails, seems like they've got two very long toenails there.

And he's having a very close look.

He's even got a magnifying glass and it looks like his eyes are bulging out his head.

As he's looking so closely kind of sticking his tongue out with concentration.

Let's find out what this word is scrutinise, scrutinise.

So this is a verb that means to inspect or study.

When you look at something up close in detail, now if you were a detective such a Sherlock Holmes you would have to spend a lot of your time scrutinising different pieces of evidence perhaps in this scene.

He's not going to anything to scrutinise but perhaps because he's into the habit of doing that.

He might be almost looking around scrutinising things because it's giving him something to do or makes him feel like he's at work busy.

So I'm going to read a set of words to you now.

And as I read them, I'd like you to see if you can identify the synonyms of the word scrutinise.

Remember the synonyms are the words that means the same thing as scrutinise.

The words that aren't synonyms will be word pairs and we'll read those afterwards.

So for now just focus on which of these words do you think are synonyms. Examine, his face, the painting, every word, inspect, her motives, the performance, jealously, closely, study and keenly.

Let me first I'll read a sentence to you.

He scrutinised the painting, trying to work out if it was real or a fake.

So can you now pause the video and see if you can tell me which three words are synonyms of scrutinise? Okay, so the synonyms are examine, inspect and study.

And we can see that because we could paraphase those words in the sentence.

He examined the painting, he inspected the painting or he studied the painting trying to work out if it was real or fake.

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

Scrutinise his face, scrutinise the painting scrutinise every word, scrutinise her motives and motive is a reason that you might do something.

So if you were ever going to look at a crime you would always think about people's motives.

What was that reason of committing that crime? So a detective would certainly have to scrutinise the suspect's motives.

Scrutinise the performance.

So perhaps if you were watching a performance and you were a critic if you were going to scrutinise it you would look at every single detail.

Jealously scrutinise, closely scrutinise and keenly scrutinise.

If you do something keenly, you do it in an eager or enthusiastic manner.

That's really important when we learn the vocabulary that we say these words out loud.

So what I'd like you to do now, is I'd like you to pause the video and say these words just as I did out loud.

So the word will stick in your memory, of you go.

Excellent well done.

So before we move on to our second word can you just tell me very quickly, what does scrutinise mean? Well done, It means to inspect or study.

Let's take a look at our second illustration.

What's happening in this picture.

How would you describe that this cat is looking at the other cats, ice cream pause the video and have a think about that now.

Wow it almost looks like this cat is mesmerised or hypnotised by the ice cream.

They've got that eyes wide open and drooling at the sight of it.

This word is gaze, gaze.

So gaze is a verb that means to stare or look deep in thought like looking longingly at somebody else's ice cream.

I always think the word gaze is quite interesting because if you think about it that could be staring.

So it says deep and thought but also sometimes people gaze when they're kind of almost daydreaming.

So almost like when they're lost in thoughts when they might be feeling a little bit vacant.

You might be feeling in two different ways when you might be gazing at something.

So taking a look at the set of words and see if you can identify the synonyms of the word gaze, lovingly, longingly, blankly, steadily, dreamily, look intently, absently, achingly, admiringly, stare, intently and gape.

Here's the word in a sentence.

As he gazed out of the window, he let out a bored sigh.

Can you pause the video and see if you can sport the synonyms of the word gaze, there should be three synonyms. Okay, so the synonyms are look intently, stare and gape which means the rest of these words are word pairs which I'll read to you now.

So you might gaze lovingly or gaze longingly a bit like this cat doing in this image gazing longingly at the ice cream.

You might gaze blankly almost like you have a blank expression.

You might gaze steadily or gaze dreamily, gaze absently.

Again almost if you're absent almost as if you're vacant you're not there.

Gaze achingly, gaze admiringly and gaze intently.

So we can really see from the set of adverbs we know that adverbs because they describe how the verb happens and they all end in ly.

We can really see how complex this word gaze is.

Because on the one hand you might gaze dreamily or absently but then equally you could gaze really intently.

You might gaze at something as I said earlier in a very kind of intense way or you might gaze in a very kind of dreamy and relaxed way.

Can you now pause the video and read the word pairs out loud just as I did.

Excellent, well done.

So before we'd have to sell final illustration what does the word gaze mean? Well then it means to stare or look deep in thought here's our final looking picture.

So what do you think is happening here? What story does this picture tell and how would you describe that these two characters are looking at each other? Pause the video and have a think about that now.

If we look at all the close details of this illustration we can see that on one side of the bench there's a gentleman who's reading a newspaper that says Burger Bandit Strikes.

And then on the other side of the bench there's a little character who's got a burger.

So he's looking over almost a bit suspiciously perhaps wondering if this could be the burger bandit.

So this word is peer, peer.

So this is a verb that means to peek or stare like looking over your shoulder to see what's going on.

Which of these words do you think might be synonyms of the word peer.

Over your shoulder, into the darkness, through the key hole, into the telescope, look intently, peek, cautiously, anxiously, curiously and stare, to help you.

Here's the word in the sentence.

Peering around his office, he desperately looked for something that might amuse him.

Can you pause the video and see if you can tell me which three words are synonyms of the word peer? So the synonyms are.

To look intently, to peek or to stare.

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

Peer over your shoulder, peer into the darkness, peer through the keyhole, peer into the telescope peer in the mirror, peer in the distance, cautiously peer.

So if you do something cautiously, it's almost like you're doing it a little bit wary or a little bit nervously.

Anxiously peer which again means same thing as nervous and curious peer.

If you were curious you feeling inquisitive you want to find out more.

Could you now read these word pairs out loud just as I did.

Excellent, well done.

So now we've learned three different ways of describing how you might look at something and they all kind of tell you would use them in very different contexts as we've seen.

So could you pause the video now and just tell me what was each word that we learned today? Well done, the first one was scrutinise.

The second one was gaze and the third one was peer.

I would like you to come up with your own definition for each word.

It doesn't need to be the exact definition as I read to you earlier.

But when we put things in our own words and try to explain things ourselves, it helps us to make sense of something and to remember it.

So imagine that you were speaking with someone who never heard of the word scrutinise, gaze or peer.

How would you describe what these verbs mean? Perhaps how would you even act it out? Could you pause the video and have a go at that now? Excellent well done.

So here are the definitions.

You can see how close you are.

So scrutinise means to inspect or study, gaze means to stare or look deep in thought and peer is to peek or stare.

Here's a sentence I'd like you to see which of these verbs you think would fit best in this sentence.

Now you might notice that the next few sentence slides where we're going to do an activity like this.

You will have to change the tense of the verb.

So have a think about first of all which verb fits best in this context.

And then think about how you'd have to change the tense of the verbs so that it sounds right and fits with this context.

Thinking about possible future cases, the wistful detective dreamily out of his window.

Can you pause the video and see if you can identify which you would use in a sentence and then think about changing the tense so that it fits? Okay, well done so the word wistful, first of all well actually we're going to talk about the word wistful in a minute but if he's looking dreamily out of his window and he's kind of thinking about the future again, he's almost like getting carried away, a little bit lost in his thoughts.

I think the best word that fits in here which is he gazed dreamily out of his window.

And you'll notice that because this is written in the past tense.

He gazed dreamily out of his window, it's something that's happened.

We've just had to turn the word gaze into gazed by adding D in the end.

Because quite often when we turn a verb into the past tense we add ED, but this has already got e.

We're just going to add a D.

Okay, so the word wistful in that sentence I described the detective as being wistful and wistful means sad, longing or nostalgic like the sad feeling you get when you look back on good memories.

So it's quite a complicated word wistful because you can wistfully long for something or feel nostalgic but also you can do something in a wistful way almost in a happy way.

For instance you might be wistfully looking at old photos and remembering happy times let's take a look at the next sentence.

Around his office, he desperately seeked out something that might amuse him.

Or you can tell he's a bit restless and bored in this sentence.

So again which verb do you think fits here? and then think about how you need to change the tense so that it fits in the sentence.

Can you pause the video and do that now? Okay, so the verb would be to peer but here we've gone for peering around his office, he desperately seeked out something that might amuse him.

And finally he longs to be out in the city, searching for clues and evidence.

Again choose the verb first that you think fits in this context.

And then think about which tense it would have to be to work.

Can you pause the video and do that now? Okay, so if he's going to be looking at evidence we said earlier, if you're looking at evidence you'd have to look very closely at it.

So scrutinise would be the best verb here.

The other ones would work.

Although you'd have to say gazing at evidence or peering at evidence.

Now because it's he longed to be out in the city, searching for clues and scrutinise evidence.

That doesn't sound right.

So it's going to be searching for clues and scrutinising evidence.

So finally what I'd like you to do is have a go at writing your own sentences using either the word gaze, scrutinise or peer.

It can be quite tricky just thinking of any sentence.

So perhaps you could picture that scene that you are going to be describing in your unit, picturing Sherlock Holmes sitting perhaps getting a little bit restless and a little bit bored.

Perhaps Watson might be snoring in the corner.

What kind of atmosphere are you trying to create? How are you trying to describe the characters feeling.

Here's some sentence starters as well to help you.

Gazing out of the window, peering at Watson and scrutinising every detail.

All of these are non-finate clauses.

A non-finate clauses is where we take a verb.

So for example we've taken what gaze, scrutinise and peer in each sentence and add ING.

If it's non-finate clause the verb is unfinished which is why we have the ING on it.

And then you can expand the phrase little bit.

So it gazing out of the window peering at Watson, scrutinising every detail.

You'll notice always the non-finate clause when it starts a sentence has a comma at the end of it.

Before you then write your main clause.

So you could use one of these non-finate clauses as your sentence starter or you might want to come up with your own idea.

That's completely up to you.

Remember to picture the scene and remember that if you don't use these sentence starters, do try to include whatever new words that we've learned today good luck.

Excellent, well done.

If you'd like to share the sentences that you've just written, then you could ask a parental care take a picture of them and upload them on Twitter because I always love to see the work that you're doing.

So thank you so much for watching today's lesson.

I hope that you enjoyed it and I hope that you enjoy using those new ways of describing how you might look at something in your narrative writing on Sherlock Holmes.

See you soon everyone bye.