Lesson video

Hello everyone, my name is Miss Butt.

Today, we're going to learn three new words for you to use in your BFG writing.

We're going to be looking at three words that are linked to the night time.

I hope you enjoy today's lesson.

So let's get started.

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

Then we're going to look at each word and think about synonyms of that word and word pairs.

We'll talk about more about that in a minute.

Finally, we're going to try and use these words or apply these words in a sentence.

But for today's lesson, you will need a piece of paper, or if you have an exercise book, that would be great.

A pencil and your brains, because they're quite tricky words we're going to be learning.

So try as much as you can to carry away any distractions.

I've put my phone away in my drawers so it doesn't distract me.

I'm going to pause the video now, if you're to get anything that you need.

So let's get our brains thinking with a warmup question.

Why do you think Roald Dahl chose to set the BFG's opening at night time? So we know that that first scene is when Sophie is in her dormitory and she can't sleep and something.

she sees something at the window.

So why do you think that Roald Dahl made it night time when that happened? Why didn't do you think it wasn't morning? Pause the video and have a little think about that now.

I think that maybe, it was because if it was night time, it made it seem a little bit more frightening and maybe that's was the atmosphere that Roald Dahl was trying to set.

A bit of an eerie atmosphere at the beginning of his book.

So let's go over some key vocabulary that we are going to use today.

First of all, we have the word synonym.

I say, you say, synonym.

Word pair.

Adjective.

Noun.

Verb.

Let's look at what these words mean.

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

Like merry and happy.

So those two words, merry and happy, have a very similar meaning.

A word pair, are words that often appear together.

Like a bright sun, a bright moon or a bright light.

So each of those of bright and light would be a word pair 'cause we often see those words together.

An adjective is a describing word.

A noun is a person, place or thing.

Often, we describe nouns with adjectives.

Today we're also going to be looking at verbs.

Verbs are doing or being words.

So if I am, or you are, that's the example of the being word, but a doing word is anything that not just we do, but it could be something that an object does.

So it could be, the plane flew across the sky and the word flew would be the verb.

Let's have a look for our first night word.

Hope you're ready, I hope you're not too scared.

It doesn't look like a scary one.

Have a look at this picture.

I want you to look really closely and be detectives, and have a think about what's happening here.

What can you see? What do you notice? How do you think this character is feeling? What's the atmosphere? Pause the video and have a think.

Well, I think that this character has been fishing.

The reason I think that, is because I can see, a lake or some type of water.

I can also see a boat, pulled upon the shore.

I have a feeling it's the end of the day, because he has got a bucket full of fish.

That shows me that he's probably caught all those fish and now he's going home at the end of the day.

He looks to me to be feeling quite content and quite happy.

I wonder what this word is.

Could it have something to do with the time of day? I wonder because, it looks like very interesting colours in this picture and I can see here, the sun looks like it's either rising or setting.

I have the feeling, if he's got all those fish, it must be setting.

Let's see what this word is.

This word is dusk.

I say, you say, dusk.

Dusk is a noun.

That means it's a thing.

It means twilight or nightfall.

The time just before the sun goes down, when the evening sky is glowing.

That makes sense now.

I can see those, those kind of colours, those kind of orangy purpley colours.

So this is what dusk is.

It's right at the end of the day, sort of in between the daytime and the night time.

So before it gets dark, when the sun is going down and everything is kind of glowing.

Let's look at some words then that we think could be synonyms, of the word dusk.

Let me read these to you.

Deepened, fell, gathered, evening, nightfall, lingered, descended, twilight, settled and approached.

Now I'm going to go through a couple of these words because they're a little bit tricky.

If something lingers, it means it stays around for awhile.

So that is what the word lingered means.

It's the past tense of that.

So it doesn't, leave very quickly, it sort of hangs around.

Descended is when it comes down.

So you could ascend up the stairs and descend downstairs.

Let's have a look at this word in a sentence 'cause that always helps us to identify the synonyms. As dusk began to gather, Sophie clambered into her lumpy, old bed.

Might think poor old Sophie would probably have a lumpy, old bed.

Didn't look very nice in her orphanage where she was at, where the BFG's set at the beginning.

So which of these words could be a synonym? Sometimes you can replace them in the word instead of dusk but it doesn't always fit exactly.

But sometimes that can help us.

So pause the video now and have a think about which of these words could be a synonym, which means, kind of meaning the same thing, of dusk.

Let's see if you spotted any.

So the synonyms of dusk are, evening, so we could say as evening began to gather.

Nightfall, so again, we could say, as nightfall began to gather.

Finally, twilight.

As twilight began to gather.

And we're going to talk more about that word twilight later.

That means the rest of these words are word pairs.

So words that are paired up with the word dusk.

So, let's have a look at these.

Now let's try and read these together.

So, when I do this, that means that I'm going to read, but I also want you to read it with me.

Are you ready? That was just a test.

Are you ready? Dusk fell.

Dusk deepened.

Dusk gathered.

Dusk settled.

Dusk descended.

Dusk lingered.

Dusk thickened.

Dusk approached.

So all of those words could be used with this word, dusk.

What's interesting here is because dusk is a noun, these word pairs are verbs.

They're doing words.

It's what dusk is doing.

Even though dusk isn't a person, it's a thing and it's doing something.

So if dusk fell, that means that's the time of the day when dusk fell almost on the land.

So imagine that lovely, those lovely colours that come at the end of the day.

Or if dusk lingered, it means it's staying around for a long time rather than, getting dark very quickly.

So these are all doing words so they are verbs.

Let's test you, can you remember, pause the video.

What does dusk mean? That's right, it's twilight or nightfall.

It's when the time in between the day and the night.

Here's our next picture, have a look.

This one does look a little bit more spooky.

What's happening in this picture? Can you have a really close look and tell me? What can you see? What do you notice? How is this character feeling? What's the atmosphere like? Pause the video and have a think about that now.

This word is nocturnal.

Nocturnal.

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

It means nightly or active at night.

Like bats and owls that come out to hunt when it gets dark.

Can you think of any other nocturnal animals other than owls and bats? I think that hedgehogs are nocturnal.

I wonder if you can think of any other nocturnal creatures.

That shows me in this image, that that's why I can see all these little eyes, looking at.

that we can see that they sometimes light up at night time, and it looks like this character here is feeling little bit scared of all the creatures.

All these eyes that he can see.

Think these might be some owls.

I wonder what these creatures are.

Let's have a look at the word.

at which words might be synonyms of nocturnal.

Nightly, creature, hunter, active at night, visit, adventure, predator, animal, species, and wanderings.

Here's the word nocturnal in a sentence.

The young girl gazed at all the nocturnal creatures that scurried through the streets.

Maybe that was what Sophie was doing when she couldn't sleep.

So which of these words could mean the same thing as nocturnal? So we could replace this word here or might work, with any of these words.

I'd like you to pause the video and have a think about that now.

Let's see how you got on.

So the synonyms of nocturnal are, active at night and that's an example why we couldn't actually say, the young girl gaze at all the active at night creatures.

It doesn't quite sound right, but we can see that, nocturnal and active at night mean the same thing.

And nightly.

That mean all the other words are word pairs.

We're going to read these together.

Remember, when I do this, were reading together.

Nocturnal creature.

A nocturnal hunter.

Nocturnal adventure, that sounds fun.

I wonder, who would be brave enough to go on a nocturnal adventure.

So an adventure at night time.

The nocturnal predator.

So a predator is someone who's going to go out looking for prey, so like a hunter.

Nocturnal wanderings, wandering around.

That's a bit like what the BFG does at night time.

'Cause he wanders through the streets, blowing dreams into the children's windows.

Nocturnal animal.

Nocturnal visit.

The last one, nocturnal species.

So these are all of the word pairs that we often will see this word nocturnal with.

So for example you might say, that there is a type of bat and there are a nocturnal species.

Can you remember what does nocturnal mean? Pause the video and have it.

and quickly tell the screen.

Well done, it means nightly or active at night.

Here is our third and final word for today.

Have a look, what's happening in this picture? What can you see? What do you notice? How do you think this character's feeling? What's the atmosphere like? Have it pause the video and have a think about that now.

Well to me, it looks like the character's feeling again, quite content.

She's looking at her phone and she's standing by the light lamp, which makes me wonder if that's because, she needs that light to see what's on her phone.

It looks like some stars are out.

So it looks like at night time but, I can actually see here, a glow of orange.

I wonder if that might be the very last part of the sun going down.

It seems like a similar word to the word we looked at first, dusk.

Let's see what it is.

This word is twilight.

I say you say, twilight.

Twilight.

This is a noun just like dusk was.

It means, dusk or early evening.

The soft light of evening that is too dim to read by.

That makes sense now, why twilight earlier, was also a synonym of the word dusk.

So they mean kind of the same thing.

The only difference is that twilight actually comes twice a day.

It comes in the morning when the sun is rising and in the evening, but dusk comes just once because the opposite of dusk is what we call dawn.

So in the morning, we call it dawn in between, when it's night time and when it's the daytime.

Then in the evening when the sun's setting, it's dusk.

Whereas we could call both of those things the morning and the evening, twilight.

I think it's a lovely word to say.

Let's have a look then at these words and try and spot the words that could be a synonym of the word, twilight.

Dusk, autumn, gathering, early evening, fading, dusky, early and semi-darkness.

Here's the word dusk in a sentence.

Darkness gathered outside Sophie's window as the evening twilight became night.

Pause the video and have a think about which of these words could be a synonym of twilight.

Let's see if you are right.

So the synonyms of twilight are, dusk, early evening and semi-darkness.

That's why, I think this character is having to use the light 'cause it's nearly dark to read her.

what's on her phone.

That means that these are word pairs.

So we could have, autumn twilight.

Evening twilight.

Fading twilight, and early twilight.

Now I want you to read those words because it's really important when we, learn new words, that we say them aloud.

'Cause it's only when we say them aloud that we remember them.

So could you please, while I point at these words, could you now read them aloud.

You're all joining in.

Well done.

So, here are the three images that we have looked at today.

Can you remember which word matches which image? Pause the video and see if you can remember.

Let's see if you've got that right.

So the first one is the, last word we looked at.

It is twilight.

The second one where, all those little busy eyes, are out at night time is, nocturnal.

The final one, where we can see our character coming home from a day's fishing, where the sky looks all pink is, dusk.

Now let's see if you can remember the definitions.

Which of these words means nightly or active at night? Which of the words means dusk or early evening? Which of these words means twilight or nightfall? Pause the video and have a think about that now.

So, twilight is, dusk or early evening.

The soft light that is too dim to read by.

Nocturnal is, nightly or active at night.

Like all those creatures that come out when we're asleep.

And dusk is, twilight or nightfall.

The time just before the sun goes down when the evening sky is glowing.

Have a look at this sentence and see if you can spot which word fits best in the sentence.

Sophie yawned sleepily, as the, faded into night.

Which words do you think fits best? I think it could be, Sophie yawned sleepily as the, this is tricky, 'cause dusk and twilight are so similar.

So I actually think dusk or twilight could work here.

I've written twilight in here, but if you wrote dusk, that would also be correct, so well done.

The BFG began his, wanderings, sharing his dreams with all the sleeping children.

His twilight wanderings, his nocturnal wanderings, or his dusk wanderings.

Again, pretty much, all three of those words could work there.

Which one do you think would be best? Pause the video and have a think.

Nocturnal wanderings, that's what I went for.

But I think all of those would work.

And the final one, fell, and everything became quiet.

Which word would fit here? Pause the video and have a think.

I went with dusk fell.

But again, twilight fell would work as well here.

You'll notice that when I wrote dusk in this sentence, I changed the letter D to a capital letter.

Wonder why I did that? Can you tell me? That's right, 'cause it's the start of our sentence and we always had a capital letter to start our sentence.

It's your turn.

I hope you get your pencils ready because I'd like you now to have a go at writing your own sentence, using this word dusk.

These words pairs will be really useful, to help you.

Here's a sentence scaffold, if you want a little bit of support.

So for example, you might say, as dusk fell, comma, Sophie, clambered into her bed.

You might say, as dusk settled, comma, Sophie sleepily yawned.

This is a complex sentence with a subordinating clause and a main clause.

It's, the clauses are separated with a comma.

Maybe you could have a go at writing a complex sentence.

Pause the video and have a go at writing your own sentence using dusk now.

I can't wait to see some of these sentences.

Let's have a go at writing another sentence.

This time we're using the word nocturnal.

Again, the word pairs will be able to help you.

So perhaps you could write a sentence about, the BFG on his nocturnal wanderings, or his nocturnal visits to the children.

Maybe you could even write a scary sentence about the other giants and you could call them nocturnal predators.

pause the video and have a go at writing your sentence, using the word nocturnal.

Well done, and there's one final activity that I'd like you to do, and that's write a sentence using the word twilight.

Again, use the word pairs to help you.

You could for example, say that, as, as there was.

as the autumn twilight settled, comma, Sophie, and then you could say what she was doing.

So again, use those words pairs, see if you can be really ambitious with your sentence, and have a go now at writing a sentence, using the word twilight, off you go.

Okay, brilliant, well done.

Give yourself, a little roll of your shoulders after all of that hard work and all of that writing.

Thank you so much for watching this lesson.

I hope that you have enjoyed learning those three new words that you can use in your BFG writing, but also hopefully, you can just use generally when you're talking or speaking, because I think that people will be very impressed, if you use those words.

Well done for watching this lesson and I'll see you soon.

Bye everyone.