Lesson video

Hello everyone, my name is Miss Butt.

And today I'm going to teach you three new words for you to use in your unit on "The Man On The Moon." These words today are very sad words because as we know, it's quite a sad story, but it has got a happy ending.

But today we're going to focus on the sad part of the story.

So if you're feeling cheerful, like I am, we're going to have to pretend to feel gloomy and sad for the next 20 minutes.

I hope you enjoy today's learning.

Okay, let's get started.

In today's lesson, we are going to introduce three new words.

Then we're going to look at their word pairs and synonyms. And finally, we're going to have a go at applying these words in our own sentences.

For this lesson, you'll need a piece of paper or notebook, a pencil and your brains.

Please make sure as much as possible, you can clear away any distractions.

I've just put my phone away in my bag and get all the things you need now.

Okay, let's start thinking about loneliness and about the moon as these are two key themes in this unit.

I'd like you to think about whether you think you would be lonely if you lived on the moon.

Pause the video and have a little think.

I suppose it depends on who you are.

But for me, I would definitely get lonely because I like to be around people all the time.

Let's have a look at some key vocabulary today.

I say, you say.

Synonym.

Word pair.

Adjective.

Noun.

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

Like merry and happy mean more or less the same thing.

You could say merry Christmas or happy Christmas.

A word pair are words that often appear together like a bright sun.

An adjective is a describing word.

And a noun is a person, place or thing.

And often in stories, we describe nouns.

So adjectives describe a noun.

Right, are you ready for our first sad word? We're going to be looking at a sad image.

Here is the first image.

what's happening in this picture? Do you notice? I want you to be a detective and look at every little detail of this picture.

Pause the video and have a little think.

Okay, well, I can see in this picture that this dog looks very upset.

I can tell that by his body language, he's kind of slumped over on the log and he's got sad droopy eyes and he's hung his head and he's wearing tattered clothes and it looks like there's an empty can here and an old fishbone.

So it doesn't look like he's got much and all his possessions are in this handkerchief here.

So, it looks like he's a little bit alone and hasn't got many things.

And I think the atmosphere is quite sad.

Let's see what this word is.

This word is desolate.

I say, you say.

Desolate.

You've got to look sad when you say it, desolate.

Well done.

Desolate is an adjective.

So it's a describing word and it means miserable, depressed, and lonely.

How you feel when you lose everything and are all on your own.

Perhaps that's how that dog there is feeling, lonely, miserable and feels like he's all on his own.

Let's have a look at some words that could be synonyms or word pairs for this word, desolate.

Mood, wilderness, wasteland, lonely, landscape, and miserable.

Now a wilderness is a neglected or abandoned area.

So if there was an area of wilderness, it's not got any people living there or tending to it.

And that's kind of the same as wasteland.

Let's look at the next set of words.

Depressed, ruin, mountainside, country, and plain.

And this isn't a plain as in, if you have a plain wall with nothing on it, this is plain as in a large area of flat land with barely any trees in it.

So you might have lots of large areas of plain in America where there's not many trees and lots of vast flatland.

Here's this word in a sentence.

The dullness of the desolate landscape shocked Florence when she looked through her telescope.

So she's looking through her telescope at the moon, and she's shocked at how desolate the landscape is.

I'd like you to pause the video now and have a think about which words could be synonyms for this word, desperate.

Off you go! Let's see how you got on.

So the synonyms of desolate are, lonely, miserable, and depressed.

Okay, that means the rest of these words are word pairs.

So words that we often see next to the word, desolate.

Let me read them to you.

A desolate mood, a desolate wilderness, desolate wasteland, desolate landscape, desolate ruin, desolate mountain side, desolate country, and a desolate plain.

So in fact, you'll notice that most of these word pairs, most of these nouns that match up with this adjective are actually places.

They're not things and mood is a thing, but other than that, they're places.

And that makes me wonder how a place could be miserable and lonely.

So it's not so much that it feels miserable or lonely, but it's more that because it's so far away and far removed from everywhere else, that that's why it might feel like that.

You might have a remote area, but it might be a beautiful area.

And therefore you wouldn't really describe it as desolate, 'cause desolate has got quite negative connotations with it.

Okay, I'd like you to pause the video now and read these words yourself and that's because when we learn new vocabulary, we have to say it aloud for us to remember it, for it to stick in our memories.

So I'd like you to pause the video, just like I did and read the words pairs, like desolate mood, desperate wilderness.

You could even do it two or three times 'cause the more you say them, the more you're going to remember them.

Off you go! Well done.

Can you remember what does desolate mean? Use the picture to help you, pause the video.

Tell me what it means.

Well done, it means miserable, depressed and lonely.

I hope none of you are feeling desolate right now wherever you are.

Let's look at our next word, oh dear.

Another very sad image I can see here.

What's happening in this picture? How is this character feeling? What do you notice is going on here? Pause the video and have a look.

Well, to me, this character is looking very, very upset.

And I think what she might be doing is picking the petals off the flower.

Sometimes in stories or things like that, people do that when they're thinking about somebody who they love and they pick off the petals and they say, "He loves me, he loves me not, he loves me, he loves me not." And whatever's the last petal you pull off, is the decider.

Obviously it's only just a little silly thing that people do.

Perhaps that's what this character here is doing.

Perhaps that's why she's feeling sad.

Perhaps she doesn't know if somebody loves her or not.

I can also see that again, her body language, she's slumped her back and she's looking down to the ground, her face is just looking very upset.

Let's see what this word is.

Melancholy.

This word is an adjective.

It means depressed or gloomy, like someone who walks around despairing about everything.

So if you imagine you were going on a school trip and there was somebody who was melancholy, they might think, Oh, I'm sure my picnic's not going to be very nice and I bet it's going to be really bad traffic when we get there.

When we get there, it's probably just going to rain anyway, it's that kind of despairing about everything, feeling really depressed and gloomy.

Let's look at these words that could be synonyms. Sad, depressed, thoughts, tune, song, mood, voice, expression, gloomy and smile.

Which of these words do you think mean the same thing as melancholy? A way that could help you is reading the sentence.

Despite it being Christmas, Florence couldn't shake off her melancholy mood.

So even though it's Christmas time, because she knows that the man on the moon is so lonely, she can't shake off her melancholy mood.

So if a word is a synonym, we can often replace it in the sentence with melancholy.

And that might help you to identify the synonyms, pause the video and have a go.

Okay, so we could say that Florence couldn't shake off her sad mood, her depressed mood or her gloomy mood.

That means that the rest are word pairs.

And I'm going to go through those now.

So a melancholy thought, a melancholy thought would be something like, Oh, I bet you it's going to rain when we go on holiday.

A melancholy tune.

So that's like a tune or a melancholy song.

So some songs are really upbeat and cheerful and make you feel happy.

Some songs can make you feel a little bit sad.

Maybe that's what these meant that you could describe it as melancholy.

A melancholy mood, your mood is how you're feeling.

And We all have a wide range of needs.

Sometimes we're in a good mood, sometimes we're in an angry mood and sometimes we might just be in a melancholy mood.

A melancholy voice.

So a sad voice.

Now this is a strange one, a melancholy smile.

Now that seems a bit like an opposite.

'cause melancholy means sad and smile is something you do when you're happy.

But sometimes we do smile, even if we're feeling sad, let's imagine I was about to go away for a long time.

And I said goodbye to someone I really cared for.

And I said to them, Oh, I'm going to really miss you.

And I would probably smile at them what I said it.

'cause it's a nice thing that I'm saying to them, but I'm also feeling a bit sad about the fact that I'm not going to see them.

So therefore it would be a melancholy smile.

And finally, a melancholy expression.

And our expression, is how we show our feelings with our face.

Okay, facial expressions.

So what would a melancholy expression look like, can you show me? Oh, you all look so sad.

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

And remember the word is melancholy.

It's a tricky word to say.

Good luck and off you go.

Okay, can you remember what does melancholy mean? Use the image to help you, tell me what it means.

Well done, it means depressed or gloomy.

Are you ready for our next word? Oh no, another very sad looking picture.

What's happening here? Who can tell me what you can see, what do you notice? What do you think this character's doing and how are they feeling and how do you know? Pause the video and have a think.

I think that this character again is looking very upset and I think that because again, they're all slumped over, it looks like they're listening to music, almost maybe like they're trying to block things out and kicking the can along the road, which is something people sometimes do when they're a bit bored or a bit restless.

And over this character's head, there's that little black storm cloud.

But maybe that might not be actually happening in real life, but it might be how they feel.

So some days you feel just for no reason, just really sad.

And you feel as if you've got a little rain cloud just above your head raining on you all day long.

Let's see what this word is.

Oh, it's a bit of an easier one to say this one after melancholy.

I say, you say.

Glum.

Glum is another adjective and again, it means sad or gloomy.

When you feel like you're walking around with a little black cloud over your head, just like this character is here.

Which words if these, do you think could be synonyms of glum? Let's look at the word first of all in a sentence.

As Florence gazed at the man's glum face, she knew she had to do something.

Let's look at these words then.

So we've got mood, okay, would we have a glum mood? Or could we say as Florence glazed at a man's mood face? No, that doesn't sound right.

So I think that might be a word pair.

we've got face, gloomy, look, silence, unhappy, expression, weather, and sad.

I'd like you to pause the video and see if you can spot which words are synonyms of glum.

Let's see how you got on.

The synonyms are, gloomy, unhappy and sad.

And I can tell that because I could say, as Florence gazed at the man's gloomy face, or as Florence gazed at the man, sad or unhappy face, and the sentence still makes sense.

That gives me a good indication, it's a synonym.

The rest there were all words pairs, and I'm going to read them to you now.

Glum mood.

Sometimes you can be in a glum mood for no reason.

A glam face, a glum look, glum silence, a glum expression and glum weather.

What might the weather be like if it was glum weather, what do you think? Yeah, maybe rainy or cloudy or just a really great day.

If it was bright blue sky, then it wouldn't feel like glum weather.

I'd like you to pause the video now.

And just like I did, I'd like you to read these words so that you can remember this word glum, off you go! Well done.

Now let's have a look of all three words together, glum, desolate and melancholy.

Can you pause the video and see if you can remember which word matches which image? Okay, let's see how you got on the first one is, desolate.

The second one is, melancholy and the last one is, glum.

Even more of a challenge now, can you remember what the definitions are? So which word means sad or gloomy? When you feel like you're walking around with a little black cloud over your head.

Which word means miserable, depressed, and lonely when you've lost everything and you're all alone? And which word means depressed or gloomy, like someone who walks around despairing about everything? And this is tricky 'cause these three words are very similar and you can see that in their definitions, but have a go.

Let's see how you got on.

Desolate is miserable, depressed and lonely.

And that was the words that we used often to describe places like a desolate wasteland or a desolate ruin.

Melancholy is depressed or gloomy and glum is sad or gloomy.

When you feel like you're just having one of those days where it's like as a little rain cloud over your head.

Let's have a go at putting these words in sentences.

These sentences are linked to your "Man On The Moon" unit.

And you could steal some of these sentences for your own writing.

The old lonely man it's stared into the distance with a expression on his face.

Now actually lots of these words could work here, but which would you think fits the best? What do you think? The old lonely man stared into the distance with a glum expression on his face.

But you also could have said melancholy expression, it would have also worked.

There were no other signs of life on that landscape of the moon.

Which one do you think this is? Remember the one moon, mainly links with places.

Pause the video and have a think.

There were no other signs of life on the desolate landscape of the moon.

Well done if you got that right.

And finally, the mood was made worse by the rain that pattered against Florence's window.

Sometimes I find that if the rain is lashing at my window, it can make me feel like there's a little bit of a sad mood, which word fits best in this sentence? Let's see if you were right.

The melancholy mood, but actually you could also say the glum mood as well.

Melancholy mood, because both those words start with an M is an example of alliteration.

When two words together, or group of words, start with the same letter.

It's your turn now to do some hard work.

We are going to write three sentences using each word.

So the first sentence I'd like you to write is using the word, desolate.

And remember that the word pairs are written there so they can help you to think of an idea.

For example, you might think about desolate mountain side, and then you might write a sentence about that.

So pause the video and have a go now at writing a sentence, including the word, desolate.

Well done, perhaps you could just check your sentence, has it got to the capital letter at the start and a full stop at the end? And also, is your sentence ambitious? Perhaps you could even extend it or add an extra adjective to improve your sentence.

Then we're going to have a go at writing a sentence using the word melancholy.

And again, these word pairs are here to help you.

So for example, I could pick a word pair, a melancholy song.

And then I could think about a sentence, especially that links with "The Man On The Moon" unit about perhaps Florence, hearing a melancholy song or tune, perhaps playing in the car when they were on their way back from a Christmas event.

And she's feeling sad about the man on the moon who's still by himself.

You have a go now at writing a sentence using the word melancholy.

Okay, well done.

And the last bit of work for today's lesson is writing a sentence, using the word glum.

Again, use the word pairs, for example, you might think, Hmm, I'm going to write a sentence about glum weather, and then you might go from there and then expand that into a full sentence.

And again, see if you can be as ambitious as possible when you write your sentence.

Off you go.

Okay, well done.

I hope that hasn't made you feel too sad, writing all those sentences about such sad words.

You've done really well with your learning today.

You deserve a big pat on the back, and I hope you aren't feeling sad after learning all those sad words.

But now you've got three new ways of saying the word sad.

So if you're writing a story, instead of saying the sad man, you could say the melancholy man, or you could say the glum man, or you could say the desolate landscape.

Those words are really impressive.

So make sure that you try to remember them and to use them in your writing.

Thank you so much for watching this lesson and I'll see you soon.

Bye everyone.