Lesson video

Hello everyone, my name is Miss Butt and today I'm going to be teaching you three new words that are connected to your unit on the Portia Spider.

We're going to be learning three words that describe the jungle.

I hope that you are ready, and I hope that you enjoy the lesson.

Okay, let's get started.

So in today's lesson, we're going to introduce three new words.

We're then going to look at word pairs and synonyms for those words and finally, we're going to apply those words in sentences.

In today's lesson, you're going to need a piece of paper or a notepad, a pencil, and our brains.

Please could you make sure that all your distractions are cleared away as much as possible and pause the video to make sure you've got everything you need.

Okay, let's dive in to the world of jungles, which is where Portia spiders are usually found.

Let's have a think about a would you rather question and I love would you rather questions.

Would you rather, your house was surrounded by jungle or snow? Have a little think, pause the video.

Obviously there's not a right or wrong answer.

It's just whatever you would prefer.

Oh, I'm having to think about this myself.

I think I'd probably prefer it to be surrounded by jungle 'cause then I might have some really cool creatures living outside my house.

Let's look at some key words we're going to be using today.

I say you say, synonym, word pair, adjective, noun.

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

That mean merry and happy mean kind of the same thing.

A word pair ore word that often appear together like a bright sun or a bright moon.

An adjective is a describing word.

It often describes and noun, which is a person, a place or a thing.

Are you ready to learn our first jungle word? And as we always do, we're going to start off by looking at an image which represents the word before I teach you what it is.

What is happening in this picture? Could you describe it? Could you think about what the characters are doing and how they're feeling? Pause the video and have a think about this now.

Okay, well it looks to me like these two, they look like twin cats and it looks to me like they are trying to get somewhere in their boat but they are having a lot of problems because this jungle has things growing down that they're oars are getting tangled in, has these roots where they're getting tangled in.

It looks like it's not nice and empty the river.

There's lots of things getting in their way.

I wonder what this word could be? That's find out.

This word is overgrown, overgrown.

It is an adjective and it means wild or tangled like a jungle with plants growing on top of each other everywhere.

Well, that definitely makes sense if we look at this picture because there's definitely tangled vines every and trees and roots everywhere.

And it looks like there's not much, it looks like someone needs to go in and perhaps a few things back to clear this path.

Let's have a look at some words, which could be synonyms or word pairs of the word overgrown.

Tangled, jungle, garden, wild, track.

Path, vegetable patch, trail, ruin, and wall.

A trail is just a bit like a path that you might follow if you are going to go on a walk.

Let's see this word in a sentence.

The abandoned house became an overgrown ruin with vines growing through its windows, wow.

So which of these words could we replace with the word overgrown in this sentence? It doesn't always work, but often that's a good way to find a synonym.

Pause the video and have a think.

Okay, let's see if you are right.

So the synonyms of the word overgrown are tangled and wild.

Ooh, just these two.

So we could say, okay, my tangled ruin or a wild ruin.

And that means all these other words are word pairs.

So words that will often be next to the word overgrown.

Let's have a look at them.

An overgrown jungle.

An overgrown garden.

An overgrown track.

An overgrown path.

An overgrown vegetable patch.

Maybe it's got lots of weeds in it.

Or, it's got lots of enormous vegetables spilling out.

An overgrown ruin because no one's been there to look after it.

An overgrown path.

Oh, we've had that one twice.

An overgrown wall and an overgrown trail, which we said was a bit like a bit like a path.

Now I go on lots of walks and I don't like it when I go down an overgrown path, because often it means that all the plants are growing inwards.

And quite often there are nettles.

So that means that when you walk along the path, you can sometimes get stung.

So it's always very nice for me when if a farmer's been and has cut back all the nettles so I don't get stung when I'm on walks.

Okay, could you pause the video and say these word pairs out loud? Because we learn words when we say them, not when we'd read them.

So I'd like you to say out loud, all these words pairs, just like I did.

Pause the video and have it go.

Well done, I heard lots of you joining in there.

Who can remember what does overgrown mean? Use the image to help you.

Pause the video and tell me what you think.

That's right.

It means wild or tangled.

Here's our second image.

Now this might be a bit confusing because you might think Miss Butt, how is this linked to the jungle? This isn't a jungle at all, but we could use this word to describe a mountain, but also something that is in the jungle.

Have a look at this image.

What's happening here? What can you see? What do you think this character down here is feeling? Have a think about anything you can notice.

Be a detective pause the video and have a think.

Well, I can see that this mountain is extremely high up and one of the ways I know that is because I can see are clouds around the top of that.

That shows me it's going up into the sky.

And this little guy down here is looking a little bit nervous about this challenge because it looks to me because he's got poles and he's got his rucksack that maybe he's going to try and climb this mountain.

And it looks like he's got a long way to go.

This word is towering.

Towering.

Now what might be towering in the jungle? What do you think? Yeah, maybe that might be towering trees and might also be, it might be a towering waterfalls.

So lots of things in the jungle could be towering as well.

Let's have a look at the definition.

This is an adjective, another adjective, a describing word.

And it means extremely tall.

Like a mountain looming over you.

If something looms over you, it's like, it's literally, if someone was standing here looming over me, they'd be right over the top of me and I would be down below.

Let's look at some words that could be a synonym of towering.

Lofty, cliffs, rage, mountain, tall, trees, soaring, figure, and height.

Now lofty is just another word for something that's really, really high.

So that might give you a clue.

And rage is an interesting one because you might think, well, rage and towering can't be synonyms, which means it must be a word pair.

And how could you have a towering rage? If you had a towering rage, it would be a really bad rage.

Like you're really, really angry.

Okay.

So have a go now at spotting the rest of the synonyms, but first of all, here's the word in a sentence.

High up in the towering trees, the spiders jump from branch to branch.

Pause the video and have a think about which words could be synonyms of towering.

Let's see if you are right.

The synonyms are lofty.

Just another word for meaning really high tall and soaring.

Soaring is a word we might use to describe a bird soaring in the sky.

That means the rest of these words are word pairs.

I'm going to read them and then you're going to read them afterwards.

A towering peak.

A Peak is the very top of the mountain.

Towering cliffs, towering rage.

We spoke about that, someone very, very angry.

Towering mountain, towering trees, a towering figure, maybe might be someone who's quite, quite a scary figure.

Maybe they might be, if you had a really scary headmaster or headmistress, maybe they might be a towering figure when you you're in assembly.

And towering height.

I'd like you to now read these aloud, off you go.

Well done, really nice to hear you all joining in.

Can you remember, what does towering mean again? Pause the video.

That's right.

It means extremely tall.

Are you ready for our final word today? Here's the image.

Now this is one of my favourite Mrs. Wordsmith images.

Have a close look at what's happening in this picture.

Pick up all the little details and think about what you can notice.

Pause the video, and then we'll have a chat about it together.

Okay.

This looks to me like a tower or some kind of a fort or castle.

And it looks like they are doing a lot of things to keep people out.

But I can see here they've not only got this, these high walls, but they've also got a netting up.

They've got this enormous padlock on the door, but even more than that, they've got a moat that goes around the castle and inside it, I can see some crocodiles and I think this might be a shark's fin.

And we can see this person here, even though he's got all these weapons, his character, he's not able to enter this castle.

So what could the word be? Maybe you might have already guessed it.

This word is impenetrable.

Oh, it's a very long word.

Impenetrable.

You have a go at saying it yourself.

Impenetrable, impenetrable.

Well done.

This is an adjective as well and it means dense, which is kind of like thick and close together or in accessible, like a big study fort that you cannot find a way to enter.

Now if something is accessible, it means it's able to be reached or entered.

So if it's called the prefix in, in front of it, it means if it's inaccessible, it's not able to be entered.

Just like we can see in this image here.

How would I to jungle be impenetrable? Yeah, I agree.

Maybe because as so many trees that it might be difficult and vegetation, it might be overgrown like our other word we learned.

That it might be really difficult to squeeze your way through it.

Let's have a look at the words that could be synonyms of impenetrable.

Fortress, jungle, thick, dense, forest, darkness, mystery, wall, gloom, mass, and inaccessible.

And we said a mass of something was just like, was just like, kind of a heap of something.

So here's the word in a sentence.

For most predators, this web is an impenetrable fortress, but not for the portia.

Have a think about which of these words could be synonyms. Pause the video and off you go.

Okay.

Let's see if you were right.

The synonyms are thick and dense and inaccessible, which means you cannot enter.

That means that the rest of these words are word pairs.

Let's have a think about these.

An impenetrable fortress, just like we can see in this image.

An impenetrable jungle or an impenetrable forest.

And we spoke about how that might be impenetrable.

If it was really overgrown.

Here's an interesting one, impenetrable darkness.

Imagine darkness that's so pitch black, that it makes you feel like it's almost thick and that you can't enter it.

I wouldn't want it to go into a room where there's impenetrable darkness.

An impenetrable mystery.

Now, if we know that impenetrable means that it's really, um, inaccessible.

If there was a mystery that was inaccessible, it means it's very hard to solve.

Okay.

So if there was, you might say that the detective couldn't solve the impenetrable mystery means that it was just too difficult to work out.

An impenetrable wall.

Maybe it might be so high up that it's impenetrable.

An impenetrable gloom, a bit like the darkness, impenetrable darkness, maybe like maybe like a fog or a mist.

An impenetrable mass.

And again, we said a mass was almost like a heap.

So maybe it's something that you just couldn't so thick and dense.

Pause the video now and I'd like you to read those words out loud and remember the word is impenetrable.

It's quite a tricky word to say, so it's good that you're going to practise it.

Now off you go.

Well done.

It's a bit of a bit of a tongue teaser that word.

Okay, here are the three images we looked at today with the three words.

Can you pause the video and work out which word matches which picture? Let's see if you were right? The first picture is illustrating the word overgrown.

The second picture illustrates the word towering and the final picture illustrates the word impenetrable.

I hope you guys got those right.

Now we're going to challenge ourselves even more and see if we can remember which definition matches which word.

So, which of these words means dense or inaccessible, which of these words means wild and tangled.

And which of these words means extremely tall? Pause the video and how to think.

Let's see if you were right.

Overgrown means wild or tangled.

Towering means extremely tall and impenetrable means dense or inaccessible.

We're now going to see if we could put these words in sentences and these sentences are about the amazing portia spider.

The thick trees make the forest practically.

If they're thick trees make the forest practically, what do you think? Pause the video.

Practically impenetrable.

That's so thick that it means it's very difficult to get in.

The second sentence.

Luckily, the portia spider has superb eyesight so the.

Vegetation does not prevent her from locating her prey.

That means that because the portia spider's eyesight so superb that there's something vegetation, that's all of the trees and plants, does not prevent that means stop her from finding her prey.

What words do you think would go in here? Pause the video and have a think.

It's overgrown, well done, because it would you think that it would be so overgrown it would stop her from finding her prey but luckily because her eyesight's so good, it doesn't prevent her.

And finally, the portia spider is able to leap up to 50 times her own body length so the trees of the jungle do not hinder her.

That means they don't prevent her from getting where she wants to.

What do you think would go in here? That's right, it's towering trees.

Well done.

The final thing I'd like you to do today is have a go at writing your own sentences.

They could even be about the portia spider.

So you're practising sentences for your writing.

The first word I'd like you to include in your first sentence is overgrown and have a go at using the word pairs to help you.

Pause the video and off you go.

Well done, I can't wait to see some of your sentences.

I'd now like you to have a go at writing a sentence with the word towering in it.

These words pairs are all here so that you can help you to think of the sentence.

Remember, all sentences has to have a capital letter and a full stop at the end.

Pause the video and have a go at writing your own sentence using the word towering.

Well done.

One more sentence to write, and this sentence is going to use the word impenetrable.

And again, you've got all those word pairs like fortress or jungle or forest to help you to write a sentence.

And 'cause it's our last sentence of the day, perhaps you could try and make this one really ambitious.

Perhaps you could try and extend it.

Perhaps you could try and add lots of adjectives and detail.

So you pause the video and have a go now.

Well done.

If you want to share any of your sentences, then ask a parent to take a photo and you can share it on Twitter.

I'd love to see some of the sentences that you have written about the portia spider and the jungle using some of the words that we learned today.

I'll see you see soon everyone.