Lesson video

Hi, and welcome to today's lesson, my name is Ms. Smith.

In our lesson today, we are going to focus on generating vocabulary for a new character in this plot.

So this unit is The Golden Compass, and when you're ready, let's get started.

Today, we'll start with Mrs Wordsmith and some vocabulary to support our writing.

And then we will analyse a new clip to support this third writing outcome.

And finally, we'll focus on generating key vocabulary for a new character that arrives in this scene.

So in the lesson you'll need something to write on and something to write with.

And make sure your brain is switched on, and you're ready for learning today.

Go and collect anything that you might need to help your learning.

Can you define these Mrs Wordsmith words? Let's read them first of all, we've got shrewd and livid.

Good job.

Have a pause, and think whether you can define these words.

Shrewd then, let's read the definition for shrewd.

Clever or sharp-witted; like someone who comes up with a sharp plan to make lots of money.

And livid, extremely angry or furious; how you feel when you lose a video game.

Today, we're going to zoom in on livid.

Can you think of any synonyms for the word livid? Pause and see if you can think of any words that mean the same as livid, but are different words.

Do that now.

Clever to think of some synonyms. And let's read the synonyms I've generated for the word livid.

We've got furious, irate.

Good job.

Infuriated, fuming, raging, seething is a great word.

And finally, angry.

So all of these words are synonyms. They mean the same, but are different words to livid.

And what we're going to do now is order these words along this gradient, this line to help us sequence the words from the least angry to the most angry word.

And so here's our Mrs Wordsmith visual to remind us of the word livid, that's our Mrs Wordsmith word today.

And at the very far hand side, the left of the screen, you can see the word calm because that's an antonym of livid, it means the opposite.

So at that end, we have the calm end.

And as we move gradually up this line, we're going to increase the level of anger and irritation that we'd feel with the adjectives listed.

So I put irritated as another example for what we would find as we move with the line.

And then we can start to add our Mrs Wordsmith words.

So in a second, you're going to pause, and you can see on screen now all of the Mrs Wordsmith synonyms for the word livid, which is our Mrs Wordsmith word.

And you should add these to the line with the word that you think is most intense anger, right down into here at this top end of the line.

And so pause your screen, and sequence those words along the gradient now.

Okay, let's have a look, there isn't a wrong answer.

The important thing is that you can explain your thinking and that you understand what each synonym really means.

So I sequenced them in this way.

I've got angry next, after irritation.

I think the next emotion that you feel from the list would be anger.

So angry, furious, more intense than anger.

And next, along my continuum, fuming I put next.

In my mind, a character that is fuming might have smoke in a cartoon coming out of their ears, in a similar way to the dog who's playing the computer game in our Mrs Wordsmith image has steam rising from his ears.

Infuriated, I put next.

And then our Mrs Wordsmith word, livid.

So I had other synonyms that I felt communicates a more intense anger and rage than livid along the line.

And those were raging, irate, and the very end of the line, I wrote seething.

Brilliant alternative to communicate just how intense the anger is in a character.

In our writing outcome that comes next, having a variety of adjectives to describe this emotion, is going to be really useful.

So you might even want to jot some of these down and keep them for later in the unit.

For our final writing outcome in this unit, we will use one more short clip, which includes a new character.

And this is our new character, and we've come across her a couple of times very briefly, but she really features in this final writing outcome.

And her name is Mrs Coulter.

And you can see her here, with her daemon, the golden monkey.

So we're going to watch this short clip, and I want you to note down any adjectives that you think might describe this new character in our plot.

So adjectives to describe Mrs Coulter, and you should jot those down as you watch the clip that I'm about to play.

Not allowed into.

Hmm, perhaps we shouldn't have invited Professor Docker, he's such a bore, isn't he? And he had sauce in his beard.

Really, he's one of the foremost experts on particle metaphysics.

Have I taught you what a particle is? Oh, I know about particles, like Dust.

That's a part particle, isn't it? Dust? I mean the dust from space, that Dust, like in the North.

W-where did you hear about that? It must've been one of the scholars at Jordan.

A wise person knows, Lyra, that there are some things that we best ignore, subjects that you.

Well, you never speak about.

But I- Yes, you didn't know, so I forgive you.

Just don't mention it again.

Now darling, will you take off that childish shoulder bag? I don't like to see you wearing it indoors.

Please, Mrs Coulter, I do love it.

But I do not.

Put it away.

Lyra, put it away, now.

I don't want to.

If you do not obey me, you will have an argument, which I will win.

Now, put it away at once.

It's absurd to be carrying around a shoulder bag in your own home.

Jordan is my home.

Lyra! Don't! Please, it hurts! Lyra! So pause the video, and complete your task.

So write down any adjectives to describe Mrs Coulter in that scene.

And if you need to go back and rewatch the clip, then that's a really good idea as well, pause and complete your task now.

So the new character, the newest character in our writing is Mrs Coulter.

And you can see her again here with her golden monkey, that is her daemon.

When describing Mrs Coulter in this next scene that we will be writing, we need to make sure we have thought of nouns, other ways of referring to her, and adjectives to describe her.

She features in the scene a lot.

She is one of the main characters.

And so rather than writing Mrs Coulter over and over again, we need some variety, and we need variety in our description as well.

So a few ideas here, would be woman, an alternative noun, that's a very obvious and simple alternative noun.

And two adjectives that would describe her from the scene we've just watched, evil and calculating.

So we're aiming today to generate lots of vocabulary just to describe Mrs Coulter, so that we really bring this scene to life.

And so your task today is going to be to think of these nouns and adjectives to describe Mrs Coulter.

And I've put a table here on the screen.

Can you pause and just recreate this table on your page now? Okay, well done.

What you need to do is to add to your Nouns column other ways of referring to Mrs Coulter.

And add in your Adjectives column, and this will be the column with the most content, words that you might use to describe her in this scene.

And as always, you can go back and rewatch the scene as many times as you want to, to help with your vocabulary generation.

So pause now, and off you go.

Okay, so hopefully you've had a really good think.

Let's look at my ideas for nouns and the adjectives that describe Mrs Coulter.

And as always, you can steal and magpie any of these ideas.

In the Nouns column, I've added woman, and I've said that, that was the obvious alternative.

Keeper, because really, she's Lyra's keeper at this point in our plot.

Lyra almost feels a little bit imprisoned.

And she's certainly the leader in this position, she's in charge.

So three alternatives.

Adjectives, and in this scene particularly, we see her as cold-hearted, stony, suspicious of Lyra's knowledge of Dust.

She's cruel, devious, calculating, her questions suggest she's trying to uncover what information Lyra knows about Dust in the North.

Sly, crafty, devious, and evil, all adjectives that describe Mrs Coulter, and her daemon really, in this scene.

Remembering, a daemon is part of the human, so these adjectives are appropriate for both her, and her daemon.

So copy down any that you feel would be useful to your writing as well.

And congratulations, that is the end of today's lesson.

We have had a real vocabulary focus from the beginning of the lesson today, looking at some Mrs Wordsmith words and zooming in on the word livid to support our writing.

We've analysed the new clip to support this scene.

And really thought about key vocabulary for Mrs Coulter, the new character.

So fantastic job today.

Remember to keep your planning and all of your ideas really safe for later on in this unit.

Have a really good rest of your day.