Lesson video

Hi everyone, and welcome to your next fun lesson.

In this lesson we are going to be generating some vocabulary based on a short clip of "Macbeth." Now in that lesson you have to be looking really carefully at what things you can see and what things you can hear.

Okay, so in order to do that we need to find a quiet space to do our learning today.

So this is the time now to go and get some things that you need.

So a pen, pencil, piece of paper, or a book, and to just go and find a quiet space away from any distractions.

Okay, brilliant.

So as you know, we are going to generate vocabulary today.

That is our learning objective.

So the agenda.

We're going to start with a writing warm up.

Then we're going to generate vocabulary.

And then lastly, we're going to write some sentences with the vocabulary that we have generated.

So in this lesson, you will need book, paper, pencil, pen, and your thinking heads.

Our writing warm up today is going to be looking at Mrs Wordsmith words.

Okay, so hopefully you've had a chance to look at these words in a previous lesson.

I'm going to say the words and I'd like you to say them back to me after I've read them out.

I will pause to give you a chance to say them to the screen.

Ominous.

Bleak.

Dreary.

Brilliant, okay, I want you to have a look at the pictures below each of the words that I've just read out.

And I want you to think, see if you can remember what they mean.

So under ominous there's a picture of a massive, massive tornado chasing someone in a car.

Under bleak is a wolf crying because doughnuts have been finished.

Underneath dreary is a picture of somebody just pulling.

It looks like they work in a factory and they're just pulling on a lever, and they're looking quite sad about it.

So let's see if you can remember what each of these words mean.

So you're going to match.

In a minute you're going to pause the video and you're going to match each of the Mrs Wordsmith words to the definitions on the right.

So I'm going to read them out to you and see if you can do it in a minute when you pause the video.

Gloomy or depressing, like the hopeless feeling you get when you realise all your doughnuts are gone.

Scary, threatening, or menacing, like a huge dark tornado spinning towards you.

Boring or miserable, like a dull job doing the same thing over and over again.

Okay, pause the video and have a go.

Excellent.

So dreary is boring and miserable like a dull job doing the same thing over and over again.

What would bleak mean? What did you have for bleak? Yes, so it's gloomy or depressing, like the hopeless feeling you get when you realise all your doughnuts are gone.

The last one, ominous.

Which one of those is ominous? Exactly, it's scary, threatening, or menacing, like a huge dark tornado spinning towards you.

Okay, so the next part of our lesson is we're going to look at generating some vocabulary using some clips from "Macbeth." So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to watch a short clip from "Macbeth," and I'd like you to write down all the things that you can see.

So I'd like you to think of the nouns.

So for example, you might see fog, you might see witches, you might see talons, you might see gnarled branches.

So just any nouns that you can see, I'd like you to write them down.

Nothing was as it seemed.

When shall we three meet again, in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurly burly's done, when the battle's lost and won.

Where the place? Upon the heath.

There to meet with Macbeth.

Fair is foul, and foul is fair.

Hover through the fog and filthy air.

Little bit scary, but I'm sure we got through that.

Okay, so I wanted you to write down as many nouns as you could see in those pictures.

So now is a good time maybe just to go back and pause this video and just have a think.

And here are some pictures anyway to remind you in case you've forgotten of some of the things that you might have seen.

Okay, so for example, I already mentioned you might want to write down talons.

You might want to write down fog.

And then other things that you could see from those pictures, from what you remember.

Pause the video and have a go.

Okay, great.

So I have written some nouns that I saw.

So for example, I saw lightning, mist, sky.

And actually some other things that I haven't written down would maybe be bony arms, okay, pitch black sky.

Okay, so next part is now we're going to build upon our nouns.

And I'd like you to write down as many adjectives as you can for the corresponding nouns.

For example, if you've written talons down, you might want to write sharp talons.

And then if you've written fog, what adjective do you think would go really well with fog? If you've written lightning down, what adjective could you use to describe the lightning? Pause the video and have a go.

Okay, so some of the adjectives I came up with, and I'm sure you've got amazing ones too, are I've got sharp talons, bony fingers, dense mist, swirling fog.

Have a look at the ones that you've got on your paper and shout them out at me.

Brilliant, they all sound amazing.

Okay, so now this time we're going to watch the video again, but I would like you to think of sounds.

What sounds can you hear, okay? So write them down.

Whatever sounds you hear, I would like you to write them down.

Nothing was as it seemed.

When shall we three meet again, in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurly burly's done, when the battle's lost and won.

Where the place? Upon the heath.

There to meet with Macbeth.

Fair is foul, and foul is fair.

Hover through the fog and filthy air.

Okay, so what could you hear? So some of the things I could hear were voices, the witches' voices.

I could hear their laughter and I could hear the thunder.

I'm sure you have written some other ones down that I haven't got.

Now the next part is I'd like you to pause the video in a moment and write down as many adjectives as you can to the corresponding nouns on your piece of paper.

For example, if you've written voices down, you might want to say they were cackling voices.

If you've written laugh down, something to describe their laughter.

If you wrote thunder down, another adjective to describe the thunder.

Okay, so I came up with cackling voices, malignant laugh, and rumbling thunder.

Shout out all the ones that you have on your paper to me now.

Brilliant.

Okay, so now look at all of the vocabulary that you have written down.

What atmosphere has this created in your mind? Have a think.

Yeah, so for example, I have thought that it's caused a sense of confusion in my mind.

It's also created scenes of chaos and impending doom.

Okay, so we're going to move on to the last part of our lesson, which is using some of the vocabulary that we've generated today just to write some sentences with, okay? So I would like you to write two sentences using the vocabulary that we've generated today, and try and include, this is your challenge, to try and include an adverb in at least one of the sentences.

So I'd like you to say the words after me.

So it'll be my turn, then your turn.

So cackling voices.

Piercing laugh.

Rumbling thunder.

Sharp talons.

Bony fingers.

Dense mist.

Swirling fog, okay? So hopefully you've had a chance to pause the video and have a go at writing your own sentences.

Here are two that I've written.

The cackling voices of the hideous witches echoed menacingly across the heath.

So I've got cackling to describe the voices and hideous to describe the witches.

And I've inserted menacingly as my adverb.

My second sentence.

Their gruesome talons were as sharp as knives.

Now I've put as sharp as in bold.

And that's because that is a type of figurative language.

It's called a simile.

I wonder if you could now challenge yourself and try and include a simile into one of your sentences, or you can write a new sentence including a simile.

Pause the video and have a go.

Brilliant, so we've come to the end of the lesson.

Well done.

Today you have learnt in your writing warm up some Mrs Wordsmith words from the previous lesson.

We've recapped on those.

We've also generated some vocabulary based on a short clip of "Macbeth." Then we used those words and we wrote some sentences with them.

So well done.

Congratulations.

If you would like to, you could share your work now with your parent or a carer and treat yourself seeing as you have worked really hard on this lesson.