Lesson video

Hello, it's Mrs. Smart.

Welcome back to this English unit.

It's all about the text "Mirror" by Jeannie Baker.

In this lesson, we're going to be looking really carefully at the images in the book to try and make some inferences, and to draw some comparisons between the family who live in Morocco and the family who live in Australia.

In this lesson, you will need an exercise book or some lined paper, a pen or pencil, and some coloured pencils or felt tips.

If you haven't gotten any of these things with you right now, just pause the recording and get yourself ready.

In today's lesson, we're going to start with an introduction where we will recap the text that we looked at in the previous lesson.

Then we will start to explore the images in the Australian half of the text, followed by the Moroccan half of the text.

We'll finish today's lesson with your independent task.

Here is the text we looked at in the previous lesson.

It is called "Mirror," and it's written and illustrated by Jeannie Baker with thanks to Walker Books for granting us permission to use this book.

And as we explored in our last lesson, this is a picture book.

It has no words in it whatsoever.

It is solely pictures.

So the story of the family in Australia and a story of the family in Morocco are only told through images.

And if you remember from our previous lesson, they are not images that are drawn or painted.

They are actually images that Jeannie Baker has created using collage, and then she has photographed the collages and made this book.

So it's really, really special and unusual.

In our last lesson, we looked carefully at the front cover and the back cover of this book, and thought about why the title was "Mirror." We used some of the images on the front and back covers to make some inferences and some predictions about the story.

Here are some of the details that we identified in our previous lesson.

This is the introduction at the beginning of the book.

As you can see, it's written in English, but it's also written in Arabic on the Moroccan half of this book.

There are two boys and two families in this book.

One family lives in a city in Australia, and one lives in Morocco, North Africa.

The lives of the two boys and their families look very different from each other.

And they are different, but some things connect them.

Just these some things are the same for all families no matter where they live.

We are going to make some inferences based on the text today.

We are going to infer.

The definition of to infer is to work something out from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements.

Synonyms are deduce, conclude, reason.

And in a sentence, we could use it like this: I can infer how a character feels from their actions.

We are going to infer details and information about the story and about the families' lives based on the images in the text "Mirror." Here is the first page of the Australian half of the story of "Mirror." Have a careful look at the images on the screen.

What can you see? What can you infer? For example, I can see a boy getting out of bed.

And I can infer that it's probably early morning because I can still see the moon in the sky, but the sky is starting to look a little bit blue, so maybe not as dark as it would be in the middle of the night.

I can then see the boy getting into another bed with an adult man and an adult woman.

I can infer that those adults are his parents.

Maybe he can't sleep, and he's going to get to bed with his parents.

What can you see? What can you infer? Pause the recording and write down your ideas now.

Here is the second page of the Australian half of the story.

What can you see? What can you infer? We're going to have a look at this image first, and then we're going to look at the next section on the next page because these are smaller images, and on the next page, you can see them much bigger.

So have a look at the image at the bottom of the page first of all.

I can see those same people, I'm going to infer that they are a family, sitting or standing around the table, and they're eating and drinking food.

I can see food like cereal, bananas, bread, juice.

I can see a toaster.

I can infer that they are having breakfast because I know those are the sorts of food that we have for breakfast.

What can you see? What can you infer? Have a look at the image at the bottom of the screen and write down your ideas now.

Now we can see the smaller images in a bit more detail.

You need to have a look at these images in a certain order.

You need to look at the first row from left to right, and then the second row from left to right.

So I can see a baby.

What's the baby doing? Then I can see some hands.

I think those are the mum's hands.

What's she doing? And then we can see the dad.

Looks like he's having a shower.

And then what's he doing? And he's writing something.

What might that be? What can you see? What can you infer? Pause the recording and write down your ideas now.

Now we've had a chance to have a look at the first two pages of the Australian half of this story, I would like you to describe the family and their morning routine in Australia.

Morning routine means what do they do in the mornings? These are some sentence starters that can help you.

The family includes.

So who are the members of this family? In the morning, the young boy.

What does the young boy do in the morning? In the morning, the mum.

What do the mum do? In the morning, the dad.

What do the dad do? For breakfast the family eats.

What food could you see them eating? Pause the video and write down a few sentences to describe the family and their morning routine in Australia.

Off you go.

We're now going to look at the first two pages of the Moroccan half of the text, and we're going to do exactly the same.

We're going to look really carefully at the images and think about what can we see, and then I want you to think about what can you infer.

What can you work out or reason based on the images? Pause the recording and write down what you can see and what you can infer from these images here.

Well done.

I can see this house looks quite different from the house in Australia.

It's right on the top of a hill or a mountain.

And I can see it's very beautifully detailed, and it's a browny, terracotta colour.

Now, I can see a woman here, and she's got an interesting contraction.

I think this is something that's used to make or reuse rugs.

And it looks like she's weaving a beautifully patterned rug.

But then she also seems to be kneeling on a smaller rug and lowering her head to the ground.

What do you think she could be doing? I think she might be praying.

And I know that lots of people that live in Morocco are Muslim, so they pray at various points throughout the day.

So maybe that's what the mum is doing.

Maybe the first thing she does in the morning is pray.

Here is the second page of the Moroccan half of the text.

We're going to have a look at this image first.

Then on the next slide, I will show you a larger version of the small pictures here.

What can you see in this bottom picture? What can you infer? Who do you think these people are? What do you think they're doing? Pause the recording and write down your ideas now.

Now we can see the smaller images a little bit bigger.

And it's a little bit different from the Australian text because instead of looking at them from left to right, we need to look at them from right to left.

Just like our big script is written from right to left and read from right to left, we need to look at the pictures in the Moroccan half of the text from right to left.

So you're going to look at the first row from right to left and then the second row from right to left.

What can you see? What can you infer? Pause the recording and write down your ideas now.

Well done.

I can see someone looks like they're milking a cow.

And they also look like they're collecting some eggs.

So I can infer that this family owns some farm animals.

It then looks like they're making something, some sort of flat bread and cooking it in a clay oven, which is a bit like a fire inside a clay structure.

Then if we have a look at the second row, we can see someone taking out a box, which looks like it's got some money in it, then putting that money into a bag.

Maybe they're going somewhere where they need some money.

Possibly, they're going shopping.

I would like you to describe the family and their morning routine in Morocco.

You can use these sentence starters to help you.

The family includes.

Think about who is in this family.

I think there were more people in this family than the Australian family.

Who do you think they were? In the morning, the young boy.

What did you see the young boy in the family doing? In the morning, the mum.

Can you remember what we saw the mum doing first thing in the morning? In the morning, dad.

I think the dad was the person taking the money.

So what could you describe him as doing? For breakfast the family eats.

What did you see they're making and cooking and eating? Then I want you to make a comparison.

I want you to answer this question.

How is the Moroccan family and their morning routine different from the Australian family? There are lots of things that are the same, but what is different? Pause the recording, and write down your ideas and your answers now.

For your independent task today, I would like you to draw some images of your morning routine.

We've seen some pictures of a family from Australia and a family from Morocco, and what they do in the morning.

But what do you do in the morning? Think about what you do every day.

And what do you eat for breakfast? Draw some images to show that story or that routine.

And then I want you to think about this question: How is it the same or different from the families in Australia and Morocco? Write some sentences to compare your morning routine to the family in Morocco and the family in Australia.

Congratulations! I hope you've enjoyed today's lesson and starting to have a look at some of the images in the text.

If you would like to, please share your work with your parent or carer.

I will see you in our next English lesson.

Goodbye!.