Lesson video

Hi, everybody! It's Ms. Gardner, and welcome to today's vocabulary lesson.

In today's lesson, we are going to be learning six new words that we can use to describe how we feel when we are feeling sad.

Again, we're going to be looking at different words that we can use in different contexts and different situations, so that we are making sure we using the most precise vocabulary we can when we're writing.

So let's get started with today's lesson, and I hope you enjoy it.

Today's learning outcome is to effectively use the words desolate, inconsolable, and other rich vocabulary associated with feeling sad.

So we'll start with the key words.

We'll do my turn, your turn.

Noun, a noun is a naming word for a person, place, or thing.

Adjective, an adjective is a word that describes a noun.

Synonym, a synonym is a word that has the same or similar meaning to another word.

Word pair, these are words that often appear together.

So there are three sections of our lesson today.

In the first learning cycle, we'll be learning our first new sad word.

Then, we'll be learning our second new sad word.

And in the third learning cycle, we'll be learning four new sad words.

So let's start with our first new sad word.

Before I reveal what the word is, I want you to take a really close look at this picture.

What is happening? How does Grit seem? How do you think we could describe Grit? Pause the video now and have a moment to think about this, or discuss it with your partner, your class, or whoever you're with.

Okay, so Grit seems really sad in this picture, doesn't he? And we know that we are, in this lesson, we are looking at words associated with feeling sad.

His face, he's got a frown on his face.

His eyes look very, very sad.

He's wearing clothes that are really disheveled and old.

He looks like he hasn't got any food.

You can see the empty tin can, the fish, which hasn't got any meat on it, and looks like all he has is this stick with a little bag of his belongings in.

He looks very alone, doesn't he, and very sad.

So the word for this picture is desolate.

Desolate, desolate is an adjective, and it means miserable, depressed, and lonely; how you feel when you lose everything and you are all alone.

And you can see that in the picture there, that Grit really does seem very alone, doesn't he? And he hasn't got anything on him.

However, desolate doesn't just have to describe an emotion of feeling sad.

It can also describe a place which is completely deserted or empty.

For example, you could say, the car park was desolate.

There was no one there.

There were no cars parked.

It's completely deserted and empty, so it's also an adjective to describe a place.

These words are synonyms of desolate when we use it as an emotion to describe how you're feeling sad.

We'll do my turn, your turn.

Depressed, miserable, lonely.

Let's have a look at the word in a sentence.

Grit was in a desolate mood, as he had nowhere to go and no food to eat.

These words are word pairs of desolate.

Desolate is an adjective, so the word pairs are all nouns today.

A desolate wasteland, that's a big expanse of land where nothing really exists.

There's no houses, no buildings, no trees and plants.

It's just this land with nothing there, so you can describe it as a desolate wasteland.

Desolate landscape, there's lots of different landscapes.

You can have a desert as a landscape, woods as a landscape, the mountains as a landscape.

If you describe a landscape with desolate, it means there's not much there at all.

It's pretty empty and barren, the desolate ruin.

I wonder if you've ever been on a walk or somewhere and you've seen what looks like would've been an old house, thousands and thousands of years ago, hundreds of years ago, that's called a ruin.

And if there's nothing there, it's just this ruin in the middle of nowhere, you could call it a desolate ruin.

The desolate appearance, that's what if someone describe someone's appearance as desolate, Grit's appearance in picture is very desolate.

He looks very lonely, miserable, unhappy.

A desolate mood, you feel really miserable, you're feeling really lonely and unhappy.

You can say you are in a desolate mood.

And then, the desolate wilderness, this is now using it, again, to describe the place as desolate.

The wilderness is outdoors, where there's less buildings and infrastructure.

It's the wilderness, and if there's not much there, again, you could describe it as desolate.

So checking for understanding, which of these is a word pair of desolate? A, landscape, B, miserable, C, despair? Pause the video now.

A word pair for desolate is A, landscape.

Well done.

Miserable is a synonym.

Good job.

So it's time for task A.

You can see here we have a word mat for the word desolate.

The first thing you need to do is read all the words that surround desolate, and then, you'll need to circle the synonyms. Remember, a synonym is a word which has a similar meaning to another word.

Desolate is an adjective, so the synonyms will also be adjectives.

A good way of checking if it is a synonym is to read the sentence.

Grit was in a desolate mood, as he had nowhere to go and no food to eat.

And then, replace the word desolate with another word.

If the sentence still makes sense, it's probably a synonym.

Then, you'll draw lines to the word pairs.

A good way of checking if it's a word pair is say it next to the word desolate.

Desolate is an adjective.

The word pairs are nouns, so a desolate mood is a word pair, Whereas desolate, miserable is not a word pair, because they're synonyms. So pause the video now and off you go, circling the synonyms and drawing lines to the word pairs.

Well done, everybody.

Let's go through these.

Our synonyms for desolate were lonely, miserable, and depressed.

Our word pairs were the desolate wilderness, desolate wasteland, desolate landscape, and desolate ruin.

So these all describe the place as desolate, and then, desolate mood, desolate appearance, these are more describing that a person is feeling depressed, or sad, or desolate.

Well done.

It's time for the second part of our lesson.

Now, before I reveal what the word is, I want you to have a look at this picture.

(dog barking) What is happening? How do the characters seem? Yang is.

Yin looks.

I can see.

You can use all of these sentence starters to help you whether you're discussing this with your partner, your class, or if you're just having a think.

So pause the video now, and off you go.

Okay, so in this picture, you can see here, I'm not sure which one is which, which one is Yang and which one is Yin, but Yang, let's say Yang is in first place on the top podium.

So obviously, has won the race.

She looks a little bit concerned, because below her on the second place podium is Yin, who looks very upset.

Yin is crying her eyes out.

She cannot stop crying, presumably because she didn't win the race.

So she looks really, really upset.

So how could we describe Yin if she's really, really upset? The word for this picture is inconsolable.

My turn, your turn, inconsolable.

Inconsolable is an adjective.

Have you ever heard of it before? It means very unhappy or broken-hearted.

Your heartbroken, like feeling so sad, it is impossible to cheer you up.

These words are synonyms of inconsolable.

My turn, your turn, very unhappy.

It's not just unhappy, it's very unhappy.

Broken-hearted, desolate.

And we know desolate means miserable, and lonely, and sad.

Let's have a look at it in a sentence.

Yin was inconsolable after she lost to Yang, and there was nothing Yang could say to help.

And that's a really key part of the word inconsolable.

You are so sad that there's actually nothing anyone can do or say to help you.

You can't stop crying just now, you're inconsolable.

These words are word pairs of inconsolable.

Inconsolable is an adjective, so our word pairs today, this word are all nouns.

I'm going to say the words out loud now, and then, you'll have a go at saying the word pairs yourself.

Because we know that it's really important to not just read and hear the word pairs, but also, to say them so that we can remember them.

Inconsolable infant, an infant is another word for a child, or a young baby, or a toddler.

If they are inconsolable, the infant cannot stop crying.

Inconsolable grief, grief is a feeling when you are feeling desperately sad, because you've maybe lost someone or you are really missing someone.

It's inconsolable grief.

You cannot stop crying when you're feeling that way.

Inconsolable sadness, again, when you're so unbelievably sad, that feeling that you cannot stop crying, and nothing anyone can say can make you feel better.

The inconsolable baby cannot stop crying.

An inconsolable relative, relative is another word for a family member.

So if your relative is inconsolable, they are a family member that is really, really sad.

And then, inconsolable sorrow, a bit like inconsolable grief.

If you feel inconsolable sorrow, you feel so much sadness for something or for someone that nothing anyone says makes you feel better.

So now, pause the video, and off you go saying these word pairs aloud.

Well done.

So checking for understanding, which of these words is a synonym of inconsolable? A, desperate, B, broken-hearted, or C, infant? Pause the video now.

Our synonym for inconsolable is B, broken-hearted.

A, desperate means when you want something so badly, so it's not a synonym of inconsolable.

And C, infant is a word pair.

Well done.

It's time for the first part of task B.

You need to complete the word mat for inconsolable.

The first thing you need to do is circle the synonyms. Then, you draw lines to the word pairs.

Remember the trick of replacing the word inconsolable in the sentence.

Yin was inconsolable after she lost to Yang.

There was nothing Yang could say to to help.

If the word that you replaced it with makes sense in the sentence, then, most likely, it is a synonym.

So pause the video now, and off you go completing the word mats.

Well done, everybody.

Let's go through this, so synonyms for inconsolable are broken-hearted.

You're heartbroken, desolate, and very unhappy.

The word pairs inconsolable infant, inconsolable grief, inconsolable sadness.

She felt inconsolable sadness after she saw such a sad film.

Inconsolable baby, inconsolable relative, and inconsolable sorrow.

Well done.

Now, we're going to write a sentence, and we're going to write a sentence using either the word desolate or inconsolable.

Use the word pairs to help you.

First of all, the first thing you need to do is choose your adjective, and then, the word pair, and then, build your sentence +around it.

For example, if you're going to use desolate, you could describe the wasteland as desolate.

The desolate wasteland, or Grit walked through the desolate wasteland.

Or you could use the word desolate to describe someone's mood.

Grit was in a desolate mood, because he had no food to eat and nowhere to go.

So choose a word pair, and then, you can write your sentence.

But I really want you to try and be as ambitious as possible with these sentences, so that you are using the words desolate and inconsolable as precisely and effectively as possible.

So pause the video now, and off you go.

Good job, everybody.

I hope you enjoyed that.

I'm going to read aloud my sentence now using the word inconsolable.

And I want you to show me with your thumbs, thumbs up or thumbs down.

Did I use the word inconsolable correctly? Last night, the inconsolable infant cried constantly.

Does that make sense? Have I used inconsolable correctly? I have, haven't I? I used the word pair infant, and I said the infant couldn't stop crying.

It was inconsolable.

However, I think I can be a little bit more ambitious with this.

So let's improve it.

Despite her mother trying everything, the inconsolable infant would not stop crying.

So now, I've written a complex sentence, and I've used a subordinate clause which adds extra detail to this sentence, so that even though the mother was doing everything they could, the baby, the infant was inconsolable.

She could not stop crying.

And that is what inconsolable means, isn't it? You cannot be made to feel better.

So now, pause the video, read back through your sentence, and think about how effective it is in using the word desolate or inconsolable.

Pause the video now.

Well done, everybody.

Great job.

It's now time for the third learning cycle on our lesson, where we are going to be learning our final four sad words.

Have a look at these pictures.

Can you predict what each word may be? I'm going to describe the pictures, and then, as I'm describing them, that might help you to think about what the word might be.

So in the first picture, we have Stax walking along.

His head's hanging low, he's walking in quite a sad looking way.

He doesn't look very happy.

And then, he's got this dark gray cloud over his head that's just raining down on him, and he's kicking the can, looking pretty unhappy.

Then, in the second picture, we have Oz.

She's in that black stripes outfit, which is actually a prison outfit, a prisoner's outfit.

She's looking out the window.

She looks very, very upset, and she looks like she's on the phone, trying to speak to somebody.

And she looks like she's desperate to speak to somebody, doesn't she? In the third picture, Stax is clearly an older character now, 'cause he looks like he's in a suit that you go to work in.

But he's looking in a box of his old toys, his childhood toys, and he looks a little bit emotional about it, doesn't he? He almost looks like he's about to start crying.

Not in a really depressed, sad way, but more of a longing for the past.

Then, in the final picture, Bernice looks very unhappy, doesn't she? She's got a really sad look on her face.

She's walking along, she's picking out petals from a flower, and just dropping them on the floor, which is something you might do if you're just feeling a little bit sad.

So, now I've gone through the pictures.

I want you to pause the video and have a think about what you predict each word may be.

Pause the video now.

Okay, so let's go through these.

We'll do my turn, your turn.

Our first word is glum.

Glum.

Glum is an adjective, and it means sad or gloomy.

When you feel like you've got a little black cloud over your head, you can see here in the picture snacks definitely looks quite glum, doesn't he? And the feeling that you've got this black cloud over your head.

It's not an actual black cloud, but it just feels like your head is really heavy, and you can't see the light in the day.

So you can see, describe him as glum.

Our next word is yearning.

Yearning.

Yearning can be an adjective.

Here, it's a strong desire or longing, like a person, a prisoner who misses her friends.

You can see that there, Oz is really wanting to see her friends, who she misses.

Yearning can also be a noun, and we're going to look at that in a little bit more detail when we do the word mat.

Our third word is wistful.

Wistful.

Wistful is an adjective, which means sad, longing, or nostalgic, like the sad feeling you get when you look back on good memories.

You can see that there, Stax there, doesn't he? He's almost a bit sad about the fact that he's too old to play with these toys anymore, but he's feeling quite longing and nostalgic for his childhood.

And then, finally, melancholy.

Melancholy.

Melancholy is an adjective, which means depressed or gloomy, like someone who walks around despairing about everything.

You can see that about Bernice in this photo, or picture, can't you? She looks like she's just walking around really unhappy, worrying, and despairing, and feeling sad about everything that's going on.

So checking for understanding.

Can you match the adjective to the correct image? Pause the video now.

Okay, so melancholy was the picture of Bernice walking around, pulling the petals off the flower, looking very unhappy.

Glum was Stax with the gray cloud looming over his head.

Yearning was Oz, desperate to see the family and friends from outside the prison.

Wistful was Stax feeling nostalgic and longing for his childhood.

Well done.

So it's time for the first part of task C.

You're going to complete the word mat for the word wistful.

Now, this time, we won't have gone through the word pairs and the synonyms already.

So you are going to need to use the picture, the definition, and the sentence to help you work out which are the synonyms and which are the word pairs.

Here is your sentence for wistful.

Stax let out a wistful sigh as he went through the toy box from his childhood.

Remember, a synonym is the same word class.

So you are looking for other adjectives when you're finding the synonyms. Pause the video now, and off you go.

Well done, everybody.

Let's go through these.

So our synonyms for wistful are sad, longing, and nostalgic.

And then, your word pairs are a wistful song, a wistful smile.

You might give a wistful smile when you look back through your childhood photos.

A wistful look, Stax gives a wistful look at that childhood teddy bear, a wistful sigh (Ms. Gardner sighing) when you're thinking about the past, and you're longing, and you're feeling a bit sad that those times have gone.

A wistful glance when you look at something in a wistful way, and then, a wistful memory when you think back to that memory from your childhood.

And it's a wistful memory, quite a sad memory.

Well done.

Now, we have the word yearning.

As I said earlier, we can use the word yearning as an adjective, but also as a noun.

Let's have a look at it as an adjective in this sentence.

Oz had a yearning desire to be back with her friends.

Here, yearning is describing her desire to be back with her friends.

It's a yearning desire, so she really misses her friends.

She's longing to see her friends again.

It could also be as a noun.

Oz felt a deep yearning to be back home where she belongs.

So this time, the yearning is almost the feeling.

It's like an abstract noun, the feeling of wanting to be home again.

So you need to be extra careful here when you're thinking about which ones are your synonyms and which ones are your word pairs.

Remember, a synonym has got a similar meaning to yearning.

So you can think about that when you're trying to work out what the synonyms are.

So pause the video now, and off you go.

Okay, well done, everyone.

So our synonyms for yearning are longing, craving, and pining.

If you are pining after someone, you are wanting to see them again.

If you are craving something, you are wanting it really badly.

And if you are longing something, you are, again, you are really wanting it.

You're yearning for it.

Then, the word pairs for yearning are desperate.

She felt a desperate yearning to go back home.

Desire, this time, yearning is the adjective.

She had a yearning desire to see her family again.

Here, yearning is a noun.

She felt an intense yearning to go outside.

Here, secret is a word pair, yearning secret.

Deep yearning, in the sentence above, Oz felt a deep yearning to be back home where she belonged.

And again, an overwhelming yearning.

She felt an overwhelming yearning to finally be home.

So this is definitely a little bit more nuanced and tricky, yearning, because we can use it as both and noun and an adjective.

So we need to be extra careful about how we're using it in a sentence, but really well done.

Now, let's complete the word mat for the word glum.

Here's the sentence to help you.

Stax was in a glum mood.

He couldn't cheer himself up.

So circling the synonyms and drawing lines to the word pairs.

Pause the video now.

Well done.

Our synonyms for glum are sad, unhappy, and gloomy.

Our word pairs, glum silence.

No one's speaking, 'cause everyone's so sad.

Glum expression, a glum expression on your face, maybe you've got a frown on your face.

Your eyes look sad.

A glum face, a glum look.

You give a glum look to someone if you're feeling sad.

Glum mood, Stax was in a glum mood.

Nothing anyone said could cheer him up.

A really sad moment, you can describe as a glum moment.

Well done.

Now, our final word mat is for melancholy.

Here's a sentence to help you.

Bernice couldn't escape her melancholy thoughts.

So melancholy is this really sad, depressed feeling.

So circling the synonyms, which are also going to be adjectives and drawing lines to the word pairs.

Pause the video now.

Okay, so our synonyms for melancholy are depressed, sad, and gloomy.

The word pairs, a melancholy song, that's a really sad song with sad sounds.

It's not a really cheerful, happy, upbeat song.

Melancholy eyes, maybe you've got tears brimming.

You may describe your eyes as melancholy.

Melancholy thoughts, the thoughts that are running around your head are really sad.

You could describe them as melancholy thoughts.

A melancholy smile, a really happy smile would be ones where your eyes are lit up, you look really happy and excited, whereas a melancholy smile is a sad smile, maybe a more nostalgic or wistful smile.

Melancholy voice, you could say that the singer had a really melancholy voice, quite a sad, gloomy voice, singing voice.

And then, melancholy mood, Bernice was in a melancholy mood all day.

Okay, well done.

It's time for the final task of today's lesson.

You need to fill the gaps with either the word desolate, inconsolable, yearning, wistful, glum, or melancholy.

I'll read the sentences out loud first, and as I'm reading them, you could be thinking about which word could go in each sentence.

Yin felt a mm desire to return to her childhood home.

There were no signs of life in the mm wasteland.

Brick was in a mm mood.

He couldn't cheer himself up.

Armie felt mm sadness and didn't smile for weeks.

The mm mood in the house was made worse by the heavy rain and sad music.

Bernice looked out of the window with a mm glance, as the view reminded her of home.

You can definitely use the word mats from earlier in the lesson to help you.

I expect the word pairs there will be especially helpful for completing this activity.

So pause the video now, and off you go.

Well done, everybody.

I'm sure you might find that some of the words could have gone in more than one sentence.

Don't worry if that happened for you.

'Cause they are very similar in meaning lots of them, but these were the words that I used in each sentence.

Yin felt a yearning desire to return to her child home.

Here, yearning is the adjective, not a noun.

There were no signs of life in the desolate wasteland.

So describing the place for desolate here, using desolate here.

Brick was in a glum mood.

He couldn't cheer himself up.

Armie felt inconsolable sadness and didn't smile for weeks.

The melancholy mood in the house was made worse by the heavy rain and sad music.

Bernice looked out the window with a wistful glance, as the view reminded her of home.

Great job today, everybody.

Well done.

Here is a summary of everything we've learned.

Desolate is an adjective, which means miserable, depressed, and lonely; how you feel when you lose everything and are all alone.

Inconsolable is an adjective, which means very unhappy or broken-hearted; feeling so sad, it's impossible to cheer you up.

Glum is an adjective, which means sad or gloomy; feeling like you've got a black cloud over your head.

Yearning is an adjective, which means a strong desire or longing, like a prisoner who misses her friends.

Wistful is an adjective, which means sad, longing, or nostalgic, like the sad feeling you get when you look back on good memories.

And melancholy is an adjective, which means depressed or gloomy, like someone who walks around despairing about everything.

Great job today, everybody.

Well done.