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Hi, I'm Ms. Brooms, and I'm so very excited to be learning with you today.

You have made an excellent choice in choosing an English lesson.

We are going to do some fantastic thinking and learning, and I will be guiding you through it.

So let's get started, shall we? Welcome to today's lesson.

Today's lesson is called imagining you are the characters: "The Three Billy Goats Gruff." Your outcome for today is I can imagine that I am a character in the story.

So by the end of today's lesson, you should be able to imagine that you are a character in "The Three Billy Goats Gruff." For this lesson, you are going to need your looking eyes, your listening ears, your thinking brains, someone to talk to, and you're going to need to use your expression in your face and in your voice.

Let's get started.

So our keywords today are character, feeling, emotion, expression, action.

If you haven't heard these words before, that's okay.

We are going to be looking at them throughout this lesson.

So throughout the lesson, we are going to be focusing on two things mainly.

We are going to be looking at expressing emotions and understanding the story.

So let's have a look at expressing emotions.

Before we express our emotions, we need to reread a story.

Now, rereading the story helps us to remember the plot, as well as notice details in the text and the illustrations.

Whilst listening to the story, think about how the characters are feeling in different parts of the story.

So think about how they're feeling, how they're feeling.

I am going to read the story.

Make sure that you have your listening ears ready.

"The Three Billy Goats Gruff." Once upon a time, they lived the Three Billy Goats Gruff.

The youngest was the smallest.

The middle one was a bit bigger, and the oldest was the largest of them all.

They lived in a dry brown meadow next to a rushing river with a rickety bridge.

One sunny morning, the goats decided to embark on a journey to cross the bridge.

On the other side of the bridge, there was a lush green meadow full of tasty grass to eat.

However, there was a challenge they had to face.

Beneath the bridge dwelled a fierce troll with bushy hair and sharp teeth with a temper as sour as a lemon.

This troll took pleasure in snatching up any passerby who dared to set foot on his bridge.

First, it was the turn of the smallest goat.

As he approached the bridge, his tiny hooves went trip, trap, trip, trap.

Suddenly, the troll emerged with a fearsome, a furious roar, demanding, "Who's that trip-trapping over my bridge?" The smallest goat was quick and nimble and explained that he was too small to eat.

With a leap, he crossed the bridge and reached the other side.

Next, it was the turn of the middle goat.

As he approached the bridge, his medium hooves went, trip, trap, trip, trap a bit louder.

Suddenly, the troll emerged with a fearsome growl bellowing, "Who's that trip-trapping over my bridge?" The middle goat explained that he was also too small to eat.

With a leap, he crossed the bridge and reached the other side.

Finally, it was the turn of the largest goat.

As he stepped onto the bridge, his hooves pounded the wooden planks, creating a thunderous trip, trap, trip, trap that echoed through the air.

This time, the troll was livid and howled, "Who's that trip-trapping over my bridge?" The largest goat was brave and mighty and would not be deterred.

With strength and courage, he lowered his powerful horns and charged at the troll.

The troll went tumbling into the river below and disappeared with an enormous splash, never to be seen again.

Finally, once the troll was defeated, the goats were free to cross the bridge whenever they pleased.

They grazed happily on the sweet green grass on the other side of the meadow.

Safe from the troll, they all lived happily ever after.

Wow, that was fantastic listening.

Now, I would like you to have a think.

How was the troll feeling at the beginning of the story? Hmm, have a little think in your mind.

How was the troll feeling at the beginning of the story? When you've had a little think, turn to someone near to you and tell them your thoughts.

Pause the video here.

Well done.

Now, we can think of feelings as being inside our body.

Our feelings are emotions we have about something.

Feelings, emotions.

Those are our keywords.

So our feelings are the emotions that we have about something.

Sad.

Now, emotions can be expressed on the outside of the body as well.

For example, if you're feeling sad, you might express this through crying, through frowning, through having a wobbly lip, by not smiling, by slumping, by being slumped and having your eyes look down.

So let's try and copy some of those expressions that our body might have when we have the feeling of sadness.

My turn.

Then your turn.

So when you're feeling sad, you might be crying, frowning, have a wobbly lip.

You might not be not smiling.

You might be slumped.

You might have your eyes down.

Wow, that was really great expression with your bodies.

Great listening, everyone.

Now let's see if you can match the emotion to the expression.

So remember, emotions can also have expressions on the outside of your body.

So if you're sad, might you be smiling or frowning? Have a think.

If you're excited, might you be smiling or frowning? Which ones do you think match? So your emotions are sad and excited and your expressions are smiling and frowning.

Which do you think match? We are going to match sad first.

So point towards the one that you think is correct.

Does sad match to frowning or does sad match to smiling? Pointing, I'm going to show the answer in three, two, one.

Frowning.

Great job if you got that.

So sad, if you're feeling sad, you might be frowning.

And so if you're feeling excited, you might be smiling.

Well done, everyone.

Now, how characters are feeling can make them act in a certain way.

I wonder how those Billy goats are feeling in that dry field.

Maybe they're hungry, maybe they're starving.

Oh.

Maybe they're fed up.

Maybe they're frustrated and maybe they might feel impatient.

Hungry, starving, impatient, frustrated, fed up.

Now, if they're feeling that way, that can make them act in a certain way.

Okay, so because they were feeling hungry, starving, impatient, frustrated, that's why they may have decided to cross the bridge.

So they were feeling hungry and the goats decide to cross the bridge.

So feelings can lead to actions.

Now, let's have a little check in with what you know.

We're going to do a true or false.

True or false? Feelings and actions are linked together.

Is that true or is that false? Feelings and actions are linked together.

Pause the video here, and then show me on your thumbs.

True or false? Pause the video.

Good job.

Okay, the answer is true.

Feelings and actions are linked together.

Because you feel a certain way, it might lead to a certain action.

We are gonna imagine that we are the characters from the story and think from their point of view.

We will express the emotions of the characters.

So there are different ways of expressing emotion.

We can do that through our facial expressions, our body movements or actions, our use of voice.

So things we do or say can show others how we are feeling.

Okay.

Right.

I'm going to pretend to be the small goat.

It is the start of the story and I am trying to eat from the dry brown meadow.

Freeze-frame.

I just did a freeze-frame of how I was feeling.

(teacher sighing) I am hungry.

(teacher groaning) I am starving.

I am frustrated.

Those are the things that I am feeling as the small goat.

And I freeze-framed my feelings.

I'm frustrated, I'm hungry, I'm starving.

I just want to eat some lovely lush green grass.

All right, your turn.

You are the small goat.

You are trying to cross the bridge, and suddenly, you see a fierce troll.

I'm going to read that one more time, and then you are going to freeze-frame.

You are the small goat.

Imagine you're the small goat.

You are trying to cross the bridge, and suddenly, you see a fierce troll.

Freeze-frame.

Oh, I'm having a look at your freeze-frames.

Oh, well done.

Oh, so you might have thought you are shocked.

You are terrified.

You are worried.

That's how some of your freeze-frames looked.

Shocked, terrified, worried.

(teacher gasping) That was fantastic, everyone.

Now I am the troll.

I can hear noisy goats trip trapping over my bridge.

Hmm, freeze-frame.

Oh, that was my freeze-frame.

I was thinking I am angry.

I am cross.

I am furious.

Angry.

Cross.

Furious.

Great repeating.

Now it's your turn.

You are the troll.

The large goat charges at you and pushes you into the river.

Now here I'd like you to freeze-frame.

Well done.

Good freeze-frames.

Ooh, I'm having a think.

You are shocked.

You are terrified.

You are livid.

Great freeze-frames.

Now, we are going to be thinking about expressing how the goats are feeling at the end of the story, describing how the goats are feeling at the end of the story and repeating with another part of the story.

So you express how are the goats feeling at the end of the story? Have a think.

How are they feeling? Use your facial expression to help you, use your body to help you.

How are the goats feeling? Then I'd like you to describe how the goats are feeling at the end of the story.

So use your words to say how the goats are feeling, and then do the same thing again with expressing and describing with another part of the story.

So you might want to repeat with another part of the story.

That is the goats crossing the bridge, the goats crossing the bridge.

So how are they feeling crossing the bridge? How are they feeling? How are they feeling when crossing the bridge? And then describing that feeling.

So looking at your facial expressions and thinking about the words you can use to describe their feelings.

So what I'd like you to do with your partner is I would like you to turn to them and to express how the goats are feeling at the end of the story and describe how the goats are feeling at the end of the story, okay? Start with the phrase I'm feeling.

Again.

I'm feeling.

So you are pretending to be the goat.

I'm feeling.

How are you feeling? Okay, pause the video here.

Wow, fantastic discussions.

You were really thinking super hard.

So now that you've talked with your partner about how the goats were feeling at the end of the story, and you've described how the goats were feeling at the end of the story, I'm going to tell you what I was thinking.

I'm expressing.

(teacher gasping) At the end of the story, the goats felt happy.

I am feeling happy.

I am feeling excited to eat the yummy grass.

Maybe you did something like that.

Or perhaps you said, I'm feeling relieved and full.

Now let's move on to understanding the story.

So imagining that we are the characters helps us to understand and remember the main parts of the story.

So let's continue to think about the characters' feelings and actions.

Oh, there are some of our keywords.

So we're thinking about the characters' feelings and their actions.

Now you are the little goat.

Have a think.

Where was the fierce troll when you tried to cross the bridge? Where was the fierce troll when you tried to cross the bridge? Use the phrase the fierce troll was.

Repeat again.

The fierce troll was.

Great repeating.

So imagine you are the little goat.

Where was the fierce troll when you tried to cross the bridge? You are going to need to talk to someone nearby to you and tell them, starting with the phrase the fierce troll was.

Pause the video here.

Well done.

That was fantastic.

Now I'm gonna try.

Ooh, where was the fierce troll when you tried to cross the bridge? The fierce troll was under the bridge.

Now I'd like you to put the goats in the correct order that they cross the bridge.

So which goat crossed the bridge first? Goat A, goat B, or goat C? Which goat crossed the bridge first? Okay, put them in the correct order.

I'd like everyone to get their pointing fingers and point to the goat that they think crossed first and I will show you.

Ready? Everyone point to the first goat.

I'm going to show you in one, two, three.

Well done if you got the small goat.

Now, which is the goat that crossed next? Point, point, point, point.

I'm going to show you.

One, two, three.

The medium goat.

And then finally, everyone pointing at the big goat.

Well done.

Now you are the troll.

How did you feel when the goats tried to cross your bridge? How did you feel when the goats tried to cross your bridge? I felt.

Repeat again.

I felt.

Now, when you're turning and talking to someone nearby to you, I'd like you to tell them but we've been learning about the different types of emotions and feelings and expression that we can use to show feelings, to show how someone felt or a character felt.

So I would like you to change your voice.

I would like you to change your facial expression and the way that your body moves.

When saying, I felt, remembering you are the troll.

Who are you? The troll.

Well done.

Okay.

I would like you now to turn to someone nearby to you and tell them how you felt when the goats tried to cross your bridge.

Pause the video here.

Off you go, trolls.

Wow, that was really great acting.

If I were the troll, I might say I felt angry or I felt annoyed.

The troll might have felt furious.

The troll felt furious.

Well done.

Now, the word furious is another way to say angry, but furious means extremely angry.

The troll was furious because the goats tried to cross his bridge.

The giant was furious because Jack tried to steal his harp and golden egg.

Can you say the word furious? Great.

Another example could be Little Red Riding was furious because the wolf tried to eat her.

Now, I wonder which sentence uses the adjective furious correctly, remembering furious means extremely angry.

So which sentence uses the adjective furious correctly.

Is it A, I was furious because someone went in front of me in the line? B, I was furious because it was raining.

Or C, I was furious because somebody treated me in a very unkind way.

Which sentence uses the adjective furious correctly or in the best way? A, B, or C? Everybody show me.

Pause the video here for some thinking time.

Great thinking.

So showing me on your fingers, do you think it is A, I was furious because someone went in front of me in the line? B, I was furious because it was raining.

Or C, I was furious because somebody treated me in a very unkind way.

A, B, or C.

The answer is C.

I was furious because somebody treated me in a very unkind way.

Well done.

Now, in stories, villains in traditional tales often become furious.

Now, villains are the people in stories who don't do the right things and aren't very nice at all.

So villains in traditional tales often become furious.

Now, remember earlier we were saying how feelings lead to actions? Thinking back to our feelings and actions, even when we are feeling angry or furious or cross or frustrated, is it ever okay to act badly towards others? Is that okay? Have a think.

Our feelings lead to actions but when we're angry or furious or cross or frustrated, is it okay to act badly towards others? Turn and tell your partner now.

Pause the video here.

Well done if you said it is not okay.

It is never okay to act badly towards others just because we're feeling frustrated or angry or cross.

If you're feeling angry, furious, cross, or frustrated, you could put your hands on your tummy and you could take three deep breaths.

One, (teacher inhaling) two, (teacher exhaling) or three.

(teacher inhaling) And three, not or three.

Take three deep breaths.

Or you could write down why you're feeling that way.

It is never okay to act badly towards others.

So the troll wasn't very nice trying to eat those goats just because he was upset with them walking across the bridge.

We know that characters' feelings can lead to actions.

So lots of events in the story happened because of the characters' feelings.

I will describe how a character is feeling and explain their action.

Woo, the large goat was hungry and impatient.

The large goat pushed the troll off the bridge.

So he was feeling hungry and impatient, the large goat.

He was feeling hungry and impatient.

And because he was feeling hungry and impatient, it led to the action of pushing the troll off the bridge.

So I would like you now for each main event in the story to describe how the characters are feeling and say how they are acting.

So having a look, the goats are feeling mhm.

The goats are mhm.

So the first one, the goats are feeling, you say how they're feeling.

The goats are.

You would say what they are doing.

Okay? You can also talk about the troll as well but let's start with the goats.

So turning to someone nearby to you, I would like you to use the phrase the goats are feeling.

The goats are.

Well done.

Pause the video here and off you go.

Wow.

What great feeling and action links you made.

Hmm.

I might say the goats are feeling hungry.

The goats are gonna cross the bridge.

The small goat is nervous, is feeling nervous.

The small goat tiptoed across the bridge.

I might then say the big goat is feeling brave.

The goat pushed the troll off the bridge.

The goats are worried when they push the troll off.

The goats ran to the meadow.

At the end, the goats are feeling happy.

The goats are grazing.

Grazing means eating.

So the goats are grazing the grass.

Well done for linking the feelings and the actions together.

Good linking.

The hungry goats are feeling starving and frustrated.

The goats try to cross the bridge.

Well done for all of your talking.

Well done for all of your expression.

Well done for turning to someone nearby to you and having a conversation about how the goats are feeling and how they are acting.

Okay, moving on.

To finally summarise our whole lesson today of imagining you are the characters "The Three Billy Goats Gruff," we have looked at imagining that we are the characters because we now know that helps us to understand feelings and the main events of the story.

You have looked at describing how a character is looking or what they are doing helps us to understand the plot of the story.

So when you describe how a character looks in their facial expressions or what they're doing, it can help you understand the plot of the story, what's going on.

You've also learned that there are different ways to express emotions.

That you can feel emotions inside, but you might express them outside through your body and your facial expressions.

You have learned that facial expressions and actions help us to show feelings and emotions, and that the feelings that we have can result in actions.

So our feelings lead to actions.

Thank you so much for joining me on this lesson of imagining you are the characters "The Three Billy Goats Gruff." You have used your listening ears so well, your looking eyes fantastically.

Your thinking brains were switched on the whole time and you talked nicely with a person nearby to you.

Thank you for joining me on this lesson, and I hope you choose another English lesson soon.

Bye.