Lesson video

Hello everyone.

My name is Mrs. Riley and I'm here today to help you with your learning where we will be learning some new vocabulary.

I hope you enjoy today's lesson.

The outcome of today's lesson is that, by the end of the lesson, you'll be able the words gargantuan and bulky effectively in multiple contexts.

Here are key words for today.

I'm going to say each one and I'd like you to repeat it back to me.

Are you ready? Off we go.

Now.

Adjective, Synonym.

Word pair.

Well done.

Let's see what these words mean.

A noun is a naming word for people, places, or things.

An adjective is a word that describes a noun.

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

Word pairs are words that often appear together.

In today's lesson, we have got three learning cycles.

First, we're going to learn our first new big word.

Second, we're gonna learn our second new big word.

So we're gonna be learning two synonyms for big.

And lastly, we're gonna have a look at using a dictionary.

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

I'd like you to listen to a short story.

Are you listening? Here we go.

One day a big hippo woke up and looked out over the big lake where she lived.

She did a big yawn and wondered what she would have for breakfast.

She liked to eat a big breakfast every morning to set her up before her big day of adventures.

Hmm.

Could you have a little pause of the video and maybe look at my story again and see? Can you spot a problem with this story? Pause the video now and have a little think.

Well done.

Well, some of you may have guessed that the problem with my story is that I have used the word big five times in this story.

I've described the big hippo, the big lake, the big yawn, the big breakfast, and the big day of adventures.

Five times I've used that word big, and it just becomes a bit repetitive and a bit boring, and I want to try and vary the adjectives that I use.

Remember adjectives are describing words.

And I want to try and be really ambitious with the adjectives I use, and I think we could do better than big.

So let's have a look at our first new big word.

Hmm, we've got one of our lovely Mrs. Wordsmith illustrations here.

Could you be a detective and look at what's happening in this picture.

What can you see? What characters can you see? What are they doing? How do you think they feel? How might you describe them? Pause the video and have a go at that now.

Well done.

Now, I can see two characters in this picture.

I can see Bogart the fly and Brick the hippo.

Bogart the fly looks absolutely petrified because Brick's foot is right above him and it looks like it might be about to squash him.

Because the angle of this illustration is from down below, looking up, Brick the hippo looks even bigger in comparison to tiny little Bogart.

So let's have a look what our new word is, Gargantuan.

Your turn.

Let's try it one more time.

Gargantuan.

Well done.

Gargantuan is an adjective, a describing word, and it means huge or enormous, like a giant who towers above you in the air.

Brick here is a bit like a giant towering above Bogart.

So these words are synonyms of gargantuan.

That means they mean more or less the same thing.

I'm gonna say each one and I would like you to repeat it back to me.

Here we go.

Massive.

Huge.

Enormous.

And here's a sentence with this word in.

Bogart was terrified of the gargantuan hippo.

Now, because these three words, massive, huge, and enormous, are synonyms, we should be able to replace the word gargantuan in our sentence with any of these three words.

For example, Bogart was terrified of the massive hippo.

Bogart was terrified of the huge hippo or the enormous hippo.

Because their synonyms, they can work in this sentence.

Now let's have a look at our word pairs.

So the word pairs are gargantuan giant, a gargantuan task.

Have a think about what you might describe as a gargantuan task.

Quickly tidying up your toys probably wouldn't be a gargantuan task.

So it would have to be something that was going to take a really, really long time, if you're going to use that word, gargantuan.

A gargantuan monster.

A gargantuan building.

Okay, so now I would like you to read this word alongside its word pairs.

So you can say gargantuan giant, gargantuan task, and so on.

The reason it's really important to do that is that when we want to learn new words, part of the process is saying the word aloud.

So you can't just sit and listen to me saying the word.

You need to practise saying it yourself.

So can you please pause the video now and read gargantuan alongside those four word pairs? Off you go.

Excellent.

Well done.

There are some more word pairs.

Let's take a look at them now.

A gargantuan appetite.

A gargantuan laugh.

Goodness, that would probably be very loud, a gargantuan laugh.

A gargantuan ego.

An ego is when you feel really pleased or proud of yourself.

So if you had a gargantuan ego, it means that you would be feeling extremely pleased with yourself.

I wonder if you think it would be a good thing or a bad thing to have a gargantuan ego.

I think maybe it would be not that good to have a gargantuan ego.

It's good to have some ego because we want to feel proud of ourselves, but maybe a gargantuan ego might be used as an insult as opposed to a compliment.

And a gargantuan size.

So just like before, could you now pause the video and read these word pairs aloud? Off you go.

Oh, excellent reading.

Well done.

So let's do a check for understanding.

Which of these words is a synonym for gargantuan? A synonym is a word that means more or less the same thing.

Is it A, monster, B, massive, or C, building? If you want, you can pause the video to have a think about it.

Okay, well done if you've got the answer, B, massive.

Massive is a synonym for gargantuan.

So it's time for your first task.

I would like you to have a look at this word map.

Gargantuan's written in the middle and all the other words are written around it.

Some of these words are synonyms and some of them are word pairs.

I would like you, first of all, to see if you can identify the synonyms. Which words mean the same thing as gargantuan? Once you've circled them, you can then draw a line from gargantuan to the word pairs.

For example, if you thought task was a word pair, you would draw a line from gargantuan, task.

Okay? Now, here's a sentence that might help you if you are unsure if it's a synonym.

Bogart was terrified of the gargantuan hippo.

Now, remember, if the word is a synonym of gargantuan, you should be able to replace it in that sentence.

So I'm going to cover up the word gargantuan to help you to identify the synonyms. And once you've done that, you can then find the word pairs.

And as you draw those lines to the word pairs, it's really helpful again to say the words out loud.

It really helps you to commit this word to memory.

Pause the video and have a go at that task now.

Okay, well done.

So let's go through the answers.

So first of all, the synonyms are massive, huge, and enormous.

All of these are synonyms for the word gargantuan.

Now, I don't know if you spotted, but there's another interesting word here.

Giant can be a noun, like an enormous person is a giant, but it also can be an adjective.

You might describe the giant hippo.

So actually some of you might have circled giant to be a synonym and some of you might have drawn a line, but actually both work in this example.

The rest of the words are word pairs.

A gargantuan ego, gargantuan size, gargantuan task, gargantuan monster, gargantuan laugh, gargantuan building, and a gargantuan appetite.

I've got a bit of a gargantuan appetite at the moment.

I'm really hungry and can't wait to go and have a big meal after I have finished my learning.

So now it's time to try and write a sentence using the word gargantuan.

Use the word pairs to help you.

Here they are.

For example, you might pick the word pair, building, a gargantuan building, and then you can decide what your sentence is going to be around that word pair.

Here's a sentence starter.

You don't have to use it, but you can if you want to.

The sentence starter is Bogart trembled in fear when, and then you could complete that sentence.

Okay, so pause the video now, have a go.

Remember to use one of the word pairs, and, most importantly, remember to use the word gargantuan.

Pause the video, and off you go.

Excellent.

Well done.

Let's have a look at the examples I have here.

So first, I used the sentence starter.

Bogart trembled in fear when the gargantuan monster loomed over him.

The other sentence I wrote was: How will we ever complete this gargantuan task in time? You can see I've done a question there with a question mark at the end.

Okay.

So maybe just have a quick read through of your sentence.

Just double check you used a word pair and double check you used the word gargantuan.

Have you got all your correct punctuation, capital letter at the beginning and a full stop at the end? Check your sentence now.

Brilliant.

Well done.

Now, just remember, using the word pairs will always help you to use these words correctly.

For example, gargantuan monster and gargantuan task.

If you really want to use this word in a story and you're not sure how to use it, the word pairs will be your best friend.

They will help you to use it really appropriately and accurately.

Okay, let's move on to our second learning cycle where we're going to learn our second big word.

We've got another lovely illustration here.

This one makes me laugh a little bit.

What can you see in this illustration? Do you know the name of the character? What is this character doing? Pause the video and have a think, or you could talk to someone if there's someone around about what's happening here.

Off you go.

Excellent.

Well done.

Now I can see that this is Stax the giraffe.

And in this picture, he looks like he's got some boxes of donuts.

But rather than eating the donuts, he has stuffed them up his jumper, and I think the reason he's doing that is because he wants to look really strong.

He's doing this which people often do to show their muscles.

So I think Stax the giraffe is trying to look really strong by putting these donuts up his jumper.

I wonder if that you thought the same as me.

So this word is, my turn, your turn, bulky.

Bulky.

Well done.

It's an adjective and it means large, heavily built, or stocky, like someone with a big body and chunky muscles.

Now, Stax actually doesn't have chunky muscles, but he's trying to fool us here that he does.

These words are synonyms of bulky.

I say, you say large, stocky, hefty, heavily built.

Well done.

And again, here's the word in a sentence.

Nobody knew how Stax had got such bulky muscles.

Now, remember, the synonyms could replace the word bulky in this sentence.

Nobody knew how Stax had got such large muscles, for example.

These words are word pairs of bulky.

I'm going to read them out and then you can read them afterwards.

A bulky item.

A bulky bag.

Bulky equipment.

Equipment are the items that you might use for a particular reason.

So for example, if you were doing a science experiment, you might have a list of the equipment that you need for that experiment.

Probably wouldn't need bulky equipment for a science experiment or maybe you would.

I'm not sure.

And a bulky camera.

Now, cameras nowadays are usually just on people's phones, quite small.

But especially in the olden days, cameras used to be really bulky.

Or if somebody was using a camera for a professional purpose, like if they were using a camera for a film, the camera would probably be quite bulky.

And a bulky body.

That's what Stax is trying to look like he has here.

So could you pause the word and say each word pair out loud.

For example, bulky item, bulky bag.

Off you go.

Excellent.

Well done.

The next word pairs are a bulky sweater.

Did you ever, when you were younger.

My mom sometimes used to buy me a really big sweater or jumper, and she'd say, "Well, you'll grow into it." And so it was always big and bulky.

I wonder if that has happened to you.

Bulky luggage.

A bulky parcel.

Sometimes when I go to the post office, and you have to weigh the parcel, and then you have to hand it to whoever's working in the post office through a little hole.

And sometimes if my parcel is too bulky, it won't fit through that hole.

Bulky muscles, that's like Stax is trying to get get here.

And a bulky laptop.

Again, laptops nowadays are quite thin and light and sleek, but especially in the olden days, they used to be extremely bulky.

So maybe you've seen an old fashioned laptop and thought how funny it is 'cause it might be really big compared to the ones that we have now.

So just as before, could you pause the video now and say these word pairs aloud? Off you go.

Excellent.

Well done.

So a check for understanding which of these words is a synonym for bulky? A, item, B, stocky, or C camera.

Pause the video and have a think about that now.

Well done for having a go.

The correct answer is B, stocky.

Stocky is a synonym for bulky.

It's time for your second task.

Bulky, just as before, is in the middle of the word map, around the edge are either synonyms or word pairs.

First, see if you can identify the synonyms and circle them.

Here is a sentence to help you.

Nobody knew how Stax had got such bulky muscles.

Now remember, if it's a synonym, you should be able to replace the word bulky with the word.

So I'll leave that there to help you.

The rest of the words are word pairs, and I'd like you to draw a line from bulky to the word pair.

And again, say it out loud while you do that because that will really help you to remember this word.

Pause the video and have a go at this task now.

Well done.

Let's go through the answers.

So first of all, the synonyms are hefty, large, heavily built, and stocky.

That means all of these words could replace the word bulky in my sentence.

The rest of the words are word pairs.

I'm going to read them to you now.

Bulky muscles.

Bulky sweater.

Bulky body.

Bulky luggage.

Bulky camera.

Bulky parcel.

Bulky bag.

Bulky laptop.

Bulky item.

Bulky equipment.

So well done if you've got those answers right or well done just for giving it a go.

Next task is to write a sentence using the word bulky.

Use the word pairs to help you.

For example, you might pick the word pair parcel, bulky parcel, and then you can think about the sentence you want to build around it.

Try to remember all the learning you've done in your English lessons and grammar lessons, and see if you can make the sentence really ambitious.

Pause the video and have a go at writing a sentence now.

Well done.

Let's have a look at the sentences that I have written.

His bulky muscles barely fit into his tiny green sweater.

My dad's old bulky laptop weighs a tonne, but it is the only way I can practise my gaming skills.

I have always had a bulky appetite, so I have to eat five meals a day.

Hmm, a bulky appetite.

Perhaps you've noticed that actually appetite was a word pair for gargantuan.

You can have a gargantuan appetite.

It doesn't really work with bulky.

And the reason I've put that in there is just to make it really clear that even though these words are both synonyms for big, they both mean the same thing as big, you have to use them really appropriately.

You can't just use any word with any word pair.

So make sure you really think about that when you try and apply these words.

Now, you may have noticed here that I have got an apostrophe somewhere.

See if you can quickly have a look.

Maybe you could point at the apostrophe if you found it.

Well done if you're pointing at the apostrophe in dad's.

Now there's not lots of dads in this sentence.

There's one dad, but the laptop belongs to him, and that is why I've used an apostrophe, to show possession.

So well done if you spotted that.

Now I would like you to fill the gap with either the word gargantuan or bulky.

Here's the first sentence.

My new coat didn't fit over my mm woollen sweater.

Which word would you put in there, gargantuan or bulky? The next sentence is: Oz's mm ego made it difficult for her to work alongside her friends.

Again, would you put gargantuan or bulky in that sentence? Pause the video and complete this task now.

Well done.

The correct answer should be: My new coat didn't fit over my bulky woollen sweater, and Oz's gargantuan ego made it difficult for her to work alongside her friends.

There's an example of sometimes why having an ego too big could be a negative thing, not a positive.

Even though these words are synonyms for big, it does not mean we can always use them interchangeably, a bit like before when I said a bulky appetite, and I made that mistake.

So be careful of doing that when you use these words.

Our final learning cycle is using a dictionary.

Dictionaries help us to spell tricky words like gargantuan.

They also give us a definition so we know what the word means and how to use it correctly.

To use a dictionary to help us with spelling, we have to know the alphabet because, in a dictionary, the words are listed in alphabetical order.

So I would like us to quickly practise the alphabet because it's one of those things that sometimes we learn when we're younger and we often don't say the alphabet when we're older, but it's really important we remember it.

So could you please pause the video and you can either say or sing.

I prefer to sing the alphabet out loud now.

Off you go.

Well done.

So the words in the dictionary are arranged in order of what letters they start with.

So gargantuan would be with all the words that start with a guh or the letter G.

If the first letter is the same, then we look at the second letter.

If the second letter in the word is the same, we look at the third letter, and so on.

Then you can scan through to find your word and check the spelling.

So for example, if you are looking for the word gargantuan in a dictionary, you would first go to this section of all the words beginning with a G, because gargantuan starts with a G.

And then you would have a look.

And you can see here all of these words start with a G, but all of them also, the second letter is an A, but the third letter you can see gap and gape.

So the third letter is a P.

And then garage, garden, gargantuan, and garlic, the third letter is an R, which is why they've been grouped together.

Okay, time for a check for understanding.

So which of the following words would come first in a dictionary? A, bulky, B, big, or C, broad.

Now, remember, the alphabet is your best friend.

If the first letter in a word is the same, you have to look at the second letter.

If the second letter's the same, you look at the third.

Okay? So pause the video and have a go at this check for understanding now.

Okay, well done.

So the correct answer is B, big.

That is because the second letter in bulky is a U, the second letter in big is an I, and the second letter in C, in broad, is an R.

And I comes before U and R in the alphabet.

The reason I had to look at the second letter was because the first letter was B, B, B, in all three of them, so that didn't really give me much help, which is why I went to the second letter.

That was quite tricky, so well done if you got that right.

Okay, I would now like you, for your task, your final task for today, to put these words in the correct order they would come in a dictionary.

I've put the alphabet there to help you.

Here are the words.

Horse, umbrella, drink, and hopeful.

Now, remember, if the first letter's the same, Look at the second letter.

If the second letter's the same, go to the third letter.

So could you put these in the order they would come in a dictionary now? Pause the video.

Well done.

So the correct answer is, the first word would be drink.

That is because D is the first letter out of these options in this example.

Drink, hopeful, horse, and umbrella.

Drink would come first because D comes before H and U.

Next, we would have hopeful.

Now, hopeful and horse were really tricky because they both started with an H and the second letter was an O in both of them, so we had to look at the third letter to help us decide.

But in this example, P comes before an R, so hopeful comes before horse.

And finally, umbrella is last because it starts with a U, and U comes after a D and an H.

So again, that was quite tricky, but hopefully using the alphabet helped you.

Here's our summary of what we have learned today.

We've learnt two new big words.

They are gargantuan, which means huge or enormous, like a giant who towers above you in the air.

And bulky, large, heavily built, or stocky, like someone with a big body and chunky muscles.

And finally, we've learned that a dictionary can help us with the spelling and the meaning of a word, and that words are ordered alphabetically in a dictionary.

So well done for all your hard work today.

I really hope that you can use these two words in your writing.

And I also really hope that you might have a go at using a dictionary to check the spelling or meaning of a word.

If you would like, you can now have a go at the exit quiz, which is also available.

Thank you so much and see you soon.

Bye.