Lesson video

Hello everyone, my name's Mrs. Riley, and I'm here to do some learning with you today.

Today's lesson is going to focus on learning some new and exciting vocabulary.

I hope you enjoyed today's lesson.

The outcome of today's lesson is to use the words self-conscious, sheepish, and wary effectively in multiple contexts.

Here are our keywords for today's lesson.

I'm going to say each one, and then I'd like you to repeat it back to me, you ready? Noun, adjective, synonym, word pair, suffix.

Excellent, well done.

Let's look at the definitions.

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

An adjective is a word that describes a noun.

So if we took, for example, a place, maybe you could think of your favourite place in the world, and now maybe you could think of an adjective to describe it.

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

For example, I might say I'm feeling happy, or I could say I'm feeling merry.

Happy and merry are synonyms, they have a similar meaning.

Word pairs are words that often appear together.

For example, if we took the word happy, we might say that a word pair for that is birthday because happy birthday are words that often appear together.

And a suffix is a letter or a group of letters that come at the end of the word which creates another word.

And don't worry if that seems unfamiliar 'cause we're going to look at that in further detail later on in the lesson.

So today we're going to be learning some more rich vocabulary associated with shy or uncertain words.

So if you were going to be writing a story, or if you are going to be describing yourself or someone else who felt a bit shy or uncertain, after today's lesson, you are going to have three new ways of describing that feeling.

So we're going to start off with our first new shy or uncertain word.

Can you take a look at this picture and have a think about what's happening here? I want you to be a detective and look at all the clues that are happen, that we can see, and I want you to describe what you can see.

So Armie is the little armadillo that is in the corner, and then Oz and Brick, Oz is the ostrich, and brick is the hippo, and they are chatting.

So I've given you a bit of a clue about what's going on, but there, just so you know, the names of each character.

So could you pause the video now, and could you either tell someone if there's someone close by or you could have a think or you could just say out loud what you can see happening here, off you go.

Okay, well done.

In this picture Armie the armadillo is curled up into a really tight little ball in the corner of the room.

Sometimes people might curl up or have that kind of body language if they don't want people to kind of look at them or they don't want to be noticed.

Oz the ostrich and Brick look like they're having a really nice time.

They've got a drink in their hands and they're smiling and they seem to be chatting away.

But I'm not so sure the Armie is having a very good time.

I think they might be at a party, and I think that because I can see some balloons and I can see lots of, I don't know if that's like confetti on the floor.

So I think there's a party, two of the characters are enjoying it, and one of the characters looks to not be enjoying it at all and seems to be curled up in the corner and perhaps really just wants to go home.

Let's find out what this word is.

Ah, this word is self-conscious.

My turn, your turn, self-conscious, well done.

Self-conscious is an adjective, so it's a word that describes a noun.

It means you are overly aware of yourself, how you feel when you get the dress code wrong.

So let's just imagine that scenario.

Imagine that you've gone to a birthday party and that your mum or someone, a friend, has maybe told you that it's a fancy dress party, and that you've got to dress up in a Halloween costume.

So you put on your Halloween costume, you do your face paint and your mask, and you all your clothes, and maybe you do have a funny wig on, and then you turn up at the party, and everyone else is dressed in normal clothes, and they all turn and look at you.

That might make you feel really self-conscious, really aware of yourself and aware of how you look different to everyone else.

And I think that is how Armie is feeling in this picture here, really self-conscious, really aware of himself, and maybe feeling a little bit embarrassed.

So these words are synonyms of self-conscious.

That means that they have the same or a similar meaning.

Insecure, insecure, if you feel secure, then you feel safe and you feel, you feel safe and contained.

So if you feel insecure, that means that you feel uncertain or you feel not very confident, uncomfortable, and inhibited.

If you are inhibited, it means you can't act in a certain way because you feel self-conscious or embarrassed.

Here's the word in a sentence.

Armie felt very self-conscious at the party, so he crawled up in the corner and hid.

So these words are word pairs of self-conscious.

A self-conscious person, a self-conscious laugh, so imagine a laugh that felt very free and happy.

A self-conscious laugh would be perhaps if you'd done something that was a bit embarrassing, you might do a self-conscious laugh.

A self-conscious teenager, a self-conscious athlete.

Hmm, I wonder why an athlete might feel self-conscious.

Perhaps it might be because there's lots of people looking at them, perhaps it might be because they have to wear a certain outfit when they compete that they don't feel very comfortable in.

Okay, could you now read these word pairs out loud just like I did? The reason I want you to do that is because when we learn new vocabulary, it's really important that we don't just look at the words or hear them, but that we actually practise saying them out loud.

So just like I did, could you read self-conscious with each word pair now? Excellent, well done.

So here's a check for understanding.

Which of these words is a synonym for self-conscious? Is it A, brave, B, tiny, or C, insecure? Pause the video while you answer the question.

Okay, well done for giving that a go.

The correct answer is C, insecure is a synonym for self-conscious.

They have a similar meaning.

Here's your first task.

In this task, you have got a word map with the word self-conscious in the middle.

Around self-conscious, you have got other words which are either a synonym or a word pair.

If it's a synonym, I would like you to circle it.

If it's a word pair, I'd like you to draw a line from self-conscious to the word pair.

Here's a sentence to help you.

Armie felt very self-conscious at the party, so he crawled up in the corner and hid.

If the word is a synonym, we should be able to take out the word self-conscious and replace it with the synonym.

It doesn't always work, but it can be a useful trick to help you.

So could you please pause the video now while you complete your first task? Excellent, well done.

Let's go through the answers together.

So the synonyms for self-conscious are insecure, uncomfortable, embarrassed, and inhibited.

That means the rest of the words are word pairs.

A self-conscious person, a self-conscious teenager, a self-conscious athlete, and a self-conscious laugh.

It's time for another task.

I would like you now to write a sentence using the word self-conscious.

Now, it can be quite difficult to just magic up a sentence from nowhere, so these word pairs are really going to help you today.

You could pick a word pair, for example, a self-conscious laugh, and then you can build your idea around that.

Why might someone do a self-conscious laugh? Maybe they feel a bit embarrassed about something that they've done.

So that will help you come up with your idea.

Once you've got your idea, practise saying your sentence out loud a few times before you write it down, and once you've written it down, go back and check.

Sometimes when I write sentences down, I think they're perfect, and then when I go back and check them, I realise I've forgotten something really important like a capital letter or a finger space or a piece of punctuation.

And that's why it's really nice to check our work.

It's also nice to check our work because sometimes you can actually make a little improvement.

You might read your sentence back and think, oh, actually I'm gonna add in another adjective here, or actually, I'm gonna remove that full stop at the end and I'm gonna put a joining word and turn this into a compound sentence.

So we don't need to just write a sentence and then that be it.

We can always go back and rework it and try to make it the best possible sentence it can be.

So could you pause the video now while you have a go at writing a really fantastic sentence using the word self-conscious.

Okay, let's go through some examples.

The self-conscious teenager always felt a bit nervous when she was around new people, but she felt confident when she was acting.

Hmm, lots of actors say this, that they might actually in real life, they might be quite a shy or self-conscious person.

But when they're acting, when they're pretending to be someone else, they're able to feel much more confident and comfortable.

This is an example of a compound sentence.

I've got two main clauses joined by the joining word but.

The self-conscious teenager always felt a bit nervous when she was around new people is my first main clause.

And then I say, but she felt confident when she was acting.

But is the conjunction.

When we use the conjunction but, it's when we often have two opposing ideas, and we can see that in this example.

The teenager often felt nervous, but she didn't when she was acting.

Perhaps later in the lesson you could try and write a compound sentence using the conjunction but.

Here's another one.

Oz felt self-conscious as she walked into the room in her ball gown and realised everyone else was casually dressed.

So imagine everyone else in the room has just got maybe some casual clothes on, maybe some trainers, some scruffy T-shirts, and Oz, a bit like we spoke earlier, has got the dress code wrong and turned up in a very smart ball gown, so she's felt very self-conscious in that moment.

And finally, as the self-conscious athlete stepped onto the start line, he readjusted his tight clothes.

Okay, so maybe he was feeling a bit self-conscious about the clothes that he had to wear.

Well done, I hope that you enjoyed using that word in your own sentence.

Right, it's time to look at our second new shy or uncertain word.

The first word was self-conscious.

Let's find out what the second word is going to be.

What's happening in this picture? It's Armie again.

I think Armie must be quite a shy and uncertain character because Mrs. Wordsmith keeps using him in these pictures.

Okay, so pause the video and tell me what's happening here.

Okay, well done.

Well Armie in this picture here is about to step out I think onto a stage.

I can see some stage curtains, maybe he's at the theatre, and he's wearing a a sheep's outfit.

You can see that above his head, there's a little sheep's head.

I think by his facial expression, he is feeling very nervous.

I can see that he's kind of, he almost looks like his teeth might be chattering a little bit, and I can see, by the way, his eyes are as well.

He's very expressive, his face here, and I think he's looking like he doesn't want to step out on stage at all.

Let's find out what this word is.

Sheepish, my turn, your turn, sheepish.

Sheepish is an adjective, it's a describing word, and it means shy, ashamed or uncomfortable, the way you feel when you've done something silly or stupid.

Hmm, okay, so perhaps Armie in this picture wasn't meant to be dressed up in a silly costume.

And so now suddenly he's come to coming out on stage and feeling a bit shy or uncomfortable about it.

If you feel ashamed about something, it's when you feel embarrassed or a bit guilty because you've done something that you feel that you wish you hadn't done.

So where self-conscious also meant a bit shy and uncomfortable, the word sheepish has got another element to it, which is this element of feeling a bit ashamed, a bit sorry for something that you've done.

Maybe you've made a decision, and then you regret it a little bit, so you are feeling a bit sheepish.

Now we're going to take a look at what a suffix is because there is a suffix in this word sheepish, and then we're going to come back to look at the word pairs and the synonyms. So just a reminder that a suffix is a letter or a group of letters at the end of a word, which creates another word.

So think about the word sheepish.

I wonder if you could tell me what you think the suffix will be.

What's the letter or group of letters that come at the end of that word sheepish? I wonder if you got the answer.

So in the word sheepish, ish is the suffix.

It's a group of letters that comes after the root word.

The suffix ish is added to a root word to create a new word that means similarity or tendency.

For example, childish, child is the root word, and ish has been added to explain that this means like a child.

If someone's being childish, they're behaving like a child.

If something is greenish, it's somewhat green in colour.

If someone is foolish, you would be behaving like a fool.

So if we have the word sheepish, it's like you are behaving like a sheep, which is a funny expression, isn't it? To be behaving like a sheep.

If you behave like a sheep, often that is used to describe when you are just following what everyone else is doing without really thinking about it yourself.

So if you or somebody said, oh, well, she's a bit of a sheep, or he's a bit of a sheep, it might mean that rather than following what you would like to do, you just follow what everyone else does.

So we can see how that might tie in a little bit with the idea of doing something that you might feel a bit embarrassed or ashamed of.

Here's a check for understanding.

The suffix ish could be added to which of these root words.

Is it A, warm, B, clown, or C, city? And there might be more than one answer.

So could you pause the video while you think about that now? Okay, well done if you got the correct answer, which is A, or sorry, which are, A, warm can turn into warmish, and B, clown can turn into clownish.

If you said it was a warmish day, it would be somewhat warm.

If you were behaving in a clownish way, you're behaving like a clown.

So these words are synonyms of sheepish, they have a similar meaning, ashamed, uncomfortable, and shy.

Here's the word in a sentence.

The mischievous pupil gave a sheepish smile as she revealed the mess she had made.

So we can see there that element of, yes, this pupil's feeling a bit shy or self-conscious or uncomfortable, but also they're obviously feeling a bit ashamed because of something they've done.

They've obviously made an awful mess.

These words are word pairs of sheepish.

So if you are reading a book and you came across this word, it might be paired with one of these words.

Sheepish silence.

Hmm, so imagine you've done something that you were a bit ashamed of.

Imagine that the class and perhaps your whole class had been behaving really badly, you've been making some really bad choices, and the teacher came in and said, "Oh my goodness, what is going on in here?" There might be a sheepish silence.

Everyone's feeling a bit embarrassed and a bit ashamed.

A sheepish smile, perhaps you could show me what might a sheepish smile look like? Oh yes, you are all looking very sheepish.

A sheepish apology.

An apology is when you say sorry, so if you felt, again, ashamed or embarrassed about something you'd done, you might give a sheepish apology.

A sheepish laugh, a sheepish grin, and a sheepish expression.

And finally, a sheepish shrug.

So maybe you've done something that you feel ashamed of, and somebody asks you if you did it, and you give a sheepish shrug.

So just as before, could you pause the video now, and could you read these word pairs out loud just as I did? Off you go.

Very good, well done.

So here's a check for understanding.

Which of these words is a synonym for sheepish, which has a similar meaning.

Is it A, bossy, B, ashamed, or C, proud? Pause the video while you think about the answer.

Okay, well done, the correct answer is B, ashamed is a synonym for sheepish.

Okay, time for another task.

Just as before, you have got a word map with sheepish written in the middle of it.

I would like you to first of all circle the synonyms, and then I'd like you to draw lines to the word pairs.

Here's the word in a sentence to help you.

The mischievous pupil gave a sheepish smile as she revealed the mess she had made.

Remember, if the word is a synonym, you might be able to replace it in the sentence.

For example, if I was unsure ashamed was a word pair or a synonym, I could try it in this sentence.

The mischievous pupil gave an ashamed smile as she revealed the mess she had made.

Hmm, now it doesn't sound perfect, but I can see it has a similar meaning.

Let me try it as a word pair, sheepish ashamed.

Well, that definitely doesn't sound right.

So that's an example of how you can test out each word to see if it's a synonym or a word pair.

So could you pause the video now while you complete this task? Good luck.

Okay, well done, let's go through the answers.

The synonyms are ashamed, uncomfortable, and shy.

That means the rest of these words are word pairs, a sheepish silence, a sheepish smile, a sheepish laugh, a sheepish apology, a sheepish expression, and a sheepish grin.

For your next task, I would like you to write a sentence using the word sheepish.

Here's the word pairs to help you.

You could start off by picking one of those word pairs, for example, a sheepish laugh, and then you can think, hmm, why would someone give a sheepish laugh? What might they have done, what scenario would they be in? And once you've got your idea, you can then practise saying your sentence out loud before writing it down.

And remember, you can always go back to it and rework it and make any adjustments, add extra bits of detail in, add in anything you've forgotten, correct a spelling that you might spot if there's a spelling that you think might doesn't look quite right.

So here's an example of a sentence, so this is a sentence starter that you might use if you were a bit unsure how to start your sentence.

As Armie stepped onto stage, he, hmm, now this is an example of a, we've got here a subordinate clause starting with a subordinate conjunction as.

As Armie stepped onto stage, and then you would put the main clause in after that, he, hmm, he did what? You don't have to use this sentence starter, you can come up with your own sentence, but this just might be helpful if you are unsure how to start your sentence using the word sheepish.

So pause the video now while you have a go at writing your own sentence.

Excellent, well done.

Let's take a look at some examples.

So here's my sentence starter, so let's see what main clause I put in here.

As Armie stepped onto stage, he gave a sheepish smile to the audience.

He wished he hadn't copied his friends, and dressed up in a silly outfit at the spelling competition.

From his sheepish expression, it was obvious that Grit had done something embarrassing.

"I thought the donuts were for me so I ate them," muttered Plato with a sheepish shrug.

Oh okay, so I've included some speech in that sentence.

The speech is the part that Plato's saying, he says, "I thought the donuts were for me so I ate them." I've got my speech marks, we often call it a 66 and a 99 around my speech, and we always have to have a piece of punctuation before we close the speech, So I've got a comma before my closing speech marks.

Oh dear, so Plato obviously thought the donuts were for him, and they weren't meant to be for him, but he ate them.

So he's got a sheepish shrug because he's feeling maybe a bit embarrassed or a bit ashamed about what he's done.

Okay, so our first sentence, our first word, sorry, was self-conscious, our second word was sheepish.

Let's take a look at our third new shy or uncertain word.

What's happening in this picture? We've got Bogart the fly, what's going on here? Could you describe to me what's happening in this picture? Pause the video now.

Okay, well done.

Bogart in this picture is flying quite close to a, it looks like a light when you first look at it, but if you were being a detective, you might see it says FLY TRAP 9000, so this is obviously something to try and catch a fly.

Often insects are drawn in by a light, so I think this fly trap is using that to try and trick the fly.

It's trying to draw it or lure it towards the light, and then it's going to trap him.

And Bogart you can see is approaching it quite carefully.

He's going, he looks, his body language, he's looking very nervous, and he's slowly putting a finger close to it to see what's happening.

This word is wary.

My turn, your turn, wary, well done.

Wary is an adjective meaning careful or cautious like a fly who is afraid of getting zapped.

So the other two words we've looked at, self-conscious and sheepish more closely related to the word shy, whereas this word wary, I'd say is closer related to the word uncertain, careful or cautious.

Now, do you think this is a positive or a negative word? Perhaps you could pause the video while you think about that.

Would you like to be described as being wary, or would you not like to be described as being called wary? Pause the video while you think about that.

Well, sometimes it's good, isn't it, to be a bit careful or cautious.

We don't want to be careful or cautious all the time.

Sometimes we just want to relax and enjoy ourselves.

But in this scenario here with Bogart, it's actually good that he's being wary because if he was just charging at that fly trap, then he might end up being trapped or hurting himself.

So I would say being wary is, can be a positive or a negative thing.

I think it's good to be a little bit wary in life, but we don't want to be wary all the time.

I suppose we want to be wary in certain situations.

These words are synonyms of wary, they have a similar meaning, cautious, careful, and guarded.

If you're guarded, it means that you're cautious, it's almost like you have put up a guard around you, okay.

Here's the word in a sentence.

Bogart kept a wary eye on the deadly fly trap.

These words are word pairs of wary, a wary animal, perhaps an animal that might be wary because there's animal traps around so they're being wary, a wary smile, a wary step, a wary eye, a wary glance, a glances when you look at something, and a wary distance.

So perhaps you might want to keep a wary distance from something that you might think is dangerous.

Okay, it's your turn now to read these word pairs out loud.

Off you go.

Well done.

It is time to check your understanding.

Which of these words is a word pair of wary? Is the word pair A, animal, B, hesitant, or C, shy? Pause the video while you think about your answer.

Okay, well done.

The correct answer is A, animal is a word pair for wary.

Okay, time for another task.

In this task, I would like you to circle the synonyms of wary and draw lines to the word pairs.

Here's a sentence to help you.

Bogart kept a wary eye on the deadly fly trap.

Could you pause the video now while you complete this task? Okay, well done, let's go through the answers.

The synonyms are cautious, guarded, and careful, the rest of the words are word pairs.

A wary animal, a wary smile, a wary step, a wary glance, wary distance, and a wary eye.

I'd now like you to write a sentence using the word wary, and just as before, these word pairs are going to be your best friend.

Pick a word pair so that you know you're using this word really appropriately.

And once you've picked your word pair, build your sentence around it, and remember all those things we've discussed in this lesson.

Perhaps you could try and include some speech like I did in the examples for the word sheepish.

So pause the video and write your own sentence now.

Okay, well done, let's take a look at some examples.

The chickens walked at a wary distance from the hungry fox.

I don't blame them, I think I would walk a wary distance from the fox if I was a chicken and it was very hungry.

The fly's wary gaze followed the woman as she reached for the bug spray.

Now, you'll notice I've got an apostrophe there after fly.

That's because the wary gaze belongs to the fly, so I've got an apostrophe to show possession.

The super villain kept a wary eye on his enemy to see what plans she was making.

Okay, it is time for the last task of today's lesson.

For this task, you have got three sentences and each sentence, there is a gap.

I would like you to fill the gap with either the word self-conscious, sheepish, or wary.

If you're unsure which word fits in the first sentence, then my top tip to you would be to read the other two sentences first so you can think about where they are best placed, because if you, for example, know that the second sentence is one of the words, then you can cross that word off, and then you've only got two options left for the other two.

So I'm going to read them to you now, and as I'm reading them, start thinking about which word you think fits the best in each sentence.

The animal hid in the corner of the room as the vet walked in with the needle in her hand.

Okay, next sentence.

With a smile, Yin admitted that she always copied Yang's homework.

Oh dear, so she might be feeling a bit ashamed, so I wonder if that can help you pick the right answer there.

Stax felt as he walked into school wearing a jumper that was far too small for him.

Could you pause the video now while you complete this task? Okay, well done, let's go through the answers.

The first sentence, the missing word is wary.

The wary animal hid in the corner of the room as the vet walked in with the needle in her hand.

With a sheepish smile, Yin admitted that she always copied Yang's homework.

Stax felt self-conscious as he walked into school wearing a jumper that was far too small for him.

I wonder if you've got the right answers.

Well done for giving that task a go.

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

We have learned three new really impressive pieces of vocabulary.

We learned that self-conscious is an adjective meaning you are overly aware of yourself, how you feel when you get the dress code wrong.

We've learned that sheepish is an adjective meaning shy, ashamed, or uncomfortable, the way you feel when you've done something silly or stupid.

Perhaps you've been a sheep and you've followed your friends, and you've ended up doing something you feel a bit ashamed of.

And we remember that that ish at the end of sheep is a suffix, sheepish.

I wonder if you could spot any other words this week that have ish at the end of them, and you can think, oh, I know that that's a suffix.

And finally, we learnt wary is an adjective meaning careful or cautious, like a fly who is afraid of getting zapped.

So well done for all your hard work today.

You've learned three really impressive words, and I hope that when you use these words yourself, you feel really proud of yourself, or if you spot them in perhaps a book you are reading, you also think, oh, I know exactly what that word means and how to use it.

So well done for your hard work, and I'll hopefully see you another time, bye.