Lesson video

In today's lesson, we are going to make comparisons.

Say that word for me.

My turn first.

Comparisons.

Your turn.

Brilliant.

Again, comparisons.

Your turn.

Fantastic! Now, when we make comparisons, we show how things are the same or how they're different.

So we compare.

When we compare, we show how things are the same or how they're different.

So let me talk you through how we're going to do that today.

First, we are going to sing a comparison song to help remind us what comparison is all about.

Then we are going to orally rehearse some comparison sentences about characters in our Anansi and Tiger story.

And then we're going to write some comparison sentences about our new story characters, about the characters in our recycled story.

So you will need an exercise book or a piece of paper to write on today and a pen or pencil to write with.

Pause the video now and go and get those things if you need to.

Brilliant job, you are back with everything you need to start the learning today.

Now then, let's begin with our comparison song.

I'm going to teach you a song to remind you what comparison is all about.

I'm going to sing it first and then I will teach you the comparison song.

So it goes like this.

Comparison.

How do we do it? Comparison.

How do we do it? Comparison.

How do we do it? How do we do it? We show what's the same.

That's how we do it.

We show what's different.

That's how we do it.

We show what's the same.

We show what's different.

That's how we do comparison.

Okay, so now I'm going to teach it to you.

Let's begin with the first verse.

We'll do two lines at a time.

Ready? Comparison.

How do we do it? Sing those lines with me.

Comparison.

How do we do it? Fantastic.

The next two lines.

Comparison.

How do we do it? Sing with me.

Comparison.

How do we do it? The next two lines.

Comparison.

How do we do it? Sing with me.

Comparison.

How do we do it? And then the final line.

How do we do it? Your turn, sing with me.

How do we do it? Brilliant.

Now let's put all of that together and we'll sing the first verse all the way through.

Ready? Join in with me.

Comparison.

How do we do it? Comparison.

How do we do it? Comparison.

How do we do it? How do we do it? Brilliant.

Now I'll teach you the second verse.

Two lines at a time.

Ready? We show what's the same.

That's how we do it.

Sing that with me.

We show what's the same.

That's how we do it.

Brilliant.

Next two lines.

We show what's different.

That's how we do it.

Sing those lines with me.

We show what's different.

That's how we do it.

Fantastic.

Next two lines.

We show what's the same.

We show what's different.

Brilliant.

Sing those with me.

We show what's the same.

We show what's different.

Fantastic.

And the final line.

That's how we do comparison.

Sing with me.

That's how we do comparison.

Fantastic.

Let's put all of that second verse together now.

Ready? Sing with me.

We show what's the same.

That's how we do it.

We show what's different.

That's how we do it.

We show what's the same.

We show what's different.

That's how we do comparison.

Brilliant.

Now let's put all of that together and sing our comparison song all the way through.

Okay, are you ready? Let's go.

Comparison.

How do we do it? Comparison.

How do we do it? Comparison.

How do we do it? How do we do it? We show what's the same.

That's how we do it.

We show what's different.

That's how we do it.

We show what's the same.

We show what's different.

That's how we do comparison.

Brilliant job.

Well done! Well done for singing that with me.

Now that comparison song is really useful for reminding us what comparison is all about.

It tells us that comparison is about showing what's the same and about showing what's different.

Now in today's lesson, we are going to compare our story characters and we're going to be comparing them today to show what's different about them.

So we are going to make comparisons to show what's different about our story characters today.

And we're going to do that for our story characters in the original story Anansi and Tiger, and also for the characters in our new recycled stories of Anansi and Tiger.

Now, in order to do that, we first need to work out an important spelling rule.

So I would like you to take a close look at the words in the purple boxes on your screen and see if you can notice what's different about the words in the second purple box.

So here we are comparing, aren't we? We are making comparisons between the words in the first box and the second purple box to show how they're different.

So pause the video now and think about what's different.

Fantastic.

You are back.

Really good thinking there trying to spot what's different and see if you can work out what's going on.

So go on, tell me in a full sentence.

I notice that.

Tell me to your screen now.

Fantastic.

You spotted that the words in the second purple box are different because they all end in ER.

Now ER is a group of letters that we add to the end of a word.

What do we call that? What do we call it when we add a letter or group of letters to the end of a word, can you remember? Go on if you do, tell me to your screen now.

It's called a? Amazing job! That's really well remembered.

It's called a suffix, isn't it? A suffix is a letter or group of letters that we add to the end of a word to change its meaning.

Now notice that the spelling of the root word here, when we add ER, doesn't change.

So the root words are the words in the first purple box, fast, small, hard, long.

Those words, the spelling of them doesn't change, does it, when we add ER.

So let's take a closer look at that so you can see more clearly.

So you can see there that when we add the suffix ER to those root words, the spelling of the root word does not change.

So why is that? Well, first let's just take a closer look at those words.

Fast, small, hard, long.

They're all adjectives, aren't they? They're all adjectives because they all describe things.

For example, the fast car, the small cat, the hard floor, the long ruler.

Now, because those words all end in a consonant, the consonant is any other letter of the alphabet that is not a vowel.

Remember our vowels are A, E, I, O, U.

All the other letters in the alphabet are called consonants.

Now, because those adjectives end in a consonant, when we add ER, the spelling of the root word does not change.

So let's have a look at that with some more adjectives, shall we? So faster.

Say that with me.

Faster, smaller, harder, cleverer, longer, stronger, quieter.

Those adjectives all end in consonants, which means that when we add ER the spelling of the root word does not change.

And why do we add ER to those adjectives? We add ER so that we can use them to compare things.

And that is exactly what we are going to be using them for today.

We are going to be adding ER to adjectives so that we can use them to compare our story characters, to show what's different about them.

So let's make a start with that, shall we? Now you can see a picture of some bees on your screen.

Now, you know that bees are really important in our story Anansi and Tiger, in the story that you learned in unit four.

That's because, remember, Ananci has to trick the bees into getting into a barrel so that he can bring them back to Tiger.

He slams the leg down on them, doesn't he, after he tricks them by telling them that they can't work as a team because they squabble too much.

So let's make some comparisons about bees and show how they're different from other creatures.

Now, let's think about the bees in terms of our Anansi and Tiger story.

What are they like in that story? And we're going to use these words to help us compare them.

Faster, smaller, harder.

So our sentence stems are going to be: bees move faster than, bees are smaller than, bees work harder than.

So these are some things that we might compare bees to.

Let's read them together.

Hens, turtles, birds, butterflies, worms, pigs.

Or you might like to choose something different to compare them to.

So I would like you now to pick one of those sentence stems and then complete the sentence.

So pause the video now and do that.

Get ready to tell me your full sentence when you press Play.

Fantastic.

Now I'm ready to hear your sentence.

Go on, tell me your sentence in a full sentence.

Tell me to your screen.

Brilliant full sentences.

Well done.

I heard some of you say, bees move faster than worms. You're right.

Worms, slithery slowly in the soil, don't they? I heard some of you say bees are smaller than pigs.

Absolutely right.

And I heard you say bees work harder than turtles.

Hmm, interesting.

Now it's difficult to prove that.

I'm not sure how hard turtles work, but we do know that bees work really hard all the time and they work as a team.

So let's have a look at the next story creature that we are going to compare.

It's a tiger.

Now we're going to use these words to compare tiger.

Faster, stronger, quieter.

So these are your sentence stems. Tigers run faster than.

They are stronger than.

They can move quieter than.

Now, are you noticing that's after our comparative adjective, or adjective ending in ER to help us compare things, we always have the word than.

Now, the word than is really important in our sentences.

We need it after the word ending in ER to make the comparison.

So let's have a look at those words at the bottom of your screen.

Here are some ideas for things that you could compare tiger to.

Elephants, spiders, cows, snakes, ants, sharks.

Or you might have a different idea of your own.

So again, I would like you to pick one of those sentence openers, tigers run faster than, they are stronger than, they can move quieter than, and then complete that sentence.

So pause the video now and get ready to tell me your sentence.

Okay, brilliant.

You're back.

Go on and tell me your sentence.

Tell me to your screen now.

Fantastic comparison sentences.

I heard some of you say, tigers run faster than cows.

You are absolutely right.

Tigers are one of the fastest running creatures that exist in the world.

I also heard some of you say, they are stronger than ants.

They definitely are because they're so much bigger than them.

And I had some of you say, they can move quieter than elephants.

You're right again.

Elephants are big and heavy and they stomp, don't they? So those are some comparison sentences showing how tigers are different from other animals.

Now let's move on to our last creature from our original story, Anansi and Tiger.

So there's Anansi, the spider.

Now let's use some of these words to compare Anansi.

Stronger, quieter, cleverer.

Let's have a look at our sentence stems. A spider's web is stronger than.

They creep quieter than.

Spiders are clever than.

Now let's look at some of the options at the bottom of the page.

Paper, tissue, beetles, ants, bees, pythons.

Now, you know what a python is from the story.

So I wonder you might like to choose one of those ideas to finish your sentence, or you might have a different idea of your own.

I would like you to pause the video now, choose one of those sentences to complete and get ready to tell me when you press Play.

Fantastic.

You're back.

And I'm ready to hear your sentence.

So go on, tell me your sentence to the screen now.

Amazing job again.

Well done! You are using complete sentences.

You are using your comparative adjective ending in ER, and you're following it with the word than to make your comparison.

So I heard some of you say a spider's web is stronger than tissue.

You're right.

A spider's web is made out of silk and the silk that they spin is really strong.

I also heard some of you say, they creep quieter than beetles.

No, I'm not sure about that, but you might be right.

I'm not sure how quiet beetles are, but spiders are definitely quiet.

They're so quiet with their spindly dainty legs that we don't even hear them, do we? And I heard some of you say, spiders are clever than pythons.

Now I'm not sure if that's true in real life, I don't know how clever pythons are, but I do know that in our story Anansi is a very clever spider.

Now then, I would like you to choose one of your sentences.

In fact, let's choose the sentence that you just came up with about spider.

And I would like you to write it down.

So I'd like you to write your full sentence that you just told me to the screen, comparing spider to something else.

So it might be comparing its web.

It might be comparing how quietly it creeps.

Or it might be comparing how clever it is.

So pause the video now and write your comparison sentence.

Now we're going to think about some of the characters in our new recycled versions of Anansi and Tiger now.

And in order to do that, we need to have a look at a different spelling rule.

So I would like you to pause the video now, look carefully at the words in those white boxes and think about what you notice.

I'd like you to compare the words in both boxes.

How are the words in the second box different? Pause the video now and have a think about that.

Fantastic job.

You're back.

Go on then, tell me what you notice.

Say I notice that.

Well spotted.

You have noticed that all of the words in the second box end in IER.

They end in a suffix IER.

Now some of you notice something else.

Some of you also noticed that the Y at the end of the words in the first box disappears in the second box.

It's not there, is it? The words in the second box do not have a Y anymore.

Now, should we think about why that is? So this is the rule.

If the root word, the root words are the words in the first white box, if the root word ends in a Y, then when it becomes, when we add IER, we drop the Y, we lose the Y.

So let's have a look.

Hungry, bossy, cuddly, lonely, scary, grumpy.

All of those are adjectives, aren't they, used to describe things.

Now they all end in the letter Y.

So what happens when we add IER? When we add the suffix IER on the end, we lose the Y.

So that is the rule.

Now, just like adding ER, when we add the suffix IER, it also means that we can use the adjective to compare things.

The only difference this time is that the root word ends in Y so when we add the suffix to compare things, we have to drop the Y and add IER.

That's the rule.

Now let's have a look with our dog for my new recycled story.

So we are going to compare dog by using these three comparative adjectives.

Ready? So hungrier.

Say them with me.

Hungrier, cuddlier, bouncier.

So let's have a look at our sentence stems. The dog is hungrier than.

He is friendlier than.

The dog is bouncier than.

There are some ideas that you could compare dog with at the bottom of your page.

So horse, teddy bear, football, crocodile, soft rug, trampoline, hippo, pillow, basketball.

So again, I would like you to choose one of those sentence stems and decide how you're going to complete that sentence.

So, for example, my sentence might be, the dog is bouncier than a crocodile.

I would like you to pause the video now, say your sentence out loud and write it down.

Brilliant.

Now let's move on to our next story character, shall we? It's ogre sitting on his pot of gold.

And these are our comparative adjectives that we are going to use to compare him with things.

So lonelier, grumpier, scarier.

Let's look at our sentence stems. The ogre is lonelier than.

He is grumpier than.

The ogre is scarier than.

And here are some things that you might like to compare him with.

Scarecrow, giant, dragon, ghost, snowman, troll, cloud, witch, and Cinderella's stepmother.

So I might save for my sentence, he is grumpier than Cinderella's stepmother.

I wonder what your sentence is going to be.

You might like to compare ogre with one of those ideas at the bottom of the page, or you might have a different idea of your own.

I would like you to say your sentence out loud, and then write it down.

Pause the video now and do that.

Amazing job.

Can you tell me your sentence about ogre? Go on, tell me what you've compared him with.

Say, ogre is.

Go on, tell me your sentence.

Oh, those are brilliant comparative sentences.

So some of you have said, the ogre is lonelier than a scarecrow.

Scarecrow stands all alone in fields, don't need, to scare off the birds.

They don't eat the crops.

I also heard some of you say, he is grumpier than a troll.

Trolls are really grumpy, aren't they? And I also had some of you say, the ogre is scarier than a ghost.

Oh gosh.

That makes ogre sound really scary.

Brilliant job on those sentences comparing ogre.

So let's move on to our final story character.

It's peacock.

Now here are some adjectives to describe peacock.

That's all end in a Y.

Pretty, bossy, fancy.

And when we add the suffix IER, those words become prettier.

Say that with me.

Prettier.

Bossier.

Say that with me.

Bossier.

And fancier.

Say that with me.

Fancier.

Well done.

We're now going to use those words in sentences to compare peacock.

The peacock is prettier than.

He is bossier than.

Peacock is fancier than.

Now, here are some things that you might compare peacock with.

Rainbow, a bully, the Queen's wedding dress, a firework, a fairy, Cinderella's stepsisters, or a king's crown.

Well, you might have a different idea of your own.

So for example, my sentence might be, peacock is fancier than the Queen's wedding dress.

I would like you to decide which sentence stem you are going to use.

Complete your sentence, say it out loud and write it down.

Pause the video now and do that.

Amazing job.

Now go on, tell me your sentence.

I'm really interested to hear what you wrote about peacock.

Tell me your sentence to your screen.

Fantastic.

I heard some of you say, the peacock is prettier than a rainbow.

I have some of you say, he is bossier than Cinderella's stepsisters.

They're very bossy, aren't they? And I heard some of you say, peacock is fancier than a firework.

Fireworks are so fancy, aren't they, because they're so colourful.

And finally, here is an independent challenge for you today if you feel like going above and beyond.

and that challenge is to come up with two sentences, comparing ogre, you might use your sentence that you already came up with earlier as one of them.

So I would like you to compare ogre with two sentences, and I would like you to join those together, using and to link your ideas.

So let's have a look at some more words that you could use to compare ogre.

You could use the words balder.

If you're bald, it means you have no hair.

Balder.

So what's he got less hair than? Richer, meaner, prouder.

Now, all of those words end in the suffix ER, don't they? And you could use one of these words, grumpier, lonelier, scarier, greedier.

All of those adjectives end in IER, when we use them to compare, don't they? So for example, this is my sentence.

The ogre is balder than an egg and grumpier than a troll.

So I would like you to pause the video now and have a go at doing that.

Have a go at coming up with two sentences to compare ogre and linking them together with the word and.

Pause the video and try that.

And that brings us to the end of our learning today.

Today, we have been learning how to make comparisons, how to compare things, to show what's different about them by adding the suffixes ER and IER to adjectives.

Now then, I hope you've enjoyed today's lesson.

Let's finish by singing our comparison song, shall we? Ready? Join in with me.

Comparison.

How do we do it? Comparison.

How do we do it? Comparison.

How do we do it? How do we do it? We show what's the same.

That's how we do it.

We show what's different.

That's how we do it.

We show what's the same.

We show what's different.

That's how we do comparison.

Brilliant, well done! I will see you in lesson five.

Until then, keep making comparisons.

Bye!.