Lesson video

Hello everyone, I'm Ms. Corbette and welcome to today's lesson, "Comparing Adjectives "and Adverbs to Show Emotion".

For this lesson, you'll need a copy of the book, "Anna Hibiscus' Song" by Atinuke.

As well as that you'll need something to write with and something to write on.

It would be great if your paper could be lined.

You'll also need your success criteria printed to have ready.

I would like you to pause the video to go and make sure that you have all of those things.

Off you go.

Brilliant job.

Can you pop those things to the side so I can know that you are listening? Well done.

We are ready to get started.

Here is the outcome for today's lesson.

"I can choose appropriate adjectives and adverbs "to show a range of emotions." And here are the key words that will help us to get there.

Are you ready to repeat them after me? Let me hear you loud and proud.

Emotion, noun, adjective, verb, adverb.

Lots of our words for word class today.

Here's the first part of our lesson, choosing adjectives, and then we will move on to using adverbs.

The story of "Anna Hibiscus' Song" follows the story of Anna finding out all of the things that Anna's family do when they are happy.

I would like you to have a look through the book.

You might want to listen to the whole story again, or you could just look through the book to remind yourselves of all of the things Anna's family do when they are happy.

Can you pause the video now? I really hope you enjoyed looking through the book to remind yourself of that.

I wonder, can you now list all of the things Anna's family do when they are happy? Can you try and think of each character and what they do? Pause the video.

Wow, you remembered so many.

Let's see if we can match these up.

Match the character to what they do when they are happy.

We have got the characters: Grandmother, Anna, and the Cousins.

Then we have got the actions, what they do when they are happy: singing, gymnastics, and squeezing hands.

You might want to pause the video and match them up.

Off you go.

Well done.

Grandmother likes to squeeze Grandfather's hands.

Anna loves to sing and the Cousins like to do gymnastics.

Well done if you managed to match all of those up.

We know that happiness is a type of emotion.

There's one of our key words.

An emotion is a feeling or mood.

Can you think of a time when you felt happy? I felt happy when, let me think, I felt happy when I got to see my family.

I don't get to see my family that often because they don't live near to me.

So I felt happy when I spent some time with my lovely family.

I wonder, could you pause the video and say when you felt happy? I felt happy when.

I loved hearing all of the ways, the reasons why you might feel happy.

Thank you.

Happy is an adjective when it is describing the feeling of a person because an adjective describes a noun, a person, place, or thing.

Happy is a positive emotion, an emotion that we want to keep onto.

But there are other adjectives that mean the same as happy.

If we use happy all the time, it might get a bit boring.

So let's see some other adjectives that we could use.

So we've got happy, joyful.

You might want to repeat them after me.

Joyful, merry, overjoyed, pleased, cheerful, blissful.

I wonder which of those adjectives are your favourite.

I really like blissful and overjoyed.

You can carefully choose which adjectives to use and when.

And you can decide which one to use depending on how much of that feeling you are feeling.

So you might feel happy about something, but something else might make you happier or something else might make you the happiest you've been.

So then you can choose the adjective that you might want to use to describe each feeling.

If you are feeling happy, you might be pleased or merry.

If you're feeling happier than that, you might describe yourself as joyful or cheerful.

If you are feeling the happiest you've been, you might say blissful 'cause it's the happiest you've been, you couldn't be happier, or overjoyed.

So you can see that we have a bit of a scale here on which adjectives to use and when.

Using the same adjective all the time would be uninteresting and makes it harder to know the different emotions we are feeling based on different actions.

Okay, so which one of these adjectives are another way to say happy? We have got overjoyed, bored, and relaxed.

To help you, you might want to think of a time when you were happy and put each of these words into your example to see which one is correct.

So I was mm, when I saw my family, that was my example.

I would like you to find this adjective that means the same as happy.

Pause the video now.

Let's see which one you chose.

I chose overjoyed.

Bored, if you've been bored about something that's not really a feeling of happiness.

And even though relaxed, it might be good to feel relaxed.

It might be a positive feeling.

It's not the same as happy.

Overjoyed is one way you can use when you are really, really happy about something.

We know from the story that people's feelings of happiness can make them feel other positive emotions.

So we've got the feeling of happiness, but you might, that might make someone feel calm or relaxed or content, which means they're just happy and content like Grandfather.

It might make you excited, energetic, lively like the cousins and the auntie and Uncle Tunde.

Or it might make you feel loving or grateful or caring.

Like Papa, and Mama, and Grandmother.

I wonder which one of those are your favourite objectives.

You might want to take a photo of your favourite ones or write them down 'cause you're going to be using them quite soon.

Fantastic.

Choosing the right adjectives helps us to imagine and picture the noun we want to describe.

So we have got a bird.

Hmm, I dunno much about it yet until I start to describe it.

I can describe it using an adjective, chirping, that makes me think about what it sounds like.

I think I can expand that description even more by adding another adjective, colourful chirping bird.

But now I've chosen more than one adjective.

This has created an expanded noun phrase.

And we know we must separate those adjectives together with a comma, colourful, chirping bird.

And we can create expanded noun phrases to describe people by choosing the right adjectives.

So think about Uncle Tunde.

Hmm, how could I describe him? Lively.

Could I add another adjective to expand that description? Energetic! Energetic, lively Uncle Tunde.

So we know that when we choose more than one adjective, we have an expanded noun phrase and that we need to separate it with a comma, energetic, lively Uncle Tunde.

So which of these is a correctly punctuated, expanded noun phrase? And we've got a tip.

Remember the comma must separate the adjectives.

Let me read them.

Loving grateful mama.

Loving, grateful Mama.

Loving, grateful, Mama.

Which one of those is correct? Pause the video and explain why.

Well done if you chose loving, grateful Mama.

We need to separate our adjectives with a comma, loving, grateful, there are two adjectives.

The first one doesn't have any commas in.

And the third one has too many loving, grateful, Mama.

We don't need to separate the adjective with the noun with the comma, just the two adjectives.

So let's think of our own expanded noun phrases to describe the emotions of the characters in the story.

And we want to use adjective, adjective noun.

So I'm going to think of my noun, my people, the Aunties.

Hmm, how could I describe them? There's my noun.

I might use energetic because they have strength.

Don't need to pound the yams. Energetic, comma another adjective, hmm, strong.

So I have got adjective, comma adjective noun, energetic, comma strong Aunties.

Now it's your turn to try and write two expanded noun phrases to describe the feelings of two characters in the story using different adjectives.

So choose two characters as your nouns, and then two adjectives to create expanded noun phrases.

Adjective, comma adjective noun.

Pause the video now.

Fantastic writing.

I'm so impressed with the adjectives that you chose and you remembered the order.

Adjective comma adjective noun.

Here are some examples that I saw.

Cherished, which is the word for loved, cherished, comma lively Anna.

Loving, comma caring Papa.

I wonder which characters you chose and which adjectives you chose to describe them.

You might want to go back and double check that you included adjective comma adjective noun.

Maybe pause the video to check.

Fantastic.

Let's move on to the next part of our lesson, using adverb We know that adjectives describe nouns.

Adjectives describe or add more detail about a noun.

In this lesson, we will be writing sentences about characters in the story, "Anna Hibiscus' Song".

But we know if we're writing a sentence that every sentence must include a verb.

So in our sentence we can also add detail to the verb, not just the noun, by using types of words called adverbs.

Your turn.

Well done.

An adverb is a word that describes a verb.

Adverbs can tell us when things happen or have happened.

First, on Thursday, finally, next year.

Adverbs can also tell us how things happen or happened.

Quickly, slowly, angrily, happily.

Adverbs can also tell us where things happen or happened.

Over there, nearby, outside, inside.

So what type of word does an adverb give us more information about? Is it a noun, an adjective, or a verb? See if you can spot the word in the word adverb to help you.

Pause the video now.

Well done if you said verb.

An adverb describes or gives more information about a verb.

We will focus on the adverbs that tell us how things happen or happened.

Let's think about some of the characters' actions.

We have got the cousins.

What is something that they do, the verb? They cartwheel.

How could we describe how they cartwheel? The cousin's cartwheel excitedly.

They cartwheel bravely.

They cartwheel speedily and they cartwheel happily.

Now let's think about the Aunties.

A verb, an action that they do is pound.

They pound the yams. The aunties pound powerfully, they pound strongly, they pound quickly, and they pound carefully.

Lots of our adverbs can you see end in the letters L-Y, excitedly strongly, quickly.

Look at this sentence, imagining that we are Anna.

My lively, energetic Uncle Tunde dances.

Can you find the verb? What does Uncle Tunde do? Can you point to it for me? Well done if you are pointing to dances.

So we can give more information about that verb, dances, by adding an adverb to show how Uncle Tunde dances.

My lively, energetic Uncle Tunde dances happily.

Can you put a picture in your head? Can you imagine him dancing happily.

My lively, energetic Uncle Tunde dances angrily.

Oh, the image in my head has changed.

Has it changed for you too? He's dancing angrily because he is angry.

Or my lively energetic Uncle Tunde dances slowly.

So the adverb that we use can change the meaning of the sentence.

So which adjective, adverb, sorry, not adjective.

Which adverb best describes the verb in this sentence? Because these words are all adverbs, but we want to think about the ones that get us a picture in our head to best describe how the cousin's cartwheel.

My kind Cousins cartwheel, slowly, sadly, bravely, silently.

Hmm, maybe you could say the sentence, "My kind cousins cartwheel." Pause the video now.

Let's see.

I chose bravely.

"My kind Cousins cartwheel bravely," because they just go for it, don't they? And they keep going.

I don't think they cartwheel slowly 'cause a cartwheel has to be quick to get over.

They don't look sad in the book.

So they're not doing it sadly.

And they're not cartwheeling silently because they look like they're laughing and talking.

So I chose "My kind Cousins cartwheel bravely." We can put our expanded noun phrases into a sentence by adding a verb and then adding an adverb.

My mm mm grandfather mm for my verb and mm for my adverb.

So I must include in my sentence, adjectives to describe grandfather, a verb to show what grandfather does, and an adverb to show how grandfather does that verb.

Okay, "My," I need two adjectives, "calm, relaxed, Grandfather." There's my expanded noun phrase.

"My calm, relaxed grandfather." I have my comma in between my adjectives.

I've got that.

Now I want a verb to show what grandfather does.

"My calm, relaxed grandfather." What does he do? Counts.

"My calm, relaxed grandfather counts," there's my verb, "My calm, relaxed Grandfather counts." Let me choose an adverb, bravely, excitedly, carefully, quietly.

I think I'll choose quietly.

"My calm, relaxed grandfather counts quietly." I've got my adverb.

Now I think I'm ready to write my sentence.

I am ready to write my descriptive sentence about one of the characters in the story.

I've got my line paper.

My success criteria.

Let's read our success criteria.

I have used a capital letter and a full stop.

I have used an expanded noun phrase.

I have included a verb.

I have included an adverb.

Okay, to help me, I have got my two expanded noun phrases that I chose two characters for, Grandfather and Uncle Tunde.

My two expanded noun phrases are calm, comma relaxed grandfather, lively, comma energetic uncle.

The sentence I'm going to write is about grandfather.

So I'm going to keep them there so I can see them to help me.

I'm even going to put a mark to remind myself that they're the ones I'm going to use.

My sentence is, "My calm, relaxed grandfather "counts quietly." One more time, "My calm, relaxed Grandfather counts quietly." So I'm starting with "My." I'm starting my sentence so I need a capital letter.

M with a Y spells my, my grandfather.

That's quite a long word and I have it there ready for me.

All of the family members are there to help you.

My finger space grandfather.

Grand from copying it, F-A-T-H-E-R.

My grandfather, oh, hang on.

What have I forgotten? I haven't got my expanded noun phrase.

"My calm, relaxed grandfather." That's okay, I'm going to put a line through it and don't forget my adjectives.

"My calm, relaxed grandfather." Ka, all, mm, calm, while those letters are making an R sound, comma adjective, comma adjective noun, "relaxed", relax and E-D.

My calm, comma, relaxed Grandfather.

I need a new line 'cause I've ran outta space.

I've already written this word once when I made my mistake.

"My calm, relaxed grandfather." Now I finish with that, counts.

Counts, could you stretch that word out with me? Counts, ka ow nn tuh sss, counts.

Tricky sounds at the end so make sure you really sound it out.

Ka ow, now in count, I know it's the O-U ow.

Ka ow nn tuh, that's count, sss, counts.

There's my verb.

"My calm, relaxed Grandfather counts," I need my adverb.

What was it? Quietly.

So I can do quiet and then add my L-Y.

Quiet, kwah, eye, which is just spelled with a letter I in this word.

Qui and then ette, quiet.

Quietly, L with a Y.

"My calm, relaxed grandfather counts quietly." Full stop.

Let's check my success criteria.

I have used a capital letter and a full stop.

I'm going to put one finger on my capital letter, then I'm going to read along to get to the end of my idea and see if I have a full stop.

"My calm, relaxed grandfather counts quietly." Full stop.

I've got my capital letter and my full stop.

Have I got an expanded noun phrase? "My calm, relaxed grandfather." There it is.

Calm, comma relaxed grandfather.

I almost forgot it.

Thank goodness I had my success criteria to remind me.

My calm, relaxed grandfather counts quietly.

Have I got my verb? Something that he, my grandfather does.

What does he do? He counts.

And how does he do it using my adverb? Quietly.

Well done.

Now it's your turn to write your sentence.

Thank you for helping me write my sentence.

Now it's your turn to write yours.

You are going to try and write a sentence to describe your family member using an expanded noun phrase, explain what they do by using a verb, and describe what they do using an adverb.

My mm mm mm adjective comma adjective noun mm mm verb adverb.

Pause the video now.

Well done.

What a fantastic sentence.

Can we check that this sentence meets our success criteria? I have used a capital letter and a full stop.

I'm going to get my pointing finger at my capital letter.

My, then I'm going to keep reading until I finish my idea and hopefully I'll see a full stop.

"My kind, caring Papa hugs gently." Full stop.

I have used an expanded noun phrase, kind comma caring Papa.

I have included a verb, "My kind, caring Papa," what does he do? Hugs.

That's my verb.

And how does he do it to find my adverb? Gently.

I would like you now to check your success criteria just like that.

Pause the video now.

Fantastic.

Thank you so much for checking.

And what an amazing lesson.

We have learned that emotions can be different and shown in different ways so descriptions must be chosen really carefully using different adjectives and adverbs.

An emotion describes how someone is feeling or the mood that they are in, including a range of adjectives to describe the same feeling, stops repetition, to repeating again and again, and makes writing more interesting.

And adverbs can be used to show how someone feels when they do something to describe that verb, such as counts quietly or cartwheels happily.

Thank you so much for learning with me today and I really hope to see you next time.

Bye.