Lesson video

Hello, I'm Miss Corbert and I love that you chose to do this English lesson with me today which is describing the setting in "Anna Hibiscus' Song." For this lesson, I need you to have your thinking brains, your listening ears, your looking eyes.

You will also need your imagination to imagine that you are in the setting of the story.

As well as that you will need a copy of the story, "Anna Hibiscus' Song," and it would be great if your copy could look like mine.

It would also be great if you could have your senses map, which we're going to see printed out as well.

Can you pause the video and go and get your copy? Off you go.

Fantastic, you are back with your copy.

Let's get started with our lesson, To make sure that we're not distracted, can you put your copy of your book in front of you and then keep your hands away? Well done, let's get started.

Today's lesson outcome is I can describe a setting using a range of adjectives, and here are our key words that will help us get there.

Don't worry if you dunno what they all mean 'cause we'll go through them all together today.

For now, I just want you to repeat them after me.

Are you ready? Let me hear you, sense, noun, adjective, expanded noun phrase, comma.

Fantastic, the first part of our lesson will be generating vocabulary.

In this lesson, we will be describing the setting of "Anna Hibiscus' Song." And remember, the setting is where the story takes place.

The first thing I would like you to do is get your copy of the book and I would like you to read or listen to somebody read it to you, the first two pages of the story.

Then you could either listen to the whole story again or look through the illustrations, focusing on the setting, focusing on where the story is.

Can you do that now? Pause the video.

Fantastic, I hope you enjoyed listening to the first two pages and looking so carefully at the beautiful illustrations.

Can you think of some adjectives to describe the setting, I wonder.

How would you describe it? Pause the video and have another think, off you go.

Fantastic, can you keep those adjectives in your head and see if they come up throughout the lesson? When we are describing the setting, we can imagine that we are there and we can use our senses to do that.

Here are our senses.

Can you remember what the five senses are? Use the pictures to help you.

Pause the video now.

Fantastic, let's see if you've got them all.

We have got hearing, smell, sight, touch, taste, well done.

So we are going to use the senses to describe the setting of the story.

So we are going to imagine that we are there and think about what we can hear, smell, see, feel, and taste.

Imagine that you are Anna Hibiscus in the story and using the senses.

Think about how you could use your senses to describe the setting of the story.

Look at some of the things that Anna could see in the story.

Are you ready? We have got flowers, a gecko, which is a type of lizard, yams, before they are pounded by the aunties, and a hen.

We can describe these nouns using adjectives.

So these are all nouns because they are names of things, and we can describe them using adjectives because adjectives describe nouns.

Adjectives can describe what nouns look like.

Bright, tropical, colourful flowers.

(gasps) Bright, tropical, and colourful.

Which one of those is your favourite adjective? Hmm, we could describe the yams as rough, brown, and hard.

Think about what they look like.

We can describe the gecko as speedy, tiny and green.

And we can describe the hen as feathery, round and soft.

So thinking about their colour, texture, how they feel, and their size, that helps describe what things look like.

Can you think of any more adjectives? Different to ones that I've used.

I give you five seconds to think.

Five, four, three, two, and one.

Maybe you could write down some of those as well, well done.

So which one of these are nouns, which words are nouns? Remember, nouns are names of people, places and things.

We have got bright, tree, exotic or bird, hmm.

Which one of those would you say are nouns? There are two of them, pause the video now.

Have you got them? The nouns are tree, the name of a thing, and bird, the name of a thing.

Bright is an adjective to describe what something looks like.

And exotic might describe what something looks like if it is something that we would find in another country, normally a hot country.

Now let's look at the things that Anna could hear in the story.

Are you ready, what could she hear? A car engine, birds and the car radio.

We can describe these nouns using adjectives because adjectives describe nouns.

And adjectives can describe not just what things look like, but what things sound like.

So the car engine could be loud, whirring or rattling.

The radio could be musical, lively or echoing.

The bird could be chirping, tuneful or cheerful.

Thinking about those adjectives, those are all adjectives to describe what they sound like, but they've been chosen really carefully to describe each thing.

Think about their volume, so how loud they are, the type of noise they're making, and their pitch, maybe how high they are, how low they are.

Can you think of any more adjectives to describe what they might sound like? Have a think and keep it in your head.

Or maybe take a photo of your favourite adjectives.

Can you now match the adjectives to the sense that it best describes? So some of these adjectives you would choose to describe what something looks like and some of them you describe what they sound like.

Are you listening? Colourful, noisy, whirring, small, hmm.

Pause the video and match them to either hearing or sight.

Off you go.

Okay, let's see how you got on.

So colourful, is that a noise? No, we look at something that's colourful.

Noisy is about something we hear.

Whirring is a sound that something might make, like the engine, and small is something that we can see.

Well done if you've got all of those.

Now let's look at some of the things that Anna could smell in the story.

Let's see, she could smell as well as hear the car engine, the flowers, as well as seeing them and the mango in the tree.

So we can describe the same nouns, like the car engine and flowers, but using different senses.

So using different adjectives.

Adjectives describe nouns and those adjectives can describe what nouns smell like.

The engine might smell smoky and oily.

The mangoes might smell sweet or exotic, there's that word again or fruity.

And the flowers might smell floral or fresh.

Can you think of any more adjectives to describe what these might smell like or choose your favourite one? Keep them in your head, fantastic.

So we can describe the same nouns using different senses and different adjectives.

So we can think about the mango and we can describe it using its smell, sweet, exotic, fruity, but we can also think about taste for the first time.

What might a mango taste like? Sweet, you could use the same one as smelling, juicy, something you taste, isn't it? The juice, or tasty, another word for delicious or yummy.

And you can describe what a mango feels like.

Soft, smooth, ripe, which means it's quite firm and ready to go.

We choose adjectives really carefully to best describe something.

Sometimes the same adjective can be used to describe different nouns or different senses.

So sweet has described the smell and the taste, but you wouldn't describe the feel of something as sweet or the sound of something maybe.

When we think about touch, we can think about how something feels, including the temperature.

We know that in the setting of Nigeria it is warm because it's close to the equator.

Can you think of any adjectives to describe how it would feel to be in Nigeria? Maybe think about the temperature.

Pause the video and have a think, off you go.

Let's see, I thought of hot, warm, boiling or tropical.

Did you think of any, I wonder.

Now I would like you, we've looked at all of the senses, can you match the name of the S sense to the image? Here are the ones that we have sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste.

Pause the video and match them, off you go.

Let's see if you've got them.

Sight goes to the eye, what we used to look with, hearing goes to the ear, what we used to hear or listen with, smell goes to the nose, touch is what we feel with our hands or our bodies, and taste is what we can taste with our mouths.

Well done if you got those.

We can create word banks to help us to remember the adjectives that we have learned.

So here is an example of a word bank.

My senses are along the top and then I have spaces for each one.

I might have in my sight colourful, bright, huge, for smell, smoky, oily, floral, for touch or feel soft, smooth or rough, for hearing, chirping, whirring or noisy, and for taste, sweet, juicy or fruity.

So those are just some adjectives that I decided to put in my word bank.

Your word bank might look a little bit different.

Maybe you could pause the video now and choose some of your favourite ones.

Maybe choose three adjectives that you are not sure of the spelling of that you could write down.

Pause the video now and off you go.

Fantastic, that will help you with this activity now.

You are going to sort some adjectives into the senses that they best describe.

And then you are going to add one more adjective of your choice to describe each sense.

So we have got the senses here, and then here are our adjectives, bright, loud, hard, juicy or sweet.

Thinking about which one might go in there best.

And then choose one more for each sense.

Can you pause the video now? Off you go.

Fantastic, let's see how you got on.

I put bright in sight, sweet in smell, because that could go in taste, but there wasn't another one for smell, hard for touch, loud for hearing and juicy for taste.

And did you manage to think of it anymore? Fantastic, well done.

Now let's move on to the next part of our lesson, writing expanded noun phrase.

We know that adjectives help us to describe nouns and they help the reader to picture the noun.

So here I have got a noun with an adjective.

My noun is flowers because it's the name of something.

My adjective is fresh, which might describe the smell of them, fresh flowers.

What else would help us to imagine this noun in even more detail? Maybe I could use another sense like sight or smell, hmm.

I have added another adjective.

Can you see? Fresh, B-R-IGHT, bright flowers.

But this is something so important.

Have you got your listening ears on? When we have two adjectives next to each other, fresh and bright, we split them up with a punctuation mark, called a comma, comma.

And we might do an action, comma, your turn.

Because let me show you what it looks like.

Can you see it? Fresh, comma, bright flowers.

(gasps) So I have added more detail to describe the flowers by adding another adjective, but I need to split them up.

They don't like being next to each other, so I split them up with a comma.

We can use two adjectives to describe a noun in more detail.

Look again at this example, tasty mango.

What if I want to describe it with another adjective? If we add another adjective, we expand the description of the noun.

Tasty, ripe mango.

But there must be a comma between the two adjectives.

Tasty, comma, ripe mango.

Can you see the comma, could you point to it for me? Tasty, comma, ripe mango.

Right, I have a true or false for you because this is some new learning for us so we need to get it in our head.

Get your thumbs ready for true or false.

We add a full stop between two adjectives to list them before a noun.

Is it a full stop that we use, true or false? I'm going to give you five seconds to think.

Five, four, three, two, and one.

Do we use a full stop, is that true or false? That is false, well done if you are showing me your thumbs down.

We do use a punctuation mark, but it is not a full stop.

It is a comma, what is it? A comma, well done.

If we expand something, we stretch it out.

So like a balloon expands when we blow it up, we can expand a noun by adding another adjective to stretch our description of it.

So here's my noun, engine.

I might have an adjective, oily, oily engine.

I want to expand that description.

So I need a comma and a new adjective.

Whirring, oily, comma, whirring engine.

Two adjectives to describe one noun.

So the noun now has two adjectives before it.

So this means it expanded from one word, engine, into a phrase.

So we call this an expanded noun phrase because expanded means it's stretched or grown.

Expanded noun phrase, well done.

An expanded noun phrase on its own is not a sentence, oily, comma, whirring engine.

It does not have a verb in it.

So and it doesn't start with a capital letter or end with punctuation.

A sentence would be, I heard the oily whirring engine.

In this lesson, we are only creating expanded noun phrases.

Well done, so just so we are really clear before we write them, you are going to match the term to its example.

We have got a noun on its own, an adjective and an expanded noun phrase.

Then we have got here as our examples, lively, lively, comma, echoing radio.

And then we have radio.

Pause the video now and match them up, off you go.

Fantastic, let's see if you got them.

The noun is the? Radio, the name of something.

The adjective on its own is lively, which means the expanded noun phrase because it's been stretched out to describe the noun, is lively, comma, echoing radio, fantastic.

We're generating adjectives to describe the nouns in the story.

These will be expanded noun phrases, because we're going to use more than one adjective.

We will write them on a senses map.

And this is what it looks like.

It would be great if you could have this ready or you could just get some paper ready.

And we are going to write an expanded noun phrase, adjective, comma, adjective, noun for each sense.

So let's think of our own expanded noun phrase for this picture using the senses.

So I have got a bird, which sense could I use? I'm going to use hearing and I need two adjectives to describe the bird.

Hmm, let me think.

Chirping, could you say that with me? Chirping, CH-I-R-P-I-NG, chirping.

Then I'm going to add another adjective.

But before I do, I can't have two adjectives together.

So I need a comma.

Chirping, comma, tuneful, that describes what it sounds like.

Chirping, comma, tuneful, then I need my noun, bird.

Let's read it, chirping, tuneful bird.

There's my adjective, chirping, my comma to split because I have another adjective, tuneful.

And then I have my noun.

Adjective, comma, adjective, noun.

Should we say that together? Adjective, comma, adjective, noun, well done.

Now it's your turn to complete the senses map, try and think of five different nouns.

And then think about how you could describe what they look like, what they sound like, what they smell like, what they taste like, and what they feel like.

So adjective, comma, adjective, noun.

You can use your word bank from the first part of the lesson to help you, pause the video now.

Fantastic, let's see how you got on.

Here's an example that I've seen.

Speedy, comma, green gecko.

The gecko is the noun and my two adjectives are speedy, comma, green, speedy, green gecko.

What did I hear? (gasps) Noisy, comma, tuneful birds, noisy, tuneful birds.

What did I smell? Smoky, comma, oily engine.

What did I taste? Smooth, comma, sweet yams, smooth, sweet yams. And what did I feel? Soft, comma, ripe mango.

(gasps) Soft, ripe mango.

Did you manage to think of an expanded noun phrase for each sense? Can you go back and check and make sure that you have adjective, comma, adjective, noun? Pause the video and check your work, well done.

Fantastic, make sure you keep hold of your expanded noun phrases because they could help you with some later descriptive writing, well done.

A fantastic lesson today, and we've learned so much.

We now know that senses can be used to describe and imagine a setting and an adjective describes a noun.

When we use two adjectives, a comma is placed in between them, like warm, comma, vibrant Nigeria.

Adjective, comma, adjective, noun.

When we place more than one noun before an adjective, we call this an expanded noun phrase.

Well done, everybody did so well using amazing adjectives and writing your own expanded noun phrases.

I hope to see you again soon, bye.