Lesson video

Hello, I'm Miss Corbet and welcome to today's lesson, Character Description of the Giant in "Jack and the Beanstalk".

So I hope you have your creating writing minds ready and your writing hands ready too.

So for this lesson I need you to have something to write with and something to write on.

It would be great if your paper could have lines and it would also be great if you could have the success criteria nearby, as well as that it would be great if you could have someone to talk to.

I think we're ready to get started.

Today's lesson outcome is I can join two ideas together when describing the giant.

And these keywords will help us to get there.

I would like to hear your loud and proud voice and I would like you to repeat them after me.

Are you ready? Character.

Personality.

Appearance.

Adjective.

Joining word.

Thank you so much for joining in with me.

The first part of our lesson is describing the giant.

We know that rereading a story helps us to remember the plot as well as notice details in the text and the illustration, so we are going to read the whole story of "Jack and the Beanstalk" without stopping.

Get your listening ears ready.

I am going to read my version of "Jack and the Beanstalk." "Once upon a time, there was a boy named Jack who lived with his lonely mother.

They had very little money for food, but they had a cow named Betsy who gave them milk every morning.

One day, Jack took Betsy to the market to sell her milk, but on the way he met a strange old man who offered him some magical beans for the cow, and Jack excitedly agreed.

However, when Jack got home, his mother was furious.

She angrily threw the beans out of the window and sent Jack to bed without any supper.

The next morning, Jack woke up to find a gigantic green beanstalk had grown outside his window and it went all the way up into the clouds.

He decided to climb it to see what he could find at the top.

Up, up, up Jack climbed into the sky until he reached a kingdom above the clouds.

There he saw a huge castle and quietly sneaked inside.

Inside the enormous castle, Jack tiptoed past a sleepy, smelly giant in a room filled with treasures.

Jack spotted a goose who laid golden eggs and more coins and jewels than he had ever seen.

But what caught his attention most was a beautiful golden harp in the corner of the room.

When Jack grabbed the magical harp, it started yelling loudly, 'Help, master, a boy is stealing me.

' The angry giant woke up and saw Jack running away with the harp, the golden goose, and a sack of gold.

Jack raced down the beanstalk with the fuming giant stomping after him.

As soon as Jack reached the bottom, he shouted for his mother to bring an axe.

With a big swing, Jack chopped the beanstalk down.

The giant tumbled down, crashing onto the ground below.

Jack and his mother were safe at last.

With the treasure Jack brought home, they would never be poor again, and they lived happily ever after." Thank you so much for listening to me.

I really hope to enjoyed hearing the story from the beginning all the way to the end.

These nouns are all naming words of characters and people in "Jack and the Beanstalk." Jack, Mum, or mother, old man.

Can you think of one more character from the story? I'm going to give you five seconds.

Did you think of one? He's big, he's huge.

The giant.

Another character in the story is the giant.

In this lesson, we will describe him.

Here are some adjectives from the story that describe the giant's character.

Sleepy, smelly, angry, fuming.

It doesn't sound like the nicest of characters.

Today we will describe the giant's appearance and his personality.

So, can you identify the adjectives? An adjective describes a noun.

Which are the adjectives? Smelly, feet, hair, huge.

Pause the video and find the adjectives.

The adjectives are.

Did you find them? The adjectives are smelly.

You might say smelly feet or smelly breath.

And huge.

Huge giant.

Feet and hair are both nouns, naming words that can be described by adjectives.

These adjectives that I'm about to share describe the giant's personality and character traits.

Furious, I wonder if you can repeat them after me, furious.

Fierce, terrifying, frightening, ferocious, they all describe the giant's personality.

They tell us how the giant behaves and give us more detail about his character and what he's like on the inside and maybe how he might make people feel.

When we describe a character's appearance, we describe what they look like.

Now in the story, we can't see the giant too well, or you might not recognise this type of giant, you might be picturing a giant from another version of "Jack and the Beanstalk." So you need to try and think, picture your type of giant in your head.

You could use this image or you could use your image that you have in your head.

I might use bald, which means no hair.

Enormous, so when we're describing someone's appearance, we might talk about their size.

Huge feet, so huge is our adjective and feet is our noun.

Stained teeth, huge is our adjective and stained describing the teeth.

They are adjectives to describe the giant's appearance.

I wonder, can you think of any more words, adjectives, to describe the giant's appearance? Pause the video now.

Have you got them in your head? Well done, thank you so much for sharing.

I would like you to try and match the adjective that describes the giant's appearance and the personality.

Remember, appearance is what we look like.

Personality is what you are like on the inside.

The adjectives are furious and enormous.

Can you match the adjectives now? Pause the video.

Let's see, the adjective describing person, furious is a personality trait.

What you're like, what your emotions are like.

And enormous describes the size of something, so it is describing something's appearance.

We are going to try and use two adjectives to describe a noun, to create an expanded noun phrase.

We know that an expanded noun phrase is an expanded, stretched out description of a noun because it's using more than one adjective to describe it.

Two adjectives must always be separated by a comma, well done.

Huge, comma, smelly feet.

Ooh, it's making me really imagine them.

I have got my adjectives, huge and smelly.

My adjectives are separated by a comma.

And my adjectives are describing my noun, which is feet.

Huge, comma, smelly feet.

Here are some more expanded noun phrases describing the giant's appearance.

Stained, comma, yellow teeth.

Crusty, comma, bald head.

Hot, comma, stinky breath.

Bloodshot, comma, veiny eyes, which means his eyes are angry and red.

We can add a description of the giant's personality to put these phrases into a sentence.

The angry giant, that's describing his personality, had stained, comma, yellow teeth.

So I have taken the expanded noun phrase, stained, comma, yellow teeth, and I've put it into a sentence with my verb had.

The angry giant had stained, yellow teeth.

I wonder, could you take a photo of your favourite expanded noun phrase? Three, two, one.

(mimics photo clicking) I quite like bloodshot, veiny eyes.

So, true or false? If we have two adjectives describing a noun, it says two adjectives must be separated by an exclamation mark.

Is that true or false? Get your thumbs ready in five, four, three, two, and one.

Is that true or is that false? Well done if you are saying false.

Our adjectives do have to be separated by something, but they are separated by a comma, well done.

So I'm gonna choose an adjective to describe the giant's personality, what he's like on the inside.

Let me think.

The furious giant, because he's very angry.

I will turn this into a sentence by describing the giant's appearance with two adjectives, and we know that a sentence needs a verb.

The furious giant had, that's my verb, hot, stinky breath.

Capital letter, the furious giant had hot, comma, stinky breath, full stop.

Now you will choose an adjective to describe the giant's personality.

The mm giant, the angry giant, the ferocious giant, the frightening giant.

Can you choose one? Pause the video now.

Have you got it in your heads? Well done.

Now you'll put this into a sentence with a verb describing the giant's appearance with two adjectives.

The mm giant, the bit you've already started, had mm mm mm.

Adjective, comma, adjective noun.

Could you put that into a sentence for me? Pause the video now.

Fantastic, one example that I heard, the ferocious giant had crusty, comma, curling toenails, full stop.

Now I would like you to repeat this to create another sentence, so you have two sentences ready to write.

The mm giant had mm mm mm.

Pause the video now to get another sentence.

Fantastic.

Do you have both of your sentences ready? Because now you are going to plan those sentences out loud.

First you are going to say them.

The ferocious giants had crusty, comma, curling toenails.

Then you are go and say your sentences in a silly voice.

The fuming giant had a bald, crusty head.

Then you might say your sentences again, including capital letters, commas and full stops.

Capital letter, the fuming giants had, let me think, hot, comma, stinky breath, full stop.

Capital letter, the frightening giant had yellow, comma, stained teeth, full stop.

Then you are going to tell somebody else your sentences and then you are going to whisper your sentences to your pencil to show me that you are ready to write.

Pause the video now.

Fantastic, I heard some amazing sentences and I heard you practise them in lots of different ways.

I'm going to say my sentences including my punctuation.

Capital letter, the ferocious giant had bloodshot, comma, veiny eyes, full stop.

Capital letter, the sleepy giant had crusty, comma, curling toenails, full stop.

Do you think you are ready to write? I think you are.

'Cause the next part of our lesson is writing a descriptive compound sentence.

We know that a simple sentence is one idea that makes complete sense and it must have a verb.

Here are some different examples of simple sentences.

The terrifying giant had a crusty, bald head.

The giant had hot, smelly breath.

The frightening giant had long toenails.

He had yellow eyes.

Each sentence starts with a capital letter, ends with a full stop and makes complete sense.

And in all of those sentences, the verb is the same.

Had, had, had is a being word.

Well done.

Can you now identify the simple sentence? We have got furious giant, the giant, the furious giant bellowed.

Remember, a simple sentence needs to make complete sense on its own and it needs to include a verb.

And remember most sentences have a capital letter and end with a full stop.

Can you pause the video now and find the simple sentence and say how you know? Pause the video now.

Fantastic, well done if you spotted the furious giant bellowed, it's a complete idea on its own that makes sense.

The furious giant bellowed.

It has a verb bellowed and it has a capital letter and ends in a full stop.

Furious giant is a noun phrase.

We have an adjective furious describing the noun giant.

The giant is just talking about one thing.

It's talking about the giant, a noun.

It has a capital letter but it is not a sentence 'cause it doesn't make sense on its own and there is no verb.

We can also write sentences about two ideas.

We can use a joining word, that's one of our key words, to help us join the second idea to the first idea.

The terrifying giant had a crusty, bald head and there's my joining word, the giants had long, curling toenails.

Both ideas are joined together with the joining word and.

Both ideas make complete sense on their own.

The terrifying giants had a crusty, bald head.

The giant had long, curling toenails.

We call this a compound sentence.

Well done.

Have a look at this compound sentence again.

The terrifying giant had a crusty, bald head and the giant had long curling toenails.

Both ideas in the sentence are related because they're both describing the giants.

We can make the sentence sound less repetitive by using he instead of the giant.

So we can take out the giant and swap it for he.

There we go.

The terrifying giant had a crusty, bald head and he had long, curling toenails.

Both ideas still make sense on their own.

The terrifying giant had a crusty, ball head.

He had long, curling toenails.

'Cause we know from the first idea that we are talking about the giant, so we have our idea one and our idea two coming together with our joining word and.

So true or false, do both ideas in a compound sentence need to make complete sense on their own? Show me your thumbs, true or false? I'm going to give you 10 seconds to think.

10, five and zero.

What do we think? True.

We need to be able to make sure that our idea one and our idea two can make sense on their own.

But we join them together using the word and.

We will join our two simple sentences together to create one compound sentence.

So you have already chosen an adjective to describe the giant's personality, the cross giant for example.

Then we are going to describe the giant's appearance with an expanded noun phrase, with a verb as well.

The cross giant had wild, green hair.

Then we are going to use the joining word and to join two complete ideas together to create a compound sentence.

So because I'm creating just one sentence, my first full stop goes and is replaced with, and.

My next capital letter from my second simple sentence doesn't need to be there because it's one sentence and I'm swapping the giant to he had, he had sharp pointed teeth.

I'm going to read the whole thing.

The cross giant had a crusty, bald head and he had sharp, pointed teeth.

Remember, use he instead of repeating the giant.

Fantastic, here's our success criteria for today's lesson, which we've already gone through.

You're going to remember to put a comma between two adjectives in an expanded noun phrase.

You will make sure that each of your two ideas make complete sense on their own.

You will join those two ideas using the joining word and.

And you'll use a capital letter at the start of your sentence and a full stop all the way at the end of your compound sentence.

The mm giant had mm mm mm and he had mm mm mm.

For example, the furious giant had hot, stinky breath and he had long, crusty toenails.

I have met my success criteria by putting a comma between my two adjectives in my expanded noun phrases, hot comma, stinky breath, long comma, crusty toenails.

Both of my ideas make sense on their own.

The furious giant had hot, stinky breath.

He had long, crusty toenails.

I have joined those two ideas together using and.

The furious giant had hot, stinky breath and he had long, crusty toenails.

I'm going to check if I've used capital letter and a full stop in the right place.

I'm going to point to my first capital letter at the start, then I'm going to read and until I get to the end of my idea, that's where my full stop needs to be.

The furious giant had hot, stinky breath and he had long, crusty toenails, full stop.

Even though I've got two ideas, 'cause I've joined them together using and, I only need one full stop.

I am almost ready to write my sentences.

I'm going to join my two simple sentences together to form one compound sentence.

I will use adjectives to describe nouns and and to join two ideas.

The furious giant had hot, stinky breath and he had long, jagged toenails.

You are going to join your two simple sentences together to form one compound sentence.

The mm giant had mm mm mm and he had mm mm mm, full stop.

Can you pause the video and say your compound sentence? Off you go.

Well done, I'm ready to write my compound sentence.

Please can you help me? I am ready to write my descriptive compound sentence.

I have planned my sentence in my head.

I have my success criteria printed and I have lined paper to write on and something to write with.

Let's remind ourselves of our success criteria.

Put a comma between two adjectives when I use an expanded noun phrase.

Make sure each idea makes complete sense.

Use the joining word and.

Use a capital letter at the start and a full stop at the end of a sentence.

Now I've already had a go at having a start.

Do you think you could read it with me? Capital letter, the furious giant had hot, stinky breath.

Then I want to say, and he had stained, yellow teeth.

Now, before I move on, I want to check.

I've got my capital letter.

I can see an expanded noun phrase, hot, stinky breath.

But what is it missing in between my two adjectives.

A, tell me, a comma.

The furious giant had hot, stinky breath.

Now that's my first idea.

Give me a thumbs up if you think it makes complete sense.

Yes, now I am ready to not have a full stop, but to join my two ideas using and.

Which word am I going to use to join? And.

So I'm going to do a finger space and then I'm going to do ah, and.

And I don't need to capital letter because it's not the start of a new sentence.

The furious giant had hot, stinky breath and he, that's a common exception word.

H with an E spells he.

And he had, I've already written had, but we can also sound it out.

Had hot.

Oh, I've already written hot.

I don't want hot again, I want stained because describing his teeth, stained.

Could you stretch that word for me? Stained.

Sound it out with me.

S T A I N E D, stained.

Okay, S T A, which a is it? It's ai because that the letter.

Which comes next like in train.

STAINED, is it a d on its own or is it an ED? Well done, and he had stained.

Now I need another adjective.

Before I have my other adjective, what do I need? A comma.

Stained yellow, now yellow's a fairly long word so I don't think I have space.

So I'm gonna skip a line and have a new one.

Yellow.

Could you stand it out with me? Yee e low, yellow.

Yee e low, and it's two lls in yellow.

O mm OW likes to be at the end.

And he has stained, comma, yellow teeth.

Could you stand it out for me? T e e t h, t ee th.

Make sure you have your tongue sticking out for that at the end of teeth.

T E, double E, T, H.

Teeth, teeth, teeth.

I think I might have finished.

The furious giant had hot, coma, stinky breath and he had stained, comma, yellow teeth.

What do I need at the end of my sentence? A full stop.

I think I've finished my compound sentence.

Let's check through our success criteria.

Put a comma between two adjectives, hot, comma, stinky stained, comma, yellow.

Make sure each idea makes complete sense.

The furious giant had hot, stinky breath.

He had stained, yellow teeth.

And I've joined them together using and, but they both make sense on their own.

I've used the joining word and made one sentence and let me check my capital letter.

I put my finger on my capital letter and I read to check until I get to the end of my idea.

The furious giant had hot, stinky breath.

I don't need a full stop here because I have used and, and he had stained, yellow teeth, full stop.

Thank you so much for helping me with my descriptive sentence.

And now it's your turn.

Thank you so much for helping me write my sentence.

Now it's your turn.

You are going to write a descriptive compound sentence describing the giant.

The mm giant had mm mm mm and he had mm mm mm.

Don't forget to check your success criteria.

Pause the video now.

Wow, I'm blown away with your writing.

Well done.

Let's check that this sentence has the success criteria.

The fur.

Oh, not furious, ferocious.

I love that objective.

The ferocious giant had bloodshot, veiny eyes and he had hot, smelly breath.

Put a comma between two adjective.

Yes.

Bloodshot, comma, veiny eyes, hot, comma, smelly breath.

Make sure each idea makes complete sense.

Okay.

The ferocious giants had bloodshot, veiny eyes.

He had hot, smelly breath.

Use the joining word and.

The ferocious giant had bloodshot, veiny eyes and he had hot, smelly breath.

Final part of my success criteria, capital letter and a full stop in the right place.

Capital letter, the all the way along ferocious giant had bloodshot, veiny eyes.

That first idea is done, but I haven't got a full stop.

Instead I've got, and he had hot smell, breath, full stop.

Fantastic, can you pause the video and make sure you have checked your success criteria just like I have? Pause the video now.

What a brilliant lesson of learning today.

Well done.

We have learned that adjectives can be used to describe both a character's appearance and their personality.

We know that if we use more than one adjective to describe a noun, we need to separate my two adjectives with a comma.

We also know that two ideas can be joined together with joining word to make a compound sentence.

Using and joins those two ideas together.

And referring to the giant or another character as he or she or they, after naming them, makes our writing less repetitive.

I really hope you are proud of your character description.

Well done and I hope to you again soon.

Bye.