Lesson video

Hello everyone.

My name's Mrs. Riley and I'm here to do some learning with you today.

I'm really excited.

Today we're going to be doing some grammar learning and we're going to be learning some things that will be really useful to help you in your writing.

So let's get started.

The outcome of today's lesson is to say and write a simple sentence in the simple present tense.

Here are our key words for today's lesson.

Don't worry if you are not sure what any of them mean, because I'm going to explain them to you later in the lesson.

I'm going to say each one and I'd like you to repeat it back to me.

Are you ready? Here we go.

Simple sentence.

Present tense.

Capital letter.

Full stop.

Verb.

Well done.

I think we can do it though, even louder.

Are you ready? Simple sentence.

Well done.

Present tense.

Capital letter.

Full stop.

Verb.

Wow, well done everyone.

I could really tell that you had your listening ears there and really lovely, loud voices.

So let's get started with our learning.

First in today's lesson, we are going to learn the features of a simple sentence.

That means we're going to learn what makes a simple sentence.

What are all the different things that make a simple sentence? So first of all, I'd like you to listen with your listening ears to these phrases.

Are you ready? Are you listening? Here we go.

Fast, blue car.

Bright sun.

Lazy, fat cat.

Crunchy, red apple.

Funny clown.

I would like you to have a think.

Do these make sense? If you were reading a story and you opened up a book and the first page said, "fast, blue car," or then the second page said, "bright sun," and the third page said, "lazy, fat cat," would that make sense? Hmm.

Have a little think about that.

You are right, they don't make sense.

These are phrases.

They're a group of words with no verb.

A verb is a doing or a being word, and these phrases have no verb.

They don't make sense.

Let's look again at these phrases.

Fast, blue car.

Bright sun.

Lazy, fat cat.

Crunchy, red apple.

Funny clown.

What type of words are in these phrases? We know we don't have verbs, so what type of words are in these phrases? Can you have a little bit of thinking time? Look at each one.

What types of words can we see? These phrases are made up of nouns and adjectives.

My turn, your turn.

Nouns and adjectives.

Again, nouns and adjectives.

Well done.

Here are the nouns in the phrases.

Car is a noun.

A noun is a naming word for people, places, or things, and a car is a thing.

Sun.

A sun is a naming word for a thing.

A cat is a thing.

An apple is a thing.

And a clown is a person, so they are all nouns.

All of my phrases have got nouns in them.

All of my phrases have got what in them? That's right, nouns.

It is time for a check for understanding.

A phrase is what? Is it A, a word that describes a noun? Hmm.

Is it B, a group of two or more words? Or is it C, a full sentence? What is a phrase? Can you pause the video while you answer that question now? Well done for giving that a go.

That was tricky.

A phrase is a group of two or more words.

Let's listen to some sentences now.

The fast, blue car drives to school.

Hmm.

I can now imagine if I opened up my reading book and it said, "The fast, blue car drives to school," that makes much more sense than just fast, blue car, which was just a phrase.

The bright sun shines today.

A lazy, fat cat, oh, yawns happily.

Jess eats a crunchy, red apple.

The funny clown smiled.

Each of these sentences is about one idea.

We can hear that they make complete sense.

They contain at least one noun.

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

They all contain at least one noun.

We call them simple sentences.

What do we call them? We call them simple sentences.

My turn, your turn.

Simple sentence.

Fantastic.

Oh, here's another check for understanding.

A simple sentence has two main ideas.

Is that true or is it false? Pause the video while you answer the question.

Well done if you got the answer false.

A simple sentence hasn't got two main ideas, it's only got one.

Look at these sentences again.

We know they contain at least one noun and an adjective, but what else do they all have? Let's have a look.

The fast, blue car drives to school.

The bright sun shines today.

A lazy, fat cat yawns happily.

Jess eats a crunchy, red apple.

The funny clown smiled.

What else do these sentences have? They've got nouns and adjectives, but what else do they have? Have some thinking time.

Look at the sentences carefully.

Ah, look at these words here, drives.

The fast, blue car drives to school.

Shines, the bright sun shines today.

Yawns, the lazy cat yawns happily.

Eats, Jess eats a crunchy apple.

And smiled, the funny clown smiled.

These are verbs.

A simple sentence contains a verb.

Remember, a verb is a being word like is or am or are or a doing word, which is means it's something we can do.

The car is driving.

The sun is shining.

The cat is yawning.

Jess is eating.

And the funny clown is smiling.

They're all doing words.

They're all verbs.

So a simple sentence contains one verb.

My turn, your turn.

A simple sentence contains a verb.

A simple sentence contains a.

? Verb, well done.

A simple sentence is about one idea, not two, not three, not a hundred, just one.

It makes complete sense.

If you read it in a story, it would make sense.

It contains one verb.

It contains at least one noun.

Let's have a look at some examples.

The boy yawns.

Mum reads a book.

Eda plays football happily.

It is time for a task.

I hope you are ready.

In this task, I would like you to tick the simple sentences.

There's a checklist to help you.

I'm going to go through the features now.

If it is a simple sentence, you should be able to circle a noun.

You should be able to underline a verb.

So we're going to circle the noun.

What are we going to circle? The noun, well done.

And underline the verb.

What are we going to underline? The verb.

You need to also check is it about one idea? And you also need to check does it make sense? If you think it has a noun and a verb and is about one idea and makes complete sense, then you can put a tick in the box because you think it is a simple sentence.

But if it's missing one of those important features, then you can put a cross in the box because you think it is not a simple sentence.

Let me read them to you.

The noisy dog barks.

Bright, green jelly.

Mum sings loudly.

The green frog croaks.

Sorry, the green frogs croak.

Greedy fox.

I would like you to pause the video now while you decide if each example is a simple sentence or not.

If it is a simple sentence, you can put a tick in the box and if it is not, you can put a cross.

Off you go.

Well done.

Let's go through the answers.

The noisy dog barks.

Hmm.

Is there a noun? Yes, dog.

Dog is a thing.

It's a noun.

Is there a verb? Ah, barks.

Barking is something that you can do and the dog is barking.

Is it about one idea, the noisy dog barks? Yes, it is.

Does it make sense? Yes, it does.

That means I can put a tick in the box.

It is a simple sentence.

Number two, bright, green jelly.

Hmm.

Is there a noun? Oh, yes.

Jelly's a thing.

Is there a verb? Bright, green jelly.

No.

Bright and green both describe the jelly.

They're adjectives, they're not verbs so this can't be a simple sentence.

Number three, mum sings loudly.

Is there a noun? Oh, yes.

Mum is a person.

Mum is actually, it's a proper noun because it's a name of a specific person.

It has a capital letter.

Does it have a verb? Hmm.

Yes, sings is a verb.

It's something you can do.

Is it about one idea, mum sings loudly? Yes, it is.

Does it make sense? Yes, it does.

That means it is a simple sentence.

Well done if you put a tick.

Number four, the green frogs croak.

The frogs is the noun, it's a thing.

Croak is a verb, it's what the frogs are doing.

So it's got a noun and a verb.

Does it make sense? And is it about one idea, the green frogs croak? Yes, it does.

So it's a simple sentence.

And the last one, number five, greedy fox.

Hmm.

Well, fox is a noun but no verb.

Greedy is an adjective and it doesn't make sense so that is not a simple sentence.

Well done.

That was a really tricky task and you did really, really well.

We're now going to move on to the second part of our lesson.

We now know what the features are of a simple sentence, and now we're going to look at present tense simple sentences.

In English, we can speak or write in the past or the present tense.

The tense tells the reader when the action happens.

The present tense tells us the action is happening now.

I'll say that again.

The present tense tells us the action is happening now.

What does the present tense tell us? It tells us the action is happening.

? Yes, it's happening now.

Here's some examples.

We talk in class.

I walk to the park.

The mouse sniffs a nut.

The verb in the sentence helps us to know what tense it is in.

Talk, walk, and sniffs, they are the verbs in each of those sentences, they are the doing word.

And I can see that tense is showing us it is happening now.

We talk in class.

I walk to the park.

The mouse sniffs a nut.

It is happening now.

These verbs are all in the present tense.

The action is happening now.

The present tense tells us the action is happening.

? Now.

Well done.

The past tense tells us the action has already happened.

Look again at the verb in these sentences.

We talked in class.

I walked to the park.

The mouse sniffed a nut.

The verb in the sentence helps us to know what tense it is in.

Talked, walked, and sniffed, these verbs are all in the past tense.

They have already happened.

The action has happened before now.

Here's a check for understanding.

I would like you to tick two sentences that are written in the present tense.

Remember, the present tense means it's happening now.

Is it A, Sam walks to the park? B, Sam walked to the park? C, the lion roared? Or D, the lion roars? You need to tick two sentences that are in the present tense that are happening now.

Can you pause the video while you complete your check for understanding? Well done.

The correct answers are Sam walks to the park.

The verb is walks, it tells me it's happening now.

It's in the present tense.

And the lion roars.

Roars is the verb.

It's in the present tense and it tells me it's happening now.

Walked and roared are both verbs in the past tense.

Find the present tense verbs in the following sentences.

Are you ready? Mum dances all night.

What is the present tense verb? Can you spot it? Can you point at it? Well done.

The present tense verb is dances.

That's the doing word and it's happening now.

It's in the present tense.

The children pray.

The children pray.

Can you point at the present tense verb? Well done, pray.

Pray is the doing word and it is happening now.

Mr. Smith calls his class.

Mr. Smith calls his class.

Can you point at the present tense verb? Well done, it is calls.

What else do you notice about these simple sentences? Have a look.

What else do you notice? There's one other thing or two other things that we haven't mentioned yet, but that are really, really important, something that's coming at the beginning and the end of our sentence.

There's a little clue.

Let's look again at our checklist.

Simple sentences contain at least one noun, contain one verb, is about one idea, and makes complete sense.

But what else do we need to add on our checklist? Mum dances all night.

Let me give you a bit more of a clue.

The children pray.

Mr. Smith calls his class.

Simple sentences start with a.

? Well done.

They start with a capital letter.

And most often they end with a.

? Well done.

They end with a full stop.

Mom dances all night, full stop.

The children pray, full stop.

Mr. Smith calls his class, full stop.

Simple sentences start with a capital letter and most often end with a full stop.

Let's add that onto our checklist for a simple sentence.

Here's a check for understanding.

Are you ready? A simple sentence always starts with a capital letter.

Is it true or false? Pause the video if you want some thinking time.

Well done, it's true.

A simple sentence always starts with a capital letter.

Here's another check for understanding.

I'd like you to tick the sentence that is written correctly.

Have a look at each one.

The words are always the same, the bike zooms down the road.

But I want you to check those really important things we just spoke about, capital letters and full stop, and tick the one that is written correctly.

Pause the video while you complete that check for understanding now.

Well done.

Let's go through the answer.

A, the bike zooms down the road, full stop, but there's no capital letter at the start of the sentence so it can't be that one.

It's incorrect.

B, the bike zooms down the road.

It's got a capital letter at the beginning, but no full stop at the end.

It's not written correctly.

C, the bike zooms down the road, full stop.

It must be C.

C is the correct answer.

It starts with a capital letter and it ends with a full stop.

Here's a picture of a horse.

A horse is a noun, it is a thing.

Here are some doing verbs that a horse might do: trots, walks, gallops, canters.

I'm going to say a simple sentence about the horse.

The horse trots down the lane.

Let me say that again.

The horse trots down the lane.

I might also say the horse walks down the lane.

I've got my capital letter.

I've got my noun, horse.

I've got my verb, the thing that the horse is doing, trots or walks.

And then I've also got my full stop after down the lane at the end of the sentence.

Are you ready to try and say a sentence? Your sentence isn't about a horse, it's about a pizza.

Do you like pizza? I love pizza.

So here's a picture of a pizza, but a pizza is a noun.

It's a naming word for a thing.

Here are some doing verbs.

Now, these aren't things that the pizza is going to do, but these are things that you might do: eat, taste, make, share.

Can you say a simple sentence about the pizza? Here's a sentence scaffold to help you.

I, mm, the, mm.

Remember you need to add in a verb and you need to add in the noun.

Can you please pause the video while you complete this check for understanding? Well done.

Maybe you said I eat the pizza, maybe you said I share the pizza.

Any of those examples would have worked.

It's now time for your final task of today's lesson.

I would like you to write a simple sentence about the following picture.

Are you ready? It's a bear.

I'd like you to use the checklist and the verb word bank.

Here are some verbs, some doing words that a bear might do: sleeps, swims, growls, roars, runs, and eats.

Here is the checklist to write a simple sentence.

It's got to contain at least one noun, that will be the bear.

It needs to contain at least one verb, that will be from your verb checklist.

It needs to be about only one idea.

Makes sure it makes complete sense.

I find if I read my sentence back, that helps me to know if it makes complete sense.

Make sure it starts with a capital letter and make sure it ends with a full stop.

Here's a sentence stem that might help you.

You can see that my sentence starts with "the" with a capital T and it has a full stop at the end.

Can you pause the video now while you write your own simple sentence about the bear? Well done, that was really tricky.

You've written your own simple sentence.

You should be really proud of yourselves.

Here are some simple sentences that you might have written.

The bear sleeps in the forest.

The bear eats fish from the river.

The bear growls at the people.

I can see that each of those sentences has got a verb: sleeps, eats, and growls.

They're all the things that the bear is doing.

The bear is the noun.

All of my sentences make sense.

All of them are about one idea, and they all start with a capital letter and end with a full stop.

They're all simple sentences.

Let's summarise what we have learned today.

We learned that a simple sentence is about one idea and it makes complete sense.

We've learned that a simple sentence can be written in the present tense.

A simple sentence contains one verb and at least one noun.

All simple sentences start with a capital letter.

Simple sentences most often end with a full stop.

Well done for all your hard work.

You should be feeling very proud of yourselves.

Some of that learning was really tricky and you've stuck with it and written your own sentence.

I hope I see you again soon.

Bye.