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Hello, everyone! I'm Miss Brooms, and you have made a great choice in choosing an English lesson.

I'm so excited to be guiding you through our learning today.

So, let's get started, shall we? Welcome to the lesson, Describing the goats in "The Three Billy Goats Gruff." Your outcome for today is, I can write a sentence with an adjective to describe one of the goats in "The Three Billy Goats Gruff." So by the end of today's lesson, you should be able to write a sentence including an adjective.

For today's lesson, you are going to need your looking eyes, listening ears, thinking brains, someone to talk to, and something to write on.

Your keywords to listen out for are, describe, noun, adjective, personality, appearance.

Don't worry if you haven't heard these words before.

We're going to be focusing on them today.

During this lesson, we are going to be looking at using adjectives, preparing to write, and describing the goats.

But first, let's start with using adjectives.

Hmm.

I would like you to use your story mountain to retell the story.

I want you to make sure that you are also describing the characters as you retell.

Now, we already know this story.

So, can you turn to someone near to you and retell the story, making sure that you describe the characters? Pause the video here.

Wow, great retelling! Now, nouns are naming words.

That means that they name people, places, or things.

People like your friend or your teacher, places such as home or school, or things like a pen or pencil.

Now that you know what nouns are, which of these words are nouns? A, goat; B, small; C, cold; or D, river.

Which of these words are nouns? Have a think.

Pause the video here for some thinking time.

Wow.

I could see that you were focusing really, really hard.

So, which of these words are nouns? A, goat; B, small; C, cold; D, river.

I'm going to show you the answers.

The answers are A, goat, and D, river.

Well done if you got that.

If you didn't, that's okay.

Now, in our story, nouns are places and things as well as characters.

These nouns are all characters in "The Three Billy Goats Gruff," smallest goat, middle goat, troll.

Hmm.

Can you think of one more character from the story? Have a think.

I would like you to turn to someone near to you and quickly tell them one more character from the story.

We already have the smallest goat, the middle goat, and the troll.

Can you think of one more? Pause the video here.

Oh! Very good discussions, everyone! Another character in the story is the largest billy goat.

Well done if you discussed that.

So in our story, he is the hero.

He's the hero of our story.

He is often described with positive adjectives because of that.

So because he's the hero, he's described with positive adjectives, largest, brave, mighty, powerful.

Now, an adjective is a word that describes a noun.

So an adjective adds some details to the noun that you're talking about.

We are going to be using adjectives to describe the characters of the goats in the story.

We're going to be thinking about their personality, or their character traits, and their appearance.

Let's have a think.

True or false? Let's see if you know.

True or false, personality is what somebody looks like.

Personality is what somebody looks like.

True or false? True or false? Show me on your thumbs.

Everyone showing me on your thumbs.

Okay, the answer is false.

Personality is not what somebody looks like.

Appearance is what somebody looks like, and personality is what somebody is like inside.

So these adjectives describe the smallest goat's personality and character traits.

He's kind, gentle, clever, polite.

They're describing his personality.

Scared.

Okay, so these things are personality.

Good job if you realised that that is one of our keywords.

Now, this gives us more detail about the smallest goat's character when we talk about his personality, so we know what he's like.

When we describe the character's appearance, we're talking about what they look like.

So, he looks brown, he looks little, hairy.

He has sharp horns.

Sharp, great adjective.

Now, his appearance.

When you see the eye sign, that means appearance, which is what something looks like.

So with sharp horns, sharp is the adjective and horns is the noun.

Well done again if you spotted appearance, one of our keywords! I wonder if you can think of any more words to describe the smallest goat's appearance.

What does the smallest goat look like? Turn to someone near to you and have a little chat.

Pause the video here.

Wow, really good discussions! Okay, now I would like you to help me match the adjectives that describe the smallest goat's appearance and personality.

Now, the smallest goat, is his personality scared or is his personality brown? Is his appearance scared or is his appearance brown? I would like you to whisper into your hands an adjective to match either appearance or personality.

I would like you to do that now.

Pause the video here.

Ooh, I heard some really great whispers! Okay, I'm going to show you.

The smallest goat has a scared personality and a brown appearance.

Well done if you got that.

If you didn't, that's okay.

We're now going to be using some adjectives.

I would like you to choose the adjectives that best describe the smallest billy goat and cross out the others, okay? I would like you to sort the adjectives into the correct columns, personality and appearance.

Which ones best describe the smallest billy goat? If you have the worksheet, I would like you to do that now.

If you don't, that's okay.

Just have a little chat to the person next to you.

Do that now.

Pause the video here.

Well done.

Really great focus and really great thinking.

Okay.

I'm going to show you what I did, chose the adjectives that best describe the smallest billy goat and crossed out the others.

I don't think that the smallest billy goat is green or scary, but I do think that he is scared, brown, hairy, and kind.

I'm sorting them into personality and appearance.

His personality is scared and kind, and the smallest goat's appearance is brown and hairy.

Great job if you got the same as me.

Now we are going to be looking at preparing to write.

Hmm.

Have a look at where the adjective is.

Clever goat, brave goat, largest goat.

An adjective often comes before the noun it is describing.

So the adjective is before the noun that it is describing.

We can add detail to give some more information about the noun by adding another adjective, so we can add more detail by adding more adjectives together.

So, these are some examples in sentences.

The clever goat is muscly, so I've added another adjective in there.

So I've said the clever goat, and I've said he's muscly.

The brave goat is hairy.

The powerful goat has strong horns.

Hmm.

True or false? An adjective always comes after the noun it is describing.

True or false? An adjective always comes after the noun it is describing.

show me your thumbs, true or false.

Show me, show me! Well done.

The answer is false.

An adjective doesn't always come after the noun it is describing.

It can also come before.

Hmm.

I'd like you to have a look at this sentence again.

The clever goat is muscly.

Clever describes the personality and muscly describes the appearance.

We will be describing the goat's personality first, and then the goat's appearance.

We can also use is or has to give more detail about the goat's appearance.

So the brave goat is hairy.

We are saying what he's like.

The powerful goat has strong horns.

The mighty goat has large hooves.

So you can use is or has to give more detail about the goat's appearance.

So we use has.

You can use has when you are adding another noun.

So you can use has when you are adding another noun.

Now we're going to write.

Now, when we write, there are lots and lots of things that we can try to do.

We can make sure that we are writing letters neatly on the line, that we are forming our letters correctly, that we use phonics to sound out and spell the words, that we use finger spaces in between words, and that we start our sentences with a capital letter and a full stop.

We can also make sure that we read back our writing to check.

I want you to have a think, has this sentence met our success criteria? The goat is white.

Have a look.

Does it meet our success criteria? Just have a think to yourself.

Hmm.

Well, I've got an adjective to describe the goat's appearance.

I've said the goat is white.

I know that I can spell and use my phonics.

T-H-E, the, g-oa-t, goat, i-s, is, wh-i-te, white.

I can use my phonics, but I don't have an adjective to describe the goat's personality, and I don't have a full stop at the end.

I did remember a capital letter.

Hmm.

So I don't think this sentence does meet our success criteria.

But, if I add a little bit of magic and correct it to add those things in, then it could.

If I said that the goat, if I put a full stop at the end of my sentence, I've got a capital letter and a full stop.

That is complete.

I've also decided that I can describe the goat's personality, because I know that the goat is brave.

The brave goat is white, full stop.

Now my success criteria is met.

If your success criteria isn't met, that's okay.

You can add some magic in and make some corrections so it meets it.

I am going to choose an adjective to describe the goat's personality.

The kind goat.

I'm going to turn this into a sentence by describing the goat's appearance.

The kind goat has sharp horns.

The kind goat has sharp horns.

Now I would like you to choose an adjective to describe the goat's personality.

I would like you to use the phrase, the mm goat.

Fantastic.

Just make sure you fill in my mm and put an adjective there, the mm goat.

After you do that, I would like you to turn that into a sentence by also describing the goat's appearance.

The mm goat is or has mm.

Full stop, okay? The mm goat is or has mm.

Full stop, okay? I would like you to choose an adjective to describe the goat's personality, then stretch that and turn it into a sentence by also describing the goat's appearance.

Can you turn to someone nearby to you and tell them your sentence? Off you go.

Pause the video here.

Oh my goodness.

I heard some fantastic sentences! Well done, everyone.

When we are also preparing to write, we need to make sure that we plan our whole sentence aloud.

We need to say the sentence, say the sentence in a silly voice, say the sentence again, including a capital letter, a finger space, and a full stop.

Then we need to tell somebody else our sentence.

Then whisper the sentence to your pencil.

The mm goat is mm.

What could your sentence be? Say your sentence.

Say it in a silly voice.

Say it again with a capital letter, finger space, and full stop.

Tell someone your sentence, and whisper the sentence to your pencil.

What could it be? What could your sentence be? The mm goat is mm.

Or the mm goat has mm.

What could you do for your sentence? Could you turn to someone nearby to you and plan your sentence using the stem sentences that I've given to you, the mm goat is mm and the mm goat has mm.

Turn to somebody now and pause the video here.

Well done! I'm going to show you how I planned my sentence.

My sentence is, the mighty goat is muscly.

I've said my sentence.

Now I'm going to say it in a silly voice.

The mighty goat is muscly! I'm going to say the sentence again, including a capital letter, finger space, and full stop.

Capital letter, The, finger space, mighty, finger space, goat, finger space, is, finger space, muscly, full stop.

I'm going to tell someone my sentence.

The mighty goat is muscly.

Now I'm going to whisper the sentence to my pencil.

The mighty goat is muscly.

Another sentence could be, the mighty goat has enormous horns.

So you do that all over again, saying the sentence in a silly voice, saying the sentence again, including capital letter, finger space, and full stop, telling someone your sentence, and then whispering it to your pencil.

Well done for your sentences.

They were really, really great! Now, do you feel ready to write your sentence? Are you ready? Let's move on to describing the goats.

The brave goat has strong legs.

Looking at my success criteria, asking if I have a capital letter and a full stop at the end, an adjective to describe the goat's personality, an adjective to describe the goat's appearance, and using phonics to sound out and spell words, I can see that I've used a capital letter and a full stop at the end of my sentence.

I have used an adjective to describe the goat's personality.

I have said that the goat is brave.

I have used an adjective to describe the goat's appearance, saying that he has strong legs, and I know I've used phonics to sound out and spell the words.

T-H-E, the, brave, b-r-ave, brave.

I know that I've used my phonics and my spellings, so my success criteria for this sentence is complete.

Tick! Hmm.

I need to think of a sentence describing the goat's personality and appearance.

I know! My sentence could be, the brave goat has enormous horns.

But I need to make sure that I rehearse my sentence properly.

Before I start writing, I'm going to make sure that my hands are nice and warmed up.

Now I'm going to rehearse my sentence.

First I'm going to say the sentence.

The brave goat has enormous horns.

Then I'm going to say it in a silly voice.

The brave goat has enormous horns! Now I'm going to say it with a capital letter, finger space, and full stop.

Capital letter, The, finger space, brave, finger space, goat, finger space, has, finger space, enormous, finger space, horns, full stop.

Now I'm going to tell someone my sentence.

The brave goat has enormous horns.

And now I'm going to whisper my sentence to my pen or pencil.

The brave goat has enormous horns.

Now I'm ready to write.

Okay.

My success criteria says that I must use a capital letter at the start of sentences and a full stop at the end.

I must use an adjective to describe the goat's personality, I must use an adjective to describe the goat's appearance, and use phonics to sound out and spell words.

Okay.

The brave goat has enormous horns.

So I'm starting with my capital letter, The.

T-H-E, the.

Brave, so I've got my finger space.

B-r-a-ve, the V-E spelling, the brave.

Goat, g-oa-t, goat, has, h-a-s, has, enormous, e-n-or-m O-U-S, enormous horns, h-or-n-s, horns.

The brave goat has enormous horns, and I need my full stop at the end.

Now I'm going to check my success criteria.

Have I used a capital letter at the start of the sentence and a full stop? Yes.

Have I used an adjective to describe the goat's personality? I've described the goat as brave.

Yes, I have.

Have I used an adjective to describe the goat's appearance? I've said he has enormous horns.

Enormous, I have.

And have I used phonics to sound out and spell words? Well, I definitely did.

Tick, tick, tick, tick.

I've completed my success criteria.

Yay! Now, I would like you to write a sentence describing one of the goats' personality and appearance.

Make sure that you use a capital letter at the start of your sentence and a full stop at the end.

Make sure you use an adjective to describe the goat's personality and an adjective to describe the goat's appearance.

Don't forget to use your phonics to sound out and spell words.

I would like you now to write your sentence.

Don't forget your strategies, saying the sentence in a silly voice.

Okay.

I would like you to pause the video now and write your sentence.

Well done! Really great writing.

I'm going to show you my sentence now.

The brave goat has enormous horns.

The brave goat has enormous horns.

I'm going to check the success criteria.

I have used a capital letter at the start of the sentence and a full stop at the end.

I have used an adjective to describe the goat's personality, said it's brave.

I have used an adjective to describe the goat's appearance, saying the goat has enormous horns.

And I've used phonics to sound out and spell words as I was writing.

Well done for all of your writing.

Give yourself a one, two, three, well done, me.

Great job! Now, did you check and meet your success criteria? I hope so.

And if you checked your success criteria, don't forget to give yourself a tick for the ones you got.

Now, to summarise our lesson of describing the goats in "The Three Billy Goats Gruff," we have looked at how an adjective describes a noun, how we can use descriptions with adjective, how using descriptions with adjectives makes writing more interesting, how adjectives are often put in front of a noun in a sentence, and that adjectives can be used to describe a character's appearance and their personality.

You have been absolutely fantastic this lesson, and it has been so great guiding you through all of your learning today.

You've done so, so brilliantly, I think you need a really big one, two, three, well done, me! Well done, everyone, and hopefully I will see you for another English lesson.

Bye!.