Lesson video

Hello, I'm Miss Corbert, and welcome to the lesson, Adjectives: Expanded Noun Phrases.

I'm really glad you chose to learn with me today, and I can't wait to see how far we get in our lesson today.

Let's get started.

By the end of the day's lesson, you will have written an expanded noun phrase.

Don't worry if you don't know what that means, because we are going to find out together.

So for this lesson, you will need your looking eyes, those listening ears, and your thinking brain.

You might also need somebody to talk to.

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

Let's get started.

Here are keywords for our lesson today.

Remember, our keywords help us get through to the end of our learning.

Don't worry if you don't quite know what they mean, because they will come up again and again throughout the lesson.

My turn, your turn.

Expanded.

Expanded.

I might say expanded.

Fantastic.

Phrase.

Phrase.

Expanded noun phrase.

Expanded noun phrase.

Comma.

Comma.

Well done.

Let's go again, just a little bit quicker.

Expanded.

Phrase.

Let me hear you.

Expanded noun phrase.

Comma.

Well done.

Those were some quite long and complicated keywords today, but don't worry, we will get through our learning and find out what they all mean together.

The first part of our lesson will be exploring some learning we've already done together, nouns and adjectives.

We know that nouns are naming words.

They name people, places, and things.

For example, people, places, and things.

Common nouns name people, places, and things.

And because they aren't specific to something, they don't need a capital letter, unless they start a sentence.

For example, the tree at the park, the woman at the park, or the bench, or the dog.

But proper nouns name specific people, places, and things.

So they always need a capital letter.

For example, the name of this park is Wollaton Park, which means it needs capital letters to show that it is a proper noun.

Let's see what you can remember.

I want your thumbs ready for a true or false.

Thumbs up for true, thumbs down for false.

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

Could you show me thumbs up for true, thumbs down for false? I'll give you five seconds.

Well done if you said true.

That is true.

A noun is a naming word for either a person, place, or a thing.

Well done.

Now let's see if you can match the label to the type of noun.

We have common noun and proper noun, and then on the left we have Miss Musa and we have school.

Which is the common noun and which is the proper noun? I would like you to pause the video and match them up.

Pause the video.

Off you go.

Let's see if you were right.

Ms. Musa is a proper noun, because that is her specific name of one person, and we can see it has a capital letter.

School is a common noun, because it is not naming a specific school, just school in general, that lots and lots of people might go to all around the world.

Now we have reviewed nouns.

Let's have a look at adjectives.

An adjective is a word that describes a noun, which gives us more detail about the noun, and allows us to paint a picture in our head.

Let's go back to the park.

We have the dog, and the name of the park, Wollaton Park, but I would like to think of an adjective for each of these.

Remember, when we are talking and writing, an adjective often comes before the noun.

So I would like something to describe the dog.

Mm, dog.

Let me think.

Grey dog.

I can describe what it looks like.

Let's think about the park.

Stunning Wollaton park, which is another word for beautiful.

That makes me have a picture of the park and the dog in my head.

Now, let's see what we remember about adjectives.

You are going to try and find the correct definition of an adjective.

Listen carefully.

Is it a naming word that always has a capital letter? Is it a naming word for people, places, and things? Or is it a word that describes a noun? I'm going to give you five seconds to think.

Five.

Fantastic thinking everybody.

Well done if you got that an adjective is a word that describes a noun.

A naming word that always has a capital letter is a, proper noun, well done.

And a naming word for people, places, and things is either just a noun or a common noun.

So an adjective is a word that describes a noun.

Fantastic, everybody.

I think we've really, really well recapped our nouns and adjectives.

We also know that we can compare nouns using adjectives.

Let's revisit our park.

On that day at the park, it looks like it was a sunny day.

My turn, your turn.

It was a sunny day.

Oh, this is a slightly different picture.

Let's compare.

It was a rainy day.

Well done.

Can you spot the adjective in each of those sentences? Get your pointing finger and point to them now.

Well done, sunny and rainy.

So in both of those sentences, we had the same noun, day, but we used different adjectives to compare what type of day it was, sunny or rainy.

We know the adjective describes some nouns better than others, so we have to think really carefully which adjectives we're going to choose.

Have a think about this street.

Which adjectives best describe the street? We've got drizzly, like drizzle.

Empty, hmm.

Sunny, or grey.

I'm going to give you a think.

Which adjectives best describe this street? Have a think now.

Let's see.

We have got, definitely drizzly.

Drizzly is when it's raining kind of nonstop but not really hard rain.

It was a drizzly street.

Is the street empty? I'm just having a look.

No, it's full of people.

The street was not empty.

Hmm, is it a sunny street? No, definitely not today.

Is it a grey street? Yes.

So you could say it was a drizzly, grey street, or it was a drizzly street and it was a grey street.

Now you're going to do that on your own.

You're going to match the adjective to the noun they best describe.

Let's have a look at which ones we have.

We have got the adjectives.

My turn, your turn.

Cosy.

Bouncy.

Yellow.

And warm, and tasty.

Well done.

Let's have a look at the nouns.

Banana, socks, and ball.

You are going to think about which adjectives best describes the nouns.

And you can say them.

For example, bouncy ball, putting the adjective first and then the noun.

Pause the video, and off you go.

Well done.

Let's see how you got on.

So cosy.

Cosy banana, cosy socks.

I love wearing cosy socks.

The next one, bouncy banana.

Bouncy socks.

Bouncy ball.

Yes.

I played with a bouncy ball.

Yellow banana.

That would work perfectly.

You could have yellow socks or a yellow ball, but we don't know that they are yellow, but we do know that bananas are yellow.

The yellow banana was delicious.

Warm banana.

Warm ball.

Warm socks.

Again, I love wearing warm socks on a cold day.

Finally, tasty.

Tasty banana.

Definitely.

Socks and balls are not tasty.

Well done, everybody.

Fantastic job.

So I think we're ready for the next part of our lesson, which is expanded noun phrases.

We now know that adjectives help us to describe nouns and paint a picture to anybody of the noun in our head.

For example, if I think of a motorbike, and then it is described as fast, fast motorbike, I'm picturing a zooming motorbike in my head.

But what if I wanted to know more? What else would help me imagine this noun, the motorbike, in even more detail? Hmm.

Maybe what it looked like.

Maybe what colour it is.

Let me see.

That helps.

Fast blue motorbike.

Are you picturing a blue motorbike zooming around now? I am.

Hang on, now we have two adjectives, fast and blue, describing the noun.

When we have two nouns next to each other, something quite exciting happens.

We split them up with a punctuation mark called a comma.

Your turn, comma.

One of our keywords.

Let me show you.

Did you see it go in? A fast, comma, blue motorbike.

That is very exciting.

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

Let's have another look at another example.

Here is our rainy day again.

It was a rainy day.

Day is our noun, rainy is our adjective.

But what about if I wanted more detail because I want to expand, which means stretch and grow, the description of the noun? There we go, I did it.

Let me read it.

It was a grey, rainy day.

Could you read that with me? It was a grey, rainy day.

But what did I tell you? When we have two adjectives, we split those adjectives up with a comma.

Let's see if we can do it.

There it is.

My turn, then your turn.

It was a grey, comma, rainy day.

Your turn.

Well done.

We've not only added more description, but we've also learned that we need to add a comma in between our adjectives.

Okay, here's a check.

A true or a false, so get those thumbs ready.

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

Hmm.

Do we add a full stop, true or false? Let me see.

Well done.

We did not trick you.

No, we don't add a full stop.

We add a, can you tell me? We add a comma between the two adjectives when we are listing them.

Well done.

Because if we expand something, we are stretching it.

So we are stretching out that description.

Think about a balloon.

You want to blow it up.

As you're blowing it, it expands and expands and expands.

We can expand a noun by adding another adjective to stretch our description of it.

Can everyone do an expand for me? Expand.

Well done.

Let's look at an example.

Socks.

Socks.

Socks is a plural noun.

I might describe those socks as warm.

I want to expand.

I want to expand by describing them as warm, comma, cosy socks.

Don't forget that comma in between my adjectives.

Warm, comma, cosy socks.

Fantastic.

The noun now has two adjectives before it.

This means it's expanded from one word into a phrase.

Phrase.

Well done.

Expanded means it's stretched or grown.

Let's see if you can remember, true or false.

If something has expanded, it has stretched or grown.

Can you show me a thumbs up for true or a thumbs down for false? Well done.

It is true.

If something has expanded, it has stretched or grown.

Fantastic.

So we now know that we can add more than one adjective, but are you ready for what that is called? When we list two adjectives to describe a noun, it is called a expanded noun phrase.

Let me hear you one more time.

Expanded noun phrase.

Expanded noun phrase.

Well done.

That's one of our keywords.

I told you you'd learn about it.

Let's complete some of the expanded noun phrases by adding adjectives.

And don't forget the commas where necessary.

These are not full sentences though.

They're a group of words called a phrase.

Phrase.

That is why it's called an expanded noun phrase.

The, mm, chocolate cake.

My comma is there.

The noisy, comma, mm, playground.

The mm, mm, castle.

I've got quite a lot of work to do here.

Will you help me? I have the adjectives.

Crowded, old, a comma, and delicious, and stone.

Let's have a think.

The mm, chocolate cake.

The delicious, chocolate cake, and I have my comma.

The delicious, comma, chocolate cake.

The noisy, comma, mm, playground.

I have crowded, old, and stone left.

The noisy stone playground? The noisy, crowded, which means busy, playground.

The noisy, comma, crowded playground.

One more to go.

The mm, mm, castle.

Let me picture a castle.

The old, comma, stone castle.

And I even managed to add in my comma there.

Thank you so much for helping me.

Well done.

Now it's your turn to try and match the word to the example that you have.

I have got noun, adjective, and expanded noun phrase.

And then on my right, I have the word wise, which is another word for very intelligent and thoughtful.

Then I have wise, comma, old man.

And finally, I have man.

Are you ready? Get your pointing finger.

Point to the noun.

The noun that is on its own.

Well done.

Man is the noun.

Now point to the adjective that is on its own.

I can see so many pointing fingers, wise.

Well done.

And finally, point to the expanded noun phrase.

Well done.

Wise, comma, old man.

Fantastic.

You are doing such a great job.

This is an expanded noun phrase.

The delicious, comma, chocolate cake.

The noisy, comma, crowded playground.

The old, comma, stone castle.

These are all expanded noun phrases.

And we know this because they include a noun.

For example, cake.

They include at least two adjectives, delicious and chocolate.

And they include a comma to separate the two adjectives.

That is what an expanded noun phrase needs, a noun, at least two adjectives, and a comma to split them.

And they also then, because of all of that information, give us more detail about the noun.

So now I know the cake was delicious and chocolatey, the playground was noisy and crowded, and the castle was old and made of stone.

I would like you to now see if you can find, if you can spot the two expanded noun phrases, remembering what we need to make an expanded noun phrase.

There are two of them.

I would like you to point to them and then explain why they are expanded noun phrases.

Pause the video now.

Let's see if you got them.

We have the sparkling, gold ring, and the tall, snowy mountain.

Sparkling on its own is not an expanded noun phrase.

It does not include a noun, and it only has one adjective, which means it's not being split up with a comma, and it isn't really giving us any detail about anything because it has no noun.

And that is the same with tall.

However, the sparkling, gold ring has all of those things, my two adjectives being split by a comma to describe the noun, giving me such detail about what that ring looks like.

And the same with the tall, comma, snowy mountain.

You are doing such a great job at spotting these expanded noun phrases.

So I think that means we're going to get ready to think of our own.

Have a look at this picture.

I can see a bus.

It looks like it's in the city of London.

Remember to include the following.

A noun, bus, at these two adjectives, a comma to separate the two adjectives, and making sure that those adjectives give more detail about the noun.

Let me see if I can think of one.

I've got one.

A red, comma, huge bus.

I wonder if you could think of one now.

Have a think and pause the video.

Off you go.

Well done.

I heard so many great ideas.

Now I think that shows that you're ready to have a go at writing your own.

You are going to write an expanded noun phrase about each of these images.

Remember, an expanded noun phrase needs to be mm, comma, mm mm.

Adjective, comma, adjective noun.

You're going to write one about a bear, or a pizza, or a bike.

You can choose two of those expanded noun phrase.

You have the spellings of the nouns, and you might want to use this word bank to help you, choosing two adjectives that make sense to describe that noun.

Mm, comma, mm, bear, mm, comma, mm, pizza, mm, comma, mm, bike.

I would like you to pause the video and write two expanded noun phrases.

I can't wait to see them.

Pause the video now, and off you go.

Let's have a look at some of the expanded noun phrases you might have thought of.

The giant, comma, grizzly bear.

Delicious, comma, hot pizza, Fast, comma, red bike.

Wow, well done.

I am so impressed.

Fantastic.

What a brilliant lesson.

You have learned so much today and really tried your best.

You know that an adjective is a word to describe a noun.

To give more detail, you might use two adjectives, but when we use two adjectives, we know we need to list them with a comma.

And when we do this, this is called an expanded noun phrase.

For example, giant, comma, grizzly bear.

Well done everybody, and I hope to see you again next time.

Bye.