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Hello and welcome to our English lesson.

This is unit four, lesson five.

In this lesson, we are going to be making inferences based on what has been said and what has been done.

If you don't know what word inference means yet, don't worry because we're going to go over that in our lesson today.

My name is Miss Cashin and in this lesson, we're going to be making inferences about the characters in the story Baba Yaga, which we heard unit four, lesson one.

So if you want to hear the story again, you could go back to that lesson and watch it first.

Now, before we get started today, we're going to be thinking about how some of our characters are feeling.

So we're going to practise making some faces to show how characters might be feeling.

So I'm going to countdown.

Three, two, one and then I'm going to say an emotion and I want you to show me that with your face.

Let's have a practise.

Three, two, one.

Happy face.

Did you do a happy face? I would love to have seen it.

Here's my happy face.

Okay, let's have another go.

Three, two, one.

Angry face.

Oh my goodness, amazing angry faces.

Would you like to see my angry face? Oh, very gross.

Okay, let's do another one.

Three, two, one.

Shocked face.

Would you like to see my shocked face? Well, used my hands for that once we get really clear how shocked I am.

Okay, let's do another one.

Three, two, one.

Confused face.

How do we know when we're confused? Would you like to see my confused face? Oh my goodness, so confused.

Right, I've got a bit of a tricky face.

I wonder, if you could do a supper scary, Baba Yaga face.

Think about what you're going to do.

Get your Baba Yaga face ready in, three, two, one, go.

Ha, I bet you did the most frightening Baba Yaga face.

Maybe you had your claws like this, maybe you were about to go and snatch a child, or maybe, you were asleep in your rocking chair with your gray-green face and your thin mean lips, just relaxing whiles baby Sergei plays on the floor before you intend to eat him up.

Okay, I hope you are all ready to start thinking about our character today.

So let's see what we're going to be doing in our lesson.

Okay, here are all the different things that we're going to do in our lesson today.

The first thing that we're going to do is a spelling activity and we're going to the spellings that we looked at in lesson one of this unit and lesson three of this unit.

Then we're going to do a strategy check to get ourselves completely ready for making our inferences.

Then we're going to read some parts of our brilliant story, Baba Yaga together and then we're going to find some clues to make those very important inferences.

So, in this lesson, these are things you're going to need.

You need an exercise book or a piece of paper.

You need something to write with like a pencil and you need your brilliant brain.

So if you don't have any of those things, you can pause the video now and go and get them so you're ready for your learning.

Well done for making sure that you are all ready for your learning today.

Let's get started with our super spellings.

Okay, we have been looking at suffixes.

So we've been looking at the suffixes, ed and ing.

These are things that we can add to the end of our root word and it gives us a different word.

Here's our first root word.

The word is, jump.

My turn, your turn.

Jump.

Jump.

Fantastic.

You now need to pause the video and see if you can remember what were those other words that we made when we add our ed and ing suffix.

So write down in your piece of paper now, the two new words that we made.

Right, let's have a look at our supper spelling.

Okay jump became, jumped.

And then it became, jumping.

So those are two words that we made from our root word, jump.

Jumped and jumping.

You can pause the video now to check your spelling of jumped and jumping.

Well done for checking your spelling.

Absolute spelling superstars.

Right, our next root word was, kick.

My turn, your turn.

Kick.

Fantastic.

Pause the video now and write down the two new words that we made.

Oh, well done super spellers.

Let's have a look at those two new words.

So, if I add my ed suffix, kick becomes kicked.

So that's in the past tense now.

I kicked the ball yesterday and if I add my ing suffix, it becomes kicking.

Fantastic.

If you want to, you can pause the video now to check your spelling of kicked and kicking.

Let's have a look at our next word.

Bang.

Pause the video and see what our two new words are when you add the suffix ed and ing.

Fantastic.

Let's have a look.

Bang with my ed suffix becomes, banged and with my ing suffix it becomes, banging.

Banging.

Fantastic.

If you want to, you can pause the video now to check your spellings of banged and banging.

Okay, let's have a look at our next one.

Hunt.

Hunt, like Baba Yaga hunts down baby Sergei.

Pause the video now and add the suffixes to get your two new words.

Let's have a look at our super-duper spellings.

Hunt with my ed suffix becomes, hunted.

With my ing suffix it becomes, hunting.

You can pause the video now if you want so that you can check these spellings.

Fantastic.

Let's have a look at our next word.

Buzz.

Buzz.

I wonder if there are any things that buzz in the forest that Olga lives on the edge of.

Now, it's time for you to pause the video and see if you can add our two suffixes.

Well done super spellers.

Let's have a look.

When I add my ed suffix, buzz becomes, buzzed.

And if I add my ing suffix, it becomes, buzzing.

Fantastic, okay.

Let's have a look at our next activity.

I've got a sentence here and it's got a missing word.

I wonder if you can hide the spellings that you've done so you can turn your piece of paper over or you could cover them up or fold it and then see if you can write down the word that's missing from my sentence.

I'm going to read it.

I, mmm the drum as loud as I could.

Pause the video and see what word should have gone in here.

Well done super spellers.

Let's have a look at what that missing word was.

I banged the drum as loud as I could.

Brilliant.

If you got banged.

Let's check our spelling of it now.

B-A-N-G and then our suffix ed.

If you want to, you can pause the video now to correct your spelling or to check it again.

Okay let's have a look at our next sentence.

Oh dear.

Baba Yaga was mmm for Olga.

What was she doing? What word could go here? Pause the video and see if you can think about what word that would be and then spell it right on your piece of paper.

Okay, let's see.

Baba Yaga was hunting for Olga.

Let's have a check of our spelling for hunting and very well done if you got that word right.

H-U-N-T and then our suffix ing.

If you want to, you can pause the video now to correct your spelling or to check that you have got it right.

Let's have a look at our next sentence.

My brave brother, mmm in the pool.

What word could go there? Have a think about what the word it could be and then see if you can spell it correctly.

So pause the video now to do that.

Okay, let's have a look at what that word was.

Of course, it was jumped.

My brave brother jumped in the pool.

Let's have a look at our spelling for jumped.

J-U-M-P and then our suffix ed.

He jumped in the pool so it's in the past tense.

You can pause the video again now if you would like to check your spelling if jumped or check any of your other spellings that you've done.

Let's check our strategy.

It's time for us to check our strategy to make sure that we are completely ready for our inferences.

So let's have a look.

We're going to need, our brilliant magnet eyes for fantastic reading.

Can you show me your magnet eyes? Fantastic.

We're going to listen very very carefully to the question and you're going to listen to me reading it out loud.

When I'm reading if you want, you can always pause it and go back to hear it again that might really help you with our inferences.

Then, we're going to think about the clues in our story and in our text to help us to make those inferences so let's have a look.

Now, we're going to read together and find clues to make inferences.

I hope you're ready for your reading with your magnet eyes and your brilliant brain? Right, let's get started.

Okay, I'm going to read this.

See if you can follow with your magnet eyes.

Get your magnet eyes ready on the first word, every.

Here we go.

Every morning, when the parents went off to work in the fields, the mother would say to Olga, "Don't forget to stay in the garden.

Never go out into the forest or the witch, Baba Yaga, will get you and eat you and your little brother up." It's one of my favourite bits in the story.

Let's have a look at our question.

Olga's mother is, uncaring, worried or bored.

Think about what Olga's mother had done.

Do we think she's an uncaring mother a worried mother, or a bored mother? For these questions, you can write them down if you would like to or you could say them out loud to somebody that's with you if you're learning with a parent or a carer.

So have a think about which one you're going to do and if you want to, you can always go back to look at the writing to find those clues or to remind yourself what happened.

So Olga's mother, is she uncaring? Is she worried or is she bored? Pause the video now to see what you think the best word is to describe her.

Well done for doing your first inference question.

Let's have a look at what I thought.

This shows us that, she is worried.

Olga's mother is worried and I know that she's worried because she knows that the witch might come and eat Sergei and Olga.

She's not an uncaring mother, she actually cares a lot and bored doesn't really describe her at this moment so she is a worried mother.

Well done if you got worried.

Let's have a look at our next bit of the story.

One day, Olga was feeling bored looking after the baby all by herself so she picked him up and walked out of the garden through the gate and off into the field by the forest.

She laid her brother down in the grass and started picking flowers for her mum.

Let's read that bit again.

There's a lot in there.

Put your magnet eyes on the first word, one.

One day, Olga was feeling bored looking after the baby all by herself so she picked him up and walked out of the garden through the gate and off into the field by the forest.

She laid her brother down in the grass and started picking flowers for her mum.

Okay, let's have a look at our question.

Olga is, and I've got some different ideas here.

I've got two pink words, two purple words and two blue words and you can choose one from each to describe Olga.

So is Olga sensible or reckless? That means she hasn't really thought about what she's doing.

Is she confident or shy? Is she adventurous or is she cautious? She's going to think before she acts.

Pause the video and think about which of these words you think describes Olga and why.

Well done for thinking so carefully about all these different words and whether we think they describe Olga or not.

Let's see what I thought.

So I think that Olga is reckless.

She's not sensible.

She hasn't really thought about what might happen, if she leaves the garden.

She's just gone for it so I think she's quite a reckless character.

I definitely think she's confident instead of shy.

i think if she was shy, she might have stayed inside and felt more comfortable but she's very confident to go out, just her and baby Sergei.

I also thought that, she's very adventurous.

I wonder if when her mother said to her, you have to stay in the garden, that made Olga think, I wonder what would happen if I didn't stay in the garden so I think she's quite adventurous but I would have preferred the story, I think if she was a bit more cautious.

I might have felt a bit more safe instead of feeling so worried about her.

Let's have a look at the next bit of the story.

Get your eyes ready on the first word.

Olga tiptoed in through the door.

Now the word tiptoed is in bold not because we're going to shout it or emphasise it but because that's our important word for inference.

We're going to be thinking about, if Olga has tiptoed, what do we know about what's happening in the story and what do we know about Olga from that? Remember when we go and look at our next slide, you can write down some of your answers or you can talk them through with somebody.

Okay, what does the word tiptoed tell us about Olga? I've got three sentence starters here for you.

You might choose one or you could choose to do more than one.

Olga is feeling, Olga is trying to, Olga is moving.

So what does the word tiptoed tell us about how she's feeling, what she's trying to do and how she's moving? Pause the video now and have a go at this inference question.

Okay, let's have a look at what I thought.

You could have lots of different ideas from this but this what I thought.

I thought the word tiptoed tells us that Olga is feeling nervous.

She's tiptoeing because she's nervous about what might happen.

I thought that Olga is trying to get Sergei without waking Baba Yaga.

So the fact that she's tiptoed has told us what's going on in her head.

It also tells us that, she's moving quietly.

We know that she's not running, we know that she's not stamping, she's moving quietly and really really cautiously.

She's being a bit more sensible here to try and get herself out of this situation.

Okay, let's have a look at this bit in the story.

We've got Baba Yaga talking so I again, have to get ready to be Baba Yaga.

Get your magnet eyes ready on the first word.

"Who's taken my dinner?" Baba Yaga screamed.

That word is in bold again.

Screamed.

We're going to think about what that tells us about Baba Yaga.

The word screamed, tells us that Baba Yaga is, mmm because.

Now there are lots of different words you might have here but I've given you some ideas some of which you might want to use, some of which you might not want to use.

You might think the word screamed.

Does it tell us that Baba Yaga is calm? Does it tell us that she's angry? Does it tell us that she's sleepy? Does it tell us that she's shocked and why? You can use these words or you can use some of your own to finish this sentence.

So have a go by pausing the video.

Okay, I wish I could hear all of the brilliant ideas you have for this question.

I hope that some of you would send them in to us.

Let's have a look what I thought.

So I said the word screamed tells us that, Baba Yaga is furious because she's speaking in such an angry way.

She must be speaking very loudly so I thought I could infer a lot just from the word screamed.

It told me so much about how Baba Yaga was feeling.

I have got a challenge here.

I hope that some of you are up for my challenge.

I'm going to read it.

I've got a statement and you need to see if you agree with it or disagree with it.

Baba Yaga is determined to catch Olga and Sergei.

I agree with this statement because, if you agree, you're going to carry on that sentence and if you don't agree, I disagree with this statement because.

So you think.

Do you agree with this statement? Do you disagree with this statement? Do you partly agree, partly disagree? Then have a go at finishing it yourself.

Pause the video and then press play when you're finished.

Okay superstars, let's have a look at what I said.

I said, I agree with this statement because Baba Yaga keeps running after them even when the lake and the forest gets in her way.

However, she doesn't try to get over the mountain so she does give up in the end so I do think that overall, Baba Yaga is a very determined character.

She really, really, really wants to catch them but she's not determined enough to make it over that mountain.

Right.

Well done for all of your absolutely amazing learning today.

I have really really enjoyed thinking more carefully about the characters in Baba Yaga and how they're feeling.

I can't wait to do more learning with you for the rest of this unit.

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I would love to see some of your fantastic learning so goodbye and I hope to see you for our next lesson.