Lesson video

Hello everyone, my name is Miss Weerasekera.

Welcome to lesson eight in our unit about our discussion.

We've been trying to decide did Ganesh cheat or not.

In today's lesson, we're going to start writing our discussion and we're going to be writing the introduction.

We are going to need our boxing up that we did in lesson six and all of the things we learned in our read as a writing lesson in our last lesson two, I woke up today on the right side of the bed.

Do you ever have that? You just wake up and you're in a really good mood and it means that your whole day is really, really fantastic.

Does that happen to you? Sometimes, though, you can wake up on the wrong side of the bed, can't you? And then it's really hard to cheer yourself up, but there's always a way.

What's your favourite way to cheer yourself up when you need to? For today's lesson, you're going to need something to write on, like a piece of paper or an exercise book, something to write with like a pen or pencil, and of course, your brain.

We're going to be writing today so we really need all of those things.

Plus, you're going to need your boxing up plan from lesson six if you still have it.

Don't worry if you don't have it because I'll be showing you mine as we go along and you can use mine to help you if you need to.

If you don't have a pen or pencil or piece of paper, pause here, go and get it, and then press play when you have everything that you need.

In today's lesson, we're going to start off with a spelling activity.

We have been recapping some of the spelling goals from earlier in the term, so we're going to be doing a different one today.

We're then going to recap our boxing up plan and think about what sections we are going to be writing today.

We are going to be focusing on the introduction.

So first, we're going to have to introduce the judge.

Then, we're going to have to introduce what the discussion is about.

So the question and the type of balanced discussion that we're going to have.

The spelling goal that we're going to recap today is when err sound is spelt W-R.

Can you think of any words? Normally, this comes at the beginning of a word.

So I have a err sound at the beginning, it's spelt W-R.

I'm so impressed that you can remember some.

Let's have a look together.

Wrap, we've got that err sound spelt W-R.

My turn, wrap, your turn.

Fantastic.

Next one.

My turn, write, your turn.

My turn, wrist, your turn.

That's our wrist here, isn't it? My turn, wrestle, your turn.

Wrestling is like a fight, a physical fight to be kind of wrestling each other to the ground.

We can do an arm wrestle as well, can't we? My turn, wrong, your turn.

My turn, wreck, your turn.

Like a shipwreck, isn't it? Before our activity today, I am going to be showing you pictures that match up with these words.

You need to decide which picture matches which err sound spelt W-R word, okay? I'm going to show you them one at a time.

I'll give you a chance to pause and figure it out and then press play.

And then we'll have a look at the answers.

Okay, there's our first picture.

There's our second.

And there's our third.

Pause the video here.

Try and match the word to the picture and then press play when you think you have figured it out.

Great, let's have a look.

So there's our wrist.

We can see that it's got an arm and it's got a wrist here.

This is our wrist.

Wrap, like we would wrap a present for a birthday.

And writes, the pencil represents us writing, like we're going to do today.

Okay, next three.

There's one, there's two, there is three.

Pause here and then press play when you think you have figured out which picture matches which word.

Let's have a look together.

There's two people wrestling.

We have wrong.

And we have shipwreck, well done.

Okay, now it is your turn to really practise using these words.

One of the best ways to practise your spellings is to use them in your writing.

That's how we start to remember them.

So I would like you to choose three words from the list.

You're going to draw a picture for each one and underneath that picture, you're going to write a sentence with it in.

You can do more than three if you have more time and you would like to do it, but I'm just asking you to do three.

Pause here, choose your words, draw your picture, write your sentence, and then press play again.

Fantastic, let's get started with the rest of the lesson.

We're now going to recap our boxing up plan for our introduction of our discussion.

Here is my boxing up from lesson six.

So in today's lesson, we are just going to be focusing on this first row.

So we're going to be introducing the judge, introducing the audience for listening to the question, did Ganesh cheat, and then we're going to be describing that it's going to be a balanced argument and that we're going to be looking at points for and against and then reaching a decision at the end.

Okay, so nice and simple hopefully to get us started.

Before we start writing, I would like us to recap what a balanced discussion is.

We talked about this a lot in our last lesson where we read a different discussion and I want us to make sure that we have it fresh in our mind today for when we start writing.

Let's recap the question, what is a balanced discussion? Can you remember what we talked about in the last lesson? Fantastic, let's have a look through together.

So, a balanced discussion or argument provides our audience member or reader or listener with different points of view on an issue.

We'll give information for and against that argument.

So in our case, the issue that we are discussing is did Ganesh cheat? For that argument would be yes, he did, against the argument would be no, he didn't, and we're going to provide points on either side.

Let's recap also what we should include.

We want to think about our introduction and that's our focus for today.

So we need to introduce the topic or question to be discussed and also in ours, we're going to introduce the judge.

So whoever you want your judge to be, whether it's you, whether it's a different name, it's up to you.

We're then going to do arguments for in our next lesson, where we put across all the information that supports the question.

So all of the information that says that Ganesh is a cheat.

In the lesson after that, we will do arguments against, so these will be all of the points that say no, Ganesh is not a cheat.

And in that lesson, we will also include our conclusion where we weigh up the evidence, we give our personal opinion about which side we think should happen.

We make a decision about what we think the brothers should do next.

Our toolkit for our writing for the rest of this unit.

As I just said, it's going to be this structure of introduction, argument for, argument against and conclusion.

We're going to try and use it generalises, so I'm going to try and not just say, instead of saying "I think that's," we're going to leave that until the conclusion.

We're going to try and think about what other people might say about the situation.

Many people think that, some people believe that.

It can be quite persuasive.

We want to use lots of different openers, things like on the one hand, furthermore, however, firstly, secondly, lastly, and we're going to use those to really structure our writing.

We want to use the present tense when we are giving opinion.

So for example, we'd say, "Many people think that" instead of, "Many people thought that" to tell you that, right at this moment, when decisions are being made, that is what we're thinking.

In our conclusion, that will be the same.

I think that they should do this rather than I thought that.

But because we are talking about events that have already happened, so all of the events in the Ganesh story are in the past, when we talk about those, we will be writing in the past tense.

So Karttikeya travelled around the world, Ganesh married buddy.

I will structure that as we go through, it will make sense as we do it, so don't worry too much.

I also really want us to include those subordinating conjunctions as detailed.

When, if, that, because, mostly, and I might try and throw in some others to challenge us a little bit as well.

It's time for us to get started and we're going to start off today by introducing the judge.

It's going to have that little bit where there's someone who brings the judge on and says, "Here they are," then it's going to be the judge's introduction of themselves.

These are the sentence stems that I'm going to be using.

Good morning, evening, good day.

It's up to you what you would choose.

I am mm, I'm here today to mm.

Okay, I'm going to do a little bit before that of him being introduced by someone else.

Okay, I'm going to model that for you now.

And then it will be your turn afterwards.

Let's get started by writing our unit and lesson number at the top.

So we are on unit 12 and this is lesson eight.

I'm then going write our learning objective as well, which is to write a balanced discussion.

Fantastic, we are ready to get started.

Now I mentioned just then before I'm going to use those sentence stems where the judge introduces himself, I'm going to do a brief introduction of him, okay? So I'm going to say "Good afternoon, everyone.

Welcome to today's, do apostrophe S, because discussion belongs to today.

Discussion.

I will, do that very shortly, soon, but soon that be introducing." Now, I'm putting Judge James.

You can put whatever you like.

I could pick Judge Weerasekera, you can put your name, it's up to you.

I will shortly be introducing Judge James who will be running our discussion.

Here he is now, okay? Now I'm going to start down here and I'm going to leave a line to show that it's now Judge James or whoever your judge is.

So he's going to say, I'm going to make it a bit different to the one before, so say good afternoon there, "Good day all.

Thank you for inviting me.

I am here today to discuss a very," a very what? Pressing, important, serious it's up to you, "A very important question.

My name is," I'm going to say Judge James, you can change it if you like.

Okay, so we have introduced Judge James So, good day, all.

Thank you for inviting me.

I'm here today to discuss a very important, serious, you can change it, question.

My name is, you can choose what your judge is called, okay? Fantastic.

It's your turn to write your introduction of the judge.

Pause here and then press play when you have done that.

Now it is time for us to introduce the question and the type of discussion that we're going to have so that everybody knows what to expect with the rest of the discussion.

Here are some of the sentence stems that we can use.

The question to be answered today is, I will consider mm, when mm, if mm, so you'll see for when and if they are our subordinating conjunctions, so I'm getting them in there early, but I'm putting them at the beginning of the sentence instead of in the middle.

Okay, I'm going to model this for you now and then it will be your turn.

Now our next section, I'm going to carry on here because it's still Judge James' part of the same introduction.

We're going to introduce the question, so, The question to be discussed or answered, answered today is, can you remember what our question is? Did Ganesh cheat? Is Ganesh a cheater? It's up to you what you would like it to be.

Did Ganesh cheat by what? What did he do? By travelling in his mind, by only reading books, by not moving his body.

You can choose did Ganesh cheat by say travelling the world in his mind.

Mind.

What punctuation needs to go at the end of this? Good, a question mark.

Well done.

I will consider, okay, now we want to tell the audience or the listener or the reader that this is going to be a balanced discussion, okay? They're not just going to hear one side, so, I will consider both sides, you could say, instead, "All points of view, both perspectives, I will consider both sides of this argument first." Then we've got our subordinating conjunction.

Now this helps us to add more detail about time, doesn't it? So my support, my extra information is going to come first.

So when I have evaluated, I just like to listen and come to say, come to make it, when I have evaluated all of the information.

Put him there, next line.

Okay, now I put the coma because my subordinating clause is finished, I'm going to put my main thoughts.

When I have evaluated all of the information, I will come to a decision about what the brothers should do next.

Now, I've got another subordinating clause.

So, if I am able to, comma, that's my subordinating conjunction, my extra information.

If I am able to, I will try to please everyone involved.

Yes, he wants to come to a decision that makes everyone happy.

So if I am able to, I will try and make everyone happy, try and make sure everyone is pleased, it's up to you how you'd like to phrase that.

Great, your chance now to introduce the question and use those sentence stems. Press pause here, and then press play when you are finished.

I would now like you to write your introduction using those sentence stems to help you.

I would like you to check your spelling, punctuation, and grammar, and you can do this by reading it out loud.

It really helps to spot the things that are missing or the mistakes we've made when we say it out loud, especially because this is a discussion so it would be said out loud anyway.

You can use a pretend microphone, if you want, if that makes it better and then make any edits or changes that you need to.

Pause here, do all of that, and then press play when you have done it.

What a fantastic start to our discussion.

I am super impressed with how you have set up and we are ready to go on with our four points in our next lesson.

If you would like to share with me what you have written so far, ask a parent or carer to put it on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter.

You can tag Oak National or use the hashtag LearnwithOak.

I hope to see you in our next lesson.