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Hello everyone, my name is Miss Weerasekera, and welcome to lesson 10, our final lesson in our unit about our discussion.

We have been deciding whether Ganesh cheated or not in the competition.

In today's lesson, we're going to be balancing out our discussion by writing all three points against saying that, no Ganesh did not cheat, what he did was completely fair enough, if anything, it was a stroke of genius.

We're also going to write our conclusion where we give our own opinion.

So you'll have to think of your own about which side you agree with, and also to come to a decision about what the brothers should do next.

We have loads of writing to do, but it's really exciting part, and it's going to be super fun.

And then they're going to be finished, which is going to be an amazing feeling too.

Let's get started.

In today's lesson, you're going to need an exercise book or a piece of paper, a pen or a pencil and of course your amazing brain.

If you have the piece of writing that you've been working on for the previous two lessons, it would be great if you had that too, as well as your boxing up piece of paper.

Don't worry if you don't have them, you can just follow along with me and you can start on a new piece of paper if you need to.

But if you have those things or if you don't have a pen or pencil or a piece of paper pause now, go and get everything you need and then you come back and press play.

We're going to start off with a spelling activity today, then we're going to recap our boxing up plan for our against points, and also for our conclusion.

We're then going to write the two sections, so we'll have the write against points and then we will have the conclusion section afterwards.

As always, I'm going to model it for you and then you will have a chance to do it yourself.

So, our recap of the spelling word today is this, it's when that /e/ sound is spelt with an -ey.

Can you remember from earlier on, in another unit, some of these words? Have a deep think.

The /e/ sound spelt -ey.

Well done! Let us have a look at some together.

We have donkey, for example.

The -ey at the end makes an /e/ sound.

Let's do my turn, your turn.

My turn, key.

Your turn.

Fantastic! My turn, monkey.

Your turn.

My turn, chimney.

Your turn.

My turn, valley.

Your turn.

My turn, trolley.

Your turn.

My turn, turkey.

Your turn.

My turn, hockey.

Your turn.

And finally, my turn, parsley, Your turn.

Parsley is like a type of green herb that you can put on your food to make it tasty.

And a valley, so quite often, if you've got mountains, either side, you might live in a valley, at the dip of the bottom.

I think the other things we'll know what they are.

Hockey is type of sport, you get like a hockey stick Oh, and journey as well, I forgot that one on the end.

Okay, so I have written a really silly story, trying to fit all of these different words in.

So you will be able to find lots and lots of words with the /e/ sound spelled -ey in this paragraph.

I want you to figure out where they are.

I'm going to read it for you, then I'm going to get you to pause and find all the -ey words, and then I'm going to show you and see if you spotted all of them, okay.

I was riding on my donkey to the shops when suddenly I realised that I had left my keys in the chimney.

I went back home and asked my monkey to use a hockey stick, to get them for me.

I continued on my journey through the valley to get some parsley from the shops.

When I got to the supermarket, I found a trolley and asked the turkey who worked there if she could help me find what I needed.

What a silly story! Can you pause here and find all of that /e/ sounds spelt -ey words, that are in there.

There are loads! Fantastic! Did you find them all? Let's have a look together.

So we have donkey, keys, chimney, monkey, hockey, journey, valley, parsley, trolley, turkey.

10 /e/ sound spelt - ey in all of those words.

Well done for spotting them.

Now I would like you to create your own silly sentences using as many of these words as you can.

So we've got all of the same words from before, and I would like you to try and use as many as you can, okay? You don't have to use all of them and remember make it as silly as possible.

Pause here, have a go at that and then press play, when you have written your silly sentences.

Those ones sound like really city sentences, well done! We're now going to recap our boxing up plan for our points against the question.

And I'm going to have a look at our conclusion as well, because we're going to be writing that later.

So we're going to quickly recap our boxing up plan.

We have done our introduction, we have done our three points for, so now we're going to do our three points against.

We know Ganesh did ask, "Can I travel anywhere I like?" and Kartikeya said, "Yes." So he'd chose to read in his mind and explore in that way.

Second, he was able to describe the journey, just as well as Kartikeya had experienced it and therefore he didn't cheat.

And thirdly, he always told the truth.

Even if you didn't come forward and say it all at the beginning, he never lied about it, okay? And this point here, that we really want this balanced because we've persuaded them quite well with these three, we want to give three really good and persuasive points to go on the other side.

And this is going to allow the reader to make up their own mind about it.

Let's quickly recap our boxing up plans for our conclusion.

Now, your conclusion is probably going to look a little bit differently to me because you might come to a different decision about whether Ganesh cheated or not, but also what you think the brothers should do.

You can definitely map by some of mine, but I'll be really impressed if you can use a bit of your own creativity.

So I said that as a judge, I saw both sides of the argument had good points that my decision was they should meet and have a mediation, which is this discussion where they come together to see things from each other's perspectives.

And also that Buddhi should be involved in this discussion because it affects her as well.

Okay, now I want you to think, do you think Ganesh cheated or not? And you're going to be writing that here.

And what do you think the brothers should do? So in this conclusion, you're going to have to be working really hard to take what I'm doing and put it in your own words and putting your own opinions in there, okay? Because that is the point and purpose of this part, to share your opinion and to come to a decision.

Before we start writing, let's do one final recap of what makes a fantastic balanced discussion.

So let's think about what it is to begin with.

A balanced argument or discussion provides the audience, reader or listener with different points of view on an issue.

They will give information for and against the argument.

And that's what makes it balanced.

What should it include? It should include an introduction, that introduces the topic or question to be discussed.

Tick, we've done that.

It should include argument for, so put across all of the information that supports the question and agrees with it.

Tick, we've done that.

Argument against, put across all the information that disagrees with the question, that's the job for today.

And a conclusion, weigh up the evidence, saying what you think and make a decision about what needs to happen.

We're also going to do that today.

So, our toolkit, we've just had to look at the structure, so we know what we need to do with that.

We're doing our argument against and our conclusion.

We're going to try and include those generalisers, especially in our argument against, we don't want to start saying, I think, I think.

We're going to try and summarise what other people might think and say, and take ourselves out of it, so that our listeners and readers can make their own decision.

But we will in our conclusions say, I think, because that is the time when it's our job, as the writer to say what we think either way.

We're going to use some fantastic openers to structure our paragraphs, but also to make our writing really interesting.

We're going to use present tense for opinion, so, I think, many people think, instead of thought, but past tense, when we talk about the events from the story that the characters Ganesh and Kartikeya did.

They've already happened, so they are in the past.

And we're going to include our subordinating conjunctions, so lots of when, if, that, because, when they are appropriate.

Okay, it is time to write the points against the question.

So we have three points we're going to be balancing out today and that's going to make sure that the readers have choice to make their own decision about which way they think it goes, is Ganesh a cheater or not? I'm going to do these three in one big chunk today because we're also doing conclusion.

So I'm going to go through these three sets of sentence stems, and then I am going to model it and then it will be your turn, okay? So, point one, we might use on the other hand, to show the reader or the listener that now we are moving to the against part.

The first point to be made is consequently.

We've got some openers there that might be really useful.

Point two again, some more fantastic openers, furthermore, although, Ganesh approved, for example, it's always great to support with examples.

And point three, last but not least, at no point, that fact that.

So some really strong openers in there that we are going to use.

Okay, I am going to model those three parts to you now, and then you will have a go to do it afterwards.

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

So we are in unit 12 and this is lesson 10, our final lesson.

And our learning objective is to write a balanced discussion.

Fantastic, okay! So we are going to be starting off with our against points, okay? So we're going to be looking at, number one, that he did ask the question, he said, "Can I travel anyway I like?" Number two, he was able to describe the journey using his senses, as well as Kartikeya could.

And he always told the truth.

And at this point, we're really wanting to balance things out for the reader, okay? We want to, but they've had three points before, so they're probably quite convinced that he did cheat, but we want to give them the opportunity to hear both sides.

So now we need to balance that out so that they can change their mind if they want to.

So before we get started with the points, we want to introduce or make it clear to the reader or the listener, that we are now moving on to the other side of the argument.

So to do that, I'm going to use, on the other hand.

You could use, however or although, it's up to you.

I'm going to use, on the other hand.

There are also three valid, which means like true, valid points that could prove that Ganesh did not cheat, Okay, I've got my subordinating conjunction there, so that could prove that Ganesh did not cheat, okay? Now we're going to start off by saying, the first point to be made is.

The first point to be made is, well, what was our first point? It was about the fact that he asked Kartikeya if he could travel, how he liked, wasn't it? So the first point to be made is that Ganesh asked Kartikeya if he could travel in any way or any method, it's up to you, any way he liked.

What did Kartikeya say to that? Can you remember? He said yes, he said he could, so that's up to.

Kartikeya, spelt that wrong almost.

Kartikeya said that he could and therefore Ganesh was free to choose any method he wanted.

Okay, I'm going to use the opener, consequently.

Okay? And consequently means as a consequence or as a result of, because Kartikeya said this, what did Ganesh do? That's what consequently means.

So, because he said that, what did Ganesh do? He decided to travel by reading and in his mind.

Consequently, Ganesh decided to travel by reading books and seeing the world in his mind or imagination, it's up to you, imagination There we go class, our first point.

We're going to move on to our second point, now And we're going say, furthermore, which is a bit like additionally, we're adding another point to the mix.

And this one is all about the fact that travelling in the mind was just as good as travelling physically because Ganesh was able to describe the journey in as much detail as Kartikeya had experienced it.

So it was just the same.

So we'll say, furthermore Ganesh proved that you can travel in your mind and I'm going to use a subordinating conjunction, because, how did he prove it? Can you remember? That's right.

He proved it by describing the journey in such convincing detail that Kartikeya thought he had actually gone, didn't he? Because he was able to describe the journey.

It's one of our /e/ sounds spelt -ey, isn't it? Describe the journey in as much detail as Kartikeya could have.

Okay? Now I'm going to write here, although.

An when I use, although I'm going to balance two contrasting points.

So the first one I'm go to make and I'm going to use a generaliser here is, although some people might think this is not the same as actually being there, comma, after my clause, others would say, what would others say? Others would say, it's the same, it's even better, What do you think? Others would say it's even better as you can do it from home, or as you can do it for free.

Well, it helps you out not spend the money travelling because you can do it and rest, not put yourself in danger, okay? It's up to you what you would like to put there.

I'm also going to say, do it from home.

For example.

Okay, so we're going to give an example to prove this point.

You could visit the, or you could put anything here, you could visit any place in the world that you want to say, I'm going to say the Eiffel Tower from your house by reading about it.

Okay, so for example, you could visit that Eiffel tower, I'm going to put here some extra information, in your mind, this is why it's helpful to read back what you've written, in your mind, from your house by reading about it, okay? So that is our second point.

This is our third and final point, which is that he always told the truth.

So to introduce this point, I'm going to say, last but not least, which means even though this point is coming last, it's not the least important, It's just as important as the others.

Last but not least, Ganesh never lied to his brother.

At no point did Kartikeya ask him, what did Kartikeya not ask him? Did you actually go? Did you run? Did you do it by reading? He never asked him, did he? At no point did Kartikeya ask him if he actually went to these places and say here, the fact that Kartikeya, now we can put here, the fact that Kartikeya misunderstood or got confused, or sometimes people describe misunderstanding someone as getting the wrong end of the stick, so you can put that.

The fact that Kartikeya, I'm going to say, misunderstood what happened is not, not whose fault? Not Ganesh's fault, absolutely.

Of course if he asked, the fault is to Ganesh, okay? It's not Ganesh's fault.

Okay, well done.

You did so well with that paragraph.

Now our final bit of writing, you're doing brilliantly, so keep going and giving me everything you've got.

We're going to write the conclusion.

So we're now going to see what we think, is Ganesh a cheater or not? And actually you don't have to agree with me, you can write your own.

And we're going to say what we think the brothers should do.

And again, you might think something differently to what I write.

So make sure you write your own ideas.

So as it says there, what is your decision? Not what is my decision? What do you think, did Ganesh cheat? What do you think the brothers should do? In conclusion, is a good way to sum up and open our concluding paragraph.

It is important that, therefore my decision is, however, that is.

Okay, so you've got a few different sentence stems there we can use.

I'm going to model that for you now.

And then it's going to be your turn to write your conclusion, okay? We're not going to write our conclusion.

So we're going to start a new paragraph, a new line.

So, in conclusion, is going to be my opener.

Now because it is the conclusion, I'm now going to come in with, I think, so I the judge, think this.

And I'm using present tense because it's the opinion that I'm giving.

Whereas here we've got misunderstood, never lied, are all past tense verbs, because we're talking about the events from the story but now we saying, what do I think right now? So in conclusion, I think, that there are valid points on both sides of this discussion.

Now you might not agree.

So in this section you might say, I think there are more valid points for this discussion, saying that Ganesh did cheat, or you might say, I think that there are more valid points against this discussion, saying that Ganesh did not cheat.

And that's what you would put here, okay? Now, the next thing I'm going to say, is I'm going to start, it is important that, okay? I'm going to start thinking about what is it that I want the brothers to do? So I'm saying in mine, I want them to meet up and discuss and come to a solution together.

But you might say it is important that Kartikeya moves on and gets over it and lets it go or you might say it is important that Ganesh owns up to what he did was cheating and apologises to Kartikeya.

So you can choose what you want to say.

But I'm going to say, it is important that the brothers meet for a mediation to discuss what happened, see things from both perspectives.

It's like I'm doing a little list now so I put a comma here, and I'm going to put and, so I put the last item in this.

And to come to find a solution, I'm going to say.

So yours might look quite different at this point, you might be saying, one of them needs to apologise to the other.

It's up to you.

It's your conclusion, okay? And to find a solution.

However, I also think that Buddhi should be involved in any decisions.

that are made.

I'm going to use the subordinating conjunction, because, to add more detail, to tell me why, because, it will impact her.

Or I'm going to say because the decision, to be more specific.

The decision will impact her, okay? And now, to finish up, I'm going to say, that is my decision, the rest is up to them, or you might say the rest is their responsibility.

To them, you can choose.

Fantastic.

Your turn.

Write your conclusion.

An amazing end to an incredible piece of writing.

Make sure you go out with a bang.

Pause here, press play when you have finished.

Now you have a chance to read through your whole piece of writing, if you have all of it.

You just have your apart from today, and just stick to that.

You're going to read it out loud as if you were really going to be the judge and I'd like you to check, is there anything missing? Is there anything you can add from our toolkit? But also have you checked your spelling, punctuation and grammar, okay? So pause it, read it and then fix it, if you need to, and then press play when you are done.

I would really, really, really like to see your amazing finished piece of writing.

So if you would like to share it with me, ask your parents or carer to put it on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter.

You can tag Oak National and to use the #LearnwithOak I have been bowled over by the effort that you've put into this piece of writing and the amazing ideas that you've had.

You should be super proud of yourself.

Let's give ourselves a pat on the back, take a bow, do a curtsy for an amazing piece of writing.

I hope to see you in the next unit where we'll be looking at an exciting new story.