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Hello everyone.

My name is Miss Barron and welcome to lesson four in our unit, learning and working with the story, How Coyote Brought Fire to the Earth.

Now we know that our focus in this unit is description.

Isn't it? We're learning how to describe things really clearly, really vividly.

And so in today's lesson, we are going to learn how to use expanded noun phrases to help us describe.

And we are going to be describing our story characters.

So you are going to learn how to use expanded noun phrases today to describe our story characters in a bit more detail.

Now don't worry, if you're not sure of what expanded noun phrases are yet, I am going to teach you that a little bit later.

So let's have a look at what our lesson is going to look like today.

First, we are going to sing our description song to remind us how we describe things vividly.

Then we're going to look at the new learning today.

We are going to learn about expanded noun phrases.

What they're for and how to use them.

And finally, you are going to have it go at using some expanded noun phrases of your own to describe a story scene of your choice.

So in today's lesson, you will need an exercise book or a piece of paper and a pencil to write with.

So pause the video now and go and get those things if you need to.

Fantastic job, you are back with everything you need to start the learning today.

So let's begin by singing our description song together to recap how we describe things.

Now, I think you know it well enough by now that you can join in with me straight away and sing it all the way through.

So let's go.

Are you ready? ♪ Description description ♪ ♪ How shall we do it ♪ ♪ Description description ♪ ♪ How shall we do it ♪ ♪ How does it look ♪ ♪ How does it sound ♪ ♪ How does it smell ♪ ♪ How does it taste ♪ ♪ How does it feel ♪ ♪ That's how we do it.

♪ Brilliant.

So that is our description song, which tells us that we use the senses to describe.

There are other techniques, other tools that we can use to describe things as well.

And one of those is to use expanded noun phrases.

And that is what we are going to be learning about today.

So let's find out what expanded noun phrases are and how we use them.

Shall we? An expanded noun phrase is a phrase which adds detail to describe a noun.

So let's practise saying it together.

My turn first.

Expanded noun phrase.

Your turn.

Brilliant.

Again, expanded noun phrase your turn.

Fantastic.

So an expanded noun phrase is a phrase which adds detail to describe a noun.

And in order to use them, we need to be really clear what a noun is.

Don't we? So let's just recap that.

A noun names a person, place or thing.

And here's some examples on the screen with some of our story characters.

So have a look at the words in the green boxes.

Crow, frog, squirrel, those are all nouns which name things.

Now take a look at the word in the blue box.

Coyote.

Coyote has a capital letter there because it is his name and we know that names or proper nouns always have capital letters.

So Coyote, isn't a person, he's an animal, isn't he? But in the story, he is a character.

So it's like, he's a person.

And his name is Coyote.

So, Coyote has a capital letter.

Now let's have a look at The Sky World.

Now, nouns that name places have capital letters as well.

The names of places are proper nouns.

So you can see here that The Sky World has capital letters because it is the name of a place.

And so that is what a noun is.

A noun names, a person place or thing.

And today we're going to learn to use expanded noun phrases to describe nouns.

So before we get onto expanded noun phrases, let me just tell you what a simple noun phrases is.

A simple noun phrase, is a noun with a determinant before it.

Now I'm going to tell you what determiners are in just a little bit, but examples of determiners are words like the, or a, or an.

For example, the crow, the frog, a squirrel, the coyote.

These are all simple noun phrases.

And to turn them into expanded noun phrases, expand means to get bigger.

To turn them into expanded noun phrases, we add adjectives.

So we know that adjectives are describing words.

They are words which describe nouns.

So let's have a look at Coyote and think about some adjectives that we could use to describe him.

And we're going to describe his appearance.

So he's eyes, fur, ears, nose, teeth.

So let's have a look at the words in the purple box.

These are all adjectives that we could choose from.

So read them with me.

Ready? Piercing.

Let's say that word again.

Piercing.

Now to pierce means to go through something.

So for example, a knife might pierce a plastic.

You can also have piercing eyes.

If eyes are piercing, it means that they look straight through you.

So piercing, golden, pointed, spiky, bright, sleek.

If something sleek, then it's soft to touch a bit like velvets.

Alert.

Alert means awake, ready.

Dangerous, sharp, soft, and wet.

Now I would like you to look carefully at that picture of Coyote.

Look carefully.

There's adjectives in a purple box and choose four that you like best to describe Coyote.

Choose four adjectives that you think are most powerful to describe his appearance.

I would like you to pause the video and write those four adjectives down.

Brilliant job.

You are back with your four adjectives.

I would love it if you could tell me which ones you chose.

Go and tell me to your screen now.

Say, "I chose.

." Fantastic.

So you've chosen a mixture of different adjectives to describe different aspects about Coyote's appearance.

Fantastic.

Now I'm going to teach you what an expanded noun phrase is.

So now we've come up with some adjectives.

We are ready to put them in an expanded noun phrase.

An expanded noun phrase is a phrase made up of a noun and at least one adjective.

So let's have a look at the example in the middle of the screen.

His piercing, bright eyes.

So I have come up with an expanded noun phrase to describe Coyote's eyes.

His piercing, bright eyes.

Now an expanded noun phrase has to start with what we call a determiner.

Say that for me, determiner.

Your turn.

Brilliant.

Now a determiner, is just used to introduce the noun and show how many we've got.

For example, the, a, an.

They all show that we've got just one of the noun.

We can also use other determiners, like most, some, or even a number.

For example, two, three or four.

So here I have used the determiner is, his sorry, his, and that shows that these eyes belong to him.

His is the determiner.

Then I have chosen two adjectives for my expanded noun phrase to add detail.

I've chosen the adjectives piercing and bright.

And finally, our expanded noun phrase, must finish with the noun that we are describing.

So you can see the expanded noun phrase that I have written on the screen there, starts with a determiner.

Then I have two adjectives.

And look what happens if I have two adjectives.

I separate them with a comma in between.

Can you see that comma in between piercing and bright, that's really important.

Two adjectives next to each other must have a comma between them.

And then finally, we've got the noun and at the end, eyes.

His piercing, bright eyes.

Now here's another expanded noun phrase.

Two alert, pointy ears.

So that is my expanded noun phrase to describe his ears.

And look, it starts with a determiner.

Remember, a determiner introduces the noun and tells us how many we've got.

In this case, we've got two.

Then I have my two adjectives, alert and pointy separated by a comma.

And finally, I've got the noun.

The noun that we are describing, ears.

Two alert, pointy ears.

Now, you are going to have a go at creating an expanded now phrase of your own.

So I would like you to create one, to describe Coyote's fur and Coyote's teeth.

So those are my expanded noun phrase about his eyes and his ears on the screen to remind you how to create them.

I would like you to use some of the adjectives that you wrote down, or think of some more.

If you didn't choose any to describe his fur or teeth, you will need to think of some more now.

So, pause the video and write two expand noun phrases of your own.

Have a go.

Fantastic.

You are back.

Brilliant effort to doing that.

Can you tell me your favourite expanded noun phrase, now? Tell me to the screen.

Fantastic.

I heard some brilliant ideas.

I heard somebody say, "His sleek, soft fur." I heard somebody say, "His rough, spiky fur." I heard somebody say, "His sharp, pointy teeth." And I heard somebody say, "His knife like, jagged teeth." Gosh, really fantastic.

Now, expanded noun phrases, which helped me to really picture what Coyote looks like.

Now, then let's have another go.

And this time we are going to create some expanded noun phrases about Crow about white Crow.

Although, he's no longer white, is he? Because his feathers got burned in the story when he was carrying the piece of fire in his beak.

So now he's black Crow.

So we are going to come up with some adjectives first to describe his eyes, feathers, beak, claws, and his personality.

So I would like you to pick two of those things and write down some adjectives that you could use to describe him.

So for example, if I was describing his eyes, I might choose the adjective beady or gleaming.

So pause the video now and have it go.

We're coming up with some adjectives to describe black Crow.

Amazing job.

So now that you've got your adjectives, here are some more, these are the ones that I came up with, beady.

Now, if you have beady eyes, it means that they're really big and they're alert.

They're looking out for things all the time.

Sharp, delicate, delicate means soft and fragile, easily breakable.

So I thought his feathers with delicate, soft gleaming.

Gleaming, it's like shiny.

Hooked, his beak is hooked.

Shiny, black, burnt.

And then finally, two to describe his personality.

Heroic and helpful.

Now you might like to use some of those adjectives when you come to write your expanded noun phrase now.

So here's my expanded noun phrase about Crow's personality.

The helpful, heroic Crow.

So I've got my determiner at the beginning.

Then I've got my two adjectives separated by a comma.

And finally, I've got my noun.

So there're your adjectives in the purple box.

I would like you to pause the video and write your own expanded noun phrase to describe Crow.

So pause the video and have it go at that.

Amazing job, can you tell me your expanded noun phrase? Go and tell it to your screen now.

Fantastic, gosh I heard some really good ones.

I heard his silky, fragile feathers.

I heard his black, hooked beak.

Brilliant.

Now then, let's move on.

And now you are going to have a go at writing two of your own expanded noun phrases to describe Frog and Squirrel.

And this time I haven't given you any adjectives to help you.

So there's an extra challenge there.

I would like you to come up with your own adjectives first and then put them in your own expanded noun phrases, make sure they start with a determiner.

Then you have two adjectives separated with a comma.

And finally, your noun.

So pause the video and do that.

Fantastic job.

I would love to hear your expanded noun phrases.

Can you tell me your favourite to the screen? Those are some brilliantly creative and powerful expanded noun phrases to describe those characters in our story.

I heard, the croaking, green frog.

I heard, the fast, scurrying squirrel.

Fantastic.

What an amazing job you have done.

Hey, well, mine that I wrote while you were writing yours.

My expanded noun phrase about Frog was to describe his eyes.

Two huge, gleaming eyes.

So you can see the determiner is two at the beginning telling me how many.

Huge and gleaming are my adjectives.

Eyes, is my noun.

Now this was my expanded noun phrase for Squirrel.

A fast, determined squirrel.

A, is my determiner introducing the noun telling me how many.

Fast and determined are my adjectives separated with a comma and the noun is Squirrel at the end.

Now then, we are going to put that into practise a little bit more, and we're going to draw and label a key scene from the story.

You could choose whichever scene you'd like to do this.

It might be your favourite moment scene that you drew in lesson one.

Or it could be a completely different scene.

And we are going to have a go at using some of our own expanded noun phrases to describe that scene in a bit more detail.

So this is my picture of a scene.

This was my picture of my favourite moment from lesson one.

Wasn't it? Now I'm going to have a go now at labelling my picture with expanded noun phrases to describe it in more detail.

And I would like you to pause the video and do the same thing.

And then we'll share some of the expanded noun phrases that we came up with.

So there is one example on the screen to help you.

The blazing, scorching sun.

You can see the determiner is in purple, blazing and scorching are in blue and underlined.

Those are my adjectives.

The comma to separate them is in black.

And my noun is in pink.

So that is there to help you to remind you how we write an expanded now phrase.

So go and pause the video, draw your picture, and then label it with expanded noun phrases to add detail.

So let's have a look at some of my expanded noun phrases that I used to describe my story scene.

His hot, fiery hair.

His, is the determiner.

Hot and fiery are my adjectives separated with a comma and hair, is the noun.

Two, long strong legs.

Two, is the determiner used to introduce the noun and say how many I've got.

Long and strong are the adjectives used to describe the noun separated with a comma and legs is the noun.

A large, leafy bush.

A, is the determiner.

Large and leafy are my adjectives separated with a comma and bush is the noun.

Now remember an expanded noun phrase needs to have at least one objective.

So if you wrote something like a large bush.

That is still an expanded noun phrase, it does have one adjective.

I could say a brave Coyote.

That is also an expanded noun phrase.

They need to have at least one adjective.

If I wanted to, I could write three adjectives, all separated by commas.

So I could say, for example, a brave, bold, heroic Coyote.

So you might like to pause the video here and make any edits to your expanded noun phrases to describe your picture.