Lesson video

Hello and welcome.

My name is Mr. Santhanam and welcome to lesson five of 10.

Today, our learning objective is to make predictions, and it's all about reading today.

I can't wait to begin.

Before we begin, I've got a poem here for you, and I want to see if you can guess what the rhyming words are for some of the lines.

You can join in and shout out the answers if you think you know.

Are you ready? It's all about the big, strong animals in the forest that left behind the little bird to put out the fire on her own.

Let's get started.

When the fire in the forest began, all the big, strong animals ran.

The tiger leaped in fright and disappeared into the night.

The elephant stomped away in fear.

He was so upset.

He even shed a tear.

The snake slithered away like a flash.

He speedily escaped and made a dash.

But the little bird was loyal and good.

She stayed to protect her home of leaves and wood.

Amazing.

Well done.

Okay.

So for this lesson, you are going to need your exercise book or some paper, a pencil, and your brilliant brain.

Pause the video now while you go and get those things.

Great, let's begin.

First of all, we are going to do our spelling activity.

We're then going to move on to our grammar focus.

After that, we will use our prediction skills in our reading lesson, and afters, we will do a writing activity to apply our skills in prediction.

Okay, let's get started with our spelling activity.

As you know, the spelling for this week is the suffix, tion like operation, solution, and imagination.

Here's the spellings for you one more time if you want to have a look at them before we do our spelling activity you can.

Pause the video now if you need to write them down.

Sometimes a helpful way to learn your spellings is to write them into a story.

Listen to this story that I made up to help you remember.

Yesterday I went on a day out with my friend.

First, we met at the train.

Don't forget all our words are ending in the suffix, tion.

So that should help you a little bit.

Then we read our books.

Mine was a story, also know now as.

Stories help to give you a good.

We had our packed lunches on the train.

I had some crisps and quite a big.

Unfortunately, one of them got stuck in my throat.

We weren't sure what to do until we came up with a.

Finally, we went to the doctor who gave me an.

Brilliant.

If you've got your spellings written down, you should be able to practise them by putting them into that story.

If you want to come up with your own story, that fit with the words, even better.

Great.

Let's move on.

We're now ready to do our grammar focus.

Today, we'll be looking at our past tense verbs.

So, past tense verbs can be split into two categories.

You can have regular past tense verbs, or you can have irregular past tense verbs.

Regular past tense verbs always end in ED.

But irregular past tense verbs are a little bit sneaky, and they don't always end in ED.

We just need to remember which ones do not end in ED, and how they're different.

Here, we've got some verbs.

I would like you to turn them into past tense verbs, and then put them in the correct column.

Do they belong in irregular past tense verbs, or do they belong in regular past tense verbs? It's up to you.

Pause your video now while you put them into the correct categories.

Okay.

How did you do? These are the columns that they belong in.

Walk would become walked.

Jump would become jumped.

Cook would become cooked.

Knock would become knocked.

Skip would become skipped.

And because it ends in a P, I have to make it a double consonant.

Finish would become finished.

Helped would become, Finish would become finished.

Help would become helped.

Now, it's time for my irregular past tense verbs.

These are the ones that don't necessarily end in ED.

And we just have to remember how they become past tense verbs.

Run becomes ran.

Sing becomes sang.

Teach becomes taught.

Speak becomes spoke.

Understand becomes understood.

Write becomes wrote.

Swim becomes swam.

Sleep becomes slept.

Go becomes went.

So that one really changes, and feel becomes felt.

How did you do? Okay.

It's now time for our reading focus, and our reading focus today is all about making predictions.

When we make predictions, we use evidence from the text to predict what might or could happen in the future.

We use other stories that we know really well to help us with our opinions.

And we can always check the accuracy of our predictions by using the information from the texts.

Have a little read of this paragraph.

I then want you to pause the video and answer the question.

Are you ready to read along with me? The little bird woke up one morning in her beautiful forest as the sun rose.

She stretched her wings and yawned, delighted for the start of a new day.

Suddenly below her, she could see a wriggly worm crawling along the ground.

What do you think will happen next? What information do we already know from our story that might help us? Pause your video now while you discuss your answers.

Hmm.

Okay.

I've had a little think about it.

And some information that I know that might help me with my prediction is that I know that birds love to gobble up tasty worms for their breakfasts.

So I think the little bird might fly down to the ground and pick up the worm and eat it.

I can also see that the word morning is there.

So if I was little bird and it was morning time, I would feel hungry, and I'd want to have some breakfast.

And that is how I justify my prediction.

Let's see what happens in the next part of the story.

The little bird shot down to the ground like a dart and hungrily gobbled down the worm.

Meanwhile, a sly fox had been lurking in the bushes, watching the little bird as she ate her breakfast.

He crouched down and licked his lips before.

Oh, duh, duh, duh, duh.

What do you think will happen next? What's your prediction? Remember what information do we already know from the text that might help us.

Pause your video now while you write down your answer.

Okay.

I can see that the fox is licking his lips.

And I know that that means that he's probably quite hungry.

I also know that foxes like to eat birds.

So I predict he's going to pounce on that little bird and gobble her up.

But hang on a minute.

I also know that the bird is very, very clever and very brave as well.

So that makes me wonder if she's going to, if she will get caught by the fox.

Maybe she'll fly away quickly.

Hmm.

Let's find out.

Just before the fox pounced, the little bird spotted him and managed to flutter gracefully out of the way.

She was far too brave to be scared by the fox and soared through the sky, back to the safety of her tree.

So like I said we already know that the little bird is brave and fast so we can predict that she might be able to escape the fox.

Okay.

Now that you've seen me have a go at making predictions, it's your turn to do it independently.

These paragraphs are from our story that we have already learned.

So you should know the information really well already.

Let's have a read, and then we'll pause the video and answer the questions.

The Eagle God returned to heaven and the little bird to her tree.

And the next spring, new green shoots peeped through the carpet of ash on the forest floor.

What do you predict will happen next? So even though this is the end of our story, what's going to happen after the little shoots peep through the forest? What information do we already know that might help us? Pause your video now and write down your predictions.

Okay.

The next part of our story is right at the beginning of our story.

One day the little bird smelt something strange.

She flew up high over the canopy and saw in the distance, a fire, a great snake of flames and smoke coming towards her.

She called out to her friends, "It's a fire." "We must do something." But all her friends just ran away.

"Run away with us," they called.

Otherwise you will die.

Hmm.

What do you predict happened to her friends? What makes you think that? So not only are you going to make a prediction now, but you're going to explain why you think that.

Pause your video now and write down your answer.

Okay, here's your last couple of questions.

As her friends ran, she flew down to the stream by the tree in which she lived and dipped her wings into the water.

She then flew back up above the fire and tipped her wings, releasing the droplets of water.

The water hissed and fizzed away in the flames in an instant.

Then she flew back to the stream.

And again, wetted her wings before returning to the fire.

She did this time and time again with the fire, getting closer and closer to her tree.

Up in the heavens, the gods looked down and laughed at the little bird.

"Who does she think she is?" said one.

"She'll soon be cooked," laughed another.

What do you predict the gods might think of the little bird after the fire went out.

How do you think this might have changed? So what information in the text can we find that gives us a clue about what the gods thought about her first, and how do you think that might change at the end of the story? Pause your video now and write down your predictions.

Don't forget to explain your reasons and opinions.

Okay.

Let's have a little think about our reflections on our predictions now.

So, the first one that we thought about was what might happen after the little green shoot peeped through the forest floor.

I know that little shoots showing through the floor means new life is coming, and new plants are growing.

So I predicted that brand new trees and plants were going to grow and a new forest was going to come about.

On our next one, I predicted that the tiger and elephant and snake and antelope, who all ran away from the forest, I think they probably went to another forest, or maybe they went to stand on the edge of the forest until the fire burnt away.

And then they came back to find that it was destroyed.

There's no right or wrong answer here.

It's what we thought.

And lastly, what do we predict the gods might think differently about the little bird after the fire went out? Well of course at first, we know that they were laughing at her and they were saying you'll be cooked.

What did you think you are? They didn't think very much of her because she was so small.

They did not think that she could achieve something by putting out that big, great fire.

But then after inspiring the Eagle God to feel so strongly towards her, she really did create change in that forest.

She was the one who inspired the Eagle God to cry those tears and put out the fire.

So the gods might think actually she's very determined, and she's very loyal to her forest, and she's very inspiring.

So actually, she's quite powerful.

Before they might've thought that she was not very powerful, but afterwards I think they might've thought that she was powerful.

Okay.

At the beginning of the lesson, I told you that prediction is all about thinking about what happens in the future, or what's going to happen next.

But that's not always the case.

Sometimes we can use our prediction skills to think about what happened before something happened.

So for instance, it says at the very beginning of the story, there once lived a little bird in a beautiful forest in India.

I want you to pause the video in a moment.

I want you to think about what do you think happened to the little bird before the story began.

This is what we call a prequel, something that happens before the story.

What do you think? You could write down your answer.

So I predict that, or you could tell a friend or your telly talk partner.

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Amazing works, everyone.

Great prediction skills.

I'll see you next time.

Bye.