Lesson video

Hello, everyone.

It's Mr. Brown here with your English lesson and we are going to be planning today.

We are going to be planning to write instructions for how to make a monster pizza.

So let's get planning, shall we? The outcome for today's lesson is I can write a plan that will support me when writing instructions for how to make a monster pizza.

And the keywords we'll use in today's lesson are: plan, imperative verb, and ordering fronted adverbial.

Let's say those together because those second two are quite big and might be quite hard to say.

So let's go slowly.

First one, nice and easy.

My turn, your turn.

Plan.

Perfect.

Okay, next one.

Imperative verb.

Very good.

And the biggest one yet, ordering fronted adverbial.

Amazing.

You smashed it, well done.

Okay, so we will start today's lesson by preparing to plan and then move on to writing the plan itself.

Your imagination is a unique tool that can help you to create absolutely anything just by using your mind.

You'll need your imagination today because we are going to be planning to write instructions for how to make a monster pizza.

A monster pizza does not exist.

Monsters do not exist.

We are using our imagination to create something that isn't real.

So what is a monster pizza? Well, it can be anything you want, something that a monster would like to cook and eat with ingredients that can be strange, unique, and wonderful.

Here's an example of a monster pizza recipe.

Now instructions for something to eat are called recipes.

Now we have got a title at the top and it is quite simply Monster Pizza Recipe.

And Ingredients.

We have 300 grammes of spiderwebs, one teaspoon of alien eggs, 200 millilitres of dog's drool slime sauce, witch's warts and mermaid scales.

And remember, ingredients are simply the items that you need to be able to complete the instructions; and for a recipe, they are all going to be items that you'll need to create something to eat.

They are the ingredients.

And here are your instructions.

So we're seeing now what we we're aiming for.

Instructions: First, mix the slimy alien eggs with the pungent dog's drool in a large bowl and slowly knead together to make the dough.

Then, roll the rotten dough into a flat circle.

After that, spread the stringy slime sauce on top.

Next, gently sprinkle the poisonous witch's warts and fragile mermaid scales on top of the pizza.

Finally, place the disgusting pizza into the oven and cook for 10 minutes.

So let's remind ourselves, a recipe is a list of instructions.

Instructions contain verbs to tell the reader what to do.

These verbs are called, here's our keyword, imperative verbs.

The imperative verbs make the instructions very similar to commands as they are bossy and tell the reader what to do.

So you might have written commands before, at the end of introductions, when you say to the reader, read on to find out more or read on.

And it's exactly the same with imperative verbs.

They are bossy.

They tell the reader what to do.

Let's check your understanding.

Imperative verbs are bossy and tell the reader what to do.

Is that true or is that false? Pause the video and decide now.

Welcome back, everyone.

Let's see if you've got the right answer.

I hope you did.

Imperative verbs are bossy.

That's true.

And they tell the reader what to do.

Well done if you said true.

Let's play a game.

I'll use imperative verbs to tell you what to do.

Now, they will be bossy.

I will be instructing you with an imperative verb.

I'll be bossing you around, telling you exactly what to do.

Okay, let's go for it.

Stand up.

I hope you're all standing up.

That was a very easy instruction to follow, wasn't it? Just stand up.

Okay, you should be all standing up now.

Sit down.

Stand up.

Smile.

Jump.

Freeze.

Well done.

Stay frozen.

Good, and you can all now sit down again.

Well done.

You were able to follow those imperative verbs because they were so clear.

They were so short.

There wasn't lots of words to make it confusing.

They were just clear, bossy, imperative verbs.

Well done.

Okay, let's make things a bit trickier.

This time, you'll need to use your drama skills here, your acting skills, as I'll be using imperative verbs that will need you to pretend you have objects with you.

For example, I might say "draw" and you might have to pretend you have a pencil and you are drawing something.

Okay, ready? Let's do it, shall we? Stir.

So maybe you're all now pretending you have a spoon and you're stirring something.

Mix.

Quite similar to stir, mixing things together.

Knead.

Now this might be a word you haven't encountered before.

Knead means to use your hands to be able to mould and shape and work a piece of dough.

So this is a way for you to be able to get a piece of dough or if you're mixing flour with water, you would knead it together until it became stickier.

Next one, roll.

Roll.

So imagine you are rolling something out, not you rolling.

You are using some equipment to roll, perhaps a rolling pin in the kitchen.

Sprinkle.

Now this one you can just use your hand to sprinkle things on.

And spread.

Spread.

Perhaps you're spreading some jam on a slice of toast, or perhaps you're spreading some sauce on a pizza.

Did you notice? Did you notice that the imperative verbs you acted out were all verbs that you will need to use in your recipe? They were all things that you will do when you are instructing someone to make a monster pizza.

Stir, cut, mix, roll, sprinkle, spread.

These are the kind of verbs that you will use.

Can you spot the imperative, bossy verbs in this instruction from our recipe for making a monster pizza? I'm going to show you one of our instructions and your job is to try and spot the imperative, bossy verb.

There it is.

I'll read it to you.

First, mix the alien eggs with the dog's drool in a large bowl.

Can you spot it? Which word is the imperative, bossy verb? Well done if you said mix.

Mix is the imperative verb.

How about this one? Then, roll the dough into a flat circle.

Which one is the imperative verb? Hmm.

Tell me.

Let's see if you are right.

Well done if you said roll.

Roll is the imperative verb.

Mix and roll are the bossy words that tell the reader what to do.

Let's check your understanding.

Which of these is not an imperative verb? Which of these is not an imperative verb? Is it A, mix, B, bowl, or C, sprinkle? Which of these is not an imperative verb, A, B, or C? Pause the video and decide which one is not an imperative verb, now.

Welcome back, everyone.

Let's see if you managed to find which word is not an imperative verb.

Well done if you said B, bowl.

Bowl is a noun and it's a person, place, or thing, whereas mix and sprinkle are verbs, they are imperative verbs.

Well done if you said B.

Instructions are written in chronological order.

To help the reader follow them in the correct order, ordering fronted adverbials are used to sequence them.

For example, first mix the slimy alien eggs with the pungent dog's drool in a large bowl and slowly knead together to make the dough.

"First," is the ordering fronted adverbial "Then," is an ordering fronted adverbial "After that," is an ordering fronted adverbial.

And these help to put our instructions in the correct order.

Ordering fronted adverbials all have capital letters at the start because they are sentence starters.

Ordering fronted verbals will be at the start of your sentences.

So therefore they have to have capital letters.

They also have commas after to tell the reader that the ordering fronted adverbial has ended.

"After that, comma" spread the stringy slime sauce on top.

"After that," is the ordering fronted adverbial.

And you can see it has a capital letter and a comma.

This is exactly the same as the other types of fronted adverbials.

So you might have come across fronted adverbials of time or fronted adverbials of place.

It is exactly the same.

They start with the capital letter because they're sentence starters and they end with a comma.

Ordering adverbials all need: A, a capital letter at the start, B, a comma after, C, a question mark after.

Which do you think is the correct answer, or is it more than one answer? Perhaps there's two correct answers.

Pause the video and decide for yourself now.

Welcome back, everyone.

Let's see if you managed to find the correct answer.

So I wanted you to finish my sentence or during fronted, adverbials all need.

a capital letter at the start.

Well done.

If you said A.

And B, a comma after.

Either of A or B would've been the correct answer.

So well done.

If you said A and B.

Time for a task.

Choose an appropriate ordering fronted adverbial to start each of these sentences, or instructions rather, I should say.

Choose an appropriate ordering fronted adverbial to start each of these instructions.

Number one: "Something, mix the slimy alien eggs in a bowl." Number two: ", roll the rotten dough into a flat circle." Which ordering fronted adverbial would you put there? Number three: "Something, spread the stringy lime sauce on top." Number four: ", gently sprinkle the poisonous witch's warts and fragile mermaid scales on top of the pizza." So which ordering fronted adverbial would you put there? And number five: "Something, place the disgusting pizza into the oven and cook for 10 minutes." Your job is to decide ordering fronted adverbials that can go in front of each of those.

Here at the bottom of the page you will see I have given you the five ordering fronted at adverbials that you can use.

Your job is to choose where to put them.

You have "Next," "Second," "Then," "Finally," and "First,".

Decide which ordering fronted adverbial to use where.

And can you do this for me by pausing the video and having a go now? Welcome back, everyone.

Let's see how you got on.

Did you manage to order them correctly? So there was only one correct answer for number one.

It had to be "First," Well done if you said "First,".

"First, mix the slimy alien eggs in a large bowl." Now it's where it gets interesting because number two, I've chosen "Second," and you had to use this one for second.

Second, roll the rotten dough into a flat circle.

So Second means number two, it means in second place after first.

Then number three, I've gone for "Next," and four I've gone for "Then,".

But you could actually have had these the other way around.

"Then," and "Next," are interchangeable.

They are ordering fronted adverbials that go in the middle.

And so therefore you could have had "Then," as three and "Next," as four.

But number five, well that had to be "Finally," because "Finally," shows the reader that this is the last instruction.

So that one had to be number five.

So I've gone for "First," "Second," "Next," "Then," and "Finally,".

But you may have said "First," "Second," "Then," "Next," and "Finally,".

It's up to you.

Well done if you managed to get these correctly ordered.

"Then, and "Next," can be used interchangeably.

Let's move on to writing the plan.

When we write a plan, we use notes.

Now notes are short and capture key vocabulary and important information.

The purpose of notes is to help the writer to organise information easily for future use.

Notes, they guide us when we're writing.

That's why we use them.

Let me just check your understanding.

Which two of these are things that notes help us to capture? A, Full sentences, B, unimportant information, C, key vocabulary, and D, important information? Which two of these are things that notes help us to capture? Pause the video and decide which two now.

Welcome back, everyone.

Let's see if you managed to find the two correct answers.

Well done If you said key vocabulary and important information.

A, full sentences, we do not put full sentences in our notes.

And B, unimportant information.

Well, if something is unimportant, it should not be in your notes.

This is just for important information.

Well done if you said C and D.

Now here is the planning template we'll be using to write our instructions for making a monster pizza.

You can see you have four columns.

The column on the left gives you the number and an image to help you.

So we can see number one, and then there's an image of some ingredients being mixed in a bowl.

Then we have our next column, and that's the column which has the heading, ordering fronted adverbial.

That's where you'll put in your ordering fronted adverbial, whether it's "First," "Next," "Then," "Second," after that, "Finally,".

You choose.

Then we have our imperative verb column where you will be able to put the bossy verb that you'll be using in that particular instruction.

So it might be mix, roll, cut, cook, knead.

And the final column, the larger column, is where you'll put your adjective and noun.

So I have put in a gap for you to put an adjective before "alien eggs" and a gap for you to put a noun after "pungent".

So you might be adding the adjective to the noun or you might be adding the noun to the adjective.

The plan gives you a chance to have your own ordering fronted adverbials, imperative verbs and adjectives and nouns ready to use when writing.

And that's why we plan.

When you come to write in the future, you'll already have a lot of the key things you need planned out and ready to go.

So that will help you to focus on things like handwriting and sentence structure rather than having to worry about which ordering fronted adverbial to use.

Let me check your understanding.

Your plan will contain which of these things? A, ordering fronted adverbials, B, imperative verbs, C, full sentences? Your plan will contain which of these things? And let me tell you, there might be more than one correct answer.

So pause the video and decide for yourself now.

Welcome back, everyone.

Let's see if you were right.

Your plan will contain which of these things? Well done if you said A, ordering fronted adverbials, and B imperative verbs.

C, full sentences.

A plan will not contain full sentences.

When you come to write, you take your plan and your notes and you turn them into full sentences.

A plan will not have full sentences.

So well done if you said A and B.

Okay, it is time for a practise task.

I would like you to complete the second column on your plan to decide the order of your ordering fronted adverbials.

So you have got "Next," "Then," "First," "Finally," and "Second,".

Your job is to put them in the correct order.

So look down the side, you've got pictures to help guide you.

You've got numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

You need to put the ordering fronted adverbials in.

So pause the video and have a go at doing that now.

Welcome back, everyone.

Let's see the order that I went with.

So I've gone for "First," obviously, that should have been exactly the same in your plan.

I've even put my comma after.

So when I'm using my plan to write, I know I need a comma after First.

Number two, there was only one correct answer for this.

It had to be.

Tell me.

"Second,".

Exactly right, well done.

Then we had "Then," and "Next,".

And these two are interchangeable.

You may have had "Next," for number three and "Then," for number four, that's absolutely fine.

But we have to agree on number five.

That has to be "Finally," of course, 'cause that's the last one.

So well done for completing your ordering fronted adverbials.

So now I would like you to complete the third column on your plan to decide which imperative verbs to use.

So the choices you have are roll, sprinkle, spread mix, cook, place.

Your job is to decide which imperative verb you'd like to use for which instruction.

So pause the video and have a go now.

Welcome back.

Hey, everyone.

Let's see if you were right.

So I have gone for, and you may have gone for the same.

For number two, roll, number three.

I did mix for number one, I should just say.

Number two, roll.

Number three, spread, 'cause you're spreading the sauce on.

Then number four, you have your pizza.

You want to sprinkle the cheese or whatever toppings you're putting on top.

Won't be cheese on our monster pizza, will it? And finally, cook.

That's the last thing we will do.

Okay, now number three, I want you to complete the final column on your plan to decide the adjectives and nouns you'll be using for each instruction.

So I have given you gaps and your job is to fill in either the adjective or the noun.

So we have a gap before alien eggs.

So that means alien eggs are the noun.

Your job is to fill in the gap before.

So we would have, ooh, what shall we say? Smelly alien eggs, disgusting alien eggs, squelchy alien eggs, gooey alien eggs, mushed alien eggs.

And then we've got pungent, which is an adjective that means something has a very strong smell.

So pungent what? What might have a very strong smell that you're going to put on your pizza? Pungent toenail clippings of a dragon, perhaps? Pungent spiderwebs? Maybe the spiderwebs are smelly.

I don't know.

It's up to you.

So here is the whole plan.

Your job is to go through and fill in those gaps.

So we've got something-alien eggs.

So adjective for alien eggs and a noun to go with pungent.

An adjective for dough-flat circle.

So something-dough.

Then we have slime sauce, that needs an adjective.

Poisonous-something and something-mermaid scales.

So poisonous-noun and adjective-mermaid scales.

And then finally, adjective-pizza.

One adjective that can describe that pizza.

So over to you.

Let's finish this plan, shall we? Pause the video and have a go now.

Welcome back.

I am so glad you managed to finish your plan.

If there's any gaps, don't worry.

We can fill them in together now.

So I have gone for slimy alien eggs and pungent dog drool.

I have said rotten dough into a flat circle, stringy slime sauce, poisonous witch's warts and fragile mermaid scales and disgusting pizza.

Now of course, this is just an idea.

You may have put different things on your pizza, so it's absolutely okay if you have changed the adjectives and changed the nouns.

If you are copying my plan, perfect.

You can put different things to what I have put in as well.

Okay, let's summarise the learning we've done today.

Imperative verbs make the instructions very similar to commands as they are bossy and tell the reader what to do.

Instructions are written in chronological order and use ordering fronted adverbials to sequence them.

A plan is written in note form and will help guide us when we're writing.

Excellent planning.

I cannot wait to see how your instructions to make a monster pizza come together.

I will see you again very soon.