Lesson video

Hello, everyone.

My name is Mr. Brown and I am your teacher for today's English lesson, and we're going to be preparing.

Preparing to write the opening of the animated story, "Otherwise".

So, lots to do when you're preparing to write.

Let's get started.

The outcome for today's lesson is, "I can plan the opening of 'Otherwise'".

The keywords we'll use are ambitious vocabulary and plan.

Let's say those together.

My turn and then your turn.

Ambitious vocabulary.

Plan.

Fabulous.

Now, ambitious vocabulary is the use of precise and descriptive words in writing, and a plan is a framework that writers create before they write.

We'll start today's lesson by preparing to plan and then move on to writing the plan.

"Otherwise" can be structured like this.

An opening, a buildup, a climax, and a resolution.

In this lesson, we are planning the opening, and this structure is known as our story staircase.

The purpose of the opening is to do these things, introduce the main characters, introduce the setting.

Let me just check your understanding.

The purpose of the opening is to introduce the setting and main characters.

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

Welcome back.

Okay.

The purpose of the opening is to introduce the setting and main characters.

It's true.

Well done.

If you said true.

In the opening, we are introduced to the setting, which is the jungle, and the characters, Anders and the other green chameleons.

Let's watch the opening again.

Pause the video and watch this clip of the opening of "Otherwise" now.

♪ Ah ♪ (egg cracks) (saw buzzes) ♪ Ah ♪ (saw buzzes) (egg lid pops) (Anders' head pops) (bright instrumental music) (Anders patters) (bright music continues) (Anders patters) (bright music continues) (green chameleons patter) (egg shell cracks) (wildlife chirps) <v ->Welcome back.

</v> I hope you enjoyed the opening of "Otherwise".

Here is an example of the opening, which will help us to know what we are aiming to write.

So, the opening you have just seen, here it is, written down into sentences.

"One warm, sunny morning, a small white egg lay in a tropical, leafy jungle.

Suddenly the round, delicate egg began to crack.

A friend little chameleon called Anders, popped his head out and smiled happily.

Anders had red, scaly skin and wide, bulging eyes.

A moment later, he merrily walked over to four other chameleons.

They all had green, slimy skin and stern expressions on their faces.

Anders reached out his hand to introduce himself, but the others ignored him and rudely walked away.

Anders felt disappointed." And that's our opening.

That's what we're aiming to produce.

When we plan, we generate ambitious vocabulary to describe each moment in detail.

Nouns.

They are people, places, or things.

Adjectives.

They describe nouns.

Verbs are doing or being words.

And adverbs.

They describe verbs.

These are so important and what we'll be using throughout all of our planning lessons in this unit.

Using ambitious vocabulary means words that are precise and descriptive.

They paint a vivid picture in the reader's mind and they make writing exciting to read, and that's why we are always trying to generate and use ambitious vocabulary.

Which of these will be included in our plan? Is it A, verbs and adverbs, B, adjectives and nouns, or C, a list of punctuation? Which will we include in our plan? Pause the video and decide now.

And welcome back.

So which will be included in our plan? Well, we will include verbs and adverbs, and adjectives and nouns in our plan.

So, well done if you said A and B.

Let's review the key moments of the opening.

So, Anders cracks out of his egg.

Anders tries to shake hands with the green chameleons.

The green chameleons ignore him and walk away.

That's the opening of "Otherwise".

I'd like you to order the key moments of the opening of "Otherwise".

I've got, "The green chameleons ignore him and walk away", "Anders tries to shake hands with the green chameleons", and "Anders cracks out of his egg".

Can you order those with a one for the first one, two, and then three? Pause the video and have a go at this task now.

Welcome back.

How did you find that? Did you manage to order those correctly? Let's have a check, shall we? Well done if you said number one, "Anders cracks out of his egg", number two, "Anders tries to shake hands with the green chameleons", and number three, "The green chameleons ignore him and walk away".

Well done if you ordered those in that order.

We need to generate verbs and adverbs to describe the action in this moment.

Verbs are doing or being words, and adverbs are words that describe verbs.

Anders cracks out of his egg.

So that's our moment.

Let's think about verbs and adverbs.

Verbs.

Popped.

He popped out of his egg.

He wriggled out of his egg.

He smiled when he came out of his egg.

He looked.

He looked around.

Adverbs we can use.

Happily, excitedly, joyfully.

Now, you can move these around.

You can blend them together and have different matches, so for example, I've chose, "Anders happily popped his head out of the egg", but I could equally say, "Anders excitedly popped his head out of the egg", or, "Anders happily wriggled out of his egg".

These are verbs and adverbs that we can use interchangeably in the opening.

We need to generate precise adjectives as well to describe the nouns in this moment.

Now, nouns we know are people, places, and things, and adjectives, well, they describe the nouns.

So, let's think about some adjectives and nouns.

I've got, the nouns, we always start with those.

The egg is definitely something in that moment we need to describe, the chameleon, so Anders himself.

He's a chameleon.

We need to describe him.

His smile, we can describe that, and his eyes.

So, now let's think about adjectives to describe those.

What adjectives can we use to describe his egg? Hmm? What kind of an egg is it? Imagine I had never seen that picture of Anders coming out of his egg.

I don't know what that egg looks like.

You can tell me it's a white, delicate, round egg.

These are things that you may want to use.

White, delicate, and round.

You'd only use two in an expanded noun phrase, but we are generating more than that right now.

Chameleon, he's red, little, scaly, friendly.

His smile is wide, warm, and excited, and his eyes are round, wide, bright, and curious.

So you may say, "white, delicate egg", or, "red, scaly skin".

We will also write a plan for these key moments from the opening.

Anders tries to shake hands with the chameleon.

With the chameleons, the green chameleons, so we need this moment in there too, and the green chameleons ignore him and walk away, so there are three moments that we will be breaking down and preparing to write.

True or false? In the opening, the green chameleons try to shake hands with Anders.

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

Welcome back.

Okay.

In the opening, the green chameleons try to shake hands with Anders is false.

They do not.

He tries to shake hands with them.

They do not want to shake hands with him.

Time for a task.

I'd like you to fill in the blanks with ambitious vocabulary from the box below.

Let's start having a little rehearsal or a bit of a practise at how we will use the ambitious vocabulary we've generating in sentences.

So I've got, "One warm morning, a something, comma something egg began to crack." And if you look at your ambitious vocabulary that we generated, we know that egg, the noun, egg, we had white, and delicate, and round, as adjectives that we might want to use to describe that, so you could use those in the sentences.

Okay, it's over to you.

Pause the video and fill in the blanks with ambitious vocabulary from the box below now.

And welcome back.

Okay, let's have a look at some examples, and these may not be exactly what you've used, but this is what I have used.

"One warm morning, a white, round egg began to crack." You may have said, "a white, delicate egg", or, "a delicate, round egg".

That's absolutely fine.

"Suddenly, a red, scaly chameleon popped his head out and looked at all the spiky leaves with his curious, bright eyes." So, I have used the ambitious vocabulary generated in full sentences.

Let's move on to writing the plan.

When we write a plan, we use notes.

Notes capture key vocabulary and information.

We use bullet points when note taking and they look like this.

Basically like a thick full stop that's floating in the middle between two lines, and then that's when you write next to that, just some notes.

Something that you will use to help guide you when planning.

What is a plan? What is in a plan? Is it A, full sentences with capital letters and full stops, B, bullet points for notes, or C, ambitious vocabulary, or is it D, unnecessary information? What is in a plan? Pause the video and decide now.

Welcome back.

Okay, what is in a plan? Well done if you said B, bullet points for notes and C, ambitious vocabulary.

We are not using full sentences with capital letters and full stops in a plan, and D, unnecessary information, if it's unnecessary, don't include it in your plan.

The plan is for the important things that are going to help keep you on track when you're writing.

Okay, time for a task.

I'd like you to fill in the first part of the plan with verbs and adverbs, and adjectives and nouns to describe the key moment here.

So, the key moment is Anders cracks out of his egg.

You need to put verbs and adverbs, for example, gradually cracked, and adjectives and nouns, white, delicate egg.

So, this is your opportunity for just this key moment to be able to generate verbs and adverbs, and adjectives and nouns.

Pause the video and have a go at this task now.

Welcome back everyone.

Let's have a look, shall we? So, you may have put, "gradually cracked", like I did, or, "happily popped", "excitedly looked", and then in terms of adjectives and nouns, we said, "white, delicate, egg", "red, scaly chameleon", "bright, curious eyes".

Let's have a go at this key moment.

This is Anders trying to shake hands with the green chameleons.

So again, let's start you off.

Verbs and adverbs.

"Cheerfully walked".

He cheerfully walked over to the green chameleons, and then adjectives and nouns, I'm gonna describe those green chameleons as, "grumpy, green chameleons".

Okay, it's over to you now.

Pause the video and fill in this part of your plan with verbs and adverbs, and adjectives and nouns to describe this key moment.

Pause the video and have a go now.

And welcome back.

Let's have a look.

So, we said, "cheerfully walked", "happily tried".

He happily tried to shake hands.

"Warmly smiled".

Absolutely.

"Green, grumpy chameleons", "warm, excited smile", so we can describe his smile, and, "wide, friendly grin".

Grin is another word for smile.

Let's move on to the final moment, the final key moment in this part of the opening.

So it's the green chameleons ignoring Anders and walking away.

I'll start you off again.

"Rudely stared".

The green chameleons rudely stared at Anders.

And then let's say, "rude, unfriendly chameleons".

So, I'm describing those chameleons.

Now they are rude and unfriendly, the fact they are walking away from Anders.

So, pause the video and complete this part of your plan now.

Welcome back, everyone.

Okay, let's have a look, shall we? "Rudely stared", we said, and then, "unkindly ignored", so the unkindly ignored Anders, they "coldly, shuffled away".

"Rude, unfriendly chameleons", we said, "poor, lonely lizard", describing Anders, and, "sad, isolated Anders".

Let's summarise the learning that we've done today.

The purpose of the opening is to introduce the main characters and the setting.

Planning is an important part of preparing to write.

Our plan will contain ambitious vocabulary.

Our plan will contain nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs.

Excellent work today.

We've been planning to write the opening of the animated story, "Otherwise", and I think you are ready to write the opening of the animated story, "Otherwise", and I look forward to seeing you to do that next lesson.

See you soon.