Lesson video

Hello everyone.

My name is Mr. Brown, and I am here with your English lesson for today.

And in today's English lesson, we are planning.

We are planning to write a recount about a school trip.

So let's not waste any more time and let's get started.

The outcome for today's lesson is I can make a plan for writing a recount about a school trip.

The keywords we'll be using in today's lesson are expanded noun phrase, noun, adjective, plan.

Let's say those together, my turn, your turn.

Expanded noun phrase.

Noun.

Adjective.

Plan.

Very good.

Our lesson outline, we will start by preparing to plan and then move on to writing the plan itself.

We are going to be writing a recount about a school trip.

In today's lesson, we'll be making a plan to help support and guide us when we are writing.

We'll be using an example of a school trip to the zoo.

However, you may have been on a different school trip, and you can use that place instead.

So I'll be creating a plan as if I'm going to write a school trip about a trip that I've been on to the zoo.

You can use mine as inspiration, copy my idea and do the same, or you can come up with your own plan based on a trip that you have been on.

A recount will involve you describing events and experiences in detail.

Now, to do this, you'll use lots of expanded noun phrases.

An expanded noun phrase is a group of words with no verb that adds detail to a noun.

This will help the reader to create a picture in their mind of the things that you are describing.

Common nouns name people, places, and things.

They do not need capital letters unless they start a sentence.

For example, tree is a common noun.

Bench, woman, dog, these are all common nouns.

They do not need capital letters.

Proper nouns name specific people, places and things.

Now they do need a capital letter.

The venue of your school trip will probably be a proper noun and need capital letters.

So let's look at some examples.

London Zoo, that's a proper noun.

Warwick Castle, Legoland, these are proper nouns.

So let's check your understanding.

Match the noun to the noun type.

London Zoo, is that a common noun or a proper noun? And bus, is that a common noun or a proper noun? Pause the video and match the noun to the noun type now.

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Let's see if you managed to match these correctly.

London Zoo is a proper noun, and you can see that from the capital letters for London and Zoo.

Bus, well, that's a common noun.

It does not need a capital letter.

An adjective is a word that describes a noun.

It gives us more detail about the noun.

For example, dog, trees, grey dog, leafy trees.

If we go back to just dog and trees, they are just nouns.

There's no description.

I don't know what kind of dog it is.

I don't know what kind of trees they are.

But if you add the adjectives, grey dog, leafy trees, it helps me as the reader to be able to picture that dog and picture those trees in my mind, and that's what we use adjectives for.

An adjective usually comes before a noun.

Tick the correct definition of an adjective.

A naming word that always has a capital letter.

A naming word for people, places and things.

A word that describes a noun.

Is it A, B, or C? Pause the video and decide which is the correct answer now.

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Let's see if you were right.

What is the correct definition of an adjective? Well, well done if you said C, a word that describes a noun.

So a naming word that always has a capital letter would be a proper noun.

A naming word for people, places, and things would be a common noun.

And a word that describes a noun is an adjective.

Well done if you said C.

Now, two adjectives listed to describe a noun is called an expanded noun phrase.

Let's prepare to plan by creating some expanded noun phrases for the things that we will describe.

Take a moment to think about or write down a list of important nouns that you will want to describe in your recount.

So when you are recounting, it will be full of nouns, full of things that you have seen that will need describing, that will be hard for the reader to picture in their mind if you don't add the adjectives before to make an expanded noun phrase.

Let's have a look.

So I know I will want to describe this noun when I'm recounting my trip to the zoo.

I know I will want to say that we travelled on a bus.

So I now need to think of an expanded noun phrase for that bus.

Remember to include the following, a noun and two adjectives, and a comma to separate the adjectives.

They're the ingredients for an expanded noun phrase.

They are the things that you need to do.

And that's what it looks like.

I always remember it by saying, adjective, comma, adjective, noun.

That's how I do my expanded noun phrase.

Say that with me.

Adjective, comma, adjective, noun.

One more time.

Adjective, comma, adjective, noun.

We know the comma separates those adjectives.

So I've got huge, comma, red bus.

That's an expanded noun phrase, something that I could include in my recount to help the reader picture the bus.

I could just say, "We travelled on the bus," but that is going to make it difficult for the reader to picture precisely the bus that was actually the bus we used.

And there we have our adjective, comma, adjective, noun.

So let's have a look at some examples of nouns that I saw on my trip to the zoo.

We have a lion.

Now we start with the noun.

The noun, even though the adjectives come before, you have to think of the noun first, then you think of the adjectives to describe it.

So I've got a lion.

What kind of lion was it? Was it a huge lion? Was it a tiny lion? Was it a baby lion? Was it an angry lion? Was it a loud lion? Was it a quiet lion? Was it a sleeping lion? They are the adjectives.

So I have chosen majestic.

It was full of majesty.

It was very large and important, a bit like a king, because people refer to a lion as the king of the jungle.

Majestic, powerful lion.

A snake.

Now, majestic and powerful would not work for a snake, would it? So it's gonna be different adjectives.

Long, slimy snake.

And butterfly, again, long and slimy wouldn't work for a butterfly, but bright and colourful would.

So now I've got three sets of expanded noun phrases.

Majestic, comma, powerful lion.

Long, comma, slimy snake.

Bright, comma, colourful butterfly.

Time for you to have a go.

I would like you to say an expanded noun phrase about each of these images.

Now, don't forget to say the comma out loud too, and that's what we know it'll look like.

You'll say adjective, comma, adjective, noun.

So we have a bear, a lizard, and a meerkat.

And just to help you, I've given you nine different adjectives.

Your job is to use your own adjectives, or you can use any of my nine that I've given you to come up with an expanded noun phrase for each of those animals.

So the adjectives I've given you are giant, green, furry, colourful, scaly, scary, playful, grizzly, small.

I would like you to pause the video and make your own expanded noun phrases for each of those animals now.

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I am so intrigued to see what you came up with.

Now, there's no real right or wrong answer here.

There are adjectives that will definitely be more suited to some animals than others, but it's a little bit about you choosing which ones you think are best, and the order might be different as well too.

Okay, let's have a look.

So this is what I went for.

Bear, I went for giant, comma, grizzly bear.

Now, I could have used perhaps furry in there as well.

Scaly, no, that wouldn't have worked.

Green, nope, that wouldn't have worked.

Giant, comma, grizzly bear, that's what I went for.

But lizard, that would be completely different, won't it? Lizard is green, comma, scaly lizard.

And meerkat, furry, comma, playful meerkat.

Expanded noun phrases.

Imagine in your writing you just said, bear, lizard, meerkat.

It's nowhere near enough description.

The reader is not going to be able to picture that lizard, unless you describe it.

Well done.

Let's move on now to writing the plan.

When we plan, we use notes.

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 guide us when writing.

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

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Let's see if you've got the two correct answers.

So notes help us to capture key vocabulary and important information.

Notes are not written in full sentences, and unimportant information should not be included in your notes.

Well done if you said C and D.

This is the plan that you will use that will guide you in writing your recount.

The plan should contain expanded noun phrases, and you can see that on the column on the right side.

These expanded noun phrases you will use in your writing.

So your plan will give you an opportunity to be able to have something to help guide you.

So what's really handy about a plan is you might not need to think of an expanded noun phrase in the moment when you're writing because you'll have it in your plan already.

Now, we have key moments on the left column.

I would like you to take a moment now to think about the key moments of your trip.

We know we can't include everything.

So what are the key moments? The moments you know you have to include when you are recounting your trip.

Pause the video now and just have a think.

What are your key moments going to be? Welcome back.

Let's see what my key moments are for my trip to the zoo.

So I'm gonna talk about the journey from school, arriving at the zoo and looking through the gates.

So that's the start of my recount.

I'm going to capture that.

Now, that's kind of a long key moment, isn't it? I'm talking about leaving school, the journey, arriving at the zoo, going through the gates.

But that's a key moment, and that's okay, because that's a chunk of my recount.

Now, my expanded noun phrases I'll use are huge, red bus, or huge, comma, red bus, I should say, and wonderful, comma, busy zoo.

So when I am writing about those key moments, I know I'm going to use those expanded noun phrases.

Now you can see how the plan is helping to support my writing.

Let's check our understanding.

Your plan will contain which of these things? A, key moments, B, expanded noun phrases, C, full sentences.

Your plan will contain which of these things, so more than one correct answer here.

Pause the video and decide for yourself now.

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Let's see if you found the correct answers.

So your plan will contain which of these things? Your plan will contain key moments, absolutely, and expanded noun phrases, not full sentences.

We do not put full sentences in our plan.

Over to you now.

I would like you to add detail to the first column on your plan to highlight the key moments you will include in this recount.

So we've got journey from school, visiting the lions and the reptile house.

That's what I've started with.

Now you can add further detail to my ideas, or you obviously can come up with your own, in your own plan.

That's what we're gonna do first of all, just add further detail to that first column.

So, over to you.

Pause the video and complete your first column, the key moments column in your plan now.

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Let's see how you got on.

So I have added some further detail to my plan.

I've got journey from school - arriving at zoo.

Visiting the lions - watching them feed, so I know I'll talk about visiting the lions and then I'm gonna talk about how it was to watch them feed, how it made me feel, what it looked like.

And then reptile house - snakes and lizards.

Great, I hope you managed to add lots of detail to your first column.

But now it's time for another task, and it's the expanded noun phrases column.

Your job is to fill that with expanded noun phrases that you will use when writing about those key moments.

So key moments on the left, expanded noun phrases on the right.

And you can see an example.

Huge, red bus for me.

Wonderful, vast zoo.

When I'm writing about the journey from school and arriving at the zoo, I'm going to then include huge, red bus and wonderful, vast zoo as my expanded noun phrases.

So, it's over to you.

Fill that column on the right, expanded noun phrases that you will use when writing about those key moments.

Pause the video and have a go now.

Welcome back everyone.

Let's see how you got on.

So we've got huge, red bus and wonderful, vast zoo.

We said now for my visiting the lions section and watching them feed, I want to use majestic, comma, powerful lions, and sharp, pointy teeth, sharp, comma, pointy teeth, so that I can make sure I say sharp, pointy teeth when I am describing how it was to see them feed.

Then we've got reptile house - snakes and lizards, long, comma, slimy snakes, and green, comma, scaly lizards.

Those are the expanded noun phrases that you'll see in my writing when I come to take this plan and turn it into full sentences.

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

A recount will involve you describing events and experiences in detail.

An expanded noun phrase is a group of words with no verb that adds detail to a noun.

Expanded noun phrases contain two adjectives separated by a comma.

When we write a plan, we use notes.

Excellent work today.

Brilliant planning, preparing you to be able to write a recount about a school trip.

And I will see you again very soon.