Lesson video

Hello, and welcome to lesson six of our unit on healthy eating, persuasive writing.

My name is Ms Bourke, and I'm a teacher with the Oak Academy.

I'm really, really looking forward to our lesson today because we are going to be designing our own healthy snack.

We are going to be thinking about the things that we like about snacks that we eat.

We are going to be thinking about what makes a snack healthy, and then we are going to be designing our own snack.

Okay, let's get started.

Let's go through our agenda for today.

First, we will do a warm up.

Next, we will look at another example of an advertisement.

Then, we will have a look at some healthy snacks.

And finally, we will complete our task.

In this lesson, you will need an exercise book or a piece of paper or some pieces of paper, a pencil, and to help you think, you'll need your brain.

If you don't have an exercise book or some paper or a pencil, please pause the video and go and get them now.

It's time for our writing warm up.

I would like you to write a sentence using each of these superlatives.

I have written down the word fastest, the superlative fastest.

That means that nothing can be faster.

And I know it's a superlative because it ends in EST.

And I've written the superlative greatest.

That means nothing can be greater than this.

And I know it's a superlative because it ends in EST.

Pause the video and write a sentence using fastest and a sentence using greatest.

Off you go.

Excellent work! Let's have a look at one of my examples.

I have used the word fastest in this sentence.

I have said, my best friend is the fastest runner in the UK! I wonder if you think that's true.

And then my second one is, Roald Dahl doll is the greatest author of all time.

That one's my opinion.

You might not agree.

You might think there is a better author.

But that's what our superlatives do.

They exaggerate our own opinions to persuade people to agree with us, or in an advertisement to buy what we want.

Okay, let's look at another example of an advertisement.

Okay, here is an advertisement.

I'm going to read through it and you can read with me at the same time.

I'm going to start with the pink box.

Are you sick of the same old snacks, question mark? Why not try the sweet, delicious Nigel's Nummy Nutty Bar.

Best selling chocolate bar! New, sweeter recipe! Free toy when you buy five! Chewiest caramel! Contains smooth, creamy caramel and salty peanuts covered in thick chocolate.

Go to your happy place with Nigel's Nummy Nutty Bar.

Mm, I think that sounds delicious.

That advert has done a good job of persuading me to buy this product.

I can see that they've used lots of adjectives, like sweet and delicious, smooth and creamy, thick chocolate.

I can also see that they've used some superlatives.

I can see that they've used the superlative chewiest to describe the caramel, the chewiness caramel.

And I can see that they've also used one, the word best, the best selling chocolate bar.

Nothing is better than this.

That's what the advertisement is saying.

I can also see they've used a comparative.

New, sweeter recipe.

That means that this chocolate bar is now sweeter than it used to be.

They've also put a little incentive for me.

They said that I get a free toy when I buy five of them.

Wow.

This ad is doing a good job of persuading me to buy it.

It's using all of that interesting language, like superlatives, comparatives, and adjectives.

It's asked me a question at the beginning to hook me in.

Are you sick of the same old snacks? It doesn't want me to answer it, but it wants me to think about if I am.

AND also it's promised me a prize, a free toy when I buy five.

Wow, it's hard to say no to this.

I might be persuaded to buy this.

But let's just have a think about what it's selling first.

Is this advertising a healthy or an unhealthy snack? How do you know? So those are two questions that you need to answer.

The first question is, is it advertising a healthy or unhealthy snack? You can just say healthy or unhealthy to answer that.

The second question is, how do you know? And I would like you to answer that question with "I know because." I would like you to either say what you're thinking aloud, say your thoughts aloud, or write them down.

I would like you to answer those videos and pause.

I would like you to answer those questions, sorry.

I'd like you to answer those questions and pause the video now.

Okay, let's have a think about it.

First we need to answer the first question.

Is it advertising a healthy or an unhealthy snack? Now I remember, when we looked at scientific vocabulary, that's used in advertisements to tell us that a snack is healthy, but I can't see any scientific vocabulary in this advertisement.

Can you? I can't see any words like protein, calcium, fibre, vitamins, or minerals.

So that's my first clue that maybe this is an unhealthy snack.

Then I'm looking at the picture.

That doesn't look very healthy.

It looks like it's got a lot of chocolate on it.

Also I can see that it's a chocolate bar.

Hmm, it's got chewy caramel, salty peanuts, and thick chocolate.

It's being described as sweet and delicious.

I think this is describing an unhealthy snack.

Do you agree with me? Put your thumbs up if you agree with me, put your thumbs down if you disagree with me.

Yes, it's advertising an unhealthy snack, isn't it? How do we know? Well, there are a few ways we can tell, aren't there? Firstly, that it's a chocolate bar and we know that chocolate contains a lot of sugar.

So it's not that good for us.

It's not a snack we should have every day.

Secondly, I can see that there isn't any scientific vocabulary here telling me that it's got nutrients in it or it's got anything in it that's good for my body.

So those are my two reasons that I know that this is not a healthy snack.

Would your parents or carers want you to eat this snack every day? That's a chocolate bar with lots of caramel and chocolate and salty peanuts.

Would your parents or carers want you to eat this every day? I would like you to answer this question with "My parent or carer "would like me to eat this every day because," or "My parent or carer "wouldn't like me to eat this every day because." I would like you to either say your answer aloud or write it down.

Pause the video now and answer that question.

Okay.

Do you think your parents or carers would want you to eat this every day or no? I don't think my parent or carer would want me to eat this every day because I can see it's got lots of things in it that maybe aren't that good for my body.

Like lots of sugar and probably quite a lot of salt from the peanuts and maybe some fats.

Now, those things are fine if we're eating just a little bit of them.

But if we eat an extra chocolate bar every day, it might not be good for our bodies, especially when we could eat something that has lots of nutrients in it instead.

So I don't think my parents or carers would want me to eat this snack every day.

So if I'm not going to eat that every day, let's design our own snack that is healthy and delicious.

Okay.

Let's discuss healthy snacks and start to think about what we would include in our own healthy snacks.

Okay.

I have got quite a few questions on the screen for you.

So I'm going to get you to pause the video in a minute and read through them after I've read through them for you.

I would like you to think about your favourite snack and answer these questions.

So the first thing I'd like you to do is pause the video and write down what's your favourite snack is.

Do that now, please.

Okay, good job.

So now that you've written down what your favourite snack is, I want you to think about these questions.

How does it taste? Is it sweet or is it savoury? What is it made from? Is it made from things like fruits and vegetables? Or is it made from things like grains, oats? Is it made from, maybe it's got some bread in it.

It's up to you.

You tell me what is it made of.

Why do you like it? Is it because it's fun to eat? Is it because it tastes delicious? Is it because it's both of those things? What does the packet look like? Is it easy to bring in your bag? So snacks are something we often eat on the go, so is it easy to carry around with you and eat when you need it? And your last question, does your parents or carer mind you eating it? I would like you to pause the video and answer these questions about your favourite snack now.

You can say the answers aloud, or you can write your answers down.

Pause the video and do that now, please.

Okay, great.

So all of those things are what we are going to be thinking about when we're making our own healthy snack today.

We want to think about how it tastes, what it's made from, what we like about it.

Would our parents or carers like us to eat it? Would they be happy that we would eat it every day? Can we carry it in our bag? All of those things.

So you are going to be designing a snack, but not yet.

First I want you to think about these things.

Who is going to buy your snack? What ingredients would you like to include in your snack? Remember, we want to make this a healthy snack.

So including things that have vitamins and minerals, protein, calcium, and fibre in it is really important.

So including things like fruits and vegetables, maybe some oats.

If you're not allergic to them, you might want to include some nuts.

What healthy ingredients would you like to include in your snack? I want you to think about why will people want to buy your snack and who is it for? So maybe the person that will buy it and the person that will eat it, they might not be the same person.

So maybe a parent or a carer will buy it, but actually it will be a child that eats it.

I would like you to pause the video and write down the answer to these questions now.

Off you go.

Okay, let's have a look at what my ideas were.

As always, you can magpie some of my ideas, but I bet you came up with some of your own brilliant ideas.

Okay.

So, designing a snack.

My snack is going to be for children and adults to eat as a morning or an afternoon snack.

So maybe something that they'll have in the mid-morning before lunch or in the afternoon, a few hours before they have their dinner.

Who will buy it? I think parents and carers will buy it for their families and for their children, but also some adults might want to buy it as well because adults like snacks as well.

What are the ingredients? So I think I'm going to include fruits and you could include fresh fruit or dried fruit.

Dried fruit lasts a little bit longer, so I might include dried fruit in my ingredients.

Nuts, seeds, and grains, like oats.

And why will people buy it? I think people will buy my snack because it is healthy and delicious.

Those are really important things.

Sometimes people think that healthy food isn't that delicious, but I think healthy food is really delicious.

And we want to make sure that our healthy snack is delicious so people are making a good choice about the snack that they are choosing to eat.

And also, my snack is going to have fresh ingredients.

It's not going to have things that have lots of preservatives in them to make them last a long time.

They're going to be nice and fresh ingredients.

And that is what's going to persuade people to buy my snack.

So I have already designed my snack, and actually this is a snack that I do make sometimes at home, and I take it to school with me, and I eat it as a morning snack or sometimes for my breakfast.

It's a homemade oat bar.

And the ingredients of my homemade oat bar are oats, dried apricots, raisins, dates, and honey.

So I don't add any extra sugar in to my oat bars.

The only sugar comes from the natural sugars in the fruits and the sugar in the honey.

And they're healthy for a few reasons.

They're healthy because the dried fruit in them contains vitamins and minerals, which we know are really good for keeping our body healthy.

They have oats, which are a good source of fibre and protein.

So it's good for my tummy, but it will also make me grow strong muscles and repair my tissues.

And it's also low in sugar.

It's time for our independent task.

Now it's your turn to design your healthy snack.

We've had a look at my healthy snack, my homemade oat bars, but now you get to design your own healthy snack.

When you're designing your snack, you need to think carefully about these questions.

Who will buy it? Will it be bought by parents and carers for their families and their children? Or will it be bought by adults for themselves? Who is it for? Is it for children, adults, or everybody? Why will people want to buy it? So that's thinking about what is healthy about your snack.

Thinking back to our scientific vocabulary.

Finally, what are the ingredients? So what will your snack be, what will it be made of? Maybe like me you'll want to make an oat bar.

But maybe you want to make something different, like a fruit kebab or a vegetable kebab.

Or maybe you'd like to have some healthy wholegrain crackers with a spread.

It's entirely up to you.

It's your choice.

I would like you to pause the video now and design your healthy snack.

Great work.

I bet you've come up with something that is both healthy and super delicious.

Well done! You have done so much today.

We have done a warm up.

We have looked at an advertisement for an unhealthy snack.

We have looked at some ingredients and some features of healthy snacks.

And finally, you have completed your task.

Congratulations, you have completed your lesson! If you would like to, please share your work with the parent or carer.