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Hello, I hope all is well and you're feeling ready to learn.

You're feeling refreshed after a good night sleep I hope.

This is the first of the lessons of the second part of this happy prints unit.

So, today we're going to be looking at practising speech so that we can put some into writing the last bit of our opening.

So, if you haven't done the first half of the unit, I recommend that you go back to outcome one, to lesson one of the previous group of lessons so that you have a sense of the whole picture of the unit.

But today we're going to be focusing on practising speech.

If you find it a little tricky you can also look at the Aladdin unit, which is unit 12 and there's a lesson in there for practising speech.

So, if you want a little bit of extra help with that, that's a chance to do a bit more practising outside of this unit.

If you're ready, let's get going.

Okay, let's have a look at what the lesson will be today.

We are going to do a warm up together then we're going to look at analysing speech.

So understanding how it tells us what the person is saying then we're going to look at synonyms for said, so different words for how to say said.

And then we're going to practise writing some speech together.

Off we go.

You will need your exercise book or some paper, a pencil, or a pen, and your brain switched on because it's almost a little bit mathematical writing speech.

You just need to make sure you have all the bits you need.

And then it all holds together in a nice big, well in a nice big speech sandwich but we'll come to that in a minute.

If you haven't got any of those things, please can you pause now and go and get them and put yourself back in a place with as little distraction as possible so you can really focus on getting this right and cracking it, might take a little bit of practise.

Pause now, if you haven't got those things, if not, let's carry on.

Okay, our warmup, referring to nouns in different ways.

So, a noun is a person, place or thing.

And we have got some nouns in our story.

We have got the statue and we have got the bird.

How might we refer to the statue in different ways? We might refer to the statue as a Prince.

Can you come up with some other ideas, write some down just on your paper, in a little list.

And maybe two, pause now, find two more ways of saying, the Prince.

Okay, let's see what they could have been.

Say them to me nice and clearly, ready, steady.

Yeah, I gave you one, didn't I? Anyway, very nice.

And another one.

Great, okay, here is maybe one of the suggestions.

Yeah, we've all picked up on that one.

And the happy Prince, you can say the Prince or the happy Prince or the golden figure.

That's a nice one.

That's another way that you can say it.

So what about the bird, the bird? How could you say that? Just while I notice I put the Prince in capital letters 'cause it's the name of one of our characters.

So we you talk about the bird.

A bird is just a bird.

There are lots of birds, but if you're talking about it as the Swallow what I've told you another one, you would put it with a capital letter in this story.

It changes but that's how we working with this story that the capital letter for the Prince and a capital letter oh, it's nose again, or a capital letter for the Swallow.

So can you pause and write down two more ways that you could refer to the bird? Ready, steady, go.

Okay, yeah, the Swallow.

And you can see I've got the capital letter there.

The little bird, that's nice.

The small creature, that might also be useful.

So pause now and write down, if you think any of those are ones that you might like to steal having a back pocket ready to carry out when you are doing your writing.

Okay, lets analyse speech.

So look at it and try and understand it a bit more.

So when two people or two characters are speaking to each other, how do we understand what it is they're trying to say.

You might understand it by what's going on with their face.

So if I was talking to you like this, and my face was like this, I might be showing you something with my facial expressions.

So facial expressions are one way that you can understand what it is that someone is saying to you.

Another is what comes out of their mouth.

So sometimes what someone's saying is in tune with is similar to what is coming out of their mouth.

Sometimes it's a bit confusing and it's not.

But anyway, most of the time, what people are showing you with their faces and what they're saying to you both are communicating something about how they feel.

It's also how they say it.

So the tone of voice they say it in whether they say it in or whether they say it very loudly like this, or whether they say it in a very kind way.

All of those things tell you something about their character and what they're feeling.

Also, it might be something to do with what they do with their bodies as well.

So it may be that someone says something while giving a big hug it may be one says something whilest crying.

And that also tells you something about the meaning of what they're saying.

So for example, we can understand something about what is happening by what our characters are saying.

"So tears were falling down his golden cheeks.

"The happy Prince was crying!" That's where we ended the last little bit.

And then the bird can say something and the Prince can say something.

What might the bird say at this point? What did he ask do you think? Pause and say out loud, what does the bird say, at this point? When you said it, you can resume.

He might say, "Why are you weeping?" And then what might the Prince say? Say it to me.

Yeah, you can see clues in the picture there.

He says maybe something about being, "I used to be.

." Or "I was.

." Can you finish my sentence? Really good.

Yeah, something like, "I used to be happy in my palace." Something's simple like that.

And then the bird says, "But, "why are you sad now?" And what does the Prince say in return? Why was he sad, do you remember? I think why he was, he understood more about now.

He says, "I see all the suffering of the people." So he now understand something that makes him sad and then, oh, I'll do it for the minute.

Let's think about how they say things 'cause what, saying the word, I'm not going to skip ahead, let's just see.

So here we've got said, "Why are you weeping?" said this Swallow.

"I used to be happy in my palace," said the Prince.

"Why are you sad now?" said the Swallow.

"I see all the suffering of the people," said the Prince.

What do you notice is tu tu tu tu tu lots of times? It's the word, said yeah.

So if you say said each time after you say some words, it's like a shopping list.

So just like we try and change the beginning of our sentences, so it's not like a list, also trying to think of different ways to say said, synonyms for said helps us to convey something about how things are being said and make it less listy.

So let's see how they might say these things.

The bird says, "Why are you weeping?" Is he enquiring, asking, or why is he bellowing, "Why are you weeping?" Which one? Point, this one, this one? Ready, steady and point.

Very good.

He enquired.

So that's asking, he enquired, "Why are you weeping?" And that tells us something about how he says it.

Let's have a look at what the Prince says.

Does the Prince say, "I used to be a happy Prince," Does he sigh, sigh the Prince, or does he shout? "I used to be a happy Prince," Which one? She shouted the Prince or, sighed the Prince? Point to which one you think? Ready, steady, go.

Sighed, yeah.

"I used to be a happy Prince," sighed the Prince.

Then the bird said, "But why you sad now?" Does he ask, "Why are you sad now?" Or does he, "Huh, why are you sad now?" Which one, is it laughed or asked? Take a wild guess.

Ready, steady.

Oh yeah, he wasn't laughing 'cause he's sad about the Prince being sad.

Now, what does he say next? He says, "But now I see all the suffering of the people," Does he say, "Now I see all the suffering of the people," Like a snarled, or does he say "Now I see," is weeping, "All the suffering of the people." Please what do you think point to it, snarled or wept, weeping or is he snarling? One, two, three, yeah, he weeps, he wept, wept the Prince.

So we've got some useful synonyms for said, maybe we should write some of them down.

"Why are you weeping," said the Swallow.

"Why are you weeping?" could be asked.

Could you think of two more of what a synonym for said for that sentence? Can you write down two more synonyms for said that we might have just looked at.

Ready, steady, pause and write down.

Okay, let's see if you remember.

We had enquired.

Good, and we had, ooh, we didn't have question but we, that would be a good one.

If you came up with that, that's really good.

So what about this one? "I was once a happy Prince." How does the Prince say that? Can you pause and write down two ways, two synonyms for said for, "I was once a happy Prince." So did he bellow it or did he? Or did he? Have a go, pause now and write down two synonyms for said.

Okay, can you tell me your ideas please? I would like you to whisper one to me.

Ready, steady, whisper.

Lovely, okay.

Is this one of yours? Wept, we did have that one, didn't we.

Sighed.

Cried, really well done.

Brilliant, if you've got another one as well that shows the same emotion, 'cause we're trying to get really precisely into that emotion in what they said, the feelings in what they said.

So write one down, if you like one of these that's fine.

Oops, wept, that one.

Wept.

Let's leave that there for a sec so you can write them down, pause and write down if you think either of any of those maybe write down two, if you think those are good ideas then resume once you've written them.

Okay, the Swallow, "But why are you sad now?" And this time you might be able to use some of the ones we've used already.

Can you please tell me ones you could say.

You could say, "But why you sad now?" And it's a question, so he could be, questioned the bird, questioning that's right.

Or he could be, asked the bird, fantastic.

Or it could be, enquired the bird.

Yeah, that could work too.

Lets see whether those are the ones that we got here.

Yeah, so we've got one of those or two of those down all ready, really well done.

So now we're going to practise writing speech together.

We're going to do it in stages.

So don't worry, we'll do all of the bits in a nice clear order.

Here some of us speech punctuation.

So these are called inverted commas or speech marks.

Can you say that, speech marks, your turn? Fantastic, and we also might see commas in speech.

We might see question marks in speech.

We might see exclamation marks from my writing speech.

We don't use full stops inside speech marks.

And I'll come to that in a moment.

So let's look at this speech punctuation.

"Why are you weeping?" asked the bird.

So we've got, here are 66 and then we've got our 99 around the bit that's being said.

And you need to make sure you put both one at either and to show when the speaking starts and when the speaking ends.

We've also got a capital letter for the first bit of what someone says because they are starting their sentence.

So we need to show it's the beginning of their sentence.

And then inside that speechmark we've also got some punctuation and that punctuation can either be a questionmark, if it's a question like a why question we have here, an exclamationmark if it's a, "Aaa!" Something big, something loud or or an exclamation, like, "What! "What a marvellous idea!" That's an exclamation.

Or we've also got, oh, we will cycle a comma, which is when the sentence finishes inside the speech but our sentence is continuing.

That's a bit like the tricky one, but don't worry we'll look at that in a moment.

Okay, then we've got outside the speech marks, we've got the said word.

So here I've used enquired and I've put an underline underneath Swallow.

Why have I put an underline underneath Swallow? What do I want you to remember here? Can you tell me? Yeah, it's the name of the character.

For names we have a capital letter.

And then we've also got a full stop right at the end, so we have no full stops on that line apart from right at the end.

Now, here's an important point, we've got questionmark, but then we've got a little e afterwards and this is one of the things to do with speech that is quite strange but also very important to remember, that is a lower case e it is not a capital because it's protected by the speech marks there.

So it's like a magical shield which means the question mark doesn't affect it.

So because that's a kind of continuation of our sentence even though it's the end of what the person is saying, that has a little e.

Well remember it, don't worry with a bit of practise.

So there's our shield, our closing speech marks to make sure that it's protecting that little e, so there's no capital letter there.

Said, "Is this right? "Why are you weeping?" asked the Swallow.

Remember, lets start with that one.

Yeah, it shouldn't be a capital letter because it's protected by those speech marks.

So that should be lower case, like I've just changed it to there.

Because it's protected by those speech marks.

Here it is.

Okay, there's a full stop right at the end.

"Why are you weeping?" This is something that can help us to understand all the bits that we need for our speech.

Here is our speech sandwich.

We've got two bits of bread.

The two speech marks, 66 and the 99.

We've got a tomato, which is our capital letter.

Then we've got the cheesy speech.

Then we've got another tomato and then we've got our closing bite.

So it's a, we need all the bits to the sandwich.

We need the bread on either side otherwise the sandwich will fall out.

We want it to be even, so we've got our capital letter and our punctuation, either side of the speech.

And when you're pitching, you can take a mental picture, it helps you to remember each of the different parts you need when you're writing speech.

So there's our open speech marks, our first bit of bread, the narratives in our writing.

There's our capital letter tomato and there it is in our writing.

There's our speech and all of that is what someone says, "That's our speech." Then we've got our other tomato in this case it's a question mark, write first question mark, there it is in our writing.

And then we've got our last bits of bread and our last speech marks there.

So that helps us to remember what we need inside the speech.

We also need outside the speech our said word whether that said, which you can use once maybe or twice, but it's good to find something else.

And then who said it and a full stop.

So said, I think we should change that to asked 'cause we know that it's a question, ask the Swallow.

And then we've got our capital letter for our character and we've got our full stop right at the end.

So let's have a go at this ourselves.

Here's an example of what I want you to do in just a minute.

I'm going to give you a sentence like this, punctuation.

And I want you to punctuate it with the correct speech punctuation.

So this is the process I want you to use, I want you to find the speech by saying it aloud.

So, "I was once a happy Prince," said the Prince.

"I was once a happy Prince," So that's the bit that's being said because it's the bit before the said word.

So, "I was once a happy Prince," I want you to underline that bit.

Then you know which is the bit that's being said then you know that that's the bit that needs, that's the speech saying it aloud, that's the bit that needs.

I'll come back to that in a minute.

The punctuation, the bread around it.

And I had before a little arrow pointing to the comma, and that's because it's not a question, it's not an exclamation, but we don't use a full stop there, we use a comma.

So that's just to highlight that that's the comma there.

And then we have put our speech marks around the bit that's being said with the comma inside, then I want you to change this to a better word so you can put one line through it and write what the another synonym for said you could use.

I've used wept here and then make sure you've got a full stop at the end.

So that is what I want you to do.

Say the speech out loud then you know where the bread goes around then use the speech sandwich to check you have all the parts.

Change the synonym for said, and we'll stop at the end.

So let's try it with this one, "But why are you sad now?" said the Swallow.

Can you please pause the video and punctuate this correctly.

Time to get your speech sandwich, off you go.

Okay, have you said it aloud? I know that you've paused and had to go.

Should we check it together? Have you made sure it's got all the pieces, has it got the two bits of bread, capital letter, the speech, the punctuation.

Okay, let's check it together.

Right, "But why are you sad now?" said the Swallow.

So the bit, "Why are you sad now?" That is the speech because it's the bit before the said word.

So I've highlighted that, that's I know the speech, so I know where to put my speech punctuation.

So check that you've got your speech punctuation around this bit that said ready, 66 at the beginning, 99 at the end.

So we have got, and check the said word.

And I've changed that to questioned but you could have said, asked or enquired.

Any of those would have been fine.

Let's check that we have all the bits we need.

We've got the bread, the 66.

We've got the capital letter on the B.

We've got the speech, "But why are you sad now?" We've got the other tomato, which is, cause it's a question, we put a question mark.

We've got our close speech marks.

We've got us a synonym for said.

And we have remembered not to make that a capital letter, even though it's after the question mark, 'cause of our wonderful magical speech lock shield.

So that's lower case, and then we've got our full stop at the end.

Just pause and edit make sure yours looks like this.

Okay, let's try it one more time.

"I see all the suffering of the people," said the Prince.

Can you please say it aloud, so you know where the speech is, and putting all the speech punctuation using your speech sandwich, off you go.

Okay, just make sure that you write it down for me 'cause it's really important.

It really helps to remember things by seeing it in your own writing, so write it down and punctuate.

If you haven't done that pause, if you have let's check together.

Okay, so here we have got 66, bread.

We've got our capital letter for I.

I hope you spotted that, I didn't put it in, see if you were paying attention.

I've got all the speech, "I see all the suffering of the people," Then before the speech marks I've got a comma because it is not a question, doesn't have a question mark, a question word at the beginning, why, how, et cetera.

And it's not an exclamation.

It could be if he was saying it in a slightly different way if it was in an argument or if you wanted to show that it was a really strong thing to say.

But I think in this case it's probably a comma.

Then we have our closed speech marks, then we have our synonym for set with a lower case because it is not a full stop before it, so a lower case c for cried.

And then we've got a full stop at the end.

So just pause and check that yours looks like this.

You're working really hard.

There's lots of bits to remember.

Don't worry if you're not getting it right every time, lots of adults find this difficult.

So just check and edit to make sure yours is correct.

So this is what it should look like.

Really well done and fantastic.

Lots of bits to remembering that, we're going to put it into practise by writing the last bit of our opening in our next lesson.

And we're going to include a bit of speech, so you'll have a chance to practise it again.

Well done 'cause they were lots of little sections there and I think you were concentrating really well so give yourself A.

Have fun, why not.

I'll see you next lesson.