Lesson video

Hello and welcome to lesson 10 of our unit on monster pizza.

This is our last lesson in this unit.

My goodness, you have been working so hard.

We have done so many amazing things in this unit, and you've done some excellent, excellent writing.

Today we're going to have a fun lesson.

We are going to pretend to be monsters who want to invite our friends around to our house for a pizza party.

So we're going to be writing an invitation inviting them over.

Okay? Off we go.

Let's go through our agenda for today.

First, we will do a warm up.

Next, we will look at some invitations.

Then, we will build our vocabulary.

And finally, you will complete your task.

In this lesson you will need an exercise book or a piece of paper, a pencil and your brain.

If you don't have any of those things, pause the video and go and get them now.

Let's look at our writing warm up for today.

I would like you to choose and write appropriate adjectives to describe these nouns.

Your nouns are: slugs, party, pizza, my favourite, and eyeball stew.

I would like you to try and challenge yourself today.

Could you add two adjectives before these nouns separated by a comma? So adjective, comma, adjective, and then your noun.

That's your challenge for today.

Pause the video now and add adjectives before these nouns.

Good job.

Let's have a look at what my adjectives were.

I've said we could have thick, slimy slugs 'cause I know that slugs can sometimes be quite thick or quite fat.

Exciting, fun party.

Delicious, hot pizza.

And revolting, squishy eyeball stew.

I wonder what adjectives you came up with? Let's have a look at an invitation now and we'll be discussing the features of invitations.

But before we start, I want you to have a think.

What is an invitation? I would like you to say your answer aloud, an invitation is.

Pause the video now and say it loud what an invitation is.

Well done.

Let's have a look.

An invitation is a written, so something we write down, or a spoken request asking a person or people to go somewhere or do something.

I'd like you to have a think again.

When have you received an invitation? Have you received an invitation to do something before? I'd like you to say aloud a time or some times when you have received an invitation.

I've received an invitation to.

Pause the video and say your answer aloud now.

I bet you've been invited to do lots of different things.

Let's have a look at some things you might be invited to.

You might get an invitation to a birthday party, or a wedding.

You might be invited to a playdate after school or on the weekend.

So one of your friends might say, "Would you like to come to my house?" You might also have been invited to visit the park with a friend or have picnic in the park with a friend.

There are lots and lots of times when we get invited to things.

Okay, here is an example of an invitation.

I'm going to read through it with you.

It says: Dear.

You are invited to my amazing birthday party.

There will be delicious cake, colourful balloons, exciting games, and incredible prizes.

It is going to be so much fun.

When: Saturday.

Where: The Park.

Have a think.

What features can you see here? What language do you notice? How is the invitation laid out? Pause the video and have a think.

What do you notice about this invitation? Really well done.

Let's have a look at some of the features together.

Our invitations always start with a greeting.

So it's telling us who the invitation is for.

It says: Dear.

And that blank space there is to write in somebody's name so they know that the invitation is addressed to them.

It's like you're saying hello at the beginning.

Then we have the opening sentence, telling the reader what the invitation is for.

So this invitation says you are invited to my amazing birthday party.

So straightaway, the reader can see exactly what the invitation is for.

After that, we have some details and information.

So our second sentence there tells us the information or some details about what will happen at the party.

There will be delicious cake, colourful balloons, exciting games, incredible prizes, and it will be fun.

And then, down the bottom, we have the important information telling us when the party is so we know what day to turn up, and also where the party is so we know where to go on the day.

I've got two examples of invitations here.

You need to decide which of these parties would you rather go to and why.

The first thing you need to do is pause the video and read each invitation.

Do that now.

Okay, let's read through the invitations together.

The first one says: Dear.

You are invited to my party.

It will be lots of fun.

When: Saturday 3pm-5pm.

Where: The Park.

And our second invitation says: Dear.

You are invited to my amazing birthday party.

There will be delicious cake, colourful balloons, exciting games, and incredible prizes.

It's going to be so much fun.

When: Saturday.

Where: The Park.

Which of these parties would you rather go to and why? Have a think, pause the video and decide which of these parties would you rather go to and why.

You're going to need to use the word because to explain your answer.

I would rather go to the first party because.

I would rather go to the second party because.

Pause the video now.

I bet you thought about that really carefully.

I think I would rather go to the second party because it sounds a bit more interesting.

In the first party, it just says it will be lots of fun.

And that's pretty good.

But the second invitation tells me why it's going to be so much fun.

It's told me that the birthday party will be amazing.

It said that there'll be cake and balloons and games and prizes.

The second invitation has used lots of adjectives, lots of describing words.

And adjectives help to persuade the person to come to your event or activity by making it sound really fun or really exciting.

So here we can see.

We have got the adjective amazing, delicious, colourful, exciting, and incredible.

All of those adjectives really convince me to come to the party.

Now it's time to build some vocabulary that we can use in our invitations.

Oh no.

Our monster friend has made too many pizzas.

They need their friends to help them eat them.

So they are saying, "I've made too many pizzas.

I need my friends to help me eat them all." So we are going to have to write an invitation for this monster to invite their friends around for a party.

What adjectives could we use to describe the monster's party? Now remember, we want to use adjectives that make the party sound fun and exciting.

Even though it's a party for a monster, we still want it to sound like it's going to be good fun.

I'd like you to pause the video now and write down all the adjectives you can think of that could describe a party.

Off you go.

Well done.

I wonder if you thought about some parties that you'd been to and thought about how you would describe them.

Some adjectives that I thought we could use to describe the monster's party are: exciting, brilliant, amazing, wonderful, and fantastic.

If you would like to magpie any of my adjectives to describe the party, you can write down any of those words now.

Pause the video and magpie some of my words.

Okay, excellent.

Now we need to come up with some more vocabulary.

We need to think about adjectives we could use to describe the monster's pizza.

Now remember, monsters like disgusting things.

If I was inviting friends around for a pizza party, I might describe the pizza as delicious, warm pizza, or tasty pizza or sumptuous pizza.

But monsters don't really want delicious pizza.

They want pizza that has toe nails on it.

Have a think.

How could you describe the monster's pizza? Is it nice or is it not very nice? What adjectives could you use to describe the monster's pizza? Pause the video and write them down now.

Okay, good job.

Let's have a look.

Here are some of my ideas to describe the monster's pizza.

Disgusting, revolting, repulsive, nasty, and odorous.

Let's say that one, myself first, odorous.

Your turn.

That means it smells smelly pizzas.

Now, I wouldn't want to come to a pizza party where the pizza was disgusting and odorous.

But I think a monster would.

If you would like to magpie any of my adjectives to describe the pizza, you can pause the video and write them down now.

Okay.

One last set of vocabulary that we need to come up with.

We need to think of some nouns now.

We need to think about what activities there might be at the party.

What sort of things do you think monsters get up to at a party? Maybe they play pass the parcel like us.

Or maybe they have disgusting competitions like the biggest bogey competition.

I don't know.

It's up to you to use your imagination.

I would like you to write down at least three activities that you think the monster might have at their party.

Pause the video and write them down now.

Okay, good job.

I wonder if you came up with something really creative.

Maybe I'll want to magpie one of your ideas to use in my writing.

Some of my ideas were an eating competition.

Maybe who can eat the most pizza.

I thought there might be pass the parcel, but instead of nice things inside there might be disgusting prizes or spooky prizes.

I thought there might be a treasure hunt.

Maybe they play musical statues.

Maybe they dance to funny monster songs like the Monster Mash.

And there might be magic tricks at this party.

If you would like to magpie any of my ideas, you can.

Write them down now.

Pause the video.

Now it's time for our task.

You are going to write your own invitation to a monster's pizza party.

I've had to go at making one as well.

It's on the screen now.

I would like you to pause the video and read through my example of an invitation to a monster's pizza party.

Pause the video now.

Okay, let's read through it together.

Mine says: Dear.

You are invited to my wonderful pizza party.

I have made the most disgusting pizzas with revolting toppings for us to eat.

There will be a fantastic eating competition, incredible treasure hunt and magic tricks.

You could win a spooky prize.

It's going to be so much fun.

When: Saturday.

Where: My deep, dark cave.

I've decided that my monster lives in a deep, dark cave.

But your monster can live wherever you choose to make it live.

It's up to you.

You can see that I've also decorated my invitation with some pictures of balloons and some pictures of monsters.

There's also a little green splodge on it that I think came out of the monster's nose.

Okay.

In my invitation I have remembered to use lots of adjectives to persuade my friends to come to the party.

I've made my party sound as fun and exciting as possible so that people will really want to come, well, the other monsters will really want to come and eat my pizza.

So I have used the adjective wonderful to describe my pizza party.

I have said that there will be disgusting pizzas with revolting toppings using the adjectives disgusting and revolting.

I've said that there'll be a fantastic eating competition, incredible treasure hunt, and that you could win a spooky prize.

I've also described my cave as deep and dark.

So you could add lots and lots of detail, lots and lots of describing words to your invitations to persuade your readers to come.

So it's your turn now.

Write your invitation to a monster's pizza party.

Don't forget to include persuasive adjectives to make the monster want to come to your party.

Add information about what you will do at the party, and include the details of where and when the party is.

Pause the video and make your invitation now.

Great work.

I bet all your monster friends will want to come to your party.

Well done.

You have achieved a lot today.

You have done your writing warm up, looked at the features of invitations, built vocabulary, and completed your task.

Congratulations.

You have completed your lesson.

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