Lesson video

Hello, my name is Ms. Johnson and I'm going to be teaching you English today.

In today's lesson, we're going to be watching a visual literacy clip, and then we're going to be developing our own responses towards the clip.

When you're ready, let's get started.

We're going to start today's lesson with a brief introduction where I'm going to get you to do some prediction for me.

Then, we're going to watch the clip.

The clip that we're going to watch is a John Lewis advert and it's called Man on the Moon.

It's a really excellent clip and I think you're going to really enjoy it today.

Then we're going to develop our initial responses.

This means we're going to think what our opinion of the clip is.

Do we like it, do we dislike it? Do we have any questions that we want to be answered by the end of watching it? And then we're going to recap the story of the clip to make sure we're really clear because we're going to be using this to be writing a narrative in the next few lessons.

In today's lesson, you will need an exercise book or paper, a pencil or a pen, but today, the most important thing that you bring to this lesson is your brain.

You are the one working out the meaning of something.

You're going to be watching something and working out what your views are, your opinion.

It's very much over to you today to do all the thinking and all of the work, so I hope you're feeling warmed up and ready to get started.

Now is also a good time, because you're going to be watching something, it's a really good time, if there's any distractions near you, for instance, if the TV is on, it might interfere with the noise of the clip, so now is a good time to maybe go and turn that off or shut a window if it's noisy outside, so pause the video here and make sure you're ready to get started.

Okay, let's go.

I'm going to introduce you to a few ideas about the clip that we're going to watch before we watch it.

This is really important because it helps us to develop what we already know about things.

Our unit is going to be a visual literacy unit, that means we're going to be watching something, on The Man on the Moon.

The Man on the Moon was a John Lewis advert from 2015 and it was really popular at the time.

But before I even show it to you, I have these questions for you.

What would a man on the moon look like? If you met a man who lived on the moon, what would he look like? What would a moon man look like? And what might his home look like, as well? If he lives on the moon, what might his home look like? What I'd like you to do now is pause the video and have a go at drawing what you think he would look like and, perhaps, if you have time, you could also draw what you think his home would look like.

Press play when you're ready to resume.

Well done.

I really hope you enjoyed doing this.

I have seen some children do things, they draw aliens because they think if somebody lives on the moon, they must be an alien.

I have seen somebody who's drawn lots of cheese because they think that cheese is on the moon.

Lots and lots of fantastic ideas.

Do you want to see who the real moon man is? The man on the moon? Here we go.

Look closely at the pictures.

This is the man on the moon.

And this is his home.

What do you think? Is this what you expected? And have you got any questions? Just pause the video and maybe come up with one question that you have to ask me now, and press play when you're ready to resume.

When I first saw these pictures, I thought that he was just quite an ordinary old man.

I thought, though, his house looked a little bit lonely.

There's nobody else there.

It's quite a small little house and there's nothing really around it.

I don't know what he must spend his days doing.

I was wondering, what does he do during the day? Where does he get his food? I've got lots and lots of questions already and I haven't even watched the clip yet.

Shout out your question for me.

Fantastic.

There are two main characters in the clip that we're about to watch.

The first one is a girl called Lily, and you're going to watch and find out a little bit more about Lily.

Say it, Lily.

Fantastic.

Then we have the Man on the Moon.

Say it, Man on the Moon.

We might also refer to him just as the old man because he's an elderly man.

And so, these are our two main characters.

By looking at them and looking at this picture here of Lily, have you got any predictions as to what you think this story might be about? Just pause the video now and write down what you think the story's going to be about.

Well done.

Fantastic.

Now, we've developed what we already think, we've made our predictions on this text, we've made our predictions as to what's going to happen, we are now going to watch the clip.

As you watch it, the first time you watch it, I just want you to enjoy it.

We're actually going to watch it twice.

The first time you watch it, just sit back and enjoy.

♪ I would like to leave this city ♪ ♪ This old town don't smell too pretty and ♪ ♪ I can feel the warning signs ♪ ♪ Running around my mind ♪ ♪ And when I leave this planet ♪ ♪ You know I'd stay but I just can't stand it and ♪ ♪ I can feel the warning signs ♪ ♪ Running around my mind ♪ ♪ So here I go ♪ ♪ I'm still scratching around in the same old hole ♪ ♪ My body feels young but my mind is very old ♪ ♪ So what do you say ♪ ♪ You can't give me the dreams that are mine anyway ♪ ♪ You're half the world away ♪ ♪ You're half the world away ♪ ♪ You're half the world away ♪ ♪ I've been lost, I've been found but I don't feel down ♪ ♪ You're half the world away ♪ ♪ I've been lost, I've been found but I don't feel down ♪ ♪ I don't feel down ♪ I really hope you enjoyed watching that clip.

I've seen it so many times before, but I always enjoy watching it.

It always makes me feel kind of sad and happy at the same time, so hope you enjoyed watching it, as well.

We are now, as you're going to watch it once more, but this time, I want you to think of three questions you'd like to ask about it.

Are there three questions that are left unanswered for you by the end of watching it? What could you ask either the old man, what could you ask generally about what's happening in the clip? Watch it once more and then we're going to discuss the three questions you'd like to ask.

♪ I would like to leave this city ♪ ♪ This old town don't smell too pretty and ♪ ♪ I can feel the warning signs ♪ ♪ Running around my mind ♪ ♪ And when I leave this planet ♪ ♪ You know I'd stay but I just can't stand it and ♪ ♪ I can feel the warning signs ♪ ♪ Running around my mind ♪ ♪ So here I go ♪ ♪ I'm still scratching around in the same old hole ♪ ♪ My body feels young but my mind is very old ♪ ♪ So what do you say ♪ ♪ You can't give me the dreams that are mine anyway ♪ ♪ You're half the world away ♪ ♪ You're half the world away ♪ ♪ You're half the world away ♪ ♪ I've been lost, I've been found but I don't feel down ♪ ♪ You're half the world away ♪ ♪ I've been lost, I've been found but I don't feel down ♪ ♪ I don't feel down ♪ Fantastic.

Well done.

Hold on to those questions.

We're going to come back to them in a minute.

Before we do that, we're going to develop our initial responses.

That means, instantly, how does it make you feel? What do you think about the clip? And I'm going to start off with something really easy.

I would like you to write down your likes and your dislikes about the clip, okay? My likes would be that I really like the characters.

I think they're really interesting characters and I really like how the clip kind of goes between one setting to the other setting, so from Lily's house to the moon, and I love the ending.

What I disliked is sometimes it makes me feel a little bit sad.

Can you have a go at pausing this video now and writing down, in bullet points, you don't have to write sentences, what you like about the clip and what you didn't like about the clip, and then press play when you're ready to resume.

Well done.

Now shout out something you like.

Fantastic.

And shout out something you dislike.

Brilliant.

It's really important we always think about our likes and our dislikes.

Sometimes, you will like something that someone else dislikes, and that's okay because we all have our own opinion of things and by developing our initial responses, we're ensuring that we have our own opinion on things.

Now, I would like you to think about those questions that you developed whilst watching the clip.

This time, I would like you to imagine you are Lily.

You've looked through your telescope and you've seen this old man on the moon.

What questions would you have? What would you want to ask? Pause the video now and write down three questions, if you were Lily, that you would like to ask.

Well done.

These are the questions that I thought, if I was Lily, I would like to ask.

I would like to ask, who is he? Who is he? Where did he come from and how did he get there? How did he actually end up on the moon? Was he born there? Did he move there? Can he see me? That's definitely something I'd be asking if I was her.

Can he see me? Because he looked straight at her, but I'm not sure he sees her initially.

And, is he all alone? When she first sees him, I'd be wondering if there's anybody else who lives with him on the moon.

Now, I am sure you've got lots and lots of other interesting questions, as well.

Somebody once said to me, what does he do all day up there? Does he work up there? I love those questions.

There's some really interesting ideas.

Again, this helps us to get our brains working and to get thinking about everything that we see in the clip.

Now, we're going to come back and do a bit of a recap of the story.

I want to see how much you can remember from the order of the story.

In the next few lessons, we will be writing our own narrative to go alongside the clip.

And so, it's important we know the order of events.

And this is a good way, when we first watch something, to make sure we've understood the story.

I have jumbled up the pictures here.

And I would like you, these are some of the main events, I have not put every picture from the clip down because if I do that, there's too many.

But I think these are some of the main events in the clip that we have just watched.

What I would like you to do now is to pause the video and put them back into the correct order for me, and then press play when you're ready to resume.

Well done.

How did you get on? We're going to check now.

I'm sure you could remember this really well.

This is the correct order.

We first have Lily in her room fast asleep, looking a bit bored.

Then she decides to look through her telescope.

She spots the old man.

Then, the next day, she's kind of rushing home because she has an idea and she tries to write a card for the old man, but he doesn't see her.

And then, she sends, I've skipped forward a little bit, then, she sends him a gift and that gift is a telescope.

Finally, he can look through it and he catches her eye and then the tear fills in his own eye.

And it really is, I love that zoom in on his eye right at the end of the story.

I hope you managed to get the order.

Don't worry if you didn't, we're going to recap this a lot in order for you to really know the order of events.

And when we come to write this, we'll also be looking at the different emotions that you can see in each of these pictures.

What I'd like you to do now is to have a go orally retelling the story.

By that, I mean, you're going to read out.

I might have a go now.

One night, Lily sat slumped on her sofa.

And then I'm going to carry on, then, she had an idea.

The curious girl peered through her telescope.

When she peered through her telescope, she spotted an old man stood lonely on the surface of the moon.

And so, then I'm going to carry on, and I would like you to have a go.

You don't have to necessarily read it in full sentences, but I have given you some sentence starters here to help you.

One night, then, and high in the sky.

That's a nice preposition because it tells you where something's happening.

These are nice ways to start reading aloud.

What I'd like you to do now is to pause the video and orally retell the story to yourself or to someone nearby, and then press play when you're ready to resume.

Fantastic.

Well done.

By orally retelling something, we make sure we commit it to our memory.

This is going to be a really good way for us to remember the story clearly.

You won't forget it now.

It's going to be stuck in your mind and we're going to come back to this in other lessons.

Today, we've done quite a lot.

We have looked at, we've done an introduction, to The Man on the Moon, we've watched the clip, we've developed our initial response, and we have recapped the story.

We've watched the John Lewis advert that was Man on the Moon.

Like I said, this was on TV in 2015 and it was an advert for John Lewis, but it's such a lovely narrative and John Lewis are known for their amazing adverts.

And so, it's definitely a great one for us to be using for our writing.

I really hope you've enjoyed your lesson today.

I certainly have.

Like I said to you before, I really enjoy watching that clip.

Before you go, I'd like you to pause the video and tell me one thing you really liked about the clip, and press play when you're ready to resume.

Fantastic.

I agree.

I really like all the different characters and it's like a happy ending at the end.

It makes me feel like even though people are lonely, there's something we can all do to help each other.

Well done today.

I hope you enjoy the rest of your lessons today, and take care.