Lesson video

Hello everyone.

My name is Mrs. Riley, and I'm here today to do some learning with you.

We're going to be learning some new and exciting vocabulary to describe our eyes.

I hope you enjoy today's lesson.

In today's lesson, we are going to learn to use the words bloodshot, bulging, and expressive, effectively in multiple contexts.

Here are our key words for today's lesson.

I'm going to say each word, and then I'd like you to repeat it back to me.

My turn.

Your turn.

Are you ready? Noun, adjective, synonym, word pair.

Well done.

Let's see what these words mean.

A noun is a naming word for people, places, or things.

An adjective is a word that describes a noun.

So a people, a place, or a thing could be described with an adjective.

A synonym is a word that has the same, or a similar meaning, to another word.

And word pairs are words that often appear together.

Today we are going to be learning rich vocabulary associated with eyes.

They're going to be adjectives.

They're going to be describing words to describe our eyes, but hopefully you'll see that these words can be used in lots of other contexts, as well.

So they'll be really helpful.

We have got three learning cycles.

We're going to learn three new eye words.

So let's start with our first new eye word.

What can you see happening in this Mrs. Word Smith picture? This is Grit.

How do you think he's feeling and why? Be a detective, and look at all the clues in this picture to help you understand what's happening here.

Could you pause the video now, and either discuss out loud, or just have a think about what you can see happening here? Okay, well done.

Well, I think that Grit looks a bit shocked to have been woken up in this picture.

I can see, if I look very closely on his alarm clock that it is 3:00 in the morning.

Now, hopefully, none of you have woken up at 3:00 in the morning.

It is very, very early.

So early in fact, that look, you can see outside, it's still dark, and the moon is still out.

And it looks like the alarm has gone off, and that's caused Grit to shoot up in his bed, and he's putting his hands over his ears.

In fact, it looks like he might be putting some corks in his ears to try and stop the loud noise.

And, I think, actually now I look again, I can see that there's a bird singing.

So that's making me wonder, hmm, is the alarm woken him up, or is it because there's a noisy bird outside his windows woken up? I wonder what you thought.

Hmm.

It does look like that bird's singing with quite a lot of gusto, so maybe it was the bird that's woken him up, and that's why he's frustrated and put those corks in his ears.

And if we focus now on his eyes, because that's what we're focusing on today, his eyes look quite red and quite sore.

Hmm.

Let's find out what this word is.

Bloodshot.

Your turn.

Bloodshot.

Well done.

Bloodshot is an adjective, and it means red or sore.

How your eyes look when you haven't had nearly enough sleep.

I wonder if any of you have ever woken up with bloodshot eyes, because you haven't had nearly enough sleep.

Grit here has definitely got bloodshot eyes.

So these words are synonyms of bloodshot, that means they have the same, or a similar, meaning, bloody, red and sore.

Here's the word in a sentence.

Grit's eyes were bloodshot, because he hadn't had a wink of sleep.

Sometimes your eyes might go bloodshot, as well, if you've been crying.

That can make your eyes look a bit bloodshot.

Now, if the word is a synonym, you should be able to replace it in the sentence.

So we can see here that we could say Grit's eyes were bloodshot, or Grit's eyes were bloody, Grit's eyes were red, or Grit's eyes were sore, because he hadn't had a wink of sleep.

Now these are word pairs of bloodshot.

So that means if you were to find the word bloodshot, for example, in a book you were reading, it would often be paired up with one of these words.

Let me read them to you, bloodshot eyes; bloodshot eyeballs; bloodshot whites, so the white bit in your eye; a bloodshot stare; a bloodshot appearance; and bloodshot gaze.

So stare and gaze are both different verbs to describe how you might look at something.

Now when we learn new words, it's really important that we don't just hear them, or see them, but that we actually say them out loud ourselves.

That's how we will remember these words.

So could you please pause the video now, and read the word pairs out loud? Off you go.

Excellent.

Well done.

Let's do a check for understanding.

Which of these words is a synonym for bloodshot? Is it A, bright, B, beautiful, or C, red? Pause the video while you think about the answer.

Okay, well done.

If you got the answer C, red is a synonym for bloodshot.

It's time For our first task.

In this task, I would like you to have a look at this word map.

Bloodshot is written in the middle and around the edge.

You have got either synonyms, or word pairs, for bloodshot.

If the word is a synonym, I would like you to circle it.

If you think the word is a word pair, I'd like you to draw a line from bloodshot to the word pair.

Could you please have a look at this sentence? Grit's eyes were mmm, because he hadn't had a wink of sleep.

Now, if the word is a synonym, you could put it in this sentence.

Okay? So we've got bloodshot in this sentence, but if it's a synonym, we should be able to take out the word bloodshot, and replace it with one of the synonyms. So hopefully that will help you.

If you are unsure if a word is a synonym or a word pair, pop it in that sentence, and see if it works.

So could you now pause the video and complete this task? Excellent.

Well done.

Let's go through the answers.

So first of all, I asked you to circle the synonyms. The synonyms for bloodshot are red, bloody, and sore.

That means the other words are all word pairs.

I'll read them to you now.

Bloodshot eyes; a bloodshot gaze; bloodshot eyeballs; a bloodshot stare; bloodshot whites, the whites of your eyes; and a bloodshot appearance, how something looks.

So, well done, if you managed to identify the correct synonyms and word pairs.

It's now time to try and use this word in a sentence.

Here are some word pairs to help you.

And also, you have got a sentence scaffold.

You don't have to use this if you don't want to, but if you are struggling to think how to start your sentence, you could start it with this sentence starter.

After five days with no sleep, comma, and then you can complete that sentence.

What happened after five days with no sleep? Remember, the most important thing is to use the word bloodshot, and use the word pairs to help you apply it correctly.

So could you now pause the video, and have a go at writing your own sentence using this word? Off you go.

Well done.

Here are some sentences that I've written.

The first one uses the sentence starter.

After five days with no sleep, comma, Grit's eyes had a sore, bloodshot appearance.

I think if I hadn't slept for five days, I would have bloodshot eyes, as well.

Now you'll notice there that I have got an apostrophe between the T and the S in Grit's eyes.

That's because the eyes belong to Grit, so I have to have an apostrophe to show possession.

There's not lots of Grits, there's one Grit, and his eyes had a sore, bloodshot appearance.

The tired train driver examined his bloodshot eyes in the mirror.

Perhaps he's been working a night shift driving trains all night long, so he's looking, or examining, his bloodshot eyes in the mirror.

The policeman's bloodshot stare was interrupted by a long yawn.

Hmm.

Now can you spot another apostrophe there? Have a quick look.

Maybe you could point to it.

Well done.

In policeman's, I have got an apostrophe.

Again, that's to show that the bloodshot stare belongs to the policeman.

So we've got two apostrophes in those different sentences, used to show possession.

Right.

Let's have a look at our second eye word.

So just as before, we're going to start off by looking very closely at what is happening in this illustration.

This is Oz, the ostrich.

How do you think she is feeling in this picture? And why? Pause the video, and either have a think about that now, or you could say out loud what you can see.

Off you go.

Well done.

I can see that Oz here is looking quite shocked, and I think she's looking shocked because of the cost of that diamond.

Did you know that if there are nine zeros, that means it is not 1 million, it's a billion? So that diamond cost $1 billion.

You might have noticed that it's got a dollar sign, not a pound sign, so $1 billion.

And I think you can see why, because that diamond is enormous.

Diamonds are usually tiny, but that diamond is enormous.

So Oz, her eyes are almost popping out because she's so surprised to see how expensive it is.

So let's find out what this new eye word is.

Ooh, it's bulging.

I say, you say, bulging.

Bulging.

Bulging is also an adjective.

It's a describing word, and it means swollen, or sticking out.

How your eyes look when you stare at something in amazement.

So swollen, you might associate that word with sometimes if you hurt yourself, or if you've got stung by a wasp or something, you might go swollen.

So it's something might have got enlarged.

So that's a synonym for the word bulging.

Okay? And I wonder if you have ever found that you have got bulging eyes when you've looked at something in amazement.

Perhaps you could have a quick think.

Have you ever seen something so amazing that your eyes have become bulging? Hmm.

I'm wondering if I have.

So these words are synonyms of bulging, they mean the same thing, sticking out, popping out, and swollen.

And here's the word in a sentence.

Oz's bulging eyes popped out when she saw the cost of the diamond her girlfriend wanted.

(gasping) So her girlfriend must have said that she wants this diamond, perhaps for a birthday or a Christmas present, and Oz has gone along to the jewellers, and thought, oh my goodness, it's $1 billion.

I can never afford to get that diamond for my girlfriend.

These words are word pairs of bulging, bulging eyes, bulging veins.

Hmm.

Sometimes if the doctor needs to take a blood test, or something, and they need to find where your vein is, they put something around your arm.

And the reason they do that, is because, then, it makes your vein bulge.

Your vein becomes bulging a little bit more, and then they can see where the vein is.

Oh, maybe that's not a very nice thing to imagine.

But bulging you can see, cannot just be used for eyes, it can be used to describe other things that are swollen or sticking out.

So veins would be one of those things.

A bulging wallet, imagine the person who would buy that diamond for a billion dollars would probably have a bulging wallet full of notes.

Bulging biceps, or your muscles, sometimes people flex their muscles to make them bulge.

Now you may have noticed that I've been, in that sentence, I said, flex your muscles to make them bulge.

So actually we can see that bulging can be an adjective to describe something, but it can also be a verb, a doing word.

So for example, the, if you made your biceps bulge, or you could say bulging eyes, or you could say that eyes bulged in surprise.

So it can be an adjective, and also you could use this word as a verb.

Now just as before, I'd like you to read these word pairs out loud.

So pause the video while you do that.

Well done.

Here are some more word pairs for bulging.

A bulging suitcase, sometimes you might have to sit on your suitcase if it was bulging with things, so that you could try and do it up.

A bulging pouch, now a pouch is like a little soft kind of wallet, or bag, to put things in, but it also could be a kangaroo's pouch.

So if a kangaroo had a baby in it, it might be bulging.

Bulging pockets, imagine what they'd look like.

Okay, so could you now read these word pairs out loud, as well? Pause the video while you do that.

Well done.

Check for understanding.

Which of these words is a synonym for bulging? Is it A, swollen, B, perfect, or C, hypnotic? Pause the video while you think about the answer.

The correct answer is A.

Swollen is a synonym for bulging.

Okay, it's time for your next task.

Just as before, you have got a word map with bulging in the middle, and synonyms and word pairs around the edge.

Please, could you first circle the synonyms, and then draw lines to the word pairs? Here's a sentence to help you.

Oz's bulging eyes popped out when she saw the cost of the diamond her girlfriend wanted.

Now remember, if it is a synonym, you should be able to take out the word, bulging, and replace it with the synonym.

So hopefully, that can help you to identify what the synonyms are.

Pause the video now while you complete this task.

Okay, let's go through the answers.

So the synonyms are, sticking out, swollen, and popping out.

The word pairs are, bulging eyes, bulging veins, bulging wallet, bulging biceps, bulging suitcase, bulging pouch, and bulging pockets.

Well done for completing the task.

Our next task is to write a sentence using the word bulging.

Here are the word pairs to help you.

So you could pick a word pair, for example, bulging pockets, and then you can think of an idea around that.

Try to be really ambitious with your sentence.

Could you try to include an apostrophe, that we looked at earlier, to show possession? Could you try and extend your sentence? Perhaps you could make it a compound or an adverbial complex sentence.

So think about making the sentence, aiming really high.

Try and make it as ambitious as possible.

Now this time you haven't got the sentence starter to help you.

So, pause the video while you have a go at writing your sentence using the word bulging.

Well done.

Let's take a look at some examples.

The bulging vein on the teacher's forehead was an angry purple colour.

(gasping) Gosh, you'd have to have made the teacher very cross to make a vein on their forehead bulge.

The rich lady struggled to close her bulging wallet because there was so much money in it.

Grit sat on his bulging suitcase and desperately tried to do up the zip.

The balloon was bulging with air.

Hmm.

I wonder if you can spot something that's a little bit different with that last sentence.

It's not particularly ambitious, maybe you might have noticed that, but also in this sentence, I have used bulging as a verb, not an adjective.

If I said the bulging balloon, it would be an adjective to describe the noun, the balloon, but here I've said the balloon was bulging with air.

It is a doing word.

It is what the balloon is doing.

So just remember, that whilst we're learning bulging as an adjective, it can also be a useful verb.

Let's take a look at our third and final eye word.

Ooh, what's happening in this picture? We've got Yin and Yang, the tiger twins.

I wonder how you would describe them.

How do they both look? Are they doing the same thing? Are they doing something different? And look at their eyes, in particular, 'cause remember, today we're focusing on eyes.

Pause the video while you look at this picture now.

Okay, well done.

Well, Yin and Yang here are having a selfie.

Now Yin looks very pleased about having the selfie, she's the one taking it, but Yang doesn't look so pleased to have the selfie.

He looks quite grumpy and cross, like he doesn't want to be involved, but Yin looks extremely happy.

Let's see what this picture is.

Okay, so this word is expressive.

My turn.

Your turn.

Expressive.

Expressive.

Well done.

Expressive is an adjective, and it means showing your thoughts and feelings, like the look in someone's eyes that tells you how they feel.

I wonder if you've ever been able to look at someone's eyes, and if you've been able to work out how they're feeling just from looking at their eyes alone.

Now in this picture of Yin and Yang, both of them have got expressive eyes, but actually also, they have got very expressive facial expressions.

We can tell how they feel from looking at their expressive facial expressions.

So these words are synonyms of expressive, emotional, revealing, meaningful.

Here's the word in a sentence.

Yang's face was so expressive that you always knew what she was thinking.

Can you make your eyes expressive? It's time for a check for understanding.

Now in this check for understanding, I'm not going to ask you to answer anything, I'm going to ask you to do some acting.

So I would like you to act out each emotion, but try to use your eyes alone.

That means that the rest of your face, for instance your mouth, will stay completely still.

So you are going to have to do lots of acting here using your eyes.

So are you ready? The first emotion is scared.

Can you act out looking scared with your eyes alone? Well done.

Can you now act out shocked? How would your eyes look if you felt shocked? Excellent.

Perhaps they went wide open then, your eyes, to show you are feeling shocked.

And finally, content, which is another word for happy.

How might your eyes look if you felt content? Off you go.

Oh, well done.

Brilliant acting everyone.

So these words are word pairs of expressive, expressive eyes, like you all just had; an expressive face; an expressive gesture, a gesture is a movement, something that you might do with your hands; expressive eyebrows, so often eyebrows can be very expressive.

Okay, could you pause the video while you read those words aloud? Off you go.

Well done.

Let's have a look at some more word pairs.

Expressive movements, perhaps if you were watching a lovely ballet performance, the ballet dancer might have very expressive movements that show us how that person is feeling.

An expressive voice, if you were reading something out loud, and you wanted to make it sound interesting, it would be really good to use an expressive voice.

Because if you read something like this (talking very slow) the whole way through, it might make everyone fall asleep.

And finally, expressive language.

So if you were asked to use expressive language, remember those synonyms, it would have to be really revealing, or very emotional language.

So just as before, could you pause the video, and read those word pairs aloud now? Well done.

Oh, we had one more, expressive melody.

An expressive melody would be something that, a melody is a different word for a tune or a song.

So imagine an expressive melody.

Perhaps it might be a really sad song that will really express how you might feel.

Can you say expressive melody after me? My turn.

Your turn.

Expressive melody.

Well done.

So, it's now time for a check for understanding.

Which of these is a word pair for expressive? Is it voice, meaningful, or revealing? Could you pause the video while you think about the answer? Well done for having a go.

The correct answer is A, voice.

Voice could be described as expressive, an expressive voice.

It's time for another task.

Here's a word map with expressive written in the middle of it.

Could you first circle the synonyms, and then draw lines to the word pairs? Here's the word in a sentence to help you.

Yang's face was so expressive that you always knew what she was thinking.

Now remember, if the word is a synonym, you should be able to replace the word expressive in that sentence with the synonym.

Could you pause the video now while you complete the task? Let's go through the answers.

The synonyms are, meaningful, revealing, and emotional.

The rest of the words are word pairs, expressive eyebrows, expressive eyes, expressive face, and expressive gesture, expressive movement, expressive melody, expressive language, and expressive voice.

It's now time for you to write a sentence using the word expressive.

Here are the word pairs to help you.

For example, you might pick expressive gesture, and you can build your sentence around the word pair.

Remember, just as before, to try and aim high and be really ambitious with your sentences.

Pause the video now while you complete that task.

Well done.

Let's have a look at some examples.

The taxi driver turned, and made an expressive gesture that showed how furious he was.

What gesture might show how furious he was? Maybe something with his hands.

Bernice's expressive eyes were filled with tears when she lost her favourite toy.

Oh, poor Bernice.

"Use expressive language to tell me how you're feeling," suggested Bogart's therapist.

A therapist is someone you might go to talk to about how you're feeling.

So it's really important to use expressive language, so it's really clear what your feelings are.

You might notice in this third sentence, I've used some speech.

I've got speech marks around the thing that the person is saying, which is, use expressive language to tell me how you're feeling.

That's what the therapist is saying, so I'm showing that with my speech marks around it.

We always have to have the punctuation inside the closing speech marks.

So you can see there that I've got a comma before my closing speech marks.

And just as before, we've got some apostrophes here, as well, Bernice's expressive eyes, in the second sentence.

The eyes belong to Bernice.

And in the third sentence, Bogart's therapist, the therapist belongs to Bogart.

Okay, it's time for our final task of today's lesson.

I would like you to read each sentence, and fill the gaps with either the word bloodshot, bulging, or expressive.

I'll read them to you now.

Armie's mmm eyebrows showed how shocked he was by the news.

Hmm, what's that word that means something that shows how you are feeling, that's very revealing? The athlete with mmm biceps flexed his muscles to show off how muscly he was.

And finally, after only two hours sleep, the prime minister cast a mmm gaze over her to-do list.

Poor prime minister, obviously got a huge long to-do list, and they're feeling very tired.

So how might their eyes look after two hours sleep? Pause the video while you complete that task now.

Excellent.

Well done for giving that a go.

Here are the correct answers.

Armie's expressive eyebrows showed how shocked he was by the news.

The athlete with bulging biceps flexed his muscles to show off how muscly he was.

And, after only two hours sleep, the prime minister cast a bloodshot gaze over her to-do list.

Here is a summary of what we've learned today.

We've learnt three new words associated with eyes.

We have learnt bloodshot, which means red or sore, how your eyes look when you haven't had nearly enough sleep.

Bulging is swollen or sticking out, how your eyes look when you stare at something in amazement.

And finally, expressive, which means showing your thoughts and feelings, like the look in someone's eyes that tell you how they feel.

So well done, for taking part in today's learning.

You should feel really proud of yourself that you now have three new words that you could not only use to describe eyes, but that you could apply in lots of different contexts.

Thank you for all your hard work today.