Lesson video

Hello everyone.

My name is Mrs. Riley and I'm here today to teach you some new vocabulary.

Thank you so much for joining me.

In today's lesson, we are going to be learning new words, which are associated with being clumsy or being silly.

So lots of these words today are going to be quite funny.

I hope you're ready to learn some new vocabulary.

Let's get started.

The outcome of today's lesson is to use the words lumbering, inept, and heavy handed effectively in multiple contexts.

These are all key words that we'll be using in today's lesson.

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

So make sure you've got your listening ears ready and your loud speaking voices ready.

Here we go.

My turn, your turn.

Noun, adjective.

Synonym, word pair.

Well done, thank you for joining in.

Here are the definitions for each keyword.

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

So perhaps today we might be describing some people as clumsy or silly.

An adjective is a word that describes a noun.

So the words we learned today are probably going to be adjectives because if we describe someone as being clumsy or silly, we are using adjectives.

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

It's really helpful to learn new vocabulary alongside its synonyms because they have a similar meaning.

And word pairs are words that often appear together.

And again, it's really helpful to learn new vocabulary alongside its word pairs because it helps us to see the context in which we can use our new vocabulary.

So all of these words will be coming up over and over again today in our lesson.

In today's lesson, we have three learning cycles.

And in each learning cycle, we're going to learn a new clumsy or silly word.

Here's our first illustration.

The illustrations are going to illustrate what the new word is.

So before I tell you what this word is, let's take a bit of time being detectives and looking closely at what is happening in this picture.

This is Brick the hippo.

How would you describe him? How do you think he feels? Pause the video while you have some thinking time.

Well done.

Well, Brick in this photo, I don't know if you noticed, but he's actually got bricks as feet.

It's almost like he's wearing brick slippers.

And if you had bricks on your feet, can you imagine trying to walk with bricks on your feet? You would have to walk very slowly and your feet would feel very heavy.

Brick is slumped over.

His eyes look very tired.

His body language is showing me that he doesn't look very alert and awake and energetic.

He looks the opposite of all those things.

So let's find out what this word is.

Are you ready? Lumbering.

My turn, your turn.

Lumbering.

Well done, lumbering is an adjective a describing word.

It means moving in a slow and heavy way, like someone who isn't fully awake yet.

Do you know that feeling when you've just woken up? Maybe your alarm goes, or someone wakes you up and you get outta bed and you are moving really slowly as if you've almost got bricks attached to your feet.

So these words are synonyms of lumbering.

That means they have a similar meaning or the same meaning.

Hulking, plodding, ungainly.

Ungainly is an adjective, meaning lacking grace, elegance or physical coordination.

Here's the word in a sentence.

"The lumbering giant plotted towards the door." These are word pairs of lumbering.

That means if we were to find the word lumbering in a book, it might be paired with one of these words, A lumbering pace.

Your pace is how fast or slow something happens.

For example, if you had a quick pace, it means you would be walking fast, a lumbering bear, a lumbering oaf, lumbering giant, lumbering movement and lumbering sleep walker.

Now, when we learn new words, it's really important that we actually say them out loud so that they stick in our memories.

It's not good enough just to hear them or read them.

We need to actually practise saying them ourselves.

So could you pause the video while you read the word lumbering with each word pair out loud just like I did.

Pause the video mow.

Well done.

So let's check what we've just learnt.

Which of these words is a synonym for lumbering? A, giant, B, ungainly, or C, bear? Pause the video now.

Well done.

The correct answer is B ungainly is a synonym for lumbering.

It has a similar meaning.

It's time for your first task.

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

Lumbering is written in the middle and around the word lumbering.

You've got either synonyms or word pair.

I would like you to circle the synonyms and draw lines from the word lumbering to the word pairs.

And perhaps as you do that, you can practise saying them out loud.

Here's the word in a sentence to help you.

"The lumbering giant plotted towards the door." If the word is a synonym, you might be able to take out the word lumbering and replace it with the synonym.

For example, I could try the word pace.

The pace giant plotted towards the door.

That doesn't sound right.

So I think pace must be a word pair, the lumbering pace or not the lumbering pace, just lumbering pace.

So that's a little trick that you could use to help you if you are a bit unsure whether it's a synonym or a word pair.

So could you pause the video now while you complete this task? Good luck.

Excellent, let's go through the answers.

Plodding, ungainly and hulking are synonyms of lumbering.

The rest of the words are word pairs, lumbering pace lumbering bear, lumbering oaf, lumbering sleepwalker, lumbering giant lumbering movement.

For your next part of your task, I would like you to write your own sentence using the word lumbering.

Remember, the word pairs will help you to use this word really accurately.

Perhaps you could choose a word pair before starting your sentence.

For example, you might think, Hmm, I'm going to choose the word pair sleepwalker, lumbering sleepwalker.

And then you can think about an idea around that.

What might a lumbering sleepwalker be doing? Remember, when we try to write sentences, we want to try to be really ambitious.

So maybe you could try and use some of the things you've learned in your grammar.

Perhaps you might write a compound or a complex sentence.

Perhaps you might even include some speech, if you like, here is a sentence stem to help you as the mm, comma, he, mm.

This is going to be an adversial complex sentence.

I can see that my subordinate clause starting with the conjunction "as" is coming first and then my main clause will come after the comma.

We can use "as" when two things happen at the same time.

You don't have to use that sentence stem, but it's there if you want it.

So could you pause the video now while you write your own sentence using our new word lumbering.

Good luck.

Well done.

Let's go through some examples of what you might have written, "As the lumbering bear emerged from the woods, the children froze to the spot." There's my adversial complex sentence.

The subordinate clause comes first As the lumbering bear emerged from the woods.

That doesn't make sense by itself, my main cause, the clause the children froze to the spot, does make sense by itself.

The main clause comes after the subordinate clause.

And that's why we have to have a comma after the subordinate clause.

Oh, now I've got some speech.

"Wake up and stop this lumbering movement.

The PE teacher shouted to her lazy pupils." A PE teacher definitely wouldn't want lumbering movement in their class.

"The lumbering sleepwalker stumbled outta bed and walked straight into the wardrobe." Oh dear, poor them.

Right, let's look at our second new clumsy or silly word, we've already learned lumbering.

Let's see what's going to come up next.

What's happening in this picture? Here's Bernice.

What has she got up to here? How would you describe her? How do you think she's feeling? Pause the video now.

Well, you might have noticed that Bernie's here has got in a right old mess trying to do up her shoelaces.

She not only has failed in doing up her shoelaces, but she's actually got tangled in them herself.

She's pulling a face that looks like she's like, "Oh my goodness, what have I done?" And she's got herself into a right mess.

This word is inept.

My turn, your turn.

Inept.

Inept.

Well done, inept is an adjective.

It means unskilled or incompetent, like someone who gets tangled up in their shoelaces.

These words are synonyms of inept, unskilled.

So if you are skilled, it means you are very good at doing something.

So if you are unskilled, you are not very good at doing something.

Useless, incompetent, clumsy.

"The inept bear couldn't even tie her shoelaces without getting tangled up." Incompetent is an adjective, meaning not having the skills to do something successfully.

So if you were competent, you would have the skills to do something.

If you have the prefix in, if you are incompetent, you don't have the skills to do something successfully.

So inept is a bit of a negative word, isn't it? I don't think I would like to be described as inept.

These are word pairs for inept, inept referee.

A referee is the person that makes sure games or sports are played fairly.

Inept scientist, inept cook, inept handling, how you handle something.

Inept leadership, inept student.

Let's just take a moment to think about how each of those could be described as inept.

So if a referee makes your games are played fairly an inept referee might perhaps keep blowing the whistle at the wrong point.

Perhaps they said it was a handball and football when they actually kicked the ball with their foot, they would be making lots of mistakes.

An inept scientist might blow things up, things might all go wrong.

There might be explosions going off and things spilling everywhere.

An inept cook might make silly mistakes like putting sugar in something instead of salt.

So it's important that we picture each scenario as we are reading these, as you are saying them out loud, which is what I'd like you to do now, try to each time picture how each thing could be described as inept, just as I just showed you.

So could you now pause the video and read these word pairs out loud? Well done.

Right, let's check what we've just learnt.

Which of these words is a synonym for inept? A, useless, B, devious, C, butter fingered.

Pause the video now well done.

The correct answer is A, useless is a synonym for inept.

Just as before, I would like you to have a look at this word map.

Circle the synonyms and draw what lines to the word pairs.

This time we're looking at the word inept.

Here's the word in a sentence.

"The inept bear couldn't even tie her shoelaces without getting tangled up." And remember that trick of trying to replace the word inept with a synonym.

Pause the video now.

Well done.

Let's go through the answers.

The synonyms of inept are useless, clumsy, incompetent, and unskilled.

All quite unkind words.

The word pairs are inept handling, inept referee, inept scientist, inept leadership, inept cook, inept student.

It's your turn to put this word into practise and write a sentence using the word inept.

Here are the word pairs to help you.

And remember, let's aim high with this sentence.

Let's try to be really ambitious.

Perhaps you might write an adverbial complex sentence like we looked at earlier, starting with as.

Perhaps you might include some speech.

Perhaps you might think about using some different punctuation like a question mark or an exclamation mark.

Always read through your work to check your happy with it when you finished.

So pause the video now and good luck writing your sentence.

Well done.

I'm sure lots of you have written very funny sentences using this word inept.

Here are some examples of what you might have written.

"The players couldn't help but giggle at the inept referee's attempt to keep up with the game as he accidentally blew his whistle at all the wrong times." This is adverbial complex sentence, but this time the main clause comes first and my subordinate clause, which starts with the conjunction "as" comes second so we don't have to have a comma in this sentence.

"The lab was always a mess when the inept scientist conducted experiments as the potions bubbled over and things exploded." "Bernice's inept leadership as a football captain left her team bottom of the league.

Oh dear.

Okay, we're gonna look at our third new clumsy or silly word so far.

Can you remember what the first one was? We had a picture of somebody who had bricks on their feet who looked like they were just hadn't woken up yet.

Can you remember? Hold it on your chest.

What was it? 3, 2, 1.

Well done.

It was lumbering and we've just learned Bernice was getting her shoelaces in a muddle.

She was completely useless or incompetent.

What was the word we just learned? Hold it on your chest.

Tell me after three.

1, 2, 3.

Well done.

It was inept.

So before we learn our third word, let's just quickly take a movement break.

Everyone have a quick jiggle around and maybe we could take one big breath in through our noses and exhale through our mouths.

Okay, sitting up.

Are we ready? Let's keep concentrating for the very last word we're going to learn.

Lumbering, inept.

Let's take a look at this third word.

What's happening in this picture? This is Brick.

What has he just done? How does he look? How would you describe him? Pause the video now.

Okay, this is Brick.

He has just pulled a door off a car by the look on his face.

He's very shocked, so I don't think he meant to do that.

I think he just meant to open the car door.

And accidentally he's yanked it off probably because he's so strong.

Can you see his huge muscles? This looks a bit like a taxi as well.

So poor brick is probably going to get in trouble for accidentally breaking this taxi door.

Let's find out what this word is.

Heavy handed.

My turn, your turn.

Heavy handed.

Well done.

Heavy handed is an adjective.

It means overly forceful, like someone who doesn't know their own strength, bit like Brick.

Here these words are synonyms of heavy handed.

They have a similar meaning, insensitive, severe, harsh, blunt.

You might know the word blunt is how you would describe a knife if it's not sharp anymore.

A blunt knife.

But blunt can be used to describe a person if they're very direct in their communication and they speak very honestly.

Sometimes we talk about sugar coating something.

If you were to sugarcoat something, it means you are almost covering it in sugar to make it taste sweeter.

You are not perhaps telling the truth 'cause you're trying to sound nice.

But if you are blunt, it's not necessarily being really unkind, it's just being very honest and direct.

So these words are all synonyms of heavy handed.

"The heavy handed hippo ripped the taxi door off its hinges when he tried to open it." These are word pairs of heavy handed, heavy handed giant.

Picture that, I can imagine why a giant might be heavy handed, not knowing their own strength.

A heavy handed comment.

Also think about that synonym, blunt, perhaps very direct, very honest, heavy handed speech.

So imagine somebody giving a speech and it being very heavy handed.

Again, perhaps it's quite direct.

It's quite blunt.

They haven't sugarcoated anything.

A heavy handed punishment.

Now this doesn't necessarily mean it would be like a physical punishment.

Doesn't mean that somebody's necessarily hurting you in a heavy handed punishment.

But again, it just might mean that it is a, let's go back to our definition.

It might be quite severe or harsh.

Okay, a heavy handed boss.

So imagine if you had a heavy handed boss.

Again, it doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to be physically hurting you, but again, perhaps they're going to be quite blunt.

Perhaps they're going to be quite harsh or quite severe.

And a heavy handed police officer, perhaps a heavy handed police officer, again, might not know their own strength.

So if they were going to have to rescue a little kitten from up the top of a tree, a heavy handed police officer would have to try really hard to be very gentle with their hands because it's something they're not used to.

So let's check what we've just learned.

Which of these words is a word pair of heavy handed? Is it A, dancer, B, boss, or C, mouse? Pause the video now.

Well done, the correct answer is a boss could be described as heavy handed.

A dancer, I don't think would be very heavy handed because they'd be very elegant and graceful.

So for your next task, again, you've got a word map with heavy handed written in the middle.

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

"The heavy handed hippo ripped the taxi door off its hinges when he tried to open it." Remember, if it's a synonym, you might be able to replace it in that sentence.

Pause the video now.

Well done, let's go through the answers.

These synonyms are insensitive, harsh, severe, and blunt.

The word pairs are heavy handed giant, heavy handed comment that might make you feel a little bit offended.

If someone said a heavy handed comment, heavy handed speech, heavy handed punishment, heavy handed police officer, heavy handed boss, I don't think I'd want to have a heavy handed boss, would you? So it's now time for you to write your own sentence using the word heavy handed.

Here are the word pairs to help you.

Don't forget the little hyphen in between heavy and handed when you try to write this word.

So remember, we're really aiming high with our sentences today.

Make sure you read it back to check it sounds right.

And remember, the word pairs are really helpful if you want to use this word accurately.

Good luck, pause the video now.

Well done.

Let's look at some examples of what you might have written.

Oh, sorry, one sneaked on there.

"The heavy handed giant smashed the delicate egg when he tried to pick it up with his enormous fingers." "Yin tried to hide her tears from Yang after her heavy handed comment about her Halloween costume not being very scary." Again, that sounds like a bit of a blunt comment.

Very direct, not sugarcoated.

"After the heavy handed boss gave a harsh talk, to all her employees, everyone skulked back to their desks looking deflated." Deflated, imagine a ball blown up.

And then if the air has all gone outta it, that's how you might feel if you are deflated.

And again, we've got an adverbial complex sentence there.

Starting with after the subordinate clause comes first, "After the heavy handed boss gave a harsh talk to all her employees." Then we have a comma, and then we have the main clause.

"Everyone skulked back to their desks looking deflated." So for your final task today, I would like you to fill the gaps with either the word lumbering, inept, or heavy handed.

Here are the sentences, listen carefully.

"'Get a move on.

This walk will take us forever if you carry on walking at that, mm, pace.

' Oz complained." "The poor student felt completely mm as he put down his pen having not answered a single question in the quiz," "The police officer gave a, mm speech that left everyone feeling quite shocked." So could you pause the video now while you decide which word fits best in which sentence.

Well done.

Let's go through the answers.

"'Get a move on, this walk will take us forever if you carry on walking at that lumbering pace,' Oz complained." Remember, a pace is how fast or slow something happens.

"The poor student felt completely inept as he put down his pen having not answered a single question in the quiz." He felt completely inept, completely useless.

"The police officer gave a heavy handed speech that left everyone feeling quite shocked." A very blunt or direct speech.

He hasn't sugarcoated or she hasn't sugarcoated anything.

So let's summarise what we've learned today.

We've learnt three new words which are associated with being clumsy or silly.

We learnt lumbering, which means moving in a slow and heavy way, like someone who isn't fully awake yet.

We learnt inept, which means unskilled or incompetent, like someone who gets tangled in their own shoelaces.

And finally, we learnt heavy handed means overly forceful, like someone who doesn't know their own strength.

All of these words are adjectives, and I hope you can now put them all in your vocabulary toolbox ready to use.

Anyone would be seriously impressed if you used one of these new words that you've learned today.

Thank you so much for all your hard work and hopefully I'll see you again soon for some more learning.

Bye.