Hi, everyone.

My name is Mrs. Riley.

And I'm really looking forward to doing some learning with you today.

In today's lesson, we're going to be learning some new vocabulary.

Let's get started.

Today's learning outcome is to be able to use the words assertive, audacious, and brazen effectively in multiple contexts.

In today's lesson, we will be using these key words.

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

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.

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

And a word pair are words that often appear together.

In today's lesson, we're going to be learning some rich vocabulary associated with confidence, and we're going to be learning three new words, which are synonyms for confident.

So, these words today are going to be adjectives.

They're describing words, but we're going to be learning different ways of describing confidence.

So let's get started with our first new confidence word.

Have a look at this Mrs. Wordsmith illustration.

What's happening in this picture? The giraffe is called Stax, and the platypus is called Plato.

What are Plato and Stax up to here? What's happening? How do you think they're feeling? How would you describe them? Can you pause the video while you answer those questions now? Well done.

In this picture, Plato the platypus seems to be barging through the door.

Stax is pushing back and trying to shut the door on him, but even though he doesn't seem to want him there, it doesn't seem to be bothering Plato at all.

He's still smiling happily, and he's showing him something that says a contract.

So I think perhaps Plato is selling something here, is trying to get Stax to buy something and sign a contract, and Stax doesn't want to at all.

But despite the fact that he's really trying to get rid of Plato, Plato is still trying his hardest to get him to sign the contract.

So Plato is definitely the confident one in this picture, but I wonder what the word is that we're going to use to describe him.

Let's have a look.

This word is assertive.

My turn, your turn.

Assertive.

Assertive.

Well done.

Assertive is an adjective, a describing word, and it means forceful or self-confident, like someone who always manages to get their way.

Hmm.

Okay.

So I can definitely see that Plato here is being very forceful.

He's literally trying to force his way through the door, and he's very self-confident.

He doesn't look like he's doubting himself or doubting his abilities.

He seems very confident in himself.

So this word is assertive.

These words are synonyms of assertive.

Decisive, self-confident, and forceful.

So if you are decisive, it means you are good and quick at making decisions.

So an assertive person is decisive, self-confident, and sometimes forceful.

They mean, those words are synonyms. They have a similar meaning to assertive.

Here's the word in a sentence.

"The assertive salesperson didn't leave the customer alone until she bought something." These words are word pairs of assertive.

So if you found the word assertive in a book you're reading at the moment, it might appear with one of these word pairs.

An assertive personality.

Your personality is like your character.

I wonder if you know any assertive personalities.

An assertive action, an assertive move, an assertive salesperson.

So a salesperson is just a person that sells you something.

Assertive behaviour and an assertive stance.

A stance is how you stand, especially when it's deliberately adopted.

So perhaps you could picture now what an assertive stance might look like.

Okay, I'd like you now to pause the video and read these word pairs out loud just like I did.

That's because the way that we're going to really remember this word is not just by hearing it or reading it, but by saying it yourself.

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

Which of these words is a synonym for assertive? Is it A, decisive, B, move, or C, action? Which is a synonym for assertive? Pause the video while you answer that question.

The correct answer is decisive is a synonym for assertive.

Well done for giving that a go.

It's now time for your first task.

For this task, you have got a word map with the word assertive written in the middle, and the words around assertive are either synonym of assertive or a word pair.

I'd like you to first circle the synonyms, and then I'd like you to draw a line to the word pairs from the word assertive.

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

"The assertive salesperson didn't leave the customer alone until she bought something." Remember, if the word is a synonym, it means more or less the same thing.

So if the word is a synonym, you should be able to replace the word assertive in this sentence.

So you should be able to take out assertive and replace it with the synonym.

So there's a little trick to help you to identify the difference between the synonyms and the word pairs.

Could you please pause the video and complete this task? Okay, well done.

Let's go through the answers.

So the synonyms are decisive, self-confident, and forceful.

This means the rest of the words are word pairs.

Assertive personality, assertive action, assertive salesperson, assertive behaviour, assertive move, assertive stance.

For your next task, I would like you to write a sentence using the word assertive.

It can be quite difficult to just magic up a sentence when you haven't got any context.

So why don't you use one of the word pairs to help you? For example, you could use the word pair assertive stance, and then you might think about someone with an assertive stance.

Who, which character might you describe having an assertive stance, or why might someone have an assertive stance? Why might they be feeling particularly self-confident or forceful? And then you can build your sentence around that idea.

So it will take a little bit of time, because also I want you to be really ambitious with your sentence.

I want you to think about all the things you've learned in your English and grammar lessons.

I want you to read your sentence back to check that it makes sense and to check things like punctuation.

So really try your very hardest to write an amazing sentence, most importantly though, using the word assertive.

Pause the video while you complete this task.

Okay, well done.

Let's take a look at some examples.

"Oz's assertive behaviour meant she always got her own way." I wonder if you know somebody who has assertive behaviour, which means they often get their own way.

Perhaps if you were deciding what game to play or something like that.

"In an assertive move, Grit told the noisy people at the cinema to stop talking and watch the film." Have you ever been to the cinema before or been watching a film before on a television and someone else has been talking? And you really want them to stop talking, but you maybe feel a little bit shy or embarrassed to ask them to stop.

But if you were an assertive person, you would not feel too embarrassed or too shy, and you would just tell them what you thought, which is what Grit did in this sentence.

In this last sentence, you might spot something.

"'Stop talking and watch the film!' Grit assertively shouted." Hmm.

Do you notice anything in this sentence about our word assertive? Just perhaps pause the video if you want to have a little think about that now.

Well done if you spotted that in this sentence, I have added L-Y onto the end of assertive.

I've made assertive assertively.

I have changed the word into an adverb.

An adverb is a word that describes a verb.

So in this sentence, the verb, the doing word, is shouted.

Grit shouted.

And I'm describing how he shouted.

He assertively shouted.

So that's a really useful tip that sometimes adjectives, describing words, can be changed into adverbs by adding L-Y.

It doesn't always work, but sometimes it works.

For example, I couldn't use the adjective big and then just put an L-Y, bigly.

That doesn't make sense, but sometimes it can work.

And here's an example of where it can work really nicely.

You may also notice in this sentence, I have got some speech marks.

The speech is the bit that Grit is saying, or in this example, shouting, "Stop talking and watch the film!" I've got my speech punctuation around the speech, and we always have to have a piece of punctuation before we close the speech marks.

And in this example, I've got an exclamation mark, because Grit is shouting this part of speech.

Perhaps for a sentence you write later in the lesson, you might have a go at using some speech marks.

Let's take a look at our second new confidence word.

We've already learned assertive.

I wonder what's going to come next.

Have a look at this illustration.

What's happening in this picture? This is Grit, the dog.

What's Grit doing? How does he look? How does he feel? Can you pause the video while you have a think about that now? Well done.

In this picture, Grit is above a paddling pool, and I can see that from those fins, it seems to be a paddling pool full of sharks.

But Grit the dog seems completely not bothered about this.

He seems very confident and very happy to be diving into the pool with these sharks.

Let's find out what this word is.

Audacious.

My turn, your turn.

Audacious.

Audacious.

Well done.

Audacious is an adjective and it means bold and daring, like someone brave enough to dive into a pool full of sharks.

These words are synonyms of audacious.

That means they have a similar meaning.

Bold, fearless, and daring.

If you feel fear, you feel scared.

So if you are fearless, if you add the suffix less on the end of that word, it means that you are not feeling scared at all.

You are without fear.

So, audacious, the synonyms for audacious are bold, fearless, and daring.

Definitely they're words that I would use to describe Grit in this picture.

Here's the word in a sentence.

"The audacious dog dived head-first into the pool of sharks." These are the word pairs of audacious.

Audacious bid.

A bid is an attempt or an offer, and it's often used to describe an auction.

An auction is if you decided to sell something, rather than just saying, "It costs five pounds," for example, you might say, "Well, I'm going to let everyone bid to see how much." Somebody might do a first bid that might be three pounds.

And then somebody else might bid even higher and say, "I'll pay four pounds." And then someone with an audacious bid might come straight in and say, "I will spend 100 pounds," if they really wanted it.

It would be an audacious or a bold bid.

An audacious plan.

I wonder if you've ever come up with an audacious, a bold or daring plan.

An audacious goal.

Perhaps if you were going to try and score from really, really far back on the pitch, that would be an audacious goal.

An audacious raid.

A raid is a surprise attack, often means it would happen very quickly.

So, an audacious raid.

And an audacious experiment, perhaps an experiment that is particularly daring.

Perhaps it was going to result in some kind of big explosion or something like that.

Can you pause the video now and just as we did before, can you read these word pairs out loud? Off you go.

Excellent.

Well done.

Here are some more word pairs for audacious.

An audacious attempt.

An audacious stunt.

A stunt is an exciting action.

Often, stunts happen in films and they might have to be performed by someone who's very skilled, because an actor might feel a bit nervous, for example, to jump out of an aeroplane with a parachute on.

So they might have to have somebody to come in just to do the stunts, somebody very bold and daring.

An audacious move, and audacious idea.

Could you now read those word pairs aloud? Well done.

Which of these words is a synonym for audacious? Is it A, fiery, is it B, vacant, or is it C, daring? Could you pause the video and answer that question now? Well done.

The correct answer is C.

Daring is a synonym for audacious.

Now it's time for another task.

Just as before, you have got a word map.

I'd like you to first circle the synonyms for audacious and then draw lines to the word pairs.

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

"The audacious dog dived head-first into the pool of sharks." Remember, if the word is a synonym, we should be able to remove audacious from the sentence and replace it with the synonym.

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

The synonyms are bold, fearless, and daring.

The word pairs are an audacious idea, audacious bid, audacious plan, audacious goal, audacious raid, audacious experiment, audacious move, audacious attempt, and audacious stunt.

I'd now like you to write a sentence using the word audacious.

Just as you did earlier in the lesson, using the word assertive, I've got the word pairs here to help you.

So you could pick a word pair, for example, an audacious raid.

Remember, a raid is a surprise attack, and you could maybe build your sentence around that word pair.

Remember to check your sentence really carefully once you've written it.

And remember to really try and aim high with this sentence.

Can you make it the best possible sentence it can be? Pause the video while you write your sentence now.

Well done.

Here are some examples.

"In their most audacious stunt yet, Yin and Yang walked a tightrope over boiling-hot lava." (gasps) A tightrope is very thin and wobbly.

So they're balancing on it, and underneath them, they have got boiling-hot lava.

So they are very audacious.

It's a very audacious stunt.

"In an audacious move, Armie fired his own boss." Oh my goodness.

That would be like you firing your own teacher.

"Stax's audacious attempt to play 20 songs at once was bold, but it sounded terrible." That's a compound sentence.

A compound sentence is made of two main clauses.

And in this compound sentence, my conjunction is the word but.

When we use the word but, we often have two opposing ideas.

So, "Stax's audacious attempt to play 20 songs at once was bold," that's quite positive, "but it sounded terrible." And when we use but as a conjunction in a compound sentence, it has to have a comma before it.

Perhaps for your next sentence, you could try and write a compound sentence using but.

It's time to look at our third confidence word.

The first word we learned was assertive.

The second word we learned was audacious.

I wonder what our third confident word will be.

What's happening in this picture? Brick is the policeman and Oz is the ostrich.

What's happening here? Could you describe the picture to me? Off you go.

Okay, now Brick the policeman here is looking quite relaxed.

I think he's eating a chocolate donut.

Oz the ostrich looks to be dressed in all in black with a little hat on, and she is stealing the policeman's wallet from his back pocket.

It looks like it's broad daylight.

It's not even dark, and it's not like the wallet's left in his office or in his house.

It literally is in his pocket.

But still, this thief, Oz, is stealing it right from behind him.

Hmm, I wonder what this word is.

Brazen.

My turn, your turn.

Brazen.

Brazen.

Well done.

Brazen is an adjective.

It means bold and shameless, like stealing a policeman's wallet in plain sight.

So, stealing anything is illegal, but stealing from a policeman and in plain sight is extremely bold and shameless.

These words are synonyms of brazen.

Shameless, blatant.

Blatant is another word for obvious.

And bold.

"The brazen thief took the policeman's wallet right from his trouser pocket." You'll notice I have an apostrophe S after policeman, because there's not lots of policeman.

It's just that the wallet belongs to the policeman.

So that's an example of an apostrophe for possession.

These words are word pairs of brazen.

Brazen behaviour, brazen defiance.

Defiance is resistance or disobedience.

Brazen attitude, a brazen lie.

Could you now read those word pairs out loud? Well done.

Here are some more word pairs.

A brazen attack, a brazen escape, and a brazen thief, a bit like Oz is in this picture.

Pause the video and read those pairs out loud.

Well done.

It's time for a check for understanding.

This time I'd like you to tell me which of these word pair, words is a word pair of brazen? Is it A, a lie, B, bold, or C, daring? Pause the video while you answer the question now.

The correct answer is A, lie is a word pair of brazen.

A brazen lie.

It's time for another task.

Just as before, I would like you to circle the synonyms for brazen and draw lines to the word pairs.

Here's a sentence to help you.

"The brazen thief took the policeman's wallet right from his trouser pocket." Remember, if you can replace this word, the word brazen, with another word, it should be a synonym.

Pause the video and complete this task now.

Well done.

Let's go through the answers.

The synonyms are blatant, bold, and shameless.

The word pairs are behaviour, brazen defiance, brazen attitude, brazen lie, brazen escape, brazen thief, brazen attack.

Now, I would like you to write your own sentence using the word brazen.

And here are the word pairs to help you.

For example, you might pick a brazen lie.

Hmm.

What would be a lie that would be brazen to tell, something really bold and shameless? You could build your sentence around that.

And remember to go back and read your sentence to check.

A couple of things we've looked at this lesson have been some speech, so perhaps you could use some speech marks in this sentence.

And also we have looked at that apostrophe for possession.

So perhaps you might include that in your sentence as well.

But the most important thing for your sentence is to include the word brazen with one of the word pairs.

Pause the video and write your sentence now.

Well done.

And well done if you remembered to check your sentence and well done if you tried to use some speech marks or an apostrophe.

Here's some examples.

"The brazen thief waved at the security camera as he walked out of the shop with a huge diamond." So not only has this thief gone in and stolen a huge diamond, which is illegal, they have just looked at the camera and just waved, because they are so bold and shameless.

Oh my goodness.

This is a complex sentence.

I've got a main clause first.

"The brazen thief waved at the security camera," and I've got my subordinate clause starting with the conjunction as, "as he walked out of the shop with a huge diamond." Oh, here's some speech.

"'There's no way you will get me in the bath!' yelled Bogart in brazen defiance." So again, you can see here that I've got the bit that the person says, "There's no way you'll get me in the bath!" I've got my speech marks around it, and I've remembered that punctuation between the closing speech marks.

Often we call it 66 and 99, because it looks like a tiny 66 and 99.

We always have to have punctuation inside the 99 or the closing speech.

And, "Plato licked his chocolatey lips as he told everyone his brazen lie that he hadn't eaten any chocolate cake." Well, that's a brazen lie, because if he's got chocolate all around his mouth or on his lips, it's gonna be very obvious that he is not telling the truth.

Again, I've got a complex sentence with the conjunction as.

"Plato licked his chocolatey lips," is the main clause, and the part that comes after that is the subordinate clause, which starts with the conjunction as.

For your final task today, I would like you to fill the gaps with either the word assertive, audacious, or brazen.

Now, these three words we've learned today are really very similar.

They are synonyms after all of for confidence.

So they all have a very similar meaning.

So you might find that actually one word works in two different sentences.

So have a think about what you think fits best in each sentence, and also think about the word pairs to help you.

So, I'm gonna read the sentences to you and as I read them, think about what would fit nicely in the sentence.

"In a, mm, escape from the heavily guarded prison, the daring thief climbed out of his window and ran into the night." "The crowd thought Brick was crazy to even attempt the, mm, goal that he scored." "Armie hoped an, mm, stance would make him seem important and confident." So perhaps you might remember, for example, that stance was a word pair for one of the words we learned today.

Goal was also a word pair for one of the words we learned today.

So that might help you to choose the most appropriate word in each sentence.

But as I said, sometimes, because these words have a similar meaning, they can be used in more than one sentence.

Just choose which one you think fits best.

Pause the video while you complete this task.

Well done.

For the first sentence, I have used the word brazen.

There was actually a bit of a clue here, because it said, "In a, mm, escape." Now, if it was going to be audacious or assertive, because both of those words start with a vowel, they start with A, we would have to say, "In an assertive escape," or, "In an audacious escape." So there was a little bit of a hint there that brazen was the word that fitted in that sentence the best.

But don't worry if you didn't get that right.

The most important thing is that you gave it a go.

So, "In a brazen escape from the heavily guarded prison, the daring thief climbed out of his window and ran into the night." Brazen is bold and shameless, and if, you would have to be bold and shameless to escape a prison that's heavily guarded and to just climb straight out of your window.

The next sentence was, "The crowd thought Brick was crazy to even attempt the audacious goal," the daring goal that he scored.

And finally, "Armie hoped an assertive stance," remember, a stance is how you stand, "would make him seem important and confident." Well done for completing all your tasks today and working so hard.

Let's summarise what we've learned today.

We have learned three new words associated with confidence.

First, we learned assertive, an adjective meaning forceful or self-confident, like someone who always manages to get their own way.

Then we learnt audacious, bold and daring, like someone brave enough to dive into a pool full of sharks.

And finally, we learnt brazen, an adjective meaning bold and shameless, like stealing a policeman's wallet in plain sight.

I wonder if you could try to use one of our new words over the next week.

I'm sure anyone would be extremely impressed if you used one of these words.

So, well done for all your hard work today.

Bye!.