Lesson video

Hi everybody, it's Ms. Gardner.

Welcome to the next lesson from the unit, non-chronological report on healthy lifestyle.

Thank you so much for all your hard work on this unit and for joining in on today's lesson.

Let's get started.

In today's lesson from our unit non-chronological report on a healthy lifestyle, we are looking at exercise and sleep.

So we are going to be planning our paragraph all about these two things.

So your learning outcome is, I can plan the paragraph about exercise and sleep for a non-chronological report about healthy lifestyle.

So let's start with looking at the key words.

We'll do my turn, your turn.

Subject- specific vocabulary.

Plan.

Notes.

Let's look at what these mean.

So subject specific vocabulary is vocabulary used when writing about particular subject.

We are writing particularly today about exercise and sleep.

So our vocabulary will be specific to that.

A plan is a framework that writers create before they write a section or a whole text.

And notes in our plan are written out of full sentences.

We don't need full sentences on our plan.

So there are two sections to our learning today.

In the first we'll be preparing to plan.

So we'll be gathering all the information we want to include on our plan.

And then in the second section we'll be writing the plan.

So let's start with preparing to plan.

So our non-chronological report can be structured into four sections.

An introduction, section one about healthy diet.

Both of these sections we've written.

Section two, how important are exercise and sleep and a conclusion.

In today's lesson, we are planning section two.

So this is some of the subject specific vocabulary that you will use in this section about exercise and sleep.

We'll do my turn, your turn.

Physical activity.

So that is any movement that uses up your body's energy.

So that could be walking to school, playing in the playground, and also sports, and games, and exercise.

Exercise.

So exercise is a physical activity, but it is a way of keeping the body healthy through being active.

Mental health.

That is the state of your emotional wellbeing and this affects how you think, feel, and behave.

Immune system.

That is the body's defence against infections.

We want to have a strong immune system, so that when we get infections, or get colds, or the flu, our body can fight it and help us get better.

So let's think about some of the subjects specific vocabulary we're going to be used in this section.

Which of these words are subject specific vocabulary? You have health, muscles, bodies, regular, fun and exercise.

So having a think about what you would imagine would, so having a think about what is the subject specific vocabulary.

Muscles, because we do exercise to strengthen our muscles.

And exercise, we know that that's what we need to do to keep or make ourselves fitter.

Health, bodies, fun, regular, these are all a bit too general.

So your turn, which of these words are subject specific vocabulary for this section of the text? Science, immunity, physical activity, outside and mental health.

Pause the video now.

That's right.

It is immunity.

We know that we want to be doing, have enough sleep and exercise to build up our immunity, our immune systems. Physical activity, so any kind of movement that involves your body moving and your mental health.

Sleep and exercise are really important for your mental health.

Well done everybody.

So physical activity is an essential part of a healthy lifestyle.

Taking part in regular exercise strengthens our muscles, makes them really strong and we need strong muscles to be able to keep our bodies working properly.

Exercise also helps to keep a person's heart working properly.

And this is really important because we need a working, beating heart to keep us alive and to keep blood pumped throughout the body.

So let's check for understanding.

How does exercise benefit human bodies? A, it slows people down.

B, it strengthens the muscles.

C, it reduces energy levels, or D, it keeps the heart working properly.

Pause the video now.

That's right.

Exercise B strengthens the muscles and D keeps the heart working properly.

Well done.

So we know that we're supposed to do regular exercise, but how often is regular? So children are supposed to aim for 60 minutes.

So one hour a day of moderate exercise.

So that means not really, really high intensity, just normal amount of exercise which gets a heartbeat up and physical activity.

So this includes activities like this, skipping, running, ball games, dance, swimming, but this also does include running around with your friends in the playground.

That's an example of physical activity.

So if you walk to school and run around in your playground, I'm sure you're probably all very nearly, already nearly making your 60 minutes of physical activity.

Scientists believe that exercise is also really important for our mental health.

So how we feel and our emotions.

Exercise causes your brain to release these feel good chemicals like endorphins.

Let's do my turn, your turn.

Endorphins and serotonin.

And these are chemicals that actually help to improve your mood.

Physical activity gives us a natural energy boost and it can help us feel less frustrated or angry.

So if you are feeling really, maybe a bit down or they're frustrated or angry, running around, maybe doing some skips, or jumping up and down, going for a walk that can help you to feel a little bit better.

So true or false? Exercise can improve people's moods.

Pause the video now.

That's right, that is true.

Can you use A or B to justify your answer? A, exercise releases chemicals like endorphins and serotonin that can improve your mood.

B, exercise makes people happy because it involves playing games with friends.

Pause the video now.

That's right, it's A.

Exercise releases those feel good chemicals which can make us feel, which can improve our mood.

Well done everybody.

Now exercise is also really important, 'cause it can also improve our sleep quality.

So how well we sleep at night.

Scientists recommend that children in primary school should have about nine to 12 hours of sleep every night.

This can improve your brain performance, so it can help you focus in lessons, and help you concentrate when you're having to work, and to read, to write.

It can also improve your mood, so make you feel more positive, more happy and that (indistinct) your mental health, and it can actually even improve our immune systems. Our immune systems are the systems inside our bodies which help fight off illnesses and sicknesses.

It's important we have a good and strong immune system so that we are able to fight off these bugs and having good night's sleep consistently helps improve our immune systems. So checking for understanding.

How much sleep are children in primary school recommended to have each night? A, nine to 12 hours.

B, four to five hours.

C, 90 minutes, or D seven to eight hours.

Pause the video now.

That's right, it is a nine to 12 hours.

Well done everybody.

So it's it's time for task A.

It's the filling in the blanks activity.

You need to fill in the blanks with the words from the word bank.

So your options from the word bank are strengthens, nine to 12, sleep, mental, 60 and immune.

I'm going to read this sentences now and if you want to say the word you think it is as I read, you can, and then you're gonna have a go at doing this independently.

Physical activity is an essential part of a healthy lifestyle.

Regular exercise, blank muscles and it keeps a hot person's heart working properly.

Children are supposed to aim for blank minutes of moderate physical activity a day.

Exercising every day can help people to blank better.

Scientists suggest that children in primary school should have blank hours of sleep every night.

This improves brain performance, mood, blank health and blank systems. So pause the video now and off you go, filling in the missing words.

Welcome back everybody.

Let's go through the answers and I'm going to cross the words off the word bank once I've included them.

Physical activity is an essential part of a healthy lifestyle.

Regular exercise strengthens muscles and it keeps a person's heart working properly.

Children are supposed to aim for 60 minutes a day of moderate physical activity a day.

Exercising every day can help people help sleep better.

Scientists suggest that children in primary school should have nine to 12 hours of sleep every night.

This improves brain performance, mood, mental health, and immune systems. Really well done everybody.

It's time for our second section of the lesson where we are writing our plan.

It's really important we keep these plans safe and write them really neatly and organised really clearly, so that they are useful when it comes to writing this section.

So when we write a plan, we use notes.

Notes are concise, they're short and capture the most key, important vocabulary and information.

The purpose of notes is to help the writer to organise information easily for future use.

We use bullet points when note taking.

They look like this.

So you have your subheading and underneath your subheading you have a bullet point and then space to write your note.

And we use subheadings to organise the bullet points.

They're a really important part of organising our notes.

So the subheading, how important our exercise and sleep shows us that all the points below will be about exercise and sleep.

So checking for understanding, what is in a plan? A, bullet points for notes.

B, full sentences with capital letters and full stops.

C, subject specific vocabulary, and D, unnecessary information.

Pause the video now.

That's right.

A and C.

Well done.

So the subheading.

The subheading should stand out from the rest of the text and so it should be underlined and left aligned.

That means it should be next to the margin.

Our title was in the middle of the page.

Our subheadings are to the left.

So for example for this section we could just do exercise and sleep, but I want to engage the reader, so I'm going to ask, I'm going to use this a question on my subheading, what is the importance of exercise and sleep? How important are exercise and sleep? So it's time for task B, writing the plan.

First thing you need to do is write the first subheading.

I'm going to use the question, what is the importance of exercise and sleep? Then you need to write four main facts about exercise, not sleep just yet, just exercise using subject specific vocabulary.

You can see there's quite a lot of subject specific vocabulary.

So thinking carefully about how you are going to include these in your notes.

You have physical, activity, muscles, serotonin, endorphins, those feel-good chemicals, heart, mental health and energy.

So thinking about writing about the facts about how much exercise we should be doing and why it's good for us.

Pause the video now and off you go.

Okay, welcome back everybody.

I'm going to go through the most important information I thought I'd need to include in this section of the plan.

If you need to, you can pause the video and add anything I've written on my plan onto yours.

So what is the importance of exercise and sleep? Regular exercise strengthens muscles slash keeps heart working properly.

60 minutes physical activity a day for children.

Exercise releases feel good chemicals, serotonin slash endorphins that can improve mental health.

Exercise is a natural energy boost.

So you can see none of these points are written in full sentences.

That's my job for the next lesson.

When I come to writing, I'm going to use these notes and put 'em in full sentences.

So now you need to write three main facts about sleep using subject specific vocabulary.

So the subject specific vocabulary are, includes scientists, nine to 12 hours, brain, mental health, and immune systems. So thinking about how much sleep we should be getting and why it's good for us, these are the most important things we need to think about in our plan.

Pause the video now and off you go.

Welcome back everybody.

Okay these were the points I thought were the most important to make about sleep.

Exercise improved sleep quality.

Scientists recommend nine to 12 hours of sleep a night.

Sleep can improve mood and mental health, and helps the brain performance and immune systems. So these are not full sentences.

When you write them in full sentences in the next lesson, you'll be able to add extra detail if you want to, but this is just the notes in their most concise form.

Well done everybody.

So we know we need to include fronted adverbials, not just in our writing but also on our plan.

So remember to use them in our writing.

Formal fronted adverbials are formal in tone.

There are different groups of formal fronted adverbials.

We have our and front formal fronted adverbials which build on points from previous sentences and we have our but formal fronted adverbials.

Let's have a look at and formal fronted adverbials.

You could use also, in addition, and additionally, and they'll build on a point from the previous sentence.

Let's have a look at an example.

Exercise is beneficial for our sleep.

In addition, it can improve our mood and strengthen our muscles.

So in addition is our formal fronted adverbial.

It helps us build on the point that we made in the first sentence.

So we said, explained why an exercise is beneficial for our sleep and then we went on built on that and said why it's also beneficial for our mood and our muscles.

So the formal fronted adverbial links these two ideas.

A but formal fronted adverbial could be however, or in contrast, this introduced a contrasting idea.

It's a formal way of saying but.

Children are advised to take part in 60 minutes of moderate activity a day.

However, this does include playing at break times, however is our formal front endeavour, which introduces that contrasting idea.

We can also include a fronted adverbial of cause.

This is a sentence data that tells the reader the cause and the effect of something.

So for example, nine to 12 hours of sleep a night can improve brain and performance.

That's the cause.

The effect of this is, we are able to concentrate better in the day.

So we can link the cause and the effect using a fronted adverbial of cause as a result.

Let's have a look at this in sentences.

Nine to 12 hours of sleep a night can improve brain performance.

As a result, we are able to concentrate better in the day.

So checking for understanding, which of the following fronted adverbials could be found in a non chronological report? A, as a result.

B, slowly.

C, in addition.

D, with a smile on her face.

Pause the video now.

That's right, A.

As a result, that's our fronted adverbial of cause, and C, in addition, our formal fronted adverbials.

Slowly and with a smile on her face are fronted adverbials of manner.

These look like they would appear more in narrative type of writing and descriptive writing.

Well done everybody.

So it's time for task C.

You need to fill in the table with the following.

Three formal fronted adverbials, and one fronted adverbial of course.

Your options are as a result, in addition, however and additionally.

So pause the video now and add these to your plan.

Well done everybody.

So let's go through it.

Our formal more fronted adverbials are in addition, additionally, however.

And our fronted adverbials of course is as a result.

Great job everybody.

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

A plan is a framework that writers create before they write the section or whole text.

A plan has subject specific vocabulary related to the section.

Notes help the writer to organise information easily for writing in the future.

Bullet points are used in note taking.

A subheading signals part of a text and should stand out from the rest of the text.

Great job everybody.

Well done.

Make sure you keep your plans safe for when it comes to writing this section.