Lesson video

Hi there, my name's Mr. Byrne-Smith, and today we are going to be doing some English together.

In today's lesson, we're going to be making notes on the habitat of the anglerfish for our non-chronological report.

It's got to be lots and lots of fun.

So, let's make a start.

Here's the agenda for today's lesson.

First we'll have quick introduction.

Then we'll do some research and note taking, before finally completing today's task.

In this lesson you will need an exercise book or paper, a pencil, and then this funny looking thing, your brain, which you can't forget.

So, if you need to go and get any of these things, pause the video now.

Introduction.

So if we wanted to find out information about our anglerfish, in particular, about its habitat, how might we do it? Where could we look, what research could we do? I'd like you to pause the video and have a think.

Okay, so I've come up with three places from which we can get information about our fish, texts, videos, and websites.

Now today we're going to be looking at text about the habitat of the anglerfish, and we'll extract some key facts from that.

However, if you'd like to, in addition, look up some videos and websites to do some research then please do, that's a really good way of finding out lots more.

So here's our creature, our anglerfish, which we're getting to know quite well.

At this point, we've looked at its appearance, its diet.

Now we're starting to consider its habitat.

Habitat refers to exactly where it lives, and actually its appearance and diet can tell you a little something about that.

Lots of the adaptations that make it look the way it does and eat the food it eats depend on where it lives.

And that is what we're going to look at today.

The habitat paragraph is one of our main paragraphs.

These come between the opening at the beginning and the closing at the end.

We have three of them.

We've so far planned and written the appearance and diet paragraphs.

Today, we're planning and taking notes on the habitat paragraph.

Let's research and take some notes on the anglerfish's habitat.

To do this, we're going to just quickly remind ourselves of three key pieces of vocabulary which are likely to come up while researching this aspect of the anglerfish.

The first is habitat, my turn, your turn, habitat.

Habitat is a noun which means the natural home of a living thing.

Synonyms for the word habitat include home, surroundings, and environment.

Habitat in a sentence.

The anglerfish is found in one of the world's most hostile habitats.

The next word is territory, territory, territory.

Territory is a noun which means an area that an animal inhabits and defends.

Synonyms for the word include area, region, and domain.

And then territory in a sentence.

These peculiar fish defend their territory fiercely against others.

Lastly, we have conditions, conditions, conditions.

Conditions is a noun, it means the features of an environment that affect how something lives.

Synonyms for conditions are surroundings, circumstances, and environment.

Let's put it in a sentence.

The harsh conditions of the deep ocean make it difficult for anything to survive.

So three lovely pieces of vocabulary that we can use in our writing, but that will also help us today when making notes on research.

Here's our fish.

Let's remind ourselves, it has those sharp teeth which help it eat.

It has the bulb on its head, which we know is not only for attracting food, it also is especially effective in the dark, dark depths of the ocean.

Now the dark depths of the ocean, that's our anglerfish's habitat.

So that is what we're thinking about.

Here's the text that we're going to use to help us write our habitat paragraph.

We're going to read through it, and then we're going to scan it for facts that we can use in our own writing.

Feel free to read along with me.

The anglerfish inhabits the murky depths of the Antarctic and Atlantic Oceans.

Most species are found up to a mile beneath the surface in what is known as the midnight zone.

The conditions this far down are incredibly hostile and make survival difficult.

In this inhospitable environment, the anglerfish endures ice-cold conditions and complete darkness.

The midnight zone is sparsely populated, and food sources can be hard to come by.

However, the anglerfish has a number of adaptations to help it survive in this lifeless habitat.

Okay, what I'd like you to do is I'd like you to pause the video and have a look through this piece of writing for some of the facts that you think we absolutely must include in our writing.

The fact that you think we can not let escape.

Pause the video now.

Okay, now I have highlighted a few as well, here they are.

I think depths of the Antarctic and Atlantic Ocean is not only a nice phrase, but it's very informative.

That's where the anglerfish are found, and therefore I think we need to include it, it's really important.

Then we have this reference to the depth at which the anglerfish are found, up to a mile beneath the ocean in the midnight zone, which is a really cool phrase, which I think we should definitely use.

We can even combine those, I think, up to a mile beneath the ocean in the midnight zone, they can be easily combined.

We need to talk about how difficult it is to survive down there, so I've highlighted incredibly hostile, survival difficult.

Then we have reference to the ice-cold conditions and the darkness, which I also think we need to include.

We need to say that it's difficult down there, and this is why, because of the ice-cold conditions and the darkness.

Then we have this phrase, sparsely populated.

If something is sparsely populated, an area, for example, there aren't many people there or there aren't many things there.

When we're talking about the ocean being sparsely populated, we're suggesting that there aren't many creatures there.

That's why food is hard to come by.

We should include that because that's kind of part of the anglerfish in its existence, is this lonely life, sort of searching for food, of which there isn't much.

Then we have the adaptations, so it all comes back to those adaptations, which help it survive in the lifeless habitat, the deep.

Now we need to see if we can translate these highlighted facts into notes, which is a difficult process, but taking notes is a really useful skill.

So I'd like you to have a go.

I'd like you to see if you can transfer what we've got here into the key facts.

These are notes which explain the key details without writing out entire sentences.

That's the benefit of notes is that they're quick, and they contain just what you need to know.

Pause the video and have a go now.

Okay, let's see what mine look like.

Here they are.

One mile deep in Antarctic and Atlantic, dash midnight zone.

So I actually combined quite a lot there, because I think they're all related, those three ideas, the depth, the names of the oceans, and the name of the zone, they're all kind of related.

Hostile, harsh, inhospitable conditions.

Three lovely adjectives that I've pinched, all describing the conditions.

They're adjectives that we can definitely use, hostile, harsh, inhospitable.

And we have ice-cold and pitch-black, that's what it's like down there.

And then we need to talk about the amount of food there is, well, sparsely populated, therefore, there's not much to eat.

So there aren't many other creatures down there with the anglerfish.

Finally, we have that reference to the range of adaptations that the anglerfish has developed in order to survive down there.

That's how it's still there, that's how it still exists, okay.

So, for today's task, we have something really fun, something that I have already done, and I really enjoyed it.

I'd like you to draw an image of an anglerfish in its habitat.

Once you've done that, I'd like you to annotate your drawing with key facts about its habitat, facts that you've learned today.

Now I've made a start on one, which is here.

I'm going to zoom in so you can see it in a bit more detail.

You can see my anglerfish, with its glowing lure.

And try to draw it down towards the bottom of the ocean.

Annotating, or noting, the picture are a number of references to its habitat.

So we have pitch-black, up to one mile, midnight zone ice-cold depth, sparsely populated.

These are notes, these are just notes, so I haven't written full sentences here.

I'm just noting some of the key features of the habitat.

I've also drawn the sea floor and I've drawn some other creatures swimming around.

Now, there aren't many other creatures, because remember, it's sparsely populated down there.

It's a very dark environment, so I suppose I could have shaded in the sea to make it clear how dark it is down there.

Maybe that's something you could think about.

So there are your instructions, I'd like you to pause the video and have a go.

Okay, congratulations, that's the end of the lesson.

We have done our introduction, we've done some research and we've taken notes, and we've done that task which was lots and lots of fun.

Well done for your hard work.

you've completed your lesson.