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Hello, it's Mrs. Smart welcome to today's English lesson.

In this lesson we're going to focus on some grammar.

As we're going to be exploring expanded noun phrases.

We're going to try and understand the definition, we are going to identify them in sentences, and you're going to have a go at using them in sentences yourself.

All right, let's get started.

In this lesson you'll need an exercise book or some lined paper, a pen or pencil to write with and some coloured pencils or felt tips even highlighters if you've got them.

If you haven't got any of those items with you right now just pause the recording and go and get them.

In today's lesson, we're going to start by looking and reminding ourselves of some of the word class definitions.

We're then going to move on to identify expanded noun phrases in sentences.

Then it will be your chance to use some expanded noun phrases.

You're going to write some of your own in sentences.

And lastly, we'll end with your independent task.

We are going to start today's lesson with a recap of word class definitions.

I'm going to read you a definition for each word class and you're going to repeat in my turn, your turn.

Ready? A noun is a PPT: a person, place or thing.

Your turn.

An adjective describes a noun it tells you what it's like.

Well done.

A verb is a doing or a being word.

If you do it or you are it then the word is a verb.

Last one.

An adverb describes a verb it often ends in ly.

Excellent.

Hopefully that has reminded you of the definitions of those four different types of word class.

This is the definition of a preposition which we're going to need to understand to write expanded numb phrases in today's lesson.

A preposition links a noun, pronoun or noun phrase to another word in the sentence.

Prepositions often describe locations or directions, so where something is or where something's moving but can describe other things such as relations of time.

So prepositions often tell us where something is happening or when something is happening.

Let's see what you can remember about your word class definitions.

What is a noun? Is it option one, two, three, or four? Pause the recording.

Read through those four definitions and make your decision now.

Okay, are you ready? Three, two, one and point to the correct answer.

Well done.

A noun is a PPT, a person place or thing.

What is an adjective? Is it option one, option two, option three or option four? Pause the recording and make your decision.

Okay hopefully you're ready in, three, two, one, and point.

Well done.

An adjective describes a noun it tells you what it's like.

We are going to need to remember the definitions for nouns and adjectives to help us to write expanded noun phrases in today's lesson.

But first, let's remind ourselves what the difference is between a phrase and a clause.

Do you know what the difference is? Could you pause the recording and write down your explanation? Okay let's look at what a phrase is to start with.

A phrase is a group of words that are connected.

It expands a single word so you'll often have a noun or preposition at the head.

So that will be the main word in the group of words.

The key thing to remember about a phrase is it does not contain a verb.

What does it not contain? Good it does not contain a verb.

So there's two examples there we've got the warm rain, and the children in the playground.

You can see in the first example I've added an adjective to describe the rain.

So the warm rain, in the second example I've added a preposition or phrase about the children's so the children is the main noun of that group of words as a preposition to tell my reader where they are, the children in the playground.

So those were both the example of phrases.

They both do not contain a verb well done.

A clause is a group of words that are connected and they do contain a verb.

Clauses can sometimes be complete sentences.

A main clause could be a sentence in its own right but we also have subordinate clauses which add extra information to main clauses, which cannot be sentences in their own right.

I've got two examples there of two main clauses.

It rained heavily.

We danced in the rain.

So you can see they both have verbs I can see that very clearly because I can see two words with ed on the end.

They are my doing words in the sentence.

So I know straight away it must be a clause because a clause must have a verb.

Well done right? Now we've revised adjectives, nouns, prepositions, phrases, clauses one more expanded noun phrases okay? An expanded noun phrase is when you take a noun, and you expand it by the addition of modifying adjectives, nouns and prepositional phrases.

So if you think about a noun and then you're going to expand it you're going to make it bigger, not just by stretching the word, by adding more words to the noun add more often description for the reader.

So modifying adjectives are adjectives that add information to the noun.

They could be additional nouns added to it or prepositional phrases.

So phrases that tell you where the noun is or when something is happening.

Expanded noun phrases adds description and specifications.

They add more detail for the reader.

Let's look at some examples.

Here I've got the noun, willow tree.

That's my person and place or thing.

It's a thing, isn't it? A willow tree.

But you can see I've taken the noun willow tree and I've expanded it, I've added more information.

I've added an adjective, the large willow tree and I've also added a preposition or phrase beside the Lake.

So it now reads, "the large willow tree beside the lake." I don't have a verb, so it's definitely still a phrase but I have taken my noun and added more description to it.

Let's look at the other example I've got the noun hummingbird and I've expanded it with more information.

I've added many, so I've told you that there's lots of hummingbirds.

I've added the adjective green hummingbirds and I've added some more description with the word with, with long pointed beaks.

And you can see I've got a comma in between my two adjectives, long and pointed because they are a list of adjectives.

So I've taken the noun hummingbird and I've expanded it with more information and description.

Now it is your chance to identify that means to find, some expanded noun phrases in sentences.

I've got three sentences that I'm going to read out.

And then you're going to have a go at pausing the recording and seeing if you can find the expanded noun phrases.

the golden ball of fire in the sky blazed ferociously.

The willow beside the lake swayed in the gentle breeze.

Hundreds of white, wispy clouds drifted across the azure sky.

Azure sky means the blue sky that really clear blue you get on a summer's day right? Can you find the expanded noun phrases? I'll give you a little clue.

Some of the sentences I've been a little bit mean, there are more than one expanded noun phrase.

Pause the recording, read through their sentences again and see if you can point to the expanded noun phrases.

Off you go.

We now are going to go through the answers.

So I hope you are ready.

The first sentence we had, the golden ball of fire in the sky blazed ferociously.

So I've got an adjective to describe the ball of fire and I've also got a preposition or phrase to describe or to tell my reader where the ball of fire is.

Blazed ferociously is not part of my phrase because blazed is a, good, blazed is a verb.

So it's not part of my phrase.

The next sentence we have two expanded noun phrases.

I wonder if you've found both of them, the willow with supple limbs and we had the gentle breeze.

So you can see that there's more information added to the willow, using the word with.

And supple if you remember means flexible or easy to bend.

Limbs are legs or arms. So when John Lines is referring to the willows limbs, he's referring to the branches.

And then we've got the gentle breeze or an adjective to describe the breeze.

Okay, third one.

Hundreds of white, wispy clouds that was my first expanded noun phrase.

So I've got a word to tell me how many there are.

And then two adjectives to describe the clouds.

And then at the end of the sentence I also have an expanded noun phrase because I have the word azure to describe the sky.

Well done If you managed to find some of those expanded noun phrases, that was really tricky.

You are now going to have a go at writing your own expanded noun phrases as part of a sentence.

I've been kind, I've given you a sentence to start with, and I've even highlighted the noun for you.

You just need to expand that noun and add more detail and description.

Let's read the sentence together.

The stars twinkled gently.

Definitely a need of a bit more description there.

Could you add an expanded noun phrase around the noun stars to add more detail and description for the reader? Pause the recording and write your sentence now.

I added more description by using a determiner or quantify, thousands to tell my reader that there were a lots or thousands of stars in the sky.

I added the adjective silver to describe their colour.

And I also included a prepositional phrase in the inky-black sky to tell my reader where the stars were.

Let's read that sentence back now.

Thousands of silver stars in the inky-black sky twinkled gently.

Definitely more descriptive and more detailed for my reader.

Hopefully now they'll be really be able to imagine the stars in the sky.

This time, there are two nouns in this sentence.

You can rewrite this sentence and add expanded noun phrases around clouds and or sky.

So you can do both or just one If you want to.

Pause the recording and write your sentence with an expanded noun phrase or maybe two expanded now phrases now.

I added more detail to the noun clouds.

I wrote a blanket of dense charcoal-gray clouds smothered the sky.

So you can see I added the noun blankets to describe the thick covering of clouds as a blanket.

And then I added the adjective dense and charcoal grey to describe their colour and dense describes that they're really, really thick.

And you can't see the sky through them at all.

I've also included a comma, if you notice to separate the two adjectives because that's a list of adjectives to describe my noun clouds.

What did you write? Maybe you could read it to someone who's with you now.

Lastly I've got another sentence here that I would like you to add expanded noun phrases to to add a bit more description and detail.

At the moment It's a little bit boring.

Let's read it together.

The sun disappeared behind the horizon.

Definitely a need of a bit of description.

You can add an expanded noun phrase to the noun sun or the noun horizon or maybe you could do both.

Pause the recording and write your sentence with expanded noun phrases now.

I added more description to the noun sun.

I described the sun as fiery.

So I use the adjective fiery and I also added more detail using the word with, by saying with golden rays.

Let's read the full sentence.

The fiery sun with golden rays disappeared behind the horizon.

Much more descriptive now.

Maybe you could read your sentence to someone who's with you.

We have reached the end of today's lesson.

I hope that you have learnt a lot about expanded noun phrases and you now feel really confident to use them in your writing to add more description and detail.

I would like you to finish today's lesson by writing four more sentences with expanded noun phrases to describe the following images.

You can see there's an image of the rain, there's an image of trees being blown by the wind.

There's a picture of the sky with rays of sunlight coming through the clouds, and then also we've got a picture there of a landscape with some trees covered in snow.

Try and underline your ENPs your expanded noun phrases, or write them in a different colour so that anyone checking your work can see them really, really easily.

Congratulations, you've completed your lesson today.

If you would like to, please share your work with your parents or carer.

I will see you in your next lesson.

Goodbye.