Lesson video

In this lesson, you will need an exercise book or some paper, a pencil or something to write with and your brain must be switched on ready for our learning.

If you need to go and get anything, pause the video and go and get it now.

For today's lesson, we will start with a Writing warm-up, then we'll move on to Speech first, and we're going to be looking at Speech second, and then finally, you're going to do an Independent task.

Okay.

Let's have a look at the Writing warmup.

I would like you to draw a mind map and write as many synonyms for 'said', as you can.

What synonyms for 'said', can you come up with? I've given you two examples already.

We've got mumbled and questioned.

I want you to pause the video and have a go at writing down as many synonyms for 'said', as you can.

Okay.

Let's have a look at the Writing warm-up.

So I have made my own mind map and I have written down as many synonyms for 'said' that I could think of.

I want you to have a look at my ideas, and if you would like to, you can write down some of my ideas and add them to your brilliant list of synonyms for 'said'.

Let's have a look.

So we have answered to answer a question, replied used in a conversation to reply to someone, we've got responded.

Again, responding to someone, we have murmured to speaking in a very low voice, he murmured it.

We have screamed.

We have explained to explain something.

We have stated, exclaimed, and shouted.

If you want to, you can write down some of my ideas and add them to your synonyms for 'said'.

Okay, let's have a look at Speech first.

Speech first is when the speech comes first and the synonym for 'said', the name of the speaker, and the action comes second.

So we have a speech sandwich here.

I always start with my bread, then I have my filling, and then the other slice of bread to top off my sandwich, along with the synonym for 'said', and the name of the speaker.

For my first slice of bread, to start off my speech, I must remember my inverted commas.

My inverted commas must come at the start of my speech.

Once I have looked at my inverted commas, I then need to remember my capital letter, and then I need to contain my filling of my speech.

I need to have my speech sentence.

When I come to the end of my speech sentence, I must remember to either include a comma, an exclamation mark, or a question mark.

Okay? When might I use a question mark in speech? You can say it to your screen.

That's absolutely right.

Only when the speaker is asking a question.

I might use an exclamation mark when they are speaking very loudly or they are shouting something out.

But usually, when I'm writing speech, I will use a comma.

After my comma, exclamation mark, or question mark, I then need to remember that other slice of bread my inverted commas, and then after my inverted commas, I have my synonym for 'said'.

'Said' is not a very exciting way to express how someone is saying something.

So instead, I'm going to use a synonym for 'said'.

In our writing warmup, we looked at lots of synonyms for 'said', and then must remember the name of the speaker.

The name of the speaker always has to have a capital letter.

Is someone's name.

And then finally I can add some action and some extra information to my speech.

I might want to add an adverb to describe how the person is saying something, or I might want to add action, something they were doing while they were speaking.

Okay.

So let's have a look at some Speech first sentences.

Using the speech sandwich, which of these sentences is punctuated correctly.

So we've just looked at the speech sandwich, we must have our inverted commas, a capital letter, then we have our speech, a comma, question mark, or exclamation mark, and our inverted commas.

And then we must include a synonym for 'said', and the name of the speaker.

Have a look at the two speech sentences below.

I would like you to have a go at figuring out which one has been punctuated correctly, which is using the correct punctuation.

Use the speech sandwich to help you work out, which of these sentences has the correct speech punctuation.

I'm going to read the speech sentence to you, and then I want you to pause the video and have a go.

So " We should go to the shops," mumbled Mark quietly.

Okay.

So I want you to have a look at these sentences, which one has the correct speech punctuation.

Pause the video and have a go.

Well done for having a go and looking at the speech sandwich, and which of these sentences has been punctuated correctly? Did you find out which one had been punctuated correctly? Yes, of course, you did.

Let's have a look together and figure out which of the sentences is punctuated correctly.

So we're going to use the speech sandwich to have a look at each of the sentences.

In the first sentence.

I can see that it's already included that inverted commas so I can see that that is correct.

However, there's something missing.

Can you tell me what's missing from the start of that sentence? Absolutely right.

The capital letter is missing.

That should be a capital W.

"We should go to the shops," mumbled Mark quietly.

I can see after shops, we have the comma.

So that is the end of the speech sentence, but there's something missing.

Can you tell me what's missing? You're absolutely right.

The second set of inverted commas is missing from that sentence.

Mumbled is a great synonym for 'said', and we've got Mark using a capital letter.

That's the name of the person speaking and quietly is the extra information it's telling us how he said it.

So that's great, but we're still missing our capital letter and the second set of inverted commas.

Let's look at the next sentence and double-check that this one is punctuated correctly.

We have our inverted commas to start with and a capital W.

We should go to the shop comma at the end of this speech sentence and our inverted commas again, mumbled Mark quietly.

So there we have a correctly punctuated speech sentence.

Was that the one that you looked at too? Absolutely.

I knew you would be able to use the speech sandwich to find the correct sentence.

Well done.

Okay.

Let's have a look at another set of Speech first sentences.

Again, I want you to use this speech sandwich to help you find the sentence that is using the correct punctuation.

I'm going to read the speech sentence to you, and I want you to pause the video and have a go at finding the sentence with the correct punctuation.

"Do you want to go to the park?" questioned Ali cheerfully.

Pause the video and use the speech sandwich to find the correctly punctuated sentence.

Okay.

Let's have a look at the speech first sentences and try to find the one that is punctuated correctly.

Did you manage to find it? Of course, you did.

Let's have a look together and look through each of our sentences.

So the first sentence says, do you want to go to the park? Questioned Ali cheerfully.

We've got inverted commas at the start of the sentence.

We have a capital D.

Then we've got the speech sentence.

And it's a question and they've included that question mark.

So that's great.

We also then have the inverted commas at the end of our sandwich, questioned as a synonym for 'said' , the name of the person, Ali with a capital letter, and then some extra information, he said it cheerfully.

So that speech sentence is correct.

In the second speech sentence, we have the inverted commas at the beginning and the capital D so that's great.

Do you want to go to the park is a question and unfortunately this sentence has a comma, so it doesn't work.

That's the missing piece.

We need a question mark whenever we're asking a question.

It then has the inverted commas, which is great and a synonym for 'said' and the name with a capital letter.

But unfortunately, missing that question mark means that sentence isn't punctuated correctly.

Did you manage to find that sentence? Well done.

Well done for finding the correctly punctuated sentence.

Fantastic job of finding those Speech first sentences that are punctuated correctly.

Now I would like you to pause the video and have a go at punctuating this Speech first sentence for yourself.

The sentence is, this rope is too heavy, exclaimed Pod sharply.

Use the speech sandwich to help you.

Pause the video and punctuate this Speech first sentence.

Well done for having a go at punctuating your first Speech first sentence.

We have the sentence.

This rope is too heavy exclaimed Pod sharply.

Let's have a look at how to punctuate it.

We need to remember, first of all, our inverted commas.

So I've got my inverted commas and then my capital T for 'this'.

This rope is too heavy.

I've then used an exclamation mark.

My synonym for 'said' is exclaimed.

So I decided to use an exclamation mark here.

Then I must remember my inverted commas, my synonym for 'said' is exclaimed, Pod is the name of the speaker, and he has a capital letter and he exclaimed it sharply.

So that's my action, my extra information, and I must remember my full stop.

I can also punctuate this sentence slightly differently.

I have to remember my inverted commas.

This rope is too heavy.

I've got my capital T for 'this'.

After heavy, I've now put a comma.

I could use a comma here instead of an exclamation mark if I'd like to.

I then remember my inverted commas again, my synonym for 'said' is exclaimed, Pod with a capital P, and sharply my extra information to describe how he said it with my full stop.

Well done if you manage to punctuate your sentence in one of those ways.

Okay, so now we're going to look at Speech second.

Speech second is when the name of the speaker, the synonym for 'said', and the action comes first and the speech comes second.

We've still got our speech sandwich, but this time it is coming second in our sentence, rather than first.

We start off our sentence with a capital letter for the name of the speaker.

We then have a synonym for 'said' to make our writing exciting.

Here we can add in some action and some extra information.

You might want to add an adverb that is describing how the person is talking or an action of what they are doing.

We then must remember this time to have a comma after our action, just before we start our Speech second.

At the start of our Speech second sandwich, we must include again, our inverted commas.

Then we remember our capital letter for our speech.

We have our speech filling, our speech within our sandwich, and then we get to our either full stop, exclamation mark, or question mark.

This time it's a full stop because the speech second is at the end of the sentence.

We can still use an exclamation mark and a question mark too.

Finally, we remember the last of our sandwich, our final inverted commas.

Okay, so now we're going to look at the same sentences as before, but this time they are written as Speech second.

Using the speech sandwich, I would like you to have a look at the sentences and decide which one is punctuated correctly.

Remember this time it is Speech second.

Use the guide along the top of this page to help you.

Pause the video and have a go at looking at these sentences.

Okay, so let's have a look at our Speech second sentences.

So we're going to use the speech sandwich for Speech second to help us with these sentences.

They're the same sentences from Speech first, this time they've been switched around.

So the name and the synonym for 'said', and the action or the extra information comes first and the speech comes second.

Let's have a look at the first one.

We have Mark with a capital M to start of our sentence and the name of a person.

Mumbled, our synonym for 'said', quietly the action, comma we've remembered our comma that's great at the start of the speech.

We then have inverted commas and a capital W.

We should go to the shops full stop with an inverted commas at the end.

Great speech punctuation.

For the second sentence, let's have a look at the punctuation.

We've got a capital M for Mark.

It's the name of the person speaking, we've got mumbled again, our synonym for 'said', quietly our action or extra information for how Mark is mumbling.

Then there's something missing.

Can you tell me what's missing from this speech sentence? You're absolutely right, we're missing that comma before the speech sentence.

We've got the inverted commas, the capital W, we should go to the shops full stop and there's something else that's missing.

Can you tell me what else is missing from this sentence? You're absolutely right.

The last set of inverted commas is missing.

Therefore, the first sentence is exactly the way we should punctuate Speech second.

The second sentence is just missing a couple of pieces of punctuation.

Well done if you managed to spot the correct sentence.

Okay, let's have a look at another one.

We've got the same Speech first sentence as before this time switched around again, and we're going to use the speech sandwich for Speech second to help us find the correctly punctuated sentence.

The sentence says, Ali question cheerfully, do you want to go to the park? I want you now to pause the video and have a look, which of these sentences is punctuated correctly the Speech second.

Pause the video and have a go.

Okay.

Let's check through those Speech second sentences.

So we had Ali questioned cheerfully, do you want to go to the park? Let's have a look at the first one and see if the punctuation is correct.

We have our capital A for Ali, the name of the speaker.

Questioned is our synonym for 'said', but hang on, there's a problem here.

What's wrong with questioned? It's got a capital Q, does it need a capital Q? Absolutely not.

No need for a capital Q.

It is not at the start of the sentence.

Well done for noticing that.

Ali questioned cheerfully.

We have our action and the extra information, the way he is questioning.

We've got our comma after cheerfully.

Great start to our speech sentence.

We've got inverted commas and, Oh, there's something missing at the start.

Can you tell me what it is? We're missing our capital letter at the start of a speech sentence.

The D needs to be in a capital letter.

Do you want to go to the park is a question.

And therefore we've used a question mark, which is great, but there's something else that's missing.

Can you tell me what it is? Absolutely right.

We're missing our second set of inverted commas.

Let's look at the second sentence and double-check that it is correct.

Ali, capital letter, the name of the speaker, questioned synonym for 'said'.

Cheerfully, our extra information to say how he's saying it.

Great.

We've got our comma to start off our speech sentence.

Then our inverted commas, and a capital D.

Do you want to go to the park with a question mark because it is asking a question and the final set of inverted commas.

This is the correct way to punctuate the Speech second sentence.

Well done if you noticed that that was the correct sentence.

Okay.

So now we've had a go at looking for the correctly punctuated sentences.

I would like you to punctuate the sentence below using Speech second, you can use the speech sandwich to help you.

The sentence is, Homily announced anxiously where have you been? I want you to pause the video and use the speech sandwich to help you punctuate the Speech second sentence.

Pause the video and have a go.

Well done for having a go at punctuating the Speech second sentence.

Let's have a look through together.

We have Homily with a capital H for her name, announced as a synonym for 'said', anxiously, she's announcing it anxiously, that's the extra information to add on to our synonym.

We need a comma to start off our Speech second, after the comma we need a inverted commas, there's something missing here.

I need to make sure that the start of my speech has what? You're absolutely right.

That needs to be a capital letter.

So we've got our W as a capital letter, where have you been is a question, so I need a question mark.

And then the last set of inverted commas.

Well done.

If you punctuated your Speech second sentence exactly like this.

Great job.

Okay.

So before we start the Independent task, I just wanted to recap everything we've done today.

Today, we've looked at Speech first using our speech sentence first, and our speech sandwich, our synonym for 'said' the name of the speaker with a capital letter and extra information or action at the end of the sentence.

We also looked at Speech second, where the name and the synonym for 'said', come at the beginning of the sentence with the action or extra information.

We then have our speech sandwich at the end of the sentence.

Really well done at focusing and working so hard at using Speech first and Speech second.

I'm going to now introduce you to your Independent task.

Okay, now for your independent task, I would like you to make up your own speech sentences using the table below.

I would like you to punctuate them as Speech first and Speech second.

In the first column, you have examples of speech.

Where are you going, I love my school, get out of my room.

In the middle column.

You have synonyms for 'said', and names.

And then in the final column, you have extra information that you can add to your speech sentence.

Pause the video, and have a go at this task.

Okay.

Let's have a look at an example of Speech first from the Independent task.

So I used the speech, where are you going, I then use my synonym for 'said' and name as questioned David, and then my extra information of how he said it, I put angrily.

So now I'm going to punctuate this sentence using Speech first and Speech second.

So let's start with speech first.

At the start of my speech first and my speech sandwich, I must remember my inverted commas.

I've then got my capital letter for where.

Where are you going, is a question, and therefore, I'm going to use a question mark.

I'm then going to use my second set of inverted commas.

I have my synonym for 'said', as questioned.

I have the name with a capital letter, David, and how he said it angrily at the end.

I must remember my full stop.

Let's have a look at this sentence as Speech second.

So for Speech second, I have the same sentence, just the other way round I've used David questioned as part of my Speech second, the start of my Speech second and angrily again, and where are you going.

So let's have a look at the punctuation.

I've got David with a capital D.

It's the name of a person, questioned my synonym for 'said', angrily how he said it, and then the start of my Speech second, I need a comma.

I've got my comma in there, and then I need my inverted commas to start off my speech using a capital letter at the start for where, where are you going is a question, again I need a question mark, and then finally my last set of inverted commas.

Well done, if you've managed to punctuate each of your sentences for Speech first and Speech second.

Congratulations, you have finished your 10th lesson of this writing unit.

Well done for practising your Speech first and Speech second, and applying it to your independent task.

In the next lesson, we are going to carry on with our writing unit for the borrowers.