Lesson video

Hello.

My name's Mrs. Smart.

In this lesson, we are going to be revising our knowledge of word class.

In this lesson, you will need an exercise book or some lined paper, a pencil or a pen, just something to write with, and of course, you're going to need your brain.

It needs to be switched on so that you can fully focus on this lesson and make sure that you are learning.

If you don't have any paper or anything to write with with you right now, just pause the recording and go and get them.

Here is the agenda for our lesson today.

We're going to start with a writing warm-up.

Then we'll move on to recapping word class, so going over what you already know about word class to remind you.

Next, we're going to apply our knowledge of word class in sentences, and we'll finish with your independent task.

For your writing warm-up, I would like you to write the sentences below and match them with the correct sentence type.

So I'll read the three sentences for you.

The dog sat on the fluffy rug.

As the rain began to pour, the children raced inside.

The children wore coats, but they still felt cold.

And next to each sentence, I want you to write is it a simple sentence, a compound sentence, or a complex sentence? And I'll give you a clue.

There's one of each type.

Pause the recording and complete your task now.

Let's go through the answers.

So our simple sentence was the dog sat on the fluffy rug.

The reason why that's a simple sentence is because it's one main clause that makes sense on its own, and it's got one verb.

Can you spot the verb? Well done.

The verb is sat.

The complex sentence was this one.

As the rain began to pour, the children raced inside.

The reason that's a complex sentence is because it's got at least one subordinate clause, as the rain began to pour, and the subordinate clause does not make sense on its own.

It also starts with a subordinating conjunction, as, which gives me another clue that it's a subordinate clause, and that's with a main clause, the children raced inside.

That does make sense on its own, so that's a main clause.

The compound sentence was this one.

The children wore coats, but they still felt cold.

This time, our sentence has got two main clauses.

The children wore coats.

They still felt cold.

But those two main causes are joined with a coordinating conjunction.

Our coordination conjunctions are but, or, and.

This sentence uses but.

Well done if you've got that correct.

If you didn't, you can make some corrections on your paper now.

We're now going to recap what a noun is and what an adjective is.

So what is a noun? A noun is a PPT, a person, place or thing.

Can you say that for me? And noun is a PPT, a person, place or thing.

Excellent.

What is an adjective? An adjective describes a noun; it tells us what it's like.

Your turn.

Great.

So can you remember, what is a noun? Is it option one, a person, place or thing, or is it option two, describes a noun; it tells us what it's like? Make your choice now.

Point to either option one or option two.

In three, two, one, and point! Well done.

It was option one.

A noun is a person, place or thing.

Can you remember, what is an adjective? Is it option one or option two? Pointing in three, two, one.

Point! Well done.

Option two is an adjective.

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

We're now going to recap what a verb and an adverb are.

What is a verb? A verb is a doing or a being word.

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

Your turn.

Excellent.

What is an adverb? An adverb describes a verb; it often ends L-Y.

Your turn.

Brilliant.

Can you remember, what is a verb? Is it option one, a doing or a being word? If you do it or you are it, then the word is a.

Or is it option two.

It describes a verb; it often ends L-Y.

Make your choice in three, two, one, and point! 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.

Excellent.

What is an adverb? Is it option one or option two? Make your choice in three, two, one, and point! Option two.

An adverb describes a verb; it often ends in L-Y.

Well done.

In the next part of this lesson, you are going to apply your knowledge of word class to sentences.

I would like you to write the two sentences below and underline the nouns to start with.

I'll read the sentences to you.

The big fluffy dog raced swiftly through the vast fields.

The young girl skipped happily to the gate.

So you need to carefully copy both those sentences down onto your lined paper, and then underline the nouns.

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

Pause the recording, and off you go.

Here are the nouns that you have hopefully identified in those two sentences.

Hopefully you have found the noun dog, fields, girl, and gate.

Next I want you to identify the adjectives in these two sentences.

Draw an arrow to point out the adjectives, just like I've done below the word adjectives in the title.

You don't need to rewrite the sentences.

Just use the sentences that you've already written.

Off you go.

Here are the adjectives in those two sentences.

Big, fluffy both describe the noun dog.

Vast describes the noun fields.

Vast means really, really big.

Young describes the noun girl, and that's all of our adjectives.

So we had one, two, three, four adjectives.

Hopefully you found them all.

If you missed any or you got any incorrect, just check or correct your answers now.

Now I would like you to circle the verbs.

Remember, verbs are a doing or a being word.

So read through the sentences that you've already written on your paper, and draw a circle around the verbs.

Pause the recording and have a go.

Here are the verbs in those two sentences.

We have the verb raced and the verb skipped.

Check or correct your answers now.

Lastly, I would like you to identify the adverbs.

This time, I want you to draw a square around the adverbs.

Pause the recording and have a go.

Here are the adverbs in those two sentences.

The first one was swiftly, which describes the verb raced, and in the second sentence, there was the adverb happily, which describes the verb skipped.

You'll notice both of these adverbs end with L-Y.

Not all words that end with L-Y are adverbs, and not all adverbs end in L-Y, but it is quite a common ending.

Right, let's do one more recap of our word class.

What is a noun? Is it option one, a doing or a being word? If you do it or you are it, then the word is a.

Is it option two? It describes a verb; it often ends L-Y.

Option three, a person, place or thing? Or option four, describes a noun; it tells us what it's like.

Make your decision in three, two, one, and point! Option three.

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

Well done if you got that right.

What is an adjective? Option one, option two, option three, or option four? Make your decision in three, two, one, and point! Well done.

An adjective describes a noun; it tell us what it's like.

What is a verb? Option one, two, three, or four? Make your decision in three, two, one, and point! 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.

Well done.

Lastly, what is an adverb? Option one, two, three, or four? Make your decision in three, two, one, and point! Excellent.

An adverb describes a verb; it often ends in L-Y.

Great job.

You now have another opportunity to apply your knowledge of word class to sentences.

I would like you to write the sentences below and identify the nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs.

You need to underline the nouns, draw an arrow up to the adjectives, circle the verbs, and put a square around the adverbs.

I'll read the two sentences to you now.

The calm, microscopic man crept stealthily around the enormous house.

Anxious about upstairs, Homily tiptoed calmly under the floorboards.

Pause the recording, write the sentences, and identify those four different word class.

Off you go.

Let's go through the answers.

We'll start with the first sentence.

At the beginning, we have two adjectives, calm and microscopic.

Both of these describe the noun man.

Next we have the verb crept, and the adverb stealthily describes how the man crept around the enormous house.

Enormous as an adjective describing the noun house.

Pause the recording and check or correct your first sentence.

Let's have a look at the second sentence.

We start with the adjective anxious about upstairs, which is a noun.

Homily is also a noun.

Homily, you will notice, starts with a capital letter.

That's because this is actually a proper noun, the name of a person.

I'm sure your name also starts with a capital letter, because your name is also a proper noun.

Then we had the verb tiptoed and the adverb calmly.

Under the floorboards was our final noun.

Pause the recording and check or correct your answers.

I would now like you to organise these words into the correct word class.

The four word class categories that we're looking at are verb, adverb, noun, and adjective.

I suggest you write those as full titles on your piece of paper, and then under or next to each of those titles, you're going to write the words that correspond to that word class.

The words that you're organising are little, ran, table, laughed, smelly, curiously, house, crept, Arietty, and happily.

You'll notice that Arietty has a capital letter.

That's because it's a proper noun, the name of a character, just like Homily was a proper noun, because that was also a name of a character.

Now, when we look at words on their own, sometimes they can be more than one word class, depending on the context of the sentence, but each of these should just be one word class.

One way to help you identify the word class is to say or write the word in a sentence.

So if you're a little bit stuck on any of the words, that might be something that you can do.

Pause the recording and organise these words into the correct word class category now.

Right, let's go through the answers.

So in our verb category, we should have had the verbs ran, laughed, and crept.

You'll notice all of these three verbs are in the past tense, but they all have different spellings.

They don't all follow the regular past tense verb spelling pattern of adding E-D.

Now let's have a look at the adverbs, curiously and happily.

Both of these adverbs have L-Y on the end.

Remember, not all adverbs have L-Y on the end, and not all words that end in L-Y are adverbs.

Then in our noun category, we should have table, Arietty, and house.

In our adjective category, we should have smelly and little.

Check or correct your answers now.

The last task I would like you to complete in this lesson is the following.

Write two sentences of your own, and show each word class you have used.

So you can identify your word class in the same way that we did earlier.

Underline the nouns, arrow up to the adjectives, circle the verbs, and square around the adverbs.

You can use the words that we've organised within your sentences, because you already know the word class of those words, so that might help you.

Pause the video to complete your task, and resume once you're finished.

Here was the agenda for today's lesson.

We started with a writing warm-up where we identified the three different types of sentence, simple, compound, and complex.

Then we recapped word class.

We thought about the definitions of those four different word class, noun, adjective, verb, and adverb.

We then moved on to applying our knowledge and identifying word class in sentences.

And lastly, you completed your independent task, sorting those words into the four different word class, and then using them in your own sentences.

Congratulations.

You have completed your lesson today.

Well done for all of your hard work.

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

Goodbye!.