Lesson video

Hello, it's Miss Chu here, and I'm ready to take you on another learning journey, so let's get started with your English lesson today.

The lesson outcome for today is I can plan the settlement section of a non-chronological report about Anglo-Saxons.

The key words for this lesson are, I'm going to say them and then you, subject-specific vocabulary.

Let's break that up.

Subject-specific.

Your turn.

Brilliant.

Vocabulary.

Excellent.

Plan.

And the last one, notes.

Really good job.

Subject-specific vocabulary is vocabulary used when writing about a particular subject or topic.

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

Notes are short reminders or pieces of information you write down to help you remember things.

The lesson outline for today looks like this.

We will prepare to plan and then we will write our plan, so let's start preparing.

Subject-specific vocabulary are words that are specifically related to the historical period, culture, and society of the Anglo-Saxons.

But what do those words in purple mean? Period is a certain time in the past.

It's already happened.

Culture is the way we do things that make us special and unique.

Society is a large group of people who live together in a community or a country.

Let's quickly check now if we know which words are subject specific.

Animals, warrior, bed, food, people, thatched, and sword.

So I'm looking at words that are related to the Anglo-Saxons, so words that are related to their history, culture, and possibly their language.

They're not words that I would use in my everyday language or in general for general use.

So I would circle warrior because I think that's related to the Anglo-Saxons, and I don't use that every day.

The word thatched because that's related to a type of material that they used for their houses.

And also sword because it's a weapon that they used to protect themselves.

Okay, get ready to point to the words that you think are subject specific.

The first one is kingdom.

That's right.

Yes, the Anglo-Saxon period was characterised by the existence of kingdoms, and each one was ruled by its own king.

Shield, so that relates to the sword, the other subject-specific word that I had circled previously because this is what they used to protect themselves in battle.

So battle is the last word that we're going to circle here because this refers to their struggles for power.

They had lots of military conflicts with other groups of people.

Let's look at what a typical Anglo-Saxon house was made from.

The first thing we're going to look at is the roof.

The roof was made out of thatch.

Can you say thatch? Brilliant.

And what thatch is is a combination of wattle and daub.

Repeat wattle and daub.

Brilliant.

Wattle is a process of weaving flexible branches in between a mix of mud, straw, and sticks, which is what daub is.

The main structure of the house was made out of timber, which is wood.

Let's do a quick check for understanding.

Which of these are parts of an Anglo-Saxon house? Is it a, wattle and daub, b, bricks, c, thatched roof, and d, timber.

Pause the video and point to the one that you think they are.

Okay, let's check.

Get ready to point in three, two, one.

The first one is wattle and daub.

Well done.

Second one.

Thatched roof.

And do we have another one? Is it bricks or is it, yes, it is timber.

Well done.

Wattle and daub is what is used to thatch the roof together, and timber is what the main structure of the house is made from.

Anglo-Saxon houses were different sizes and quality, and this varied among the social classes, but typically they were called a hall house and they were always rectangular in shape.

The kings and the nobles, who were at the top of the social structure, they had much larger houses and more elaborate.

That means that there was more detail into how they built them.

Okay, let's do a quick check for understanding.

Which of the following is true of Anglo-Saxon homes? Was it a, the house sizes were all the same, b, houses were rectangular, c, houses had thatched roofs, or d, kings and nobles lived in smaller homes? Pause the video and have a think about which of these is true.

Okay, get ready to point with me.

So the first one is b, the houses were rectangular.

And the next one is, yes, the houses had thatched roofs.

The houses were not all the same size, so that a is not correct.

And the kings and nobles did not live in smaller homes, so d is also incorrect.

Let's go inside an Anglo-Saxon house and have a little look.

In the main living area, which was called the hall, it was very large and open.

Can you see from that picture? It was heated by the central hearth, which is in the middle.

Can you see a little fire pit? This central hearth was the fireplace, and it was the main living area of the home.

So this is where they did their cooking, and this is where they did their socialising.

True or false? The central hearth, which was in the middle of the room, was used only for cooking.

True or false? Point to the right answer.

Get ready in three, two, one.

Yes, that's right.

It is false.

Is it false because it was used for sleeping or is it false because it was used for cooking and it was used for heating? Yes, that's right.

It is b.

It was used for cooking and heating their house.

Let's have a look now at a typical Anglo-Saxon society and how it was structured.

So at the very top, we had our kings and nobles, very important people, then below them were the landowners and the warriors, and underneath them were the commoners, and then at the very bottom were the enslaved people.

Let's look at what an Anglo-Saxon community looks like.

So typically the chief, which is the most important person in the village, the king or the noble, lived in the biggest house.

This would normally be in the centre of the village, and this is where they would hold very important meetings.

All the smaller houses where the other families lived were around the larger house in the village.

Some of these smaller houses were buildings that were kept for specific reasons, for example, they might be workshops or storage units, and then nearby they would have their livestock.

True or false? Kings and nobles had the largest houses in the village.

Get ready to point to the answer in three, two, one.

Yes, it was true.

And why is that? Because kings and nobles had the same size houses as commoners or kings and nobles had larger houses with more resources? Yes, it is b, kings and nobles had larger houses with more resources.

I'd like you to start your task now.

Fill in the blanks with the words below in the rectangular box.

I'm going to read it to you now.

Anglo-Saxon houses were typically made of timber, mm and mm and they had mm roofs.

The most common type was called the mm house, which was a mm shaped building.

These houses had central hearths for mm and heating.

Kings and nobles lived in mm and more elaborate houses.

And these are the words that you can use to fill in the blanks.

Larger, wattle, hall, daub, rectangular, cooking, and thatched.

Pause the video now and have a go at doing this task.

Let's have a look now to see if you have filled in the blanks correctly.

Anglo-Saxon houses were typically made of timber, mm and mm.

So I have wattle and daub.

You could have put daub and wattle.

That's fine.

And they had mm roofs.

Thatched.

Well done.

The most common type was called the, say it with me, hall house.

Which was a what shaped building? Rectangular.

Well done.

These houses had central hearths for what and heating? Cooking and heating.

Kings and nobles lived in mm.

What's our last word that we haven't used in our rectangular box? Larger and more elaborate houses.

Well done.

Now we are on to the second part of our learning cycle.

We've prepared to plan, and now we're going to write our plan.

When we write a plan, we use notes.

What are notes? Notes are concise and capture key 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.

Subheading and then our bullet points underneath that.

We use subheadings to organise our bullet points.

They are an important part of organising notes.

Let's do a quick check.

What is in a plan? Is it a, bullet points for notes, b, full sentences with capital letters and full stops, c, subject-specific vocabulary, or d, unnecessary information? Pause the video and have a go.

Okay, let's have a look to see what the right answers are.

Yes, a, bullet points for notes, and c, subject-specific vocabulary.

Well done.

We are now onto a writing task.

I would like you to write the first subheading, housing, and then underline it.

Below that, I'd like you to write three main facts that you have learned about Anglo-Saxon houses using subject-specific vocabulary.

For example, you might want to describe what the houses were made of.

Timber, wattle and daub.

They had thatched roofs.

You might want to describe the shape of the houses.

You might also want to tell us what a common house is called.

Additionally, you might want to tell us what is inside an Anglo-Saxon house, the central hearth, which is used for cooking and heating.

Pause the video and write your three facts about Anglo-Saxon houses remembering that when we write notes, we don't need to use capital letters and full stops because they're not full sentences, and you're just writing the key words that will help you to remember the facts about their houses.

Good luck.

Off you go.

I'm going to show you what my plan looks like.

So I've got my housing subheading, which I've underlined with a ruler, and then I have my three bullet points underneath that.

My first bullet point is made of timber, thatched roofs, wattle and daub.

And I've just written the key words because I just need them to remind me about what the houses were made out of.

I'm not at this point writing full sentences.

My second bullet point is that they are called a hall house, a common type of Anglo-Saxon house is a hall house, and it's rectangular.

Then my last bullet point was about the central hearths, which were used for cooking and heating.

This time I would like you to write your second subheading, social structure, and then underline it with a ruler.

Beneath that subheading, you're going to write three main facts about Anglo-Saxon social structure using subject-specific vocabulary.

I'm going to give you a clue.

You might want to include some facts about the kings and the nobles, then you might want to talk about the commoners, and then your last bullet point might be a fact about the enslaved people.

And remember, we are not using capital letters and full stops because we're not writing a full sentence.

We're just using the key words in our notes.

Pause the video and have a go.

These are my notes.

I've written the subheading, social structure, and I've underlined it with a ruler.

Beneath that, I've got my three bullet points.

The first one is I've written top, kings and nobles, larger homes and more resources.

Second bullet point, below them, landowners, warriors and commoners, smaller homes.

Bottom of the social structure are enslaved people, basic homes.

I would like you to copy into your blank table examples of the following.

I would like you to do three formal fronted adverbials, write two viewpoint fronted adverbials, and write one fronted adverbial of cause.

These are some examples that you could choose from: also, in addition to this, furthermore, however, despite this.

Choose three from that list.

For your viewpoint fronted adverbials: impressively, intriguingly, and significantly.

Choose two from there.

And then we have, as a result, as a consequence, as our fronted adverbials of cause, and you just need to choose one from there.

Pause the video and have a go at copying some of these into your table.

I'm going to show you some of the ones I chose for my plan.

For my formal fronted adverbials I chose in addition to this, furthermore, because I might want to build on a previous idea or sentence.

And I also popped in, however, because I might want to say a sentence that is opposing a sentence that I've just previously said.

My viewpoint fronted adverbials I chose were intriguingly and significantly.

And then as a result was my fronted adverbial of cause.

In summary, a plan is a framework that writers create before they begin to 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.

And lastly, bullet points are used in note taking.

I hope you have enjoyed planning a section about Anglo-Saxon farming.