Lesson video

Hello everyone.

My name's Mrs. Riley and I'm here today to teach you some new vocabulary.

The words we're learning in today's lesson are associated with stormy weather, but as you'll see, these words are going to be useful in lots of other contexts as well.

So let's get started.

The outcome of today's lesson is to use the words lashing, tempestuous, and torrential effectively in multiple contexts.

These are all key words for today's lesson.

These are words that are going to be really important for our learning today.

So let's start off by saying them out loud.

My turn and then your turn.

Noun, adjective, etymology, synonym, word pair.

Well done.

Let's find out what they mean.

A noun is a naming word for people, places, or things.

An adjective is a word that describes a noun.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and the ways their meanings have changed over time.

So what that means is we, it's like looking at the history of a word.

So if you take any word, it has a history.

Often it has come from a Latin word or maybe an old French word.

And so we can look at that word and look at the history of it, and it will help us to really understand that word very well.

A synonym is a word that has the same or similar meaning to another word.

And word pairs are words that often appear together.

So in our lesson today, we're going to be learning some adjectives, so words that describe a noun.

We will be looking at synonyms for each word, so words that have a similar meaning.

And we'll be looking at word pairs.

So words that often appear together.

So all of these words will be very important in our learning today.

In our lesson, we have three learning cycles, and in each learning cycle we'll be learning a new stormy word.

So let's start with our first stormy word.

Now, before I tell you what this word is, I would first like us to look very closely at this Mrs. Wordsmith picture.

This is Bogart the Fly.

Can you describe what is happening here? How would you describe Bogart and how would you describe the rain? Pause the video while you think about that now.

Well done.

In this picture, Bogart the fly is being hit by some quite big raindrops, quite, they look like quite big, heavy raindrops, and one of them has knocked him right on the back of his head and it looks like it's hit him so hard that one of his teeth has flown out of his mouth and he looks quite shocked by it.

So this seems to have something to do with heavy rain.

Let's find out what this word is.

Lashing, my turn, your turn, lashing.

Lashing is an adjective.

It means thrashing or beating like heavy rain smacking you in the face.

These words are synonyms of lashings.

They have a similar meaning, beating, battering, thrashing.

And here's the word in a sentence.

"The lashing downpour battered poor Bogart knocking his tooth out." These words are word pairs of lashing.

Lashing waves.

So if we go back to our definition, thrashing or beating.

So just picture thrashing or beating waves.

Imagine you were swimming in the sea and there were lashing waves that were thrashing or beating down on you.

It would be very hard to swim in that sea.

Lashing hail.

So hail is like rain, but it's like little drops, little, it's like little balls of ice.

So again, it would be quite painful if there was lashing hail falling on you.

A lashing downpour.

A downpour is like a sudden burst of rain.

A bit like what Bogart is experiencing here.

Lashing wind.

So wind that's almost as if it's thrashing or beating you.

A lashing tail.

Imagine an animal with a lashing tail beating it from side to side.

And finally lashing rain.

So could you pause the video now and read these word pairs out loud just as I did? Off you go.

Well done.

Let's check what we just learned.

Which of these words is a synonym for lashing? A, beating B, wet, or C, downpour? Pause the video while you think about your answer.

Well done.

The correct answer is A, beating is a synonym for lashing.

It's time for your first task.

In this task, you have a word map with the word lashing in the middle.

Around the word lashing, there are either synonyms or word pairs.

First I'd like you to circle the synonyms and then I'd like you to draw a line from lashing to each word pair.

And perhaps as you do it, you can say the word pairs out loud.

Here's a sentence to help you.

"The lashing down pour battered poor Bogart, knocking his tooth out." If the word is a synonym, you might be able to replace it with the word lashing in that sentence.

So that's a little trick that could help you if you are a bit unsure if a word is a synonym or a word pair.

Could you pause the video now while you complete this task? Well done.

Let's look at the answers together.

The synonyms are beating, battering and thrashing.

The word pairs are lashing waves, lashing hail, lashing downpour, lashing wind, lashing tail, and lashing rain.

We're now going to have a go at writing a sentence using the word lashing.

Use the word pairs to help you, here they are.

Who are you gonna write your sentence about? You could write it about a Mrs. Wordsmith character like Bogart the Fly.

You could write it about a character from a unit of work you are studying at school.

You could write it about a character from the book you are currently reading.

You could even write it about a friend or about yourself.

So first of all, think about who you are going to write your sentence about and then pick one of those word pairs so you know you're using this word really appropriately.

For example, lashing tail.

And then you can think about your sentence built around that word pair.

So pause the video now while you have a go at writing your own sentence.

Well done.

Let's look at an example sentence together.

"The lashing downpour battered the roof of the hut until water started to drip through." So let's think about does this sentence use lashing correctly? And is it an effective sentence? Well, first of all, I can see I have a word pair, the lashing downpour.

So I know I've used the word correctly.

I have got this phrase battered the roof, and that shows me that the rain beat down heavily.

I've also got this extra detail that the rain has actually started to drip through the roof.

And again, that shows how heavy the downpour was.

So all these little elements of my sentence all help to build this picture of a lashing downpour, a very heavy downpour.

Could you perhaps pause the video and see, look, check how effective your sentence is.

Perhaps you might even be able to improve your sentence by adding in a bit of extra detail that really shows what that word lashing means.

Pause the video now.

Well done.

It's always really good to go back and read through our work and check it.

Let's look at another example sentence.

"The cat who was lashing its tail from side to side, hissed angrily." Again, does this sentence use lashing correctly? Is it an effective sentence? Well, I can see straight away that I have the word pair tail, a lashing tail, the cat who is lashing its tail.

I've got this extra detail from side to side, which shows the cat is thrashing its tail and moving it frantically.

So yes, I think this sentence uses the word lashing effectively.

We're now going to look at our second new stormy word.

Have a look at this picture.

What is happening here? This is Armie, the Armadillo, but how would you describe him in this picture and how would you describe the setting around him? Pause the video now.

Well done.

Poor Armie is in a little tiny rowing boat and it looks like he's on some quite wild seas rowing on wild sea.

There looks like there's very big waves.

And right above him there's a storm cloud with thunder and lightning.

So definitely these conditions look very wild, and I think that's why Armie looks quite terrified in this picture.

Let's find out what this word is, tempestuous.

My turn, your turn.

Tempestuous, well done.

Tempestuous is an adjective.

It means stormy, wild, or violent.

When the wind and the sea are out of control.

You wouldn't want to go sailing or on a rowing boat when the weather is tempestuous, stormy, wild, or violent.

These words are synonyms of tempestuous, violent, stormy, and wild.

And here's the word in a sentence.

"Armie looked out at the crashing waves in the tempestuous sea." Now the etymology, which is one of our key words from today's lesson, remember etymology is when we study the origin of words.

So where they came from and how they've changed over time.

This is from the, this word comes from the Latin word 'temepstas', which means a storm or commotion, which is like lots of hectic activity.

So we can see how this word, the our word, tempestuous, is linked to that Latin word, meaning storm or commotion.

Our word now tempestuous means stormy, wild, or violent.

And we can see how that links there to the storm or commotion definition from the Latin version of this word.

So these words are word pairs of tempestuous.

Tempestuous sea, tempestuous wind, tempestuous weather and a tempestuous voyage.

A voyage is a long journey, usually involving travel by sea or maybe into space.

So imagine a tempestuous voyage, what that would be like.

Okay, could you pause the video now and read these word pairs out loud? Well done.

We've got some more word pairs now.

Tempestuous emotion.

So your emotions are your feelings.

So imagine if you had tempestuous emotions, they would be quite wild, they might be changing.

One minute you might be really, really happy.

And the next minute you might be really angry and then really sad.

So wild and maybe changing quite a lot and quite extreme.

A tempestuous friendship.

Again, maybe you've got some friends who you just get along with all the time and it's, your relationship might just be quite calm, quite peaceful.

But if you had a tempestuous friendship, perhaps you might be best friends one day and then enemies the next day.

Maybe one minute you are laughing together and the next minute you are arguing, that would be quite a tempestuous or wild friendship.

And we can also have a tempestuous relationship.

A relationship is anyone.

You could have lots of different relationships, perhaps with a relationship with your friend or with your family.

So again, a tempestuous relationship might be one where there are extreme highs and extreme lows.

And finally, a tempestuous mood if you were in a wild mood.

Could you pause the video now and read these word pairs out loud? Well done.

Let's check what we've just learned.

Which of these words is a synonym for tempestuous? Is it A, exciting, B, peaceful, or C, wild? Pause the video and answer the question now.

Well done.

The correct answer is C, wild is a synonym for tempestuous.

Okay, we have another word map, this time with tempestuous in the middle.

First, could you circle the synonyms and then could you draw lines to the word pairs? Here's the sentence to help you.

"Armie looked out at the crashing waves in the tempestuous sea." And remember that trick.

If it's a synonym, you might be able to replace it in the sentence with the word tempestuous.

Pause the video while you complete this first part of your task.

Well done.

Let's go through the answers together.

The synonyms are violent, wild, and stormy.

The word pairs are tempestuous voyage, tempestuous sea, tempestuous wind, tempestuous emotion, tempestuous friendship, tempestuous weather and tempestuous relationship.

It's now time to have a go at writing a sentence using this new word, tempestuous.

Use the word pairs to help you.

And you could also turn this word into an adverb by adding L-Y or LY at the end, tempestuously.

An adverb is a word that can describe a verb or an adjective.

Here's the word, here's the adverb in a sentence.

"The wind howled tempestuously." So in this sentence, howled is the verb.

It's the action or the thing that the wind is doing.

And tempestuously is describing how it howled.

So you have lots of choices.

You could use tempestuous with any of those word pairs.

For example, a tempestuous mood.

But you also could take this objective tempestuous and turn it into an adverb tempestuously.

And then think about a verb that could go quite nicely with that adverb, tempestuously, howled tempestuous.

Maybe what else? Maybe be argued tempestuous.

You can think of things that people or things could do in a tempestuous manner.

So could you now pause the video while you have a go at writing your own sentence using either tempestuous or tempestuously.

Well done.

Let's take a look at an example.

"Bogart had a tempestuous relationship with his girlfriend, so they fell out every week." So let's think, does this sentence use tempestuously correctly? Well, I can see here we have the word pair relationship, a tempestuous relationship.

I can also see that they, it says they fell out every week and that shows how stormy or wild their relationship is.

So yes, I think I've used the word tempestuous correctly in this sentence.

Here's another example.

"Their argument escalated quickly and their voices rose impetuously so that everyone in the restaurant could hear them." Let's just picture the scene.

If you want, you can close your eyes.

Imagine that there's two people in a restaurant and they're having an argument and it's maybe starts off quiet, but it escalated.

Think of an escalator going up and up and up.

That the argument escalated, so it started getting bigger and bigger and their voices rose tempestuously wildly so everyone in the restaurant could hear them.

That would be quite embarrassing, wouldn't it? Okay, so does this sentence use tempestuous or in this case we've used it as an adverb tempestuously correctly? Well, I can see that the verb that I'm describing is rose.

Their voices rose.

How did their voices rise? Their voices rise, rose tempestuously in a wild manner.

And I can see that I back that up by saying everyone in the restaurant could hear them.

And also that their argument escalated quickly.

So all those extra details show that this argument they were having was in quite a tempestuous manner.

So everyone in the restaurant can hear them that shows how wild or loud their voices were.

Okay, we're going to look now at our third new stormy word.

The first word, who can remember what the first word was? The picture was of Bogart the Fly.

And there was some heavy rain beating down on him.

Perhaps shout it out to me.

Well done, lashing.

And what was the second word that we just looked up just then to describe the sea or the waves or a relationship or a mood beginning with the letter T? Well done, tempestuous.

Let's find out what our third word is.

What is happening in this picture? This is Brick.

What's happening here? Pause the video now.

Well done.

In this picture, Brick has been, is being hit by some heavy rain that looks like it's burst out of that cloud and it's hit him so hard, it looks like he's falling flat on his face.

So I think this is going to have something to do with heavy rain.

Let's find out what this word is, torrential.

My turn, your turn, torrential.

Torrential is an adjective.

It means falling heavily or forcefully like the rain in a violent storm.

So if you went outside and there were few little drops of rain coming down, you wouldn't describe that as torrential rain.

If it was torrential rain, you would, your umbrella might even get squished by the rain because it was raining so heavily.

If it was torrential rain, you might even say, think sometimes.

If I'm in my car and I'm going into the supermarket and there's torrential rain, I think, "Oh, I'm gonna wait until the rain passes because even with my umbrella, the rain's probably going to splash on my legs and I'm gonna end up getting a little bit wet." So these are synonyms of torrential.

They have a similar meaning.

Heavy, forceful and relentless.

Relentless means nonstop.

"The torrential rain was so heavy that it made Brick fall to the floor with a thud." These are word pairs of torrential.

Torrential downpour which is a heavy burst of rain.

Torrential river, torrential shower, torrential flood, torrential thunderstorm, and finally torrential rain.

Could you pause the video and read those word pairs out loud? Well done.

Let's check what we've just learned.

Which of these words is a word pair of torrential? A, flood, B, bird, C, heavy.

Pause the video now.

Well done.

The correct answer is A, a torrential flood.

You couldn't have a torrential bird.

And heavy is a synonym, not a word pair.

So I'd like you now.

This is our last word map of the day.

To circle the synonyms of torrential and draw lines to the word pairs.

There's a sentence there to help you, pause the video, off you go.

Well done.

Let's take a look at the answers together.

The synonyms are heavy, relentless, and forceful.

The word pairs are torrential river, torrential downfall, torrential shower, torrential flood, torrential thunderstorm, and torrential rain.

We're now going to write our last sentence of today's lesson using the word torrential.

Don't forget to use the word pairs, they're really helpful, but also there's a challenge.

Could you try to start your sentence with a fronted adverbial of place? Here are some examples.

Between the trees, in the sky above, above the city, in the distance.

These all tell us where something happened.

You'll notice that they all have capital letters at the beginning because they start your sentence, which is why they're fronted adverbials.

They come at the front or the start of your sentence, and they all have a comma after them.

You don't have to use one of those examples.

You could use any example which tells you where something is happening.

So we've said in the sky above, or you could say something like in the night sky or above the lashing trees, anything that's describing where something happens.

So there's a little challenge.

So two things to think about.

Can you start your sentence with a fronted adverbial of place? And also, can you include the word torrential with one of those word pairs? Good luck, pause the video now.

Well done.

Let's take a look at an example together.

"The torrential thunderstorm, which had lasted for hours caused flooding across the country." Does this sentence use the word torrential correctly? Well, I can see the word pair there thunderstorm.

The torrential thunderstorm.

It's caused flooding that shows me how heavy the rain was.

Let's look at another sentence.

"From behind his window, Grit watched the torrential downpour and worried about the miniature hotel that he had built for the minibeasts in his garden." Minibeast is another word for an insect.

So he's made a little tiny, cute miniature hotel for the insects or minibeasts in his garden.

But now there's a torrential downpour, which is probably destroying it.

So again, does this sentence use torrential correctly? Well, I can see there's the word pair, torrential downpour, which is like a heavy burst of rain.

And I can also see that I've started this sentence with a fronted adverbial of place.

There it is, from behind his window that tells me where Grit is.

"From behind his window, Grit watched the torrential downpour and worried about the miniature hotel that he had built for the minibeasts in his garden." Well done for writing your own sentence.

And well done if you managed to use a fronted adverbial of place.

It's time for our final task of today's lesson.

I would like you to fill the gaps with either the word lashing, tempestuous, or torrential.

So let me read the sentences to you.

Grit's mm mood could change at any moment without notice.

Thousands of gallons of water dropped down the mm waterfall every second.

The mm branches slammed against the windows during the storm.

So read each sentence to yourself carefully and think about which word fits best in which sentence.

Pause the video now.

Well done.

Let's go through the answers.

So the first one should be Grit's tempestuous mood could change at any moment without notice.

Thousands of gallons of water dropped down the torrential waterfall every second, and the lashing branches slammed against the windows during the storm.

Well done if you managed to get those in the correct spaces.

So let's summarise what we've learned today.

We've three new words associated with stormy weather.

We've learned lashing is an adjective meaning thrashing or beating like heavy rain smacking you in the face.

Tempestuous is an adjective, meaning stormy, wild, or violent when the wind and sea are out of control.

Torrential means falling heavily or forcefully like the rain in a violent storm.

So we can see how these words are all associated with stormy weather, but actually, actually they can be used in other contexts as well.

And that's what makes these words so useful.

For example, you might describe a relationship as tempestuous, or you might describe an animal's tail as lashing.

So these words hopefully really helpful to have in your vocabulary toolkits, and I hope you can use them in your speaking and in your writing.

Thank you for all your hard work today, hopefully, I'll see you for more learning another time.