Lesson video

Hello, everyone.

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

In today's lesson, we are going to be learning three new words that are associated with heat, but can be used in lots of other contexts as well.

So by the end of today's lesson, we are going to have three really impressive new words to use in our writing or our speaking.

Let's get started, shall we? The outcome of today's lesson is to use the words relentless, scorching, and suffocating effectively in multiple contexts.

These are our key words that we'll be using in today's lesson.

So these words are going to come up again and again, and it's really important we know what they mean.

First, let's practise saying them out loud.

My turn, your turn for each one.

Are you ready? Noun.

Adjective.

Suffix.

Synonym.

Word pair.

Well done for joining in.

Let's find out what they mean.

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

For example, my I would be a noun because it's a naming word for a thing.

An adjective is a word that describes a noun.

So you might describe my eye, my green eyes.

The green would be the adjective, the describing word.

A suffix is a letter or group of letters at the end of a word which creates another word.

So for example, if we took the word fearless, fear would be the root word and less would be the suffix at the end of it.

It creates another word, fear, fearless.

Less or less would be the suffix.

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

For example, you might describe my blue eyes or my turquoise eyes, blue and turquoise.

Not that I have turquoise eyes, but blue and turquoise have a similar meaning, so they might be synonyms. And word pairs are words that often appear together.

So if we took the word turquoise, maybe that might often be paired with the turquoise water or the turquoise sky.

So there are key keywords for today's lessons.

Let's start looking at our learning cycles.

In today's lesson, we have three learning cycles, and in each learning cycle we'll be learning a new heat word.

So let's get started with our first new heat word.

Have a look closely at this Mrs. Wordsmith picture.

What can you see happening here? This is Brick, the hippo.

How would you describe the sun and what is happening to Brick? How do you think he's feeling? You could either say out loud what you can see, or you could maybe discuss it with someone if there's someone close by.

Pause the video while you do that now.

Well done.

Well, I can see in this picture that Brick is looking extremely hot.

The sun is shining down on him.

The sun almost has got like an angry expression, like it's not gonna give up, it's not gonna stop shining.

And poor Brick looks like he is melting in the sun as well as his ice cream in his hand that has melted.

He's stripping with sweat and he looks extremely hot.

Let's find out what this word is? My turn, your turn.

Relentless.

Let's say it one more time.

Relentless.

Well done.

So relentless is an adjective, a describing word, and it means constant or non-stop.

Like the sun when it beats down on you until you nearly melt.

So we can see that whilst this word relentless could describe heat or the sun, it means constant or non-stop.

So we could use it in lots of contexts.

For example, you could say that the relentless phone wouldn't stop ringing, or the relentless baby wouldn't stop crying.

There's lots of ways we can use this very useful and very impressive word.

Now, at the beginning of this lesson, we spoke about a suffix, a group of letters at the end of a word.

Can you spot a group of letters at the end of this word? Maybe shout out to me what they are.

That's right, it's less.

Now, the verb relent means to soften in attitude, temper or determination.

So for example, if you are having an argument with someone and you are really passionate and you are going for it, and someone said, I think you're going to have to relent, that means you're going to have to soften down in your attitude or determination.

Maybe just give in a little bit.

So if a less, the suffix means without, so we spoke earlier about fearless.

Fear is obviously feeling scared.

So if you are fearless, you're without being scared, you're without fear.

Or if there we take the word endless, if something comes to an end, it's finished.

If it's endless, it's without end.

It's going on and on and on.

So relentless means if relent means softening in your determination, less means without doing that.

So we are not going to give up.

You've gotta keep going.

And we can see that in the definition constant or non-stop.

So that's why we have got that, suffix is a key word because we've got a suffix in this word relentless.

Okay, so these words are synonyms of relentless.

And remember, synonyms have a similar meaning, constant, non-stop, and harsh.

The relentless heat beat down on Brick, there's the word in a sentence.

These words are word pairs of relentless, relentless heat.

Imagine how that would feel.

Relentless heat, constant, harsh, non-stop heat.

Relentless wind.

Gosh, that would be annoying, wouldn't it? There was just relentless, non-stop wind.

Relentless rain, some actually recently, it has felt like there has been relentless rain, non-stop rain, and that's what's there.

That's what can cause bad flooding.

Okay, so could you pause the video and just say those word pairs out loud, relentless heat, relentless wind, relentless rain? Off you go.

Well done.

The reason we do that is because when we learn new words, it's really important that we practise saying them as well as reading them or hearing them.

Now, we've got some more word pairs.

Relentless search, so imagine something's got missing, gone, missing, and there is a relentless search.

They're not gonna give up until they find it, it's non-stop.

A relentless attack.

Imagine that.

Imagine if there was some kind of siege on a city, if it was a relentless attack.

It's just constant, non-stop.

A relentless pursuit.

Now, a pursuit is, if you go for a pursuit, it's like you're trying to achieve a goal.

So again, if it's relentless, you're not going to give up, you're going to keep going.

Relentless pressure.

Now, pressure in physics is like when you apply a force to something, but we can also use it to describe a general force or influence on someone.

And often it causes stress.

So for example, if you said, "Oh, my boss is putting so much pressure on me." It's like they're putting lots of strain on you or lots of force on you, and it's making you feel stressed.

So relentless pressure, that non-stop, that harsh, constant pressure.

If you had a boss doing that to you, it wouldn't feel very nice at all.

And finally, we have a relentless quest, and a quest is a journey in pursuit of a goal.

So you might go on a quest to find the golden crown.

So a relentless quest.

So just as before, can you pause the video and read those word pairs aloud.

Off you go.

Well done.

So, we can already see that whilst this word relentless can be associated with heat, it can be used in so many different contexts.

So this is such a useful word for us to know.

Okay, let's check what we've just learned.

Which of these words is a synonym for relentless? A.

Hot.

B.

Non-stop.

Or C.

Burning.

Pause the video while you think about your answer.

Well done.

The correct answer is B.

Nonstop is a synonym for relentless.

It's time for our first task.

In your task today, you have got a word map with the word relentless in the middle.

Around the word relentless, you've either got synonyms or word pairs.

So first I'd like you to try and find those synonyms. And when you find them, I'd like you to circle them.

And then I'd like you to draw lines from the word relentless to the word pairs.

And as you do it, practise saying them out loud 'cause that's how we're going to remember this word.

Here's this word in a sentence to help you.

The relentless heat beat down on Brick.

And a little tip, if you're unsure if the word is a synonym or a word pair, is that you could try and take out the word relentless in that sentence.

And if the words are synonym, you might be able to replace it in that sentence.

It doesn't always work, but sometimes it does.

So that can help you if you're a bit confused, if a word is a synonym or a word pair.

So pause the video now while you complete this first pass of your part of your task.

Good luck.

Okay, let's go through the answers together.

So the synonyms are constant, non-stop, and harsh.

In that sentence, I could say the constant heat beats down, the non-stop heat or the harsh heat.

The word pairs are relentless search, relentless attack, relentless pressure, relentless rain, relentless quest, relentless wind, relentless pursuit, and relentless heat.

Okay, the next part of your task is to write your own sentence using this new word we've learned, relentless.

Here are the word pairs to help you.

If you're unsure how to come up with a sentence, pick a word pair as your inspiration.

For example, you might pick relentless quest.

And then you might think, okay, what they are? Who could be on a relentless quest? What are they on a quest to achieve? What are they trying to do? What's their goal? And then you might think of your idea and say it a few times until you're happy with your sentence.

Then you are gonna write it down, and then you're gonna read it back and check your sentence.

When I write sentences, I so often read it back and think, oh, I could add in another word here.

Or actually, I'm gonna take away my full stop and I'm gonna extend my sentence with a bit more detail.

Or I might spot a spelling mistake, or I'm missing capital letter or something.

So it's really important that we take time to check our work.

So good luck with your sentence.

Pause the video now while you have a go at that task.

Okay, well done.

Let's take a look at some examples of some sentences that you might have written.

It felt like the relentless rain would never end.

I know how that feels.

Armie's relentless pursuit of knowledge meant he spent every bit of his free time in the library.

Ah, so a relentless pursuit for knowledge.

Okay, that's what he's trying to achieve.

And so he's spending every bit of his spare time in the library.

The relentless pressure, which came from her boss, meant that Oz had to eventually quit her job.

Now, in this sentence, we've got a relative clause.

If we took out that part of the sentence, it would still make sense.

The sentence would be, the relentless pressure meant that Oz had to eventually quit her job.

That's my main clause.

But what I've done there is I've picked the noun, which is the relentless pressure, that's the thing.

And I've added in some relevant information about it.

The relentless pressure, which came from her boss.

And around that relative clause, I've got commas either side of it.

It starts with a relative pronoun, which, because pressure is a thing.

But if it was about a person, for example, Armie, who, da, da, da, da, it would be Armie, who.

Who and which are both relative pronouns.

We're gonna talk about this a little bit more in the lesson, but I just thought I would model that so that we're starting to see what that sentence looks like, because maybe later in the lesson you might try to include one in one of your sentences.

Okay, learning cycle two.

The first word was relentless.

What was the first word? Well done.

Let's find out what our second word is going to be.

What is happening in this picture? This is Bogart, the fly.

What is Bogart doing? How would you describe that light bulb? Pause the video while you either have some thinking time or describe what you see now.

Well done.

Bogart, the fly has got some marshmallows and he has stuck them onto a twig.

And this light is so hot that he's actually able to toast his marshmallows on it, which is something we would normally do on a fire, not on a light bulb.

The light bulb is red.

I can see it's red-hot.

So I can tell this word's gonna have something to do with heat.

Let's find out what it is? Scorching.

My turn, your turn.

Scorching.

Well done.

Scorching is another adjective.

It means red-hot or blazing.

So we're not gonna use scorching to describe something that's a bit warm.

For example, I have a cup of tea here and my cup of tea has been sitting there for a while.

So it's kind of tepid.

It's a bit warm, but it's not scorching.

Scorching is something red-hot or blazing.

What might be scorching? Maybe a fire might be scorching, maybe some volcanic lava might be scorching.

This is the kind of heat that will roast a marshmallow.

So these words are synonyms of scorching.

They have a similar meaning, burning, red-hot and blazing.

Bogart used the scorching light to roast his marshmallows.

Here's the word.

These words are word pairs of scorching.

So if we found the word scorching in a book we were reading, it might be paired up with one of these words.

Scorching heat, scorching sunshine.

So again, that's not going to be on a day where it's sort of, you know, 22 degrees, nice and pleasant.

That's going to be on a day where there's a really high temperature and you almost would, it'd be too hot to go outside.

A scorching day, scorching flames.

So could you pause the video now while you read those word pairs out loud? Well done.

And we have some more word pairs, which are scorching summer, scorching rays.

So the rays coming down from the sun.

A scorching desert.

I always get a bit confused with desert and dessert, but this is a scorching desert with one s and finally a scorching temperature.

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

So let's check what we've just learned.

Which of these words is a synonym for scorching? Is it A.

Dry.

B.

Moist.

Or C.

Blazing.

Pause the video while you think of your answer.

Well done.

The correct answer is C.

Blazing is a synonym for scorching.

Okay, we have another word map now.

This time we have got scorching written in the middle.

I would like you to first circle the synonyms and then draw lines to the word pairs.

Here's the word in a sentence to help you.

Bogart used the scorching light to roast his marshmallows.

Remember the trick of taking out that word and if it's a synonym, it might fit in that sentence.

Pause the video now and good luck.

Okay, let's go through the answers together.

The synonyms are burning, blazing, and red-hot.

The word pairs are scorching sunshine, scorching heat, scorching day, scorching desert, scorching flames, scorching summer and scorching temperature.

Okay, let's now have a go at writing another sentence.

This time using the word scorching.

Here are the word pairs to help you.

Remember, they're really good inspiration for what your sentence could be about, but also they're gonna help us to use this word appropriately.

So for example, you might pick scorching sunshine, and then you might think about the scenario, where is the scorching sunshine? Who's feeling it? How is it making them feel? And here is our scaffold to help us.

So we don't have to use the scaffold, but if you want to include one of those relative clauses to make a relative complex sentence, you would think of your main clause first.

So for example, you might say the scorching summer was coming to an end, and then you might think, oh, right, so my scorching summer was coming to an end.

The summer is the noun.

So what could I add in there? What could be my relative clause be? Remember, it starts with a relative pronoun, which or who.

Now the scorching summer.

Summer isn't who, it's not a person, it's a thing.

So it would be which the scorching summer, which had lasted for months was finally coming to an end.

So I've added in that relevant information.

And remember, I have commas either side of it.

You should be able to take it out and your sentence should still make sense.

Now, you don't have to try to write a relative complex sentence, but if you would like to be really ambitious, the sentence scaffold is there to help you.

Okay? So good luck.

Remember, the most important thing is to just write a sentence using the word scorching.

And always, always read back to check your work.

Pause the video now.

Good luck.

Well done.

Let's look at some sentences you might have written.

The first one I've got here is the scorching heat, which had lasted for days, had melted the plastic gnome in Grit's garden.

We can see here we've got that relative clause, which had lasted for days.

The sun's scorching rays turned the swimming pool into a giant, hot bath.

You can see there I have an apostrophe, the sun's scorching rays that apostrophe is to show possession.

The scorching rays belonged to the sun.

If I don't have an apostrophe there, it might look like I'm just saying the sun's plural, but there's only one sun.

So the sun's scorching rays, I've using an apostrophe to show possession.

And finally, the scorching temperatures made it the hottest July in history.

Well done for writing your sentence.

I hope you feel really proud of it.

Okay, it's time for our final learning cycle, but as the lesson is going on, we might have got a little bit sleepy.

So maybe could we just all have a little jiggle.

Maybe make sure you're sitting up straight.

Maybe you might want to take a deep breath in (inhales deeply) and out.

(exhales deeply) And quickly, can you shout to me if you can remember, what was the first word we learned today? Beginning with rel.

Well done.

Relentless meaning non-stop or constant.

And what was the second word? Meaning really, really hot.

Starting with scor.

Well done, scorching.

Okay, let's look at our third new word.

What is happening in this picture? This is Armie, the armadillo.

How do you think he's feeling and why? Can you pause the video and think or explain what you can see now? Okay, well done.

Armie here is dressed.

It looks like he's dressed up in black tie.

He's got a smart suit, a jacket on, and a smart shirt.

And he's got a bow tie around his neck.

But that bow tie I think is causing him some serious problems because he's looking like he's pulling at it.

And from his face, which has gone very red.

I think that he is.

This bow tie is strangling him.

So let's find out what this word is? Ah, suffocating.

My turn, your turn.

Suffocating.

Well done.

Suffocating means is an adjective, a describing word, meaning stuffy or smothering.

If you smother something, it's like you are kind of covering it up.

If you were to smother a fire with a fire blanket, you're covering up the flames.

Like clothes so tight around your neck, you can't breathe.

So this word is associated with heat because heat sometimes if it's so strong, could feel stuffy or smothering, almost like it's covering you up.

And that's how heat can sometimes feel.

But because it means stuffy or smothering, we can see it can be used in lots of other contexts as well.

So a bit like relentless, this is gonna be a really useful word to use in lots of contexts.

So the synonyms for suffocating are stifling, stuffy, and smothering.

Here's the word in a sentence.

Armie found his smart clothes completely suffocating.

These are word pairs of suffocating.

Suffocating heat, suffocating fumes.

So imagine fumes coming out of a car.

Imagine that they were suffocating, almost like a smothering you.

Suffocating smoke and suffocating pollution.

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

And some more word pairs.

We've got a suffocating feeling, suffocating stench, and suffocating darkness.

Now this is a bit interesting, but suffocating can also mean something overwhelming or overpowering.

So if you had a suffocating feeling, let's imagine that you had a feeling of nerves.

If it was suffocating, it's gonna be really overwhelming or really overpowering.

A stench is a smell.

So if you had a suffocating stench, again, it's really overpowering but also maybe smothering, like it's almost covering you up.

And again, suffocating darkness.

That's a strange one.

You might think, how could a darkness strangle you? But it's not necessarily strangling you.

But if it was so pitch-black, it might feel really overwhelming, but also it might feel a bit smothering, almost like the darkness is kind of covering you up or crushing down on you.

So this word suffocating can be used in lots of different contexts.

Okay, which of these is a word pair for suffocating? Is it A.

Stuffy.

Could we say suffocating stuffy? B.

Suffocating smoke.

Or C.

Suffocating road.

Pause the video while you think about your answer.

Okay, well done.

Now stuffy is a synonym of suffocating, so it's not a word pair.

And a suffocating road doesn't really.

I don't see how a road could be suffocating.

So the correct answer is B, suffocating smoke.

It's time for your final word map of the day.

This time you have suffocating in the middle and then the synonyms and the word pairs around the edge.

Here's the sentence to help you.

Armie found her smart clothes completely suffocating.

Remember that trick that might help you spot the synonyms. Pause the video now.

Good luck.

Well done.

Let's go through those together.

The synonyms are stifling, smothering, and stuffy.

The word pairs are suffocating feeling, a suffocating heat, suffocating fumes, suffocating darkness, suffocating smoke, suffocating pollution and finally, a suffocating stench.

It's now time to write our final sentence of the day.

This time using the word suffocating.

Here are the word pairs to help you.

And here is the scaffold to use if you want to write a relative complex sentence.

Remember, you think of your main clause and then you put in a relative clause starting with either which or who, which is called a relative pronoun.

Those relative clause have got to have commas either side of it.

So start off by picking your word pair.

I'm gonna pick suffocating darkness.

And then I'm going to think about, so maybe you could start with the suffocating darkness, comma, which, and then think of your relative clause.

And then you're gonna finish your main clause.

You don't have to write, use that sentence scaffold if you don't want to, but I think it would make an amazing sentence if you did try to use it.

It's your choice though.

So pause the video now.

Remember to read back your work.

Check through and good luck.

Okay, well done.

Let's take a look at some example sentences.

Bogart undid his top button to cool down in the suffocating heat.

The darkness, which felt suffocating, made Bearnice begin to panic.

Can you spot my relative clause there? Maybe can you point it or shout out to me what's just the relative clause? Well done.

Which felt suffocating.

So the darkness made Bearnice begin to panic.

There's my main clause, but the darkness is the thing, the noun.

So I'm gonna add some relevant information about it.

The darkness which felt suffocating made Bearnice begin to panic.

And the room was suffocatingly hot and crowded, which made everyone feel uncomfortable.

So I have actually also got a relative clause there, but this time, rather than interrupting my main clause, it's just coming after my main clause.

The main clause is the room was suffocatingly hot and crowded, and then my relative pronoun, which comes after it.

And then I add the relevant information about the room, it made everyone feel uncomfortable.

But you may have noticed something here.

The room was suffocatingly hot.

Now on key word we're learning in this part, learning cycle is suffocating.

So what have I added to suffocating? Shout out.

What have I added? That's right, I've added a ly or LY.

That's a suffix.

It's a group of letters that comes at the end of a word.

I have turned this adjective suffocating into an adverb suffocatingly by adding LY.

So well done if you spotted that.

It's time for our last task in today's lesson.

In this task, you've got three sentences.

You need to read each sentence and fill the gaps with either the word relentless, scorching or suffocating.

Here are the sentences.

The stink bomb set off a mm stench that made everyone gasp for breath.

The mm temperature made Bogart's car too hot to touch.

He couldn't even open his door.

When Oz lost her secret diary, she began a mm search until it was found.

So if you're unsure of the first one or the second one, go to the next one and see if you can work out that one.

And then you can go, always go back.

But you're trying to find out which word fits best in each sentence.

Pause the video now while you complete this final task.

Well done.

Let's go through those answers.

The stink bomb set off a suffocating stench that made everyone gasp for breath.

Remember, suffocating can mean overwhelming or as if it's smothering you.

And that can describe a smell or smoke or pollution.

The scorching temperature made Bogart's car too hot to touch.

He couldn't even open his door.

That can happen sometimes when cars.

Sometimes if it's been a really hot day, if you sit on your seat because the sun's been heating it, it means it's so hot, you can't, you almost need to sit in a towel.

So scorching is the one word we've learned today, which really is only useful to describe heat, whereas suffocating and relentless can be used in lots of other contexts as well as describing heat.

And finally, when Oz lost her secret diary, she began a relentless search until it was found.

She wouldn't stop, non-stop, constant search because she doesn't want anyone to find out her secrets.

Well done for completing that task.

This is what we've learned today.

We've learned, and that relentless is an adjective, meaning constant or non-stop like the sun when it beats down on you until you nearly melt like Brick.

We've learn scorching is an adjective, meaning red-hot and/or blazing, the kind of heat that will roast a marshmallow.

And we've learned that suffocating means stuffy or smothering, like clothes so tight around your neck, you can't breathe.

I hope you all feel really proud of yourselves because you've learned three really impressive new words today.

You've not only you practised saying them, but you've actually used them in sentences as well.

And I hope that going forward these will be words that you can add to your vocabulary toolbox and you can use when you are speaking, but you also can use in your writing.

So well done for all your hard work and thank you so much for joining me today.

Bye.