Lesson video

Hello everyone.

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

In today's lesson, the vocabulary will be learning is associated with heat or hot weather.

But as you will see, as we go on through our lesson, these words are going to be useful in lots of other contexts as well.

Let's get started.

The outcome of today's lesson is to use the word searing, stifling, and sweltering effectively in multiple contexts.

These are going to be our key words that will come up again and again in today's lesson.

I'm gonna say each one, and I'd like you to repeat it back to me.

Are you ready? Noun, adjective, synonym, word pair.

Well done.

So let's double check we know what these words all mean.

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

For example, this thing, this mug would be a noun.

An adjective is a word that describes a noun.

So perhaps you might quickly think of a word to describe my mug.

Well done.

Maybe you might have said the China mug or the flowery mug.

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

For example, you might have described my mug as porcelain or China.

They have a similar meaning.

And word pairs are words that often appear together.

So all of these words are going to be very helpful in our lesson today.

In our lesson today, we have three learning cycles, and in each learning cycle we're going to learn a new word which is associated with hot weather that we'll see they can be used in lots of other contexts as well.

So let's take a look at our first new hot word.

Could you be a detective and have a close look at what is happening in this Mrs. Wordsmith illustration? This is Yin and Yang, they're tiger twins.

What are they doing? How would you describe the weather? Pause the video while you have some time to think about that.

Okay, well done.

Yin and yang in this picture are shielding themselves from the sun that looks very hot with an umbrella.

Sometimes we use umbrellas to shield us from the rain, but we also can use sun umbrellas.

And as you can see, they're cooking some bacon and eggs, but not in a frying pan on an oven.

They're cooking it on the pavement.

And I think that's because the sun has got so hot it's made the pavement incredibly warm, which means that they can, it's so warm in fact, they can cook their eggs and bacon on it.

Can you imagine? And luckily, Yin is standing in the part Because I imagine if they tried to walk on that pavement where there this, where there this pavement hadn't been shaded from the sun, it would probably be so hot so you'd need to wear shoes.

So let's find out what this word is.

This word is searing.

My turn.

Your turn.

Searing.

Well done.

Searing is an adjective, so a describing word, and it means burning or scorching.

Like a day so hot you can fry bacon and eggs on the pavement.

These words are synonyms of searing.

They have a similar meaning, burning, intense or scorching.

Here's the word in a sentence.

Yin and Yang shielded themselves from the searing heat.

These words are word pairs of searing.

So if you were to come across this word in a book, it would commonly be found along one of these word pairs.

Searing flame, searing heat, searing temperature, searing sun.

Could you now pause the video and read those word pairs aloud? And that way this new word searing will hopefully really stick in your memory.

Off you go.

Okay, well done.

Let's take a look at some more word pairs.

Searing pain.

Hmm.

So this is interesting because all the other word pairs linked to something hot, a flame, the sun, the heat, the temperature.

But now think about a searing pain.

Now we know that one of the synonyms was intense.

So imagine a really intense pain.

You could describe that as searing pain.

Searing pace, again, this is interesting because it's not related to heat, a searing pace an intense pace.

If you were walking at a searing pace, it might mean that you were walking extremely quickly.

Searing criticism.

Now, if you criticise someone, it means you are faulting them.

You are saying something that you are being critical.

So you are not, it's not very kind to criticise someone unless perhaps they've asked for some criticism.

So searing criticism, again, imagine if someone criticised you and it almost felt like it was burning you.

It was so intense.

So imagine perhaps you did something you are really proud of and someone gave you searing criticism.

It means they're not just giving you a little bit of light criticism.

They're really going deep with that criticism.

Maybe it might offend you a little bit.

And finally, searing honesty.

Again, imagine honesty that's very intense.

Honesty that's so intense it's almost as if it's scorching or burning you.

So just as we did before, could you pause the video and read these word pairs out loud? Well done.

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

Which of these words is a synonym for searing? Is it A, moist B, clammy or C, scorching? Pause the video while you think about your answer.

Well done.

It's C, scorching is a synonym for searing.

So now it's time for your first task.

You have a word map here with the word searing in the middle.

Around the word searing are either synonyms or word pairs of this word.

I'd like you to first see if you can identify the synonyms and when you find them, I'd like you to circle them.

Once you've done that, you can draw lines from searing to the word pair.

And as you do that, read each one out loud 'cause that's how we're going to let this word searing, but also all the different ways we can use it stick in our memories.

So here's a word and a sentence to help you.

Yin and Yang shielded themselves from the searing heat.

Now if the words a synonym, you might be able to replace it with the word searing in that sentence so that might be a little trick to help you with this a activity.

Pause the video now and good luck.

Excellent.

Let's go through the answers together.

So the synonyms are burning, intense, and scorching.

The rest of the words are word pairs, searing criticism, searing flame, searing honesty, searing heat, searing temperature, searing pace, searing sun, and searing pain.

I'd now like you to write your own sentence using the word searing.

Here are the word pairs to help you.

So you might start off by picking a word pair, for example, searing honesty.

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

Hmm, how might you feel if someone delivered some searing honesty to you? What might they be saying? It's a really good idea to say your sentence out loud before you write it down.

And always remember to read back to check through your work.

Pause the video now while you write your sentence using the word searing.

Well done.

Let's take a look at some examples of sentences using the word searing.

The searing heat of the sun made it too unpleasant to go outside.

Imagine that.

We usually like it if it's a sunny day.

But imagine it was so hot, the searing heat was so hot that it made it too unpleasant to go outside.

You just wanted to stay inside.

As Stax ran and ran, the little ache in his leg grew into a searing pain, a burning or intense pain.

And finally, Grit told Bearnice what he really thought of her poem, but his searing honesty left her in tears.

Oh, poor Bearnice.

You may have noticed in that sentence I've got the conjunction but.

This is a coordinating conjunction.

And this makes a compound sentence when we use this coordinating conjunction, but, we have to use a comma before it and we use but when we have kind of two opposing ideas, like, I loved your poem but it didn't rhyme.

Or you might say your poem didn't rhyme, but I still really liked it.

So it's when we've got two opposing ideas that this coordinating conjunction but is really useful.

And it makes a compound sentence, which is always really impressive to include in your writing.

So perhaps later on you might try and write a compound sentence using but like I have done here.

Let's get back to our vocabulary though, and let's now focus on our second hot word.

So we've already learned searing.

Let's see what this next word is going to be.

What is happening in this picture? Again, be a detective.

Look at all the details.

How would you describe Bearnice? How do you think she's feeling and why? Pause the video while you think about that now.

Well done.

Bearnice here looks exhausted.

She's fallen on the floor.

She's kind of flopping over that log on the floor.

And I can see she is sweating profusely, which means sweating really heavily.

And there's even a little pool of sweat underneath the log, which I think has come from her, her tongue's out, it looks like she's panting.

She looks like she is extremely hot.

Let's find out what this word is.

Stifling.

My turn.

Your turn.

Stifling.

Well done.

Stifling is an adjective, a describing word, meaning smothering or suffocating.

Like a day so hot it makes your skin pour with sweat.

These words are synonyms of stifling, smothering, oppressive, and suffocating.

So stifling is quite a negative word.

Searing also is quite a negative word.

You wouldn't want it to be searingly hot on a day.

And if something is stifling, if it's oppressive, which means harsh or heavy or smothering or suffocating, these are not very positive words.

So if you felt that the heat was stifling, it wouldn't be a very nice feeling.

Here's the word in a sentence.

The stifling heat made bare knees collapse to the floor.

These words are word pairs of stifling.

Let me read them to you.

Stifling heat, stifling air, a stifling smell.

So imagine that.

Imagine it's not even the heat that's stifling, but imagine a smell so strong that it almost felt like it was smothering, like kind of covering you up or suffocating you.

And a stifling atmosphere.

Imagine you went into a room and the atmosphere was so intense that it almost felt suffocating or smothering.

And stifling smoke again, a bit like the stifling smell.

Imagine if a room was so smoky that it felt smothering or suffocating or really intense.

Okay, can you pause the video now and read those word pairs out loud? Off you go.

Excellent.

Well done.

Oh, sorry.

There was one more there.

Stifling silence.

Now this is quite a funny one.

It's a bit more abstract because if something is silent, you wouldn't think that that would be particularly suffocating or smothering.

But imagine if you were in a room.

Let's get a scenario.

Let's imagine the whole school was in a room and the head teacher was saying, we're not moving from here until someone tells me who graffitied on my door.

And everyone was so silent that it almost felt suffocating or smothering.

Like you're just desperate for someone just to speak.

So stifling silence.

My turn.

Your turn.

Stifling silence.

Well done.

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

Which of these words is a synonym for stifling? A, smothering B, tepid or C, windy? Pause the video now.

Well done.

The correct answer is A, smothering is a synonym for stifling.

Tepid means that something is kind of lukewarm.

So that's not as the same as stifling and windy is something completely different.

Okay, so just as we did earlier in our lesson, we've got another word map.

I'd like you to circle the synonyms of stifling and then draw lines to the word pairs.

Here's a sentence to help you, the stifling heat made Bearnice collapse to the floor.

And remember that trick that if it's a synonym, we might be able to replace it in that sentence.

Pause the video while you complete this task.

Well done.

Let's go through the answers together.

So the synonyms are oppressive, suffocating, and smothering.

The word pairs are stifling smoke, stifling heat, stifling silence, a stifling atmosphere, a stifling smell, a stifling air.

And now it's time for you to write your own sentence using the word stifling.

Here are the word pairs to help you.

And here is a sentence scaffold of that compound sentence to use the coordinating conjunction but.

You don't have to write a compound sentence using the conjunction but, but if you'd like to, it's there to help you.

So a compound sentence is made up of two main clauses and then the coordinating conjunction but is going to come in the middle.

So the best place to start, think of your sentence is to pick one of those word pairs that's gonna help you to use the word stifling really appropriately, for example stifling smoke, and then you can build your sentence around that.

And if you'd like to use the word but to write a compound sentence, then you can.

If you want to do that, don't forget that there's a comma that comes before but.

So pause the video now while you have a go at writing a sentence using the word stifling.

Okay, well done.

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

The silence in the room was so stifling that nobody dared to speak, but Oz finally broke the silence.

So we can see there, it's a compound sentence made up of two main clauses.

The silence in the room was so stifling that nobody dared to speak.

It's my first main clause and my second main clause is Oz finally broke the silence.

They're joined together like with like a Lego brick that conjunction but, and I've got my comma before it.

And again, it's two opposing ideas.

Nobody dared to speak but Aus broke the silence.

The stifling smell which came from Brick's sweaty socks made Stax choke.

Here we've got a relative clause.

My main clause has been interrupted by my relative clause.

The main clause is the stifling smell made Stax choke.

But I've added in some relative detail about that the noun or the, in this example it's the stifling smell.

It's a expanded noun phrase.

The stifling smell, which came from Brick's sweaty socks.

I've added some relative information and I've got commas around it.

This makes a relative complex sentence.

So another type of sentence.

Sentence we've looked at compound sentences using the conjunction but, this is a relative complex sentence using the relative which.

So again, we're learning new vocabulary, but we're just seeing some different types of sentences here.

So our writing's gonna be amazing 'cause we're gonna use amazing vocabulary and different sentence structures.

And finally, the chef ran out of the kitchen to escape the stifling heat coming from the stove.

Imagine that.

Imagine the the heat from the stove or the oven is so stifling that you have to run out of the room.

Okay, so let's take a look at our learning cycles.

So far we've learned two new hot words.

The first word there was a picture of Yin and Yang cooking bacon and eggs on the pavement.

Can you remember what that word was? Shout out to me if you can remember.

Well done.

Searing.

Really intense, burning, scorching.

And the second word, we had that picture of Bearnice who'd collapsed in the heat.

Can you remember the word? It also began with an S.

Well done.

Stifling.

Searing and stifling.

Let's take a look at our third new hot word.

I wonder if this one starts with an S as well.

Okay, what's happening in this picture? This is Plato the platypus.

How would you describe Plato in this picture? Pause the video now.

So I can see some similarities coming here of these pictures that are all associated with heat.

I can see Plato is sweating profusely.

He's got a sun umbrella to try and shield himself from the sun.

He looks kind of exhausted by the heat.

Let's find out what this word is.

Ah, sweltering.

My turn.

Your turn.

Sweltering.

So another word, beginning with an S.

We've had stifling, searing, and sweltering.

Three adjectives starting with the letter S to describe the heat.

Sweltering means very hot or baking like weather that makes you desperate for some shade.

These words are synonyms of sweltering, baking, sticky, and hot.

Sometimes if something's really hot, it can make you almost feel a little bit sticky and sweaty.

The sweltering heat beat down on Plato as he sweated profusely.

That means sweated really heavily.

So these words are word pairs of sweltering, sweltering weather, sweltering day, sweltering summer, a sweltering heat wave, sweltering temperature, sweltering heat.

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

So which of these words is a word pair of sweltering? Is it A, sweltering snow? B, a sweltering summer, or C, a sweltering drink.

Pause the video while you think about your answer.

Well done.

It's B, a sweltering summer.

So our for our final, or it's not our final task.

We've got one more after this, but we've got another word map.

You know the drill, you need to circle the synonyms and draw lines to the word pairs.

Here's a sentence to help you.

The sweltering heat beat down on Plato as he sweated profusely.

We have got the options are all there.

So have a read of them.

And remember that trick of covering up sweltering.

And if it's a synonym, you might be able to replace it in that sentence.

Pause the video now while you complete this task.

Well done.

So the synonyms are hot, baking and sticky.

The word pairs are sweltering weather, sweltering day, sweltering summer, sweltering heat wave, sweltering temperature, and sweltering heat.

So whereas the word searing could be used in lots of different contexts.

For example, a searing criticism or searing honesty or searing pain as well as searing heat.

Sweltering is more just to describe heat, hot, sweltering hot, sorry, sweltering weather, sweltering summer, sweltering temperature.

So this word is a little bit more kind of focused on just the weather and the heat.

Whereas we know that stifling can be linked with smells or smoke or an atmosphere or the silence.

And searing can describe honesty or pain.

So the other two words are a little bit more, well, in some ways they're a little bit more useful because we can use them in lots of different contexts.

But sweltering is a really good way of describing an an extremely hot day.

Okay, so it's time for you to write your last sentence for the day.

This time using the word sweltering.

Here are those word pairs to help you.

And here we've now got another sentence scaffold to help you.

But this time it's not for a compound sentence using but, it's for a relative complex sentence.

So remember you have your main clause and then you kind of separate it and squeeze in a relative C clause, which starts with a relative pronoun, either which or who.

So you might think of pick your word pair, for example, the sweltering summer.

And then you might think of your main clause, for example, the sweltering summer, or everyone was growing tired of the sweltering summer.

And then you might think, hmm, okay, I'm gonna use a relative clause to describe the noun.

The noun this time is everyone.

Everyone comma who and then you might think a detail to describe about everyone and then close it with comma.

And then you can finish your main clause.

So that's how you would write a relative complex sentence.

You don't have to do one if you don't want to.

You can write any type of sentence.

Maybe you might write a simple sentence or might write a compound sentence.

But if you want to use that sentence scaffold, it's there to help you.

Remember the most important thing is to include our new word sweltering.

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

Good luck.

Okay, well done.

Let's look at some example sentences.

The sweltering summer, which had lasted for months showed no signs of cooling down.

So there's a really clear example of a relative complex sentence.

My main clause is the sweltering summer showed no signs of cooling down, but I have interrupted it by adding in a relative clause surrounded by commas, which had lasted for months.

It's some relative information, some relevant information about the summer.

The sweltering summer, which had lasted for months, showed no signs of cooling down.

It's kind of a way of sneaking in some extra detail.

Sweat poured down Armie's face as he walked through the sweltering heat.

As he watched his ice sculpture melt Grit regretted making it on such a sweltering day.

So imagine a really sweltering day and Grit has decided to make an ice sculpture.

And as he watched it melt, he regretted making it.

That's an adversial complex sentence starting with the conjunction as, the subordinating conjunction as, as he watched his actually as he watched his eye sculpture melts, that's my subordinate clause.

And then my comma, and then my main clause Grit regretted making it on such a sweltering day.

A main clause can always stand on its own.

It makes sense on its own, whereas a subordinate clause doesn't make sense on its own.

Okay, it's time for our final task in today's lesson.

You need to fill the gaps with either of our new words that we've learned.

So we've got searing, stifling, or sweltering.

Here are the sentences.

After mm criticism on social media, Bogart was forced to apologise for his comment.

So which of those words could describe criticism.

For a few days the mm heatwave turned the town into an oven.

Now we know that all of these words are associated with heat.

So that's the one maybe you might want to come back to 'cause you might find that there's more than one option that could work there.

The mm stench of Brick's armpits left everyone around him gasping for air.

So again, which of those words was linked to a smell, like a suffocating or smothering smell? Can you remember? So pause the video now while you try to place these words where they fit the best in each sentence.

And remember, I'd leave that second one till last 'cause that's the one where any of the words could could work.

So try the first and the third one and then it should be obvious which one would fit in that second sentence.

Okay, good luck.

Well done.

Let's go through the answers.

After searing criticism on social media, Bogart was forced to apologise for his comment.

Remember, searing can describe honesty or criticism.

For a few days the sweltering heat wave turned the town into an oven.

Sweltering is the one word here, which is kind of more focused just on heat.

The other two can be used in a bit more, we can use it in lots of different contexts.

And finally, these stifling stench of Brick's armpits left everyone around him gasping for air.

Stifling means smothering or suffocating.

So it can describe a smell or the smoke or the atmosphere.

Well done for giving that a go.

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

We've learnt three new really impressive a objectives.

Searing means burning or scorching like a day so hot you can fry bacon and eggs on the pavement.

You could also have searing pain, searing honesty, searing criticism.

Stifling means smothering or suffocating like a day so hot it makes your skin pour with sweat.

Remember, it also could describe a smell or the smoke.

And finally sweltering is an adjective to describe very hot or baking weather, like weather that makes you desperate for some shade.

So we have just learned three new really impressive pieces of vocabulary.

Hopefully you might come across one of these words when you are reading and then you'll know exactly what they mean.

Or better still, perhaps you might start to use these words in your speaking or in your writing.

I'm sure anyone would be very impressed if you did.

So well done for all your hard work today, and hopefully I'll see you again for some more learning another time.

Bye.