Lesson video

Hello everyone.

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

The vocabulary we'll be learning today is associated with heat, but hopefully it'll be useful in other contexts as well.

By the end of today's lesson, you are gonna have three new, really impressive words to use in your speaking and writing.

Let's get started.

The outcome of today's lesson is to use the words blistering, perspire, and radiant effectively in multiple contexts.

These will be our key words in today's lesson.

So these words are going to come up again and again.

So it's really important we understand fully what they mean.

Let's start off by practising saying each one aloud.

I'm going to say each one, and then I'd like you to say it loudly and clearly back to me.

Are you ready? Noun.

Adjective.

verb.

Synonym.

Word pair.

Well done.

Thank you so much for joining in with me.

So let's make sure we know what these words mean.

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

My name is Mrs. Riley, so that would be a noun.

It's a naming word for a person.

An adjective is a word that describes a noun.

So you might, if you think of someone that you know, a person that you know, or maybe someone sitting next to you, you might then think of an adjective to describe that person.

A verb is a being, doing, or having word.

So for example, I am talking, that is something I am doing.

So talking is a verb.

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

So for example, talking or speaking are synonyms because they have the same meaning.

And word pairs are words that often appear together.

So if you are going to take a word like talking, and then think about words it might be paired up with, for instance, it might be a talking parrot, they might be word pairs because often a parrot is described as talking.

So those two words would be paired up together.

So these words will be really helpful in our lesson today where we're going to be learning some new words or new vocabulary.

We have three learning cycles today.

In each learning cycle, we're going to learn a new word and each word is going to be associated or linked with heat.

So we're thinking of very hot things today, which is funny because, actually, I'm filming this lesson today and outside it's really cold and frosty.

I think, in fact, it's the coldest day of the year, which is why I'm wearing this big snugly jumper.

But today we're focusing on heat.

So what is happening in this picture? Have a look closely.

Can you be a detective? And can you describe everything you see? This is Bearnice the bubbly bear.

What's happening to her here? Pause the video while you have some thinking time.

Bearnice here looks to me like she has sunburnt her tummy, and she's actually sunburnt it so badly that it's popped up in lots of little blisters.

Have you ever had a blister before? Sometimes you get blisters on your feet if they rub on your shoes.

It might give you a blister.

But you can also blister in the heat, and it looks like that's what's happened to Bernice here, and she's looking down at her tummy looking shocked.

and it looks like she's gone shade under the tree to maybe escape that heat.

Let's find out what this word is.

Ah, blistering.

My turn, your turn.

Blistering.

Well done.

So I can see that word blister in this word blistering.

Blistering is an adjective.

So it's a describing word, and it describes something that is harsh or scorching.

If something is harsh, it's like the opposite of it being really gentle, something harsh or scorching, Like sun so strong, it makes your skin hurt.

Can you imagine? Have you ever sat in blistering sun that's so strong it makes your skin hurt? So these words are synonyms of blistering.

That means they have a similar meaning.

Harsh, extreme, and scorching.

Here's the word in a sentence.

Bearnice tried to take shelter from the blistering heat.

These are word pairs of blistering.

That means if we were to find this word in a book we are reading, it might be paired up with one of these words.

Blistering heat, blistering sunburn, blistering sun.

Now, because blistering, the word blistering, is an adjective, these are describing.

It's describing nouns.

So heat, sunburn, and sun are all nouns.

They're naming words for things.

Now, it's really important when we learn new words to practise saying them as well as seeing them and hearing them.

So could you pause the video now and read these three word pairs out loud just like I did? Off you go, well done.

Let's take a look at some more word pairs, blistering words, blistering speed, blistering pace, blistering start, and blistering critique.

Now let's think about this 'cause this has got a little bit more abstract.

Now, blistering we know means harsh or really hot, but it also can mean of speed very fast.

And that makes sense where we see blistering speed, so very fast speed, blistering pace or blistering start.

If you were on the start line for a race and you got off to a blistering start, that would be really good because it would mean you'd start very quickly.

And we can also see that blistering of criticism can mean very harsh, which makes sense 'cause we know blistering can mean harsh.

So for example, if you think about.

Remember, harsh is the opposite of gentle.

So if you had very gentle words, then imagine the opposite, blistering words, harsh words, words that are so harsh, it's as if they're blistering.

Imagine that.

So you wouldn't really want someone to use blistering words to you.

And then equally, a blistering critique.

So a critique is if you imagine that you drew a picture or you wrote a story, and then you gave someone to look at it, and they read your story or they looked at your picture, and then they maybe gave you some things they thought about it that they thought were great and some things about it that they thought you could improve.

That is what a critique is.

If you wrote a play, again, there might be a critique of your play, which might say the good points and the bad points.

So if it was a blistering critique, a harsh critique, it would mean that maybe they've picked up on every little minute detail, and actually it's been quite not a nice gentle critique, but quite a harsh one.

So we can see that whilst blistering is mostly associated with heat, like that blistering sun or blistering heat, we can actually use it in lots of other contexts as well.

Blistering pace, blistering start of a race, meaning really quick, or blistering words or blistering critique.

So this is a really useful word for us to learn.

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

Well done.

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

Which of these words is a synonym? That means the same meaning for blistering.

A, extreme, B, moist, or C, gust.

Pause the video while you think about your answer.

Well done.

The correct answer is A.

Extreme is a synonym for blistering.

It's time for your first task.

In this task, you've got a word map with the word blistering in the middle.

Around blistering are either synonyms or word pairs.

I'd like you to, first of all, find the synonyms, the words that mean the same thing as blistering, and you can circle them.

And then I would like you to draw lines from the word blistering to each word pair.

And as you do that, practise saying them out loud, like blistering start.

So you're saying it over and over again.

If you're a little bit unsure if a word is a synonym or a word pair, here's the word in a sentence to help you.

Bernice tried to take shelter from the blistering heat.

If the word is a synonym, you might be able to replace it with the word blistering in that sentence.

So that's a little tip that might help you.

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

Good luck.

Well done.

Let's go through the answers together.

So the synonyms for blistering are harsh, scorching, and extreme.

And I can see how I could replace blistering in that sentence with each of those words.

Bearnice tried to take shelter from the harsh heat, the scorching heat, or the extreme heat.

Now let's look at our word pairs.

Blistering start, that means really quick.

Blistering pace.

Blistering words, harsh words.

Blistering sunburn.

Blistering heat.

blistering critique.

Ooh, I wouldn't like to have a blistering critique if I wrote a story.

Blistering sun and blistering speed.

Well done.

For the next part of your task, it's time for you to write your own sentence using our new word, blistering.

Here are the word pairs to help you.

They're going to help you to use this word really appropriately.

So you could start off by picking a word pair.

For example, you might pick blistering speed, and then you can think of a sentence around that word pair.

Remember to try and make your sentence really ambitious.

Say it out loud before you write it down and always go back to read and check because I always find when I read and check my work, I find ways to improve it a little bit.

Maybe it might be a mistake that you can correct or maybe you might add in a little extra word or a bit of extra detail.

So pause the video now while you write your own sentence using this new word, blistering.

Good luck.

Okay, well done.

Let's look at some examples of some sentences.

Maybe your sentences were similar to some of these.

Oz's Blistering sunburn was extremely sore and red.

Ooh, that sounds.

I wouldn't like to have blistering sunbur.

n Armie did his homework at such blistering speed that his pencil set the paper on fire.

"After this blistering criticism, I will never act again!" exclaimed Oz as she threw herself onto the sofa.

So Oz was obviously in a play or in a film and has had a blistering critique, some criticism, and now she's saying she's never wants to act again.

Okay, and in that last sentence there, we can see we've got some speech.

"After this blistering criticism, I'll never act again." That's the part of the sentence.

That's the part that Oz is actually saying.

That's the part that she's speaking.

So to show that that's different from the rest of our sentence, we have speech marks around it.

Sometimes we call them 66 and 99 'cause they look like little tiny 66 and 99s.

We always have to have a piece of punctuation when we close our speech at the end before the 99.

And I've got an exclamation mark here because I think that Oz is feeling very emotional when she says this sentence.

So we have the speech there and then we have the reporting clause, which is like the part that we say who says it? So for example, "Sit up straight," said Mrs. Riley.

So said Mrs. Riley would be the reporting clause and the sit up straight would be the speech.

Okay, so let's take a look at our second new heat word.

The first one was blistering.

Let's find out what the next one is.

What's happening in this picture? This is Brick the hippo.

What's he doing here? Where do you think he is? How would you describe him? Pause the video while you think about that now.

Okay, well done.

Well, Brick, I can see here, is dripping wet.

And I think that this isn't wetness that's come from somewhere else.

I think he's produced it.

I think he's sweating.

Now, sweating is something that, actually, when you're younger, you don't sweat that much, but, as you get older, something that happens more and more.

And it's when you become wet.

And it usually happens either if you are really tired, so if you're doing exercise, like if you're on a run, you might sweat, or if you are really, really hot, you might sweat.

Sometimes you might sweat if you are feeling poorly or ill, if you had a fever, and also sometimes people might sweat if they feel nervous.

Okay, so all those kind of things that adrenaline kicks into our bodies might make us sweat.

So here I can see that Brick is sweating.

I think he might be in a sauna, which is a really, really hot room you go in, and you actually go in there deliberately to try and make yourself sweat because sweating can be very good for you.

And poor old Bogart the fly looks like he's caught under that sweat and it's dripping on him.

And I can see even a pool of sweat on the floor.

So let's find out what this word is.

Ah, this word is perspire.

My turn, your turn.

Perspire.

Well done.

Perspire is a verb.

Ah, so this time not an adjective.

It's a verb, which is a doing, having, or being verb.

This is a doing verb because it means to drip with sweat.

It's something that you would do.

What you do when you sit in a very hot sauna.

And because it's a verb, we could say it in different tenses.

For example, I perspired would be in the past, or I will perspire would be in the future, or just I perspire is in the present tense.

So there's lots of different versions, or there could be perspiring.

So different versions of this verb.

These words are synonyms of perspire.

That means they have a similar meaning.

Sweat or drip.

As Brick began to perspire in the sauna, poor Bogart got drenched.

That means he got really wet.

So if this word is a verb, what do you think the word pairs will be? Adjectives describe nouns.

So what is gonna describe a verb? Have a little bit of thinking time.

Can you have a think? Do you know? If you don't know, don't worry.

I think what we'll do is read the word pairs and then we'll go back to that question and see if we can spot what type of words they are.

So here are the word pairs.

Perspire heavily.

Perspire lightly, so not heavily, just a little bit of sweat.

Perspire noticeably.

Sometimes you might get sweat patches, so it would be really noticeable if you were sweating or perspiring like that.

Perspire profusely.

Profusely, it means in large amounts.

It means it happens in abundance.

So if someone apologised profusely, it's like an exaggerated apology.

They're apologising in large amounts.

They're not just saying, "I'm sorry." They're giving a really big apology.

So perspire profusely means that you would be sweating again very heavily.

Perspire freely and perspire visibly.

So again, visibly is a bit like perspiring noticeably.

Okay, so heavily, lightly, noticeably, profusely, freely, and visibly.

Maybe you're noticing a pattern.

What's the pattern? What do all these words end in? That's right.

They end in L-Y or ly.

And these words are called adverbs.

My turn, your turn.

Adverbs.

Well done.

Adverbs are words that describe a verb.

So when I said earlier that talking or speaking is a verb, it's a doing word, I could then think about how I would describe that.

Talking quietly.

Talking crossly.

Talking quickly.

There's lots of different adverbs, different ways I could describe what I'm doing.

Okay, so which of these words is a synonym for perspire? That means has the similar meaning? Is it A, relax, B, sweat, or C, unwind? Pause the video and choose your answer.

Well done.

So the correct answer is sweat, a synonym for perspire.

Even though Brick here is relaxing and unwinding, even though they are both verbs, they're both things that you do, perspire means to sweat.

Okay, it's time for our next task.

Just as before, you have a word map with perspire in the middle.

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

And actually, earlier, as I didn't get you to read those word pairs aloud, I'd like you to make sure, once you finish this activity, that you read each perspire with each word pair out loud.

And actually you might notice that you could do it either way around.

For example, you could say heavily perspire or perspire heavily.

So you might even say them both ways.

Here's a sentence to help you.

As Brick began to perspire in the sauna, poor Bogart got drenched.

Remember that little trick.

Synonyms might be able to replace the word in the sentence.

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

Okay, well done.

Let's go through those answers.

The synonyms are sweat and drip.

The word pairs are heavily perspire or perspire heavily, perspire lightly, perspire freely, perspire profusely, which means in large amounts, perspire visibly, or perspire noticeably.

So someone can notice or see that you are sweating or perspiring.

Okay, your next task is to write a sentence using the word perspire.

Remember the word pairs will help you to use this word appropriately.

And because we said this is a verb, and there are different versions, different tenses of a verb, you might also find it easier to use the word perspired, perspires, or perspiring, different versions, different tenses.

And earlier, we looked at speech.

So perhaps you might want to include some speech in this sentence.

You don't have to include some speech.

But as we looked at that earlier, and we looked at those, the 66 and 99, and then the reporting clause, remember we have to have a piece of punctuation before the 99, before the closing speech marks.

That scaffold is there to help you.

So if you want to be really ambitious, you could try to include some speech, but don't worry, if not, the main thing is that we're going to use our new word, which is perspire.

Okay? So pause the video now while you write your own sentence using this word.

Well done.

Now, I can't see your answers, so I'm going to take a look at some examples of sentences, and you can see maybe these are.

They're probably not as good as yours, but let's have a look at them anyway.

So as Plato perspired nervously in the exam, a puddle of sweat formed on his seat.

Ah, so I've used a different adverb here.

I've used nervously, 'cause can you remember earlier in the lesson, I said sometimes we sweat or perspire when we feel a bit nervous or anxious about something? So as Plato perspired nervously in the exam, a puddle of sweat formed on his seat.

I used to sometimes.

Actually, you know what, I used to really like exams. Some people find them a bit nerve-racking, which I understand, but I always used to quite enjoy them.

Oh, here's some speech.

Now I can see where my speech is 'cause I've got my speech mark, so I'm gonna do a different voice for my speech.

"Work harder! I should see you perspiring profusely!" shouted the personal trainer at Oz.

So imagine that.

Oz has got a personal trainer, someone that you have to help get you really fit.

And they are shouting, "Work harder! I should see you perspiring profusely!" That's what they're shouting.

And then my reporting clause, shouted to the personal trainer at Oz, that's who's speaking.

Okay, and let me just check.

Have I got a piece of punctuation before my 99? Oh yeah, I've got an exclamation mark.

Okay, so there's my speech.

And finally, the man started to perspire noticeably, so the police officer began to suspect he was guilty.

Imagine if you had three people lined up and you weren't sure which one was guilty.

But if one person started to perspire noticeably, that might be a sign, because we know you sweat when you 're nervous, that they were guilty of the crime.

Okay, it's time for our final word, but let's just have a quick jiggle on our chair, maybe a quick wiggle of our arms, maybe a deep breath in, and a big breath out, (exhales sharply) so that we are ready for our last part of our learning, which is our third new heat word.

We've had blistering, which is an adjective, and we've had perspire, which is a verb.

So let's see what this word is.

Ooh, what's happening here? This is Grit the dog running, and then we've got Plato.

So could you describe what do you think is happening here? Be a detective.

Pause the video now.

Okay, well, I think Grit here is on a running machine, and he looks like he's running.

And the energy that he's making from running is lighting up that bulb.

And it looks like he must be running very quickly because that bulb is extremely bright.

And maybe.

Sorry, I think I said it was Plato, but actually it's Armie the armadillo.

I think Armie the armadillo.

Oh no, is it Plato the platypus? I can't tell.

Is taking some notes.

Maybe he's like a scientist.

Maybe they're doing some kind of experiment or something like that.

Okay, so I think this is gonna have something to do with the heat of that light.

Let's have a look what this word is.

Ah, radiant.

My turn, your turn.

Radiant.

Well done.

Radiant is an adjective.

So blistering was an adjective and radiant is an adjective, a describing word.

It describes something bright, brilliant, or glowing, like a very large and powerful light bulb.

Okay, so we could describe that light bulb as a radiant light bulb.

It's bright, brilliant, or glowing.

Synonyms of radiant are glowing, gleaming, and bright.

Here's the word in a sentence.

Grit's running made the radiant light bulb shine brightly.

Here are our word pairs of radiant.

Radiant light, radiant heat, radiant sun, and radiant glow.

So could you now pause the video and read those word pairs out loud? Off you go.

Okay, well done.

And we've got some more word pairs, which are a radiant face.

Hmm, so imagine a face is almost glowing.

If someone looked ill, they might be pale and look a bit clammy and not very well.

But if someone had a radiant face, they might look very healthy.

Radiant skin, again, lovely, glowing, fresh skin.

A radiant smile.

A smile so lovely and bright, it's almost as if it's glowing.

And radiant beauty.

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

Now we could turn this adjective, radiant, into an adverb by adding ly.

So we could say radiantly.

So if we think about a verb, for instance, shone, the sun shone, We could say the sun shone radiantly to describe how it's shone.

So it's an adjective, radiant, but it's really useful 'cause we could also use it as an adverb to describe a verb.

Okay, let's check what we've just learned, which of these words is a word pair of radiant? What could we describe as radiant? A, radiant trampoline, B, radiant skin, or C, a radiant coat.

Pause the video.

Well done.

The correct answer is B, radiant skin, glowing skin.

Okay, it's your last task.

The first part of your task is the word map.

Circle the synonyms. Draw lines to the word pair.

Say them out loud as you do it.

Here's a sentence to help you.

Grit's running made the radiant light bulb shine brightly.

Remember that trick.

Synonyms might be able to replace the word radiant in that sentence.

Pause the video now.

Good luck.

Okay, well done.

Let's go through the answers.

The synonyms are bright, gleaming, and glowing.

The word pairs are radiant sun, radiant heat, radiant light, radiant skin, radiant smile, radiant glow, radiant beauty and radiant face.

Okay, the second part of your task, again, is to write a sentence using the word radiant.

Here are the word pairs to help you, and here is the scaffold of speech to help you as well.

You don't have to include speech, but if you wanted to, the scaffold is there to help you.

So remember, if you are not sure how to start your sentence, pick one of those word pairs.

For example, radiant smile.

And then you can think, "Hmm, who might have a radiant smile? What might they be doing if they had a radiant smile? What effect might that have on someone else if they saw a radiant smile?" Say your sentence out loud.

Read it back to check it, and try.

This is the last sentence you're going to write today.

So try and make this the best sentence you've written so far.

Okay, pause the video now.

Well done.

Let's look at some examples.

"You look radiant!" Grit exclaimed as he saw Bearnice walking into the room.

So again, we've got that speech with the speech marks around it.

"You look radiant," that's what Grit said.

We've got an exclamation marked before our 99, and then we've got our reporting clause, which is who said it.

Grit exclaimed, that's the person that said it.

Okay, so imagine Bernice is looking radiant and he's saying, "Wow, you look radiant!" Our next sentence is Plato's radiant smile brightened everyone's mood.

Oh, that's nice.

And finally, she smiled radiantly as she walked into the room.

What do you notice there? She smiled radiantly.

What do you notice? That's right, I've turned it into an adverb by adding ly.

The verb is smiled.

That's the action.

That's what she's doing.

And I've described it at the she smiled radiantly.

So we can see how useful this word is.

Okay, for our last task today, you're going to have three sentences.

Each one has got a gap in it, and you need to fill the gap with either the word blistering, perspire, or radiant.

If you get to one and you are unsure which word fits, or if you think, "Oh, well, they both could work," leave it out and go to the next one, and then hopefully it'll be obvious which one goes where when you've looked at all three.

So here are the sentences.

Thanks to her, mmm, pace, Oz was picked first for the school running team.

Oh, so which of those words could mean quick? Mrs. Wordsmith's, mmm, skin gave her a youthful complexion despite her age.

Okay, So Mrs. Wordsmith is obviously a bit older, but her something skin gave her a youthful, that means young-looking, complexion, which complexion's a word where you can use to describe skin.

Okay.

And rivers of sweat ran down Plato's back as he began to, mmm, uncontrollably.

So pause the video while you try to work out which word fits best in each sentence.

Well done, let's go through the answers together.

Thanks to her blistering pace.

Can you remember blistering means harsh but it also can mean very quick? Mrs. Wordsmith's radiant skin.

Radiant can mean glowing or bright.

And rivers of sweat ran down Plato's back as he began to perspire uncontrollably.

Perspire is a synonym for sweat.

It's something that you do.

It's a verb.

Okay, brilliant.

Well done.

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

We have learned three new words associated with heat.

We've learned that blistering is an adjective, meaning harsh or scorching, like sun so strong, it makes your skin hurt, but we also learned it can mean very quick.

So you could have blistering pace or a blistering start to erase.

And because it means harsh, you could describe someone's words or someone's criticism as blistering.

Perspire is a verb.

It's a doing verb.

It means to drip with sweat, what you do when you sit in a very hot sauna.

And radiant is an adjective, meaning bright, brilliant, or glowing, like a very large and powerful light bulb, also could describe someone's skin or someone's smile.

And we also learned we could add ly and turn it into radiantly an adverb.

So well done for all your hard work today.

I hope you feel really proud of yourselves because you've written some amazing sentences, and now you have three very impressive new words that you can use in lots of different contexts in your speaking and in your writing.

Thank you so much for joining me and hopefully I'll see you for some more learning again.

Bye.