Lesson video

Hi, everyone.

My name is Miss van Vliet, and I'm really excited to be able to teach you today's grammar lesson.

I know that this is a unit on "How to Train Your Dragon," but this is a ground lesson.

So you might not do the rest of the units, but you might just be doing this grammar lesson, and that's absolutely fine.

So when you are ready, let's get going.

Okay, so our learning objective today is to explore simple and compound sentences.

This is our agenda.

We're going to do a warm up, then we're going to revise simple sentences, and then we're going to revise compound sentences.

So in this lesson, you'll need an exercise book or some paper, a pencil or a pen, and you need your brain switched on, so make sure you do that, especially your grammar brain.

We'll need your grammar brain today.

If you need to pause the video to get any of those things, do that now.

Okay, so you should now have everything that you need and be ready for this lesson.

Okay, let's just recap and revise our word classes.

What is a noun, what is an adjective, what's a verb, and what's an adverb? Have some thinking time.

See if you can remember the definitions.

If not, let's go through them.

So a noun is a PPT, a person, place, or thing.

Say that one more time.

A noun is at PPT, a person, place, or thing.

Well done.

It helps you to remember when you do them in a kind of rap.

Okay.

An adjective is a describing word.

An adjective is a describing word.

Nice.

A verb is a doing or a being word.

A verb is a doing or a being word.

Well done, and an adverb describes a verb.

An adverb describes a verb.

Okay, well done.

So let's see.

Can you label the sentence? So, "The fiery dragons flew fiercely across the remote village." Can you tell me what the nouns are, what the verbs are, what the adjectives are and what the adverbs are? If they're all in there.

I'm not sure.

So if you need to, pause the video, and just use your finger to point and identify each of the different words classes in that sentence.

Do that now.

Okay, so you should've had a think, and now we can check and see if you got them right.

So here is my answer.

So the fiery, fiery dragons.

The word fiery is describing dragons.

Dragons are nouns, so fiery is an adjective.

We have flew.

Flew is the past tense of to fly.

So they flew.

Fiercely.

Can you give me a fierce face? Fiercely.

Yeah, absolutely.

You're fiercely, and it's describing how they're flying.

They're not flying like this.

They're flying fiercely.

They're coming around.

So fiercely is an adverb.

Then we've got across the.

We look at that.

Do you know what across is? Wasn't on there, but if you know, tell me now.

You can shout at your screen.

Yes, well done if you got that.

It was a preposition.

And then we've got remote village.

Well, remote is describing the village, so remote is an adjective because village is a noun.

Well done if you got those all correct.

Good job.

So we're looking at sentences, and we're looking at simple and compound sentences today.

Simple sentence, compound sentence.

But to be able to know what the difference is, we need to start with what a sentence is.

So what is a sentence? Well, a sentence is a group of words that start with a capital letter and end with a full stop, exclamation mark, or question mark.

So it's a group of words.

So starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, exclamation mark, or question mark.

And sentences can be made up of clauses and phrases.

Clause? Phrase? Well done.

And there are different types of sentences.

So I already said at the start, we have simple and compound, but we also have complex sentences.

But in today's lesson, we are going to focus on simple sentences and compound sentences.

Okay, so what does a clause need? A clause must have a? To make it a clause, it has to have a? What is it? What is it? Tell me.

Shout it at me.

It must have a verb! It must have a verb.

So for a clause to make sense, it must have a verb, and a verb is a doing or a being word.

If you do it or you are it, then the word is a verb, yo.

So you might want to remember it using that rhyme.

So a verb is a doing or a being word.

If you do it or you are it, then the word is a verb.

Yo.

Your turn.

Well done.

So for a clause to be a clause, it has to have a verb.

So a simple sentence, then, is a sentence with one main clause.

It has one main clause, and a main clause makes sense on its own.

And to help you remember that, I've got Mr. Main.

So can you all do Mr. Main? And Mr. Main makes sense on its own.

It is one clause, and it makes sense on its own.

So remember, a clause needs to have a? Verb.

And it stands on its own.

It makes sense on its own.

So it's Mr. Main.

So are they simple sentences, and how do you know? Let's check.

"The flames spewed over the village." "The flames spewed over the village." "The dragons soared through the sky." Are they simple sentences? Give me a thumbs up or a thumbs down.

The first one, what do you think? Well done if your thumb is up.

Why would it be a simple sentence? Oh, it's because it has one verb.

It has spewed as the verb.

So spewed is the verb, and it's like, spewed everywhere.

Kids sometimes use it as a vomit, another word for vomit, so spewed, sprayed everywhere.

So, "The flames spewed over the village." And so that is my verb.

And then the second one, well done if your thumb was up.

"The dragons soared through the sky." Soared is the verb, and so that's a main clause.

Remember, a simple sentence has one main clause, and the clause must have a verb.

My turn and then your turn.

A simple sentence has one main clause, and that clause must have a verb.

Good.

So in the previous lesson in this unit, you would've looked at some dragons, and you looked at this dragon, and I would like you now to write three simple sentences about dragons.

So you can use the adjectives and the nouns here that were used in your previous lesson.

So powerful wings to fly, sharp teeth, red eyes, sharp claws.

So I'd like you to think about that and to write three simple sentences.

Remember, simple sentence has to have one main clause, and the clause has to have a verb.

So I'd like you to pause the video and to complete that task.

So you should've completed the task now, and you should have three simple sentences written down.

Now, did you make your sentences ambitious? Just because they're simple sentences doesn't mean that they have to be boring.

So you can have the dragon has red eyes.

The dragon has scaly skin.

The dragon has a strong tail.

Yeah, they're simple sentences, but they're not very exciting.

So we could make them more exciting saying things like, "The dragon glared at me with his red eyes." Still a simple sentence but a little bit more ambitious.

Could you just check your work now and make sure that you have made yours ambitious? So pause the video and just edit and see if you have made your sentences ambitious.

Just because they're simple doesn't mean they have to be boring.

So pause the video and do that now.

Okay, so I hope you checked and made yours a little bit more ambitious.

So now we're going to look at revising compound sentences.

So a compound sentence.

Compound sentence.

And a compound sentence now has two main clauses, and they're joined with a coordinating conjunction.

So a compound sentence has two main clauses joined with a coordinating conjunction.

Well done.

So now we've got Mr. Main and another Mr. Main, and they're added by a coordinating conjunction, and we use them as BOA, so, but, or, and.

So but, or, and.

Your turn.

And I like to think of it as a little boa snake to remind me what am I coordinating conjunctions? But, or, and.

So can you check? Is this a compound sentence? "The flames spewed over the village, and the scared residents ran to safety." Thumbs up, thumbs down? What do you think? Let's have a look.

"The flame spewed over the village, and the scared residents ran to safety." Well, "the flames spewed over the village" we said was one main clause, and then we've got, "the scared residents," sorry, "ran to safety." Well, that's another main clause because I have the verb ran, and it's been joined with the word and, and and is one of my coordinating conjunctions.

Remember, BOA stands for but, or, and.

Sometimes and can be used, though, to join to nouns to make a compound subject.

And this is where sometimes we have to check whether it's a main clause or, sorry, where it's a simple sentence or a compound sentence because we might have something like this.

So, "Snotlout and Ruffnut are friends." Those are both names of two of the characters in "How to Train Your Dragon" that you'll come across.

If not, those are names.

And the subject is what the sentence is about.

So, "Snotlout and Ruffnut are friends." Got the and there, but do you see that it's talking about the two Vikings there? And so Snotlout and Ruffnut are both the subject of the sentence.

So in this case, it is still one clause with one verb, and so it is a, what type of sentence? Simple or compound? A simple sentence.

Well done if you got that right.

So be careful.

Sometimes it joins, and it's just like listing two people or two things, and and it's just joined to list.

It's not used as a coordinating conjunction in that instance.

Okay, so we've got BOA, but, or, and.

What would go into these boxes? "I'd like to see some dragons." Mm, "they live on the Isle of Berk." Which one would go in it? What do you think? "I'd like to see some dragons." Mm, "they live on the Isle of Berk." "In the village it was dark." Mm, "there were lots of strange noises." "In the village it was dark." Mm, "there were lots of strange noises." What goes in? Point to it on the screen.

"Speak to Hiccup." Mm, "Toothless will come and destroy the house." "Speak to Hiccup." Mm, "Toothless will come and destroy the house." Let's see.

So, "I'd like to see some dragons, but they live on the Isle of Berk." "In the village it was dark and there were lots of strange noises." "Speak to Hiccup, or Toothless will come and destroy the house." Can you notice anything that we have with but and that we have with or? What do but and or both use? Ah, they have a comma.

So we need to use comma but, comma or for those two coordinating conjunctions.

We don't use a comma for and.

So we have a comma after our first main clause with but and then but.

"They live on the Isle of Berk," and no comma and then "speak to Hiccup," my first main clause, "or Toothless will come and destroy the house." So we have a comma after our first main clause.

Okay, a cool picture of a dragon.

What I'd like you to do is to write three compound sentences about dragons.

Remember, a compound sentence is made up of? Two main clauses, so Mr. Main and Mr. Main.

And then they are joined with one of the coordinating conjunctions, and to remember coordinating conjunctions, I can think of BOA.

BOA is but, or, and.

So three compound sentences.

So two main clauses joined with a coordinating conjunction.

So pause the video and complete that task now.

Okay, so you should've written three compared sentences about dragons, well done.

Oh, let's just check if you can remember.

A clause must have a adjective, verb, noun, or adverb? Which one is it? Point to it on your screen.

Do that in three, two, one.

Of course, it needs a verb.

A clause must have a verb.

Well done.

A verb is a describing word, doing or being word, person, place, or thing, describes a doing or a being word? Which one is it? A verb is a? Point to it and do that three, two, one.

Well done.

It's a doing or a being word.

If you do it or you are it, then the word is a verb, yo.

Think of it like that.

It will help you remember.

Okay, can you match the sentence type to the picture? So which one is the compound sentence? Which one is the simple sentence? Do that now.

And a compound is main clause joined by a coordinating conjunction and a main clause, and a simple sentence is just a main.

Okay, which one is the coordinating conjunction? If, and, point to it.

If or and.

Which one is it? And do that in three, two, one.

Yes it's and.

which one is the coordinating conjunction, when or or? Point to it in three, two, one.

Yes, it's or.

Well done.

What one is the coordinating conjunction, but or so? Point to it in three, two, one.

Yes, it's but.

Well done.

Okay, so we did our warm up today, we've revised simple sentences, and we've revised compound sentences.

Well done.

So that's the end of the lesson.

So well done for all of your hard work.

Remember simple sentence has one main clause, and a compound sentence has two main clauses, and they're joined by a coordinating conjunction, and those are BOA, but, or, and.

Well done, everyone.

Excellent learning today.

See you all soon.