Lesson video

Hello, everyone.

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

In our lesson today, we'll be focusing on vocabulary associated with being lazy or relaxing.

So I hope that this lesson isn't going to send you to sleep because we are learning lots of lovely relaxing words.

So let's get started, shall we? The outcome of today's lesson is to effectively use the words sluggish, pampered, and other rich vocabulary associated with being lazy or relaxing.

Here are our key words for today's lesson.

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

So let's start off by saying each one out loud.

My turn, your turn.

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

Well done.

Let's go through the definitions.

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

An adjective is a word that describes a noun.

For example, the word relaxing is an adjective.

I had a lovely relaxing bath.

The bath would be the noun and it would be the thing, and relaxing would describe it.

A verb is a being, doing or having word.

Perhaps if I read my book in the bath.

Read or I read, that would be the verb.

That's the thing that I'm doing.

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

Word pairs are words that often appear together.

So in our learning today, we will learn new words and we'll learn their synonyms, so words that have a similar meaning, that will deepen our understanding of what the word means.

But we'll also learn word pairs.

So we'll learn lots of ways that we can use this word.

Which words do we pair them up with so we know how to use them appropriately and in which contexts? Okay, so in our lesson, we've got three learning cycles.

In the first two learning cycles, we'll be looking at one word in each cycle.

And then in the third learning cycle, we'll look at four words grouped together.

So in total, by the end of today's lesson, we've learned six new words associated with being lazy or relaxing.

So let's get started with our first one.

Now, before I show you, tell you what this word is, I would like you to look closely at this picture.

This is Bearnice.

How would you describe her here? What's happening in this picture? Could you pause the video and either have some thinking time or describe out loud what you see now? Okay, well done.

Well, Bearnice looks like she has just woken up.

She's kind of slumped over, isn't she? She looks like she's got her dressing gown on and her bunny rabbit slippers, and is holding a mug of tea that says mourning person on it.

But I get the impression from looking at this picture that Bearnice isn't much of a morning person because she looks so tired and a bit kind of fed up.

She's not like a morning person.

You might be someone who kind of springs out of bed and is like ready to start the day, but Bearnice does not look like that in this picture.

I wonder if you are a morning person.

I'm not, to be honest.

Oh, this word is sluggish.

My turn, your turn.

Sluggish, well done.

Well, we know what a slug is, don't we? So maybe that's got something to do with this word, sluggish.

It's an adjective, a describing word.

And it means slow, lazy, or lifeless.

Now I don't know if slugs are lazy, but they de definitely are slow and they look pretty lifeless.

How you feel when you get up too early in the morning? So when someone's come in to wake you up or an alarm clock's gone off and you just feel really sluggish, slow, lazy, or lifeless.

I felt rather sluggish this morning when my baby, who's called Tommy, woke me up at five o'clock in the morning and he was wanted his milk, and I was just felt so sluggish it just took me a long time to wake up.

Other forms of this word are sluggishly, which is an adverb.

If we add ly to a word, it often gives us an adverb, sluggishly.

So an adverb describes a verb or an adjective.

So if you imagine a verb, something you might do, for example, walk.

If you walked sluggishly, you would walk in a slow, lazy, or lifeless way, okay? So we've got sluggish, an adjective; or sluggishly, an adverb which could describe an adjective or a verb.

So these words are synonyms of sluggish.

Lazy, lifeless, and slow.

Bearnice was enjoying a sluggish morning, staying in her pyjamas and watching TV.

Oh, that sounds nice, doesn't it? Okay, so these words are word pairs of sluggish.

A sluggish river.

Now this might seem a little bit strange.

But if we go back to our synonyms, slow or lifeless, then we can imagine a sluggish river.

An active river might be one with fast flowing water and fish jumping around and the water might be lovely and fresh, or frothing at rocks because it's moving around so much.

But a sluggish river, maybe the water might be quite stagnant or stale because it's moving so slowly.

If you dropped a leaf or a floating little branch in a sluggish river, it would take a very long time to move anywhere.

A sluggish start.

So perhaps you might have a sluggish start to the race.

A sluggish movement.

Bearnice looks like she's moving in a sluggish way in that picture.

A sluggish performance.

So imagine someone is in a play, if they gave a sluggish performance, it would be quite lifeless.

Not very engaging or enthusiastic.

Sluggish pace.

The pace is how quick something is.

So if it was sluggish pace, it would be slow.

And sluggish growth.

If I plant in my garden and if there was sluggish growth, it's gonna just be very slow growth.

It's not gonna suddenly spring up and I'll think, wow, that grew quickly be the opposite to that sluggish growth.

Okay, so we've seen this word.

You've heard me saying it.

I'd like you now to practise saying the word with the word pairs.

So could you pause the video and read these word pairs out loud? Excellent, well done.

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

Which of these words is a synonym of sluggish? a, lazy; b, messy; or c, exhausted? Pause the video while you think about your answer.

Well done, the correct answer is a, lazy is a synonym of sluggish.

Okay, we have a word map now with the word sluggish in the middle.

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

First, I'd like you to identify the synonyms and I'd like you to circle them.

Then I'd like you to draw a line from the word sluggish up or across or down to the word pair and read them out loud as you go.

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

Bearnice was enjoying a sluggish morning, staying in her pyjamas and watching TV.

Now if you think the word might be a synonym, you might be able to take out the word sluggish and you might be able to replace it with a synonym.

They can't always be used interchangeably, but sometimes they can.

You could also practise reading the word with the word synonyms or word pairs.

And if it sounds right, if they're paired together nicely, it's probably a word pair.

For example, sluggish start, sluggish river, sluggish, lazy.

Now that one doesn't sound right, so maybe that's not a word pair.

So there's two tricks to help you.

Could you pause the video now while you complete this task? Well done, let's go through the answers together.

The synonyms are slow, lazy, and lifeless.

The word pairs are sluggish start, sluggish river, sluggish movement, sluggish performance, sluggish pace, sluggish growth.

Okay, well done.

Let's take a look at our second new lazy or relaxing word.

The first was an adjective sluggish.

Let's find out what our second word is.

Woo, what's happening here? We've got Bearnice again and Armie the armadillo.

Pause the video and have a close look what's happening in this picture.

Okay, well, Bearnice looks like she is relaxing here in some kind of mud bath.

And Armie is painting her nails and she has cucumbers in her eyes, which is quite often.

You quite often see that when people are kind of relaxing because it's like it makes your eyes feel nice and cool and it kind of blocks out the light.

And Bearnice is smiling.

She looks very happy here, doesn't she? She looks like she's really being looked after very nicely in her mud bath with Armie painting her nails.

Let's find out what this word is.

Ooh, pampered.

My turn, your turn, pampered.

Pampered is also an adjective.

It means spoiled or coddled.

Like being treated to an indulgent mud bath at a fancy hotel.

Now coddled means excessively pampered or indulged.

You might have heard the phrase mollycoddled.

If someone is mollycoddled, that just means that they're excessively pampered.

So if you had a coddled or a mollycoddled pet, you would say, oh no, they don't really like going outside because they get a bit cold.

And no, they don't like dog food.

They only like me to make them homemade, lovely humans food.

They might be coddled.

Excessively pampered or indulged.

So these words are synonyms of pampered.

Coddled, indulged, and spoiled.

I wonder if any of you feel that you are sometimes pampered, maybe.

After the deluxe mud bath, Bearnice's pampered body felt brand new.

These are word pairs of pampered.

Pampered body, pampered pet, pampered child, pampered guest.

So if somebody maybe came to stay with you, and if you looked after them and waited on them hand and foot, they might be a pampered guest.

Pampered lifestyle, pampered creature.

Maybe it might be, again, a pampered pet.

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

So which of these words is a synonym of pampered? They have a similar meaning.

a, muddy; b, relaxing; or c, indulged? Pause the video while you think about your answer.

The correct answer is c, indulged is a synonym of pampered.

Okay, we've got another word map.

This time with pampered in the middle.

Around the edge you've got synonyms or word pairs.

Could you first circle the synonyms and then draw lines to the word pairs? Here's a sentence to help you.

After the deluxe mud bath, Bearnice's pampered body felt brand new.

Remember there's that trick.

If you want, you could try and replace the word and see if it's a synonym.

Pause the video while you complete this word map.

Okay, let's go through the answers.

The synonyms are indulged, coddled, spoiled; and then the word pairs are pampered body, pampered child, pampered guest, pampered lifestyle.

Maybe somebody who always goes to the spa or has lots of massages and has lots of people waiting on them hand and foot.

A pampered creature and a pampered pet.

Right, we are now going to have a go at writing a sentence using either of these new words, sluggish or pampered.

Use the word pairs to help you.

Here are the word pairs for sluggish, and here are the word pairs for pampered.

The word pairs are going to help you to use these words correctly.

So start by picking a word.

For example, you might pick sluggish, then pick your word pair.

You might pick sluggish start.

And then you can build your sentence around that.

Who are you writing about? A Mrs. Wordsmith character, a character from a book, yourself, a friend? And try to add as much detail to your sentence as possible.

You might come up with a sentence and then think, ooh, I think I can improve it and add some extra detail in to really exaggerate how sluggish these start was.

So pause the video now while you have a go at writing your own sentence using one of these words.

Well done.

Let's take a look at a sentence together.

So does this sentence use pampered correctly? The pampered pet sat back and relaxed.

Show me thumbs up or thumbs down.

Does it use pampered correctly? Yeah, you're right.

It does use pampered correctly.

I thought the word pair pet, the pampered pet.

And it makes sense that a pampered pet would sit back and relax.

Because I know that pampered means indulged or coddled.

But I think we could, oh, we've got the word pet there, pet.

I think we could improve this sentence by adding a bit more detail.

So we started off with the pampered pet, sat back and relaxed.

Let's add some detail.

As it had its paws massaged and was fed ice-cream.

So I've just given a bit more detail as to how it's being pampered.

It sat back and relaxed as it had its paws massaged and was fed ice-cream.

I wouldn't mind being that pampered pet, wouldn't you? So in this example, it started off with a simple sentence.

The pampered pet sat back and relaxed, and then I added a subordinate clause after it.

So I've turned it into adverbial complex sentence.

The pampered pet sat back and relaxed, that's now my main clause, as it had its paws massaged and was fed ice-cream.

I've added extra detail to make my sentence more effective.

This detail adds shows how pampered it was.

So I wonder, could you check how effective is your sentence? Perhaps you could pause the video and see if you could make any improvements or corrections to your sentence.

Okay, well done.

It's time to look at our four other lazy or relaxing words.

So look at these pictures.

You might even be able to predict what each word might be as I describe them to you.

In the first one, we have Stax and he is lying on the sofa.

He's got a cushion behind his back and it looks like he's listening to some music that looks like a vinyl player.

And he is looking really nice and relaxed, isn't he? In the second picture, we've got Yin or Yang working.

They're doing some sort of work with a digger.

Looks like they've got some sort of toxic waste.

So they probably should be awake for this may potentially dangerous activity, but they look so tired that they're kind of slumped against the steering wheel that's why they're knocking all of these cans of toxic waste over because they're just so tired.

In the third picture, Bearnice is lying on the ground and looks like she's really enjoying the sound of that lovely music from the birds.

In the fourth picture, Oz is lying on a sun lounger with her hands behind her head with a Looks like a delicious drink, and looks like she is just really enjoying relaxing there.

So if you'd like, you could pause the video and predict if what any of these words might be.

Okay, let's go through each one.

The first one is unwind.

Now this is a verb.

It's an action.

It's something that you would do.

I'm going to go and unwind.

It means to rest or relax, like when you stretch out on the sofa after a long day at work.

Imagine if you had a piece of string and it was all wound up.

If you then unwound it, it's like you are smoothing yourself out, smoothing out your thoughts and unwinding.

Drowsy is an adjective.

It means sleepy or dopey.

How you feel when your alarm clock rings and you want to snooze? So when you're kind of half awake.

It's really dangerous if you feel drowsy when you are driving, because you shouldn't be driving if you feeling sleepy or dopey.

You need to be alert when you're driving.

This third one is soothing.

It's an adjective.

It means calming or comforting, like a sweet song that makes you feel peaceful and sleepy.

So the soothing sound of those birds singing is making Bearnice feel calm and comforted.

And then finally, we've got lounge, which like unwind is a verb.

It means to lie around or laze like a holidaymaker lying in the sun, sipping a cool drink.

So unwind and lounge are both verbs.

They're both things that you would do.

But drowsy and soothing are both adjectives.

So I'd now like you to match the adjective or verb to the correct image.

We've got unwind, lounge, drowsy, and soothing.

Pause the video while you try to match those up to the correct image.

Okay, so unwind is Stax unwinding, listening to his music on the sofa.

Lounge is Oz lounging on that deck chair, relaxing and drinking her nice, delicious drink while she's sunbathing.

Drowsy is old, sleepy and who is so tired she can't function.

And soothing is the sound of the lovely bird singing to Bearnice.

Unwind and lounge are both verbs.

They're both actions.

And drowsy and soothing are adjectives.

They are describing words.

So for each of these words, we've got a word map.

We're gonna whiz through these because we've done this activity twice before already.

For each one, you need to circle the synonyms and draw lines to the word pairs.

It might be a bit more tricky now 'cause I haven't told you the synonyms and word pairs for these words.

For each one, there's a sentence to help you.

The birds sweetly sung, adding to the relaxed, soothing atmosphere.

So pause the video while you complete this word map.

Let's go through the answers together.

The synonyms are comforting, easing, and calming.

The word pairs are soothing lullaby, that's a song, soothing music, soothing word.

So some words might even sound soothing like lullaby.

I would actually say is quite a soothing word.

Soothing atmosphere, soothing massage, soothing voice, soothing influence.

And influence is when someone has the power over someone to affect their thoughts or behaviours.

So if you said, oh, doing mindfulness has a really soothing influence on me.

It's like it has a soothing impact on me.

And soothing ointment.

Ointment usually has a kind of greasy consistency, and sometimes it can contain medical ingredients.

So if you had a something sore and you put a soothing ointment, it would sort of calm it down.

It would sort of make it feel nicer for you.

Okay, the next one is drowsy.

Struggling to keep his eyes open.

The drowsy driver knew it was time to stop and take a nap.

Pause the video while you complete this word map.

Okay, the synonyms of drowsy are dopey, dozy, sleepy.

The word pairs are drowsy driver, which is very dangerous; drowsy warmth, so sometimes it might feel so warm, and I can imagine it in the classroom, if it felt so warm, it makes you feel sleepy and you need to open a window to all wake up; a drowsy afternoon; a drowsy voice; a drowsy feeling; the drowsy heat, so again, like the drowsy warmth; and a drowsy village.

If there was a drowsy village, it would be a sleepy village where not much happens.

Everyone moves at quite a slow pace.

Okay, unwind.

Remember, this is a verb.

After a long day at work, all stacks needed was to relax and unwind on the sofa.

Now because this word is a verb, the synonyms will also be verbs.

Pause the video while you complete this word map.

Well done, the synonyms are rest, relax, and chill out.

They're all verbs.

They're all things that you do.

The word pairs are completely unwind; finally unwind, perhaps after a long day, you could finally unwind; mentally unwind; consciously unwind.

If you do something consciously, you are kind of noticing as you do it.

So sometimes we might unwind without realising.

But if you think, I could consciously feel myself unwinding.

It's like you are aware that it's happening.

Deeply unwind and visibly unwind.

You might watch someone and say, I could see they visibly unwound because you can see them kind of calming down and relaxing.

Okay, and finally, we've got lounge.

Oz felt completely relaxed as she lounged by the pool on a towel.

I've turned that verb into the past tense there.

Because again, this is a verb, the synonyms will also be verbs.

Pause the video while you complete this final word map of the day.

Okay, let's go through the answers.

The synonyms are loll, relax, and laze.

The word pairs are lazily lounge, comfortably lounge, luxuriously lounge, carelessly lounge, idly lounge, and casually lounge.

Now all of those word pairs are adverbs.

An adverb can describe an adjective or a verb.

Lounge is a verb.

It's an action or something that we do.

So all of these adverbs are describing how that verb is done.

Lazily lounge, comfortably lounge, they add some more detail about how the verb happens, how the lounging happens.

Okay, so for our final activity in today's lesson, I'm going to read you six sentences.

And in each sentence, there's a gap.

You need to fill in the gap with either the words, sluggish, pampered, drowsy, soothing, unwind, or lounge.

Now remember, sluggish, pampered, drowsy, and soothing are all adjectives; and unwind and lounge are verbs.

They will be used differently in these sentences.

As I read them, listen carefully and see if you can start placing each word in a sentence.

The empty chocolate wrapper floated slowly down the, mmm, river.

So can you remember which word was a word pair for river? Stax was feeling lazy so he decided to, mmm, around in his pyjamas all day.

Now that sounds like he's gonna do something.

So a verb should fit in there.

The hotel guest was, mmm, with breakfast in bed, massages, and healthy green juices.

Armie liked the, mmm, voice of the woman on the recording because she sounded so calm.

After her travels, Oz was glad to finally have the chance to relax and, mmm, at home.

The, mmm, warmth of the classroom made everyone feel sleepy.

So could you pause the video and see if you can fit each word in a sentence? If you are unsure where a word goes, then leave it out and go to another one.

And then go back to the one that you found tricky, because then there'll be less choices for you to choose from.

So hopefully should be easier.

So pause the video while you complete this final task in today's lesson.

Okay, let's go through the answers.

The empty chocolate wrapper floated slowly down the sluggish river.

Remember that means it's moving very slowly or lifelessly.

Stax was feeling lazy so he decided to lounge around in his pyjamas all day.

You might have written Stax was feeling lazy so he decided to unwind.

In fact, no, that doesn't work.

Unwind around in his pyjamas.

I was gonna say, well, we'll come to that one in a minute.

Lounge is the only one that works there.

The hotel guest was pampered with breakfast in bed, massages, healthy green juices.

Pampered means you are indulged or coddled.

Armie liked the soothing voice of the woman on the recording because she sounded so calm.

After her travels, Oz was glad to finally have the chance to relax and unwind at home.

So that was the one where I was going to say, lounge and unwind can be used interchangeably.

You might have put, after her travels, Oz was glad to finally have the chance to relax and lounge at home.

That does work, but we can't say he decided to unwind around in his pyjamas.

So hopefully that made you realise which one fitted where.

And finally, the drowsy warmth of the classroom made everyone feel sleepy.

So well done for completing that task.

Let's summarise what we've learned today.

We've learn rich vocabulary associated with being lazy or relaxing.

Sluggish is an adjective that means slow, lazy, or lifeless; how you feel when you get up too early in the morning.

Pampered means spoiled or coddled; like being treated to an indulgent mud bath at a fancy hotel.

That's also an adjective.

Unwind is a verb.

It's something we do.

It means to rest or relax; like when you stretch out on the sofa after a long day at work.

Drowsy is an adjective, meaning sleepy or dopey; how you feel when your alarm clock rings and you want to snooze.

Soothing is an adjective, meaning calming or comforting; like a sweet song that makes you feel peaceful and sleepy.

And lounge is a verb, to lie around or laze; like a holidaymaker lying in the sun sipping a cool drink.

So I really hope that these six new words we've learned today are useful in your speaking and your writing, and I hope you've enjoyed learning with me today.

Hopefully I'll see you for some more learning another time, bye.