Lesson video

Hello, everyone.

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

In our lesson today, we're focusing on vocabulary that is associated with chaos and confusion.

So if you imagine a chaotic scenario, perhaps it might be there's lots of mess in the classroom and everyone's trying to tidy up at the same time and everyone's in a rush and everyone's bashing into each other.

Or maybe it might be if you've ever been to something like a train station or an airport at rush hour when there's lots of people rushing around trying to find their train and it's really busy and chaotic.

All of those scenarios or those scenarios can be described in different ways.

And today we're focusing on vocabulary that is associated with those kinds of scenarios.

I hope you enjoy today's lesson.

The outcome of today's learning is to use the words havoc, turbulent and other rich vocabulary associated with chaos and confusion.

These are our keywords we'll be using today.

Let's start off by saying each one.

My turn.

Your turn.

Noun, adjective, synonym, word pair.

Well done.

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

Chaos is a thing.

So the word chaos would be a noun.

An adjective is a word that describes a noun.

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

Word pairs are words that often appear together.

So when we learn our new words today, we will learn them alongside their synonyms, so words that have a similar meaning, which will help to deepen our understanding of the word.

And also, we'll learn the word alongside its word pairs so we know how to use each word correctly.

In our lesson today, we have three learning cycles.

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

And in the third learning cycle, we'll be looking at four words together.

So in total, we'll be looking at six words in this lesson.

So by the end of today's lesson, you're going to have six really impressive new pieces of vocabulary to put in your vocabulary toolkits to use in your speaking and writing.

Let's start by looking at our first new chaos and confusion word.

So before I tell you what the word is, I'd like you to look at this picture.

What's happening here? This is Bearnice the bear, but how would you describe what is happening in this picture? I'd like you to pause the video and either have some thinking time, looking closely at what's happening, or if someone's close by, you could describe or discuss this picture together.

Pause the video now.

Well done.

In this picture, Bearnice the bear looks like she is definitely causing a lot of chaos in this city or on the city.

I can see that there are buildings on fire.

I can see that she is just picking up, I think she's got a train there, a train carriage, and she's got a helicopter in her hand.

And it's like Bearnice has turned into this destructive monster that is just causing so much destruction on this city.

So let's find out what this word is.

Havoc.

My turn, your turn.

Havoc.

Well done.

Havoc is a noun.

So just like chaos is a thing, havoc is also a thing.

It means great damage or chaos, like the mess caused by a giant bear smashing through a city.

These words are synonyms of havoc.

That means they have a similar meaning.

Chaos, devastation, and mayhem.

Here's the word in a sentence.

The giant monster caused havoc on the city and destroyed everything in its path.

These are word pairs of havoc.

Cause havoc, wreak havoc.

If you wreak havoc, it's like another way of saying you've caused the havoc.

So you might say something like, perhaps a child in your class might, a pupil in your class might turn up with the coolest toy any of you have ever seen.

And it might wreak havoc in the classroom because everyone's calmly sitting down ready to learn and then everyone's going, "Oh my gosh, let me see.

It's so cool." And everyone's trying to look at it.

It would wreak havoc in the classroom.

Unleash havoc.

If something is leached like a leash for a dog, it's tied up.

So imagine you have unleashed the havoc.

Create havoc, play havoc, spread havoc.

So could you pause the video and read these word pairs out loud? Because when we just see a word or hear a word, we don't necessarily, we're not going to remember it as well as if we actually practise saying the word out loud.

So pause the video now while you read these word pairs.

Excellent, well done.

Okay, which of these words is a synonym of havoc, that has a similar meaning? A, mess, B, devastation or C, argument.

Pause the video while you think about your answer.

Well done.

The correct answer is B, devastation.

You might have thought mess might have been a synonym.

If you caused havoc or unleashed havoc, there might be some mess involved, but I think devastation is the synonym because it sort of exaggerates it more, doesn't it? It's quite serious havoc.

It's really chaotic.

So mess isn't quite a synonym.

Devastation is the synonym of havoc.

Okay, so we have a word map now with the word havoc, which is a noun in the middle.

Around the word havoc are either synonyms, so words that have a similar meaning, or word pairs.

I'd like you to look at each word and first try and identify the synonyms. And when you find them, I'd like you to circle them.

Once you've done that, I'd like you to draw a line from the word havoc to all of the word pairs.

And as you do that, perhaps you could practise reading them aloud.

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

The giant monster caused havoc on the city and destroyed everything in its path.

If you're unsure of the word as a synonym, you could try and take out the word havoc in that sentence and replace it with the word.

If it fits or if it nearly fits, it's probably a synonym.

You could also practise reading the word havoc with the words to see if it sounds like a word pair.

For example, cause havoc, spread havoc, mayhem havoc.

And if it doesn't sound right, that might mean it is a synonym.

So there's two tricks to help you.

Could you pause the video while you complete this first task? Okay, well done.

Let's go through the answers together.

The synonyms are chaos, devastation, and mayhem.

The word pairs are cause havoc, wreak havoc, unleash havoc, create havoc, play havoc or spread havoc.

Okay, we're going to look at our second new chaos and confusion word.

The first word was a noun, havoc.

Let's find out what our second word is.

So before I tell you what the word is, look at what's happening in this picture.

This is Armie the armadillo who's clinging onto that aeroplane.

But could you pause the video and closely look at what's happening and perhaps describe what you can see? Okay, well done.

Let's look at this picture together.

So Armie looks like he's flying in his aeroplane and he's clinging on something because it looks like these dark stormy clouds have got almost like table tennis or ping pong bats and are bating the aeroplane with Armie in it back and forth, back and forth.

And it looks like the aeroplane is being knocked all over the place and Armie looks pretty terrified.

Let's find out what the word is.

Turbulent, my turn, your turn.

Turbulent.

Turbulent is an adjective.

So havoc was a noun, but turbulent is an adjective.

It is a describing word.

It describes something that is violent and unstable.

If something is stable, it's still, if something is unstable, it's perhaps moving around, like a plane that gets knocked about by heavy clouds.

Sometimes when you're on an aeroplane, they say you have to put your seat belts on because there's turbulence, which is a noun, it's a thing.

But you can see how it's linked to the word turbulent and that means that the plane is being knocked, buffeted about a little bit.

So that's why you have to have your seatbelt on.

You also wouldn't really want to be holding a hot drink in your hand because it might spill as your plane is bumping around.

So turbulence is something that you might experience when you're on your plane or you might describe, using the adjective turbulence, you might say it was a turbulent flight.

It was violent and unstable.

So these are synonyms of turbulent, unstable, stormy, and violent.

The plane was thrown about by the turbulent storm clouds.

These are word pairs of turbulent, turbulent flight, turbulent journey, turbulent sea.

Imagine what that would look like.

Perhaps very wavy.

Turbulent history.

So if you had a smooth history, maybe nothing big's happened, everything's been quite calm, but if there was a turbulent history, things maybe are up and down, up and down.

Perhaps there's been lots of chaos involved.

And turbulent water.

So again, very choppy or wavy water.

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

We've got some more word pairs now.

A turbulent flow, turbulent air, like the air that you might experience on a turbulent flight, a turbulent career.

Again, so if you just got a job and stayed at that job for your whole life, that wouldn't be a turbulent career.

But if you got a job and then you got fired and then you got asked to go back and then you had a promotion and then you lost that job again and it was very up and down, you might describe it as a turbulent career.

And turbulent emotions.

Again, maybe up and down.

One minute you're really happy.

One minute you're really sad.

One minute you're really angry.

So could you pause the video now and read these word pairs out loud? Okay, let's check what we've just learned.

Which of these words is a synonym of turbulent? A, stormy, B, rainy, or C, wet.

Could you pause the video and decide which is a synonym now? Well done.

The correct answer is A.

Stormy is a synonym of turbulent.

Okay, so we have our second word map.

This time turbulent is in the middle.

Here's the sentence to help you.

The plane was thrown about by the turbulent storm clouds.

First, I'd like you to circle the synonyms, the words that have a similar meaning.

And then I would like you to draw a line from the word turbulent to the word pairs.

And as you do it, read them out loud.

Remember, there's that trick of testing a word in the sentence to see if it might be a synonym, but also the trick of reading turbulent with each word pair to hear if it sounds right.

Pause the video while you complete the second word map.

Well done.

Let's go through the answers together.

So the synonyms are unstable, stormy, and violent.

The word pairs are turbulent career, which is your job, A turbulent flight, turbulent journey, turbulent sea, turbulent history, turbulent water, turbulent emotions, how you're feeling, turbulent flow, perhaps a turbulent flow of water, and turbulent air.

Well done.

Okay, we're now going to have a go at writing a sentence using two of the new words we've learned, either havoc or turbulent.

Use the word pairs to help you.

Here are the word pairs for havoc.

Their word pairs, remember, are mainly they're verbs because havoc is a noun, it's a thing.

Wreak havoc, create havoc.

And then turbulent is an adjective.

So most of those word pairs are nouns.

A turbulent flight, a turbulent journey, turbulent emotions.

So these two words, because they're different word classes, havoc is a noun and turbulent is an adjective, will be used differently in a sentence.

They have different roles in a sentence, but the word pairs will really help you to use the words correctly.

So first, pick your word.

Are you going to choose havoc or turbulent? Then pick your word pair 'cause that will help you use the word correctly.

And then think about who your sentence is going to be about and think about how you can make it really ambitious.

I want you to add lots of detail to make this sentence the best possible sentence you can write.

So pause the video now while you write your own sentence using havoc or turbulent.

Okay, well done.

Let's look at a sentence together.

Does this sentence use turbulent correctly? The turbulent water crashed against the rocks.

Thumbs up or thumbs down? Yeah, thumbs up.

It does use the word turbulent correctly.

I've used the word pair water, the turbulent water.

And that makes sense that if you had turbulent or choppy or stormy water, it would crash against the rocks.

If the water was calm, it wouldn't crash against the rocks.

So I have used turbulent correctly.

However, I think I could improve this sentence by adding even more detail.

Let's see what that would look like.

So the turbulent water crashed against the rocks could turn into, so we're gonna improve it.

Armie peered nervously into the turbulent water as it menacingly crashed against the jagged rocks.

So I've added extra detail there.

I've described the rocks as jagged rocks and I've added a character in to this sentence, Armie.

And he's peering nervously, which makes sense because the water is turbulent and it's menacingly crashing against the rocks.

So he's feeling nervous.

Perhaps he's standing, looking like maybe he's about to jump into the sea, but he doesn't fancy it because it's so turbulent, and it's crashing against jagged rocks.

So you can see how I took a sentence there and I improved it by adding more detail.

I've used the word pair water and I have used extra detail to make my sentence really effective.

I'd now like you to check how effective is your sentence.

Could you pause the video and see if you could perhaps improve your sentence like I improved mine? Okay, well done.

Did you manage to make any improvements? Well done.

Maybe sometimes I spot mistakes as well when I check my work.

Okay, we are now going to look at our third learning cycle, other chaos and confusion words.

We've got four more words to look at.

So look at each picture and as I describe them to you, see if you might be able to predict what any of them might be.

So in the first one, we've got Mrs Wordsmith herself and she has got quite wild-looking hair.

Her hair is kind of waving all over the place and it looks like it's actually covered in crabs.

In the second picture, we've got Stax, the giraffe and there's a policeman, Grit, behind him.

And he has the audacity to be not only spray painting onto the walls, but he's actually spray painting dogs smell and Grit is a dog.

So he's clearly not very frightened of Grit the police officer.

In the third picture, Bearnice looks like she is a chef cooking, but everything looks very chaotic.

The frying pan's on fire, her hat is on fire.

Plato and Armie who look like they're maybe her sous chefs, which are chefs that help are covered in food and everyone looks extremely stressed.

And finally, it looks like we've got Yin or Yang who has, looks like there's a nice table of food laid out and they've got a bowling ball and chucked it down the table and there is mess flying everywhere.

So if you like, you could pause the video and make any predictions if you might wanna have a guess what any of those pictures might be.

Okay.

So the first picture is unruly.

My turn.

Your turn.

Unruly.

Well done.

This is an adjective.

So it's a describing word.

It means wild, rowdy and rebellious, like long frizzy hair at the beach.

So if you have unruly hair, you have hair that is quite wild that you maybe can't control.

Next one, rebellious.

Also an adjective.

It means naughty or disobedient like a giraffe who breaks the rules and draws on the walls.

Okay, so a rebellious Stax there, a naughty or disobedient Stax.

If you are obedient, you follow all of the rules.

So if you had an obedient dog and you said fetch or stop or come here, it would do all the things you asked of it.

But if you add the prefix dis-, if it is disobedient, it does not follow the rules.

It does not follow your commands.

The next one is commotion.

Now, this is a noun like havoc.

It is a thing.

It means chaos or uproar, like animals set loose in a kitchen causing a crazy mess.

So you might say, "What a commotion, what chaos or uproar." And finally, devastating is an adjective.

It means terrible or destructive, like flinging a bowling ball along the dinner table.

So if there was a devastating earthquake, it would be terrible or destructive.

Again, that's an adjective.

So out of these four words, three of them are adjectives, unruly, rebellious, and devastating.

They all would describe a noun.

And then commotion is a noun.

It is a thing like havoc.

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

Can you match the adjectives or noun, 'cause there's one noun there, to the correct image? We've got unruly, devastating, rebellious and commotion.

Pause the video while you complete this task.

Right, let's see how you got on.

So unruly is the picture right above it.

Mrs Wordsmith's unruly wild hair.

Devastating is that mess that Yin has made by throwing the bowling ball down the table.

Rebellious is the disobedient Stax who is spray painting on the wall.

And commotion is the chaos or havoc that is going on in that kitchen by those animals.

So remember, all three of those words are adjectives, but commotion is a noun.

So for each of these four words now, we have a word map.

We're going to go through them a bit more quickly because hopefully you know now that in each one, you need to first circle the synonyms and then draw lines to the word pairs.

In each one, there'll be a sentence to help you.

The customers heard a terrible commotion coming from the kitchen and wondered what was going on.

Now, you haven't been told the synonyms or word pairs for any of these words, so it might be a little bit more tricky to spot them.

And remember to think about the word class.

Commotion is a noun.

Terrible commotion.

Terrible is the adjective describing commotion, which is the noun.

So the synonyms that you're looking for to circle will also be nouns.

The word pairs will be adjectives, like terrible commotion 'cause it describes the thing which is the commotion.

So good luck.

Pause the video while you complete this word map.

Well done.

Let's go through the answers together.

The synonyms are chaos, disturbance and uproar.

The word pairs are wild commotion, loud commotion, violent commotion, terrible commotion, sudden commotion.

So it's come out of nowhere, it suddenly happened.

And strange commotion.

Okay, let's look at now rebellious.

The rebellious graffiti artist sprayed the policeman in the face with his paint can.

Oh my goodness, he really is rebellious.

Okay, could you again pause the video while you circle the synonyms? This time, the synonyms will be adjectives because rebellious is an adjective and the word pairs will be nouns.

Pause the video now.

Well done.

The synonyms are defiant, disobedient and naughty.

The word pairs are rebellious streak.

So you might say a bit like how you might have a streak of your hair dyed a different colour.

So you might have brown hair with a streak of silver.

If you had a rebellious streak, it would mean maybe you might say, "Oh, well, they're usually very good, but they do have a rebellious streak," like they've got a part of them that is quite rebellious.

A rebellious nature.

So perhaps you might say, "Oh, my new pet dog has a rebellious nature." A rebellious teenager, a rebellious artist, rebellious spirit, and a rebellious attitude.

Okay, let's look at unruly.

Mrs Wordsmith's unruly red hair looks like wild flames on her head.

Unruly is an adjective.

So the synonyms will be adjectives, and the word pairs will be nouns.

Pause the video while you complete this word map.

Okay.

The synonyms are rowdy, rebellious, and wild.

The word pairs are unruly hair, an unruly mob.

A mob is a large and disorderly crowd of people, and it's typically characterised by a lack of organisation or control.

So if there perhaps were a load of football fans and they were all being very disorderly and loud, you might describe them as an unruly mob of people or of fans.

An unruly teenager, unruly students, which is another word for pupils.

Unruly curls and unruly behaviour.

Well done.

Okay, our last word map for devastating.

Yin caused a devastating mess, which took hours to tidy up.

Devastating is an adjective.

The synonyms will be adjectives, and the word pairs will be nouns.

Pause the video while you complete this final word map.

Okay, well done.

The synonyms are destructive, terrible and harmful.

So it causes harm.

The word pairs are a devastating storm.

Imagine that.

Perhaps there'd be lots of things that had got broken.

A devastating blow.

So you might say, imagine if you had an incredible team player on your hockey team and then they left and went to join a different hockey team.

You could say, "Oh, it was a devastating blow to our team that we lost that player." A devastating flood.

It's a flood that causes lots of destruction.

A devastating loss, a bit like the loss of that team player who went to another team.

A devastating effect.

Something might have a devastating effect on something.

A devastating earthquake, which is a natural disaster.

Devastating consequences.

Devastating impact.

Impact refers to the effect or influence that one thing has on another.

So if something has a devastating impact, it's affecting something else, but in a terrible, destructive way.

A devastating defeat.

Perhaps they were in a team, a football team are in the semifinals, and then they got beaten by their arch enemies, the team that they always want to win against.

It might be a devastating defeat and a devastating, oh, we had devastating flood twice.

Sorry about that.

Okay, let's move on to our final task of today.

I'm going to read some sentences and you need to fill the gaps with either the words havoc, turbulent, rebellious, commotion, unruly or devastating.

Remember, havoc and commotion are nouns, so they will be used differently to the other four words, which are adjectives.

As I read the sentences, listen carefully and start to think about which word fits best in which sentence.

The pupils mm never gave their teacher a moment of peace.

The mm journey was so bumpy that everyone felt sick.

The teacher realised she had unleashed mm when she gave the class glitter to play with.

Oh, I know how that feels.

Brick knocked out his opponent with a mm blow in the final round of the fight.

The fans pushed each other in a frenzied mm as they left the football match.

And the mm teenagers stayed out way past their bedtime.

Now, you might find that more than one option works in each sentence.

So do the ones that you're confident with and the ones that you think there's only one that fits there.

And then you'll have less options for the other words.

Good luck with this final activity.

Okay, let's go through the answers.

So the first one, I've gone for the unruly pupils never gave their teacher a moment of peace, but you might have also said the rebellious pupils.

And that also would have worked.

So if you chose unruly or rebellious, that would be fine.

The turbulent journey was so bumpy that everyone felt sick.

The wild journey, the turbulent journey, maybe it was very bumpy.

It obviously was bumpy and that's why everyone felt nauseous or sick.

The teacher realised she had unleashed havoc when she gave the class glitter to play with.

You also might might have said unleashed commotion, but havoc actually does sound much better in that sentence.

And unleashed was a word pair for havoc.

Brick knocked out his opponent with a devastating blow in the final round of the fight.

The fans pushed each other in a frenzied commotion as they left the football match.

So hopefully, you couldn't have said the fans pushed each other in a frenzied havoc.

That doesn't sound right.

So hopefully you got them that way round, those two nouns.

And the rebellious teenagers stayed out way past their bedtime.

You might have also said the unruly teenagers.

So unruly and rebellious are quite similar words, so they could be used interchangeably.

Okay, let's summarise what we've learnt.

We've learnt havoc is a noun, it means great damage or chaos, like the mess caused by a giant bear smashing through a city.

Turbulent is an adjective.

It means violent and unstable like a plane that gets knocked about by heavy clouds.

Unruly is an adjective, meaning wild, rowdy, and rebellious, like long, frizzy hair at the beach.

Rebellious is an adjective, meaning naughty or disobedient like a giraffe who breaks the rules and draws on the walls.

Commotion is a noun.

It means chaos or uproar, like animals set loose in a kitchen causing a crazy mess.

And finally, devastating is an adjective, meaning terrible or destructive, like flinging a bowling ball along the dinner table.

So well done for all your hard work today.

These are really impressive words, four adjectives and two nouns, and I think they will be very useful in your speaking and in your writing.

So I hope that you're able to put all of these words to good use.

Well done for working so hard in this lesson.

You should feel really proud of yourselves and hopefully I'll see you for some more learning another time.

Bye.