Lesson video

Hello everyone, my name's Mrs. Riley.

I'm here today to do some learning with you.

In our lesson today, we're focusing on learning new vocabulary and our lesson today focuses on vocabulary associated with fighting or battles.

So these words might be quite useful in your history learning, but I'm sure be useful as you'll see in the lesson in lots of other contexts as well, so let's get started.

The outcome of today's lesson is to use the words, ambush, feud, and other rich vocabulary associated with fight or battle words.

Here are our key words we'll be using in today's lesson.

Let's start off by saying each one out loud, my turn, your turn, be ready.

Noun, verb, synonym, word pair, excellent, let's go through the meanings.

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

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

A synonym is a word that has the same or similar meaning to another word and word pairs are words that often appear together 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 learning cycle.

and then the third learning cycle, we'll be looking at four words together, so six words in total.

Let's start with our first new fight or battle word.

So before I tell you what this word is, I would like you just to engage with this picture, what's happening here? This is Brick, who is the bigger character, and Yin, who's the little tiger.

Could you pause the video and be a detective? Look very closely and describe what is happening in this picture, pause the video now.

Well done, well, in this picture, Brick is dressed up in camouflage to try and disguise him from behind the bush.

And it looks like he has been hiding there and he has just waited for Yin to walk past.

And as Yin has walked past, he's suddenly jumped up and surprised her.

So let's find out what this word is.

Ambush, my turn, your turn, ambush, well done.

Ambush is a verb, it's a doing word.

It means to make a surprise attack, it's something we do, like a soldier leaping out suddenly from a hiding place.

So ambush is a word that might be used especially in fighting or battles because it might be the plan to make a surprise attack.

You are going to perhaps be more.

You're perhaps going to be more successful in your attack if it is a surprise one, an ambush.

Now, because this is a verb, a doing word, there are other forms of this verb because we could say they ambushed in the past or we could say they were known for ambushing their their enemies.

So there's other forms of this verb.

So these words are synonyms of ambush.

And remember, synonyms are words that have a similar meaning, surprise, pounce and trap.

Here's the word in a sentence.

"Brick wore camouflage and stayed hidden until the moment was perfect to ambush his enemy." These words are word pairs of ambush.

I'm going to read each one to you.

Ambush the soldiers, ambush your enemy, ambush the army.

Ambush your prey, perhaps a tiger might ambush its prey.

Ambush the troops, so troops apart of an army.

Ambush your foe and your foe is just another word for an enemy or an opponent.

So could you pause the video now and read these word pairs out loud just like I did, because it's through saying them out loud that's going to really help us to remember them.

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

Well done, let's check what we've just learned, which of these words is a synonym of ambush? Is it A shout, B surprise, or C, jump? Pause the video while you think about your answer.

Well done, the correct answer is B, surprise is a synonym of ambush.

Okay, so it's time for our first task.

In this task we have a word map with the word ambush written in the middle, around ambush, there are either synonyms or word pairs.

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

And when you find them, I would like you to circle them.

Then you can draw lines to all the other words, which should be word pairs.

And as you do that, you could read them out loud.

A good way of checking if it is a synonym or a word pair is if you read it out loud and it doesn't sound right, then that probably means it's because it's not a word pair, it's a synonym.

And the other trick is that there's a sentence here, Brick wore camouflage and stayed hidden until the moment was perfect to ambush his enemy.

So the other trick is we can take out the word ambush in that sentence and see if we can replace it with one of the options.

If you can replace it, it might be a synonym.

It doesn't always work because they synonyms can't always just be taken out and put in different sentences.

Sometimes they don't quite sound right even though how they have a similar meaning, but it can be a useful trick.

So two tricks there to help you.

So could you pause the video now while you complete this word map? Well done, let's go through the answers together.

The synonyms of ambush are trap, surprise, and pounce.

The word pairs are ambush the soldiers, ambush the enemy, ambush the army, ambush its prey, ambush the troops and ambush the foe or your foe, which is an enemy or opponent, okay, well done.

It is time to look at our second new fight or battle word.

The first was a verb to ambush, let's find out what our next one is.

Oh, what's happening in this picture? We've got Grit, the dog and Oz, the ostrich.

Could you pause the video and describe what is happening here? Well done, well in this picture it looks like they are playing a sport, although perhaps I thought they were playing at the same sport.

But because Grit has got a football and it looks like Oz has got a rugby ball, maybe they're having an argument over which is the better sport, football or rugby.

I wonder what you think? It looks like they're both gritting their teeth and they look really quite cross at each other, don't they? Let's find out what this word is.

Feud my turn, your turn, feud, a feud is a noun, so this time it's not a verb, it's a noun, it's a thing, it's a disagreement or argument that is never settled, like people fighting about the same thing for years.

So for example, Grit.

If Grit thinks football's the best sport and if Oz thinks rugby's this best sport, that argument is never going to be settled because they've both got their own opinions and so there's never going to be a right answer.

It's just what they prefer.

But if it's a feud, it's an argument that has been going on for years as well.

So if you had an argument with a stranger that you met in the park and there was a time argument, for example, may be you wanted to both go in the swings or something, that wouldn't be a feud, that would just be a one-off argument, a feud means it's like a disagreement or argument that's been going on for quite a a long time.

So these words are synonyms of feud, they have a similar meaning, a vendetta, which means the same thing as a feud, an argument that's been going on for a long time, a disagreement and an argument.

"The long running feud between the two teams had lasted for years." These are word pairs of feud, a bitter feud.

Now, bitter can describe a taste.

You might say the lemon tastes bitter, but it also can, can describe an emotional state, which might be negative or it might mean that you are resenting someone, so a bitter feud.

A deadly feud, a vicious feud means vicious is aggressive.

A long running feud, it's been going on a long time.

A bloody feud, so obviously there's been people who have got injured during as part of the feud and a family feud.

So a family feud might be, in fact, two families or people within a family arguing and again, something that's been going on for a long time.

So which of these words is a synonym of feud? A, vendetta B, assault or C attack? Pause the video while you think about your answer.

Well done, the correct answer is A, vendetta is a synonym of feud.

So we have another word map now, this time with feud, the noun feud written in the middle.

First, could you circle the synonyms of feud, which will also be nouns because they have a similar meaning and then draw lines to the word pairs, which in this case will be adjectives describing the noun.

Here's a sentence to help you.

The long running feud between the two teams had lasted for years.

Remember there's that trick where you could take out feud and see if a word fits in that sentence and if it does, it might be a synonym.

So could you pause the video while you complete the second word map? Well done, let's go through the answers.

So the synonyms are vendetta, disagreement and argument.

They're all nouns, all things.

The word pears, which are adjectives to describe the feud is a bitter feud, a deadly feud, a vicious feud, a bloody feud, a family feud, and a long running feud.

We're now going to have a go at writing a sentence using either of these new words, ambush, which is a verb or feud.

Use the word pairs to help you.

Here are the word pairs for ambush and here are the word pairs for feud.

So you might start off by picking the word, for example, you might pick feud and then you might pick your word pair.

A family feud, and then you can build your idea around that word pair.

The word pairs will help you to use these new words correctly.

Remember, if you use the verb ambush, you might use a different form of it.

For example, you might be writing a sentence in the past tense.

So you might say, you might put, instead of saying ambush, you would say ambushed with -ed on the end.

So your version of ambush might change, if you are writing a sentence in a different tense.

Try to be really ambitious with your sentence.

For example, you could just say the soldiers ambushed their enemy, full stop.

But I want your sentence to be as ambitious as possible, so perhaps you could try to add more detail.

We know ambush is a sudden attack, so perhaps you could add more detail into your sentence to highlight or exaggerate the fact that ambush is a surprise attack.

For example, you might say after days of waiting, the soldiers ambushed their unsuspecting enemy.

That extra detail I've added there has just given me a little bit more information and it's kind of exaggerated what the word ambush means.

So try to be really ambitious in your sentences.

Pause the video now and good luck.

Well done, let's look at an example sentence together.

So I've used the word ambush.

"The unsuspecting soldiers were ambushed by the enemy who had crept up behind them." So I can see I've used this word correctly because I've got the word pair soldiers.

The soldiers were ambushed by the enemy.

I can also see this extra detail.

So I could have just said the unsuspecting soldiers were ambushed by the enemy, full stop.

But I've added this relative clause at the end who had crept up behind them and that shows that they have surprised them with their attack.

I also added that adjective unsuspecting.

They weren't suspecting it, which again, just kind of deepens this meaning.

If the word ambushed, it was a sudden surprise attack.

So could you now check how effective is your sentence? Just pause the video and read it back, perhaps you might even be able to improve it.

Well done, it's time to look at our other fight or battle words.

We've got four more to look at.

So look at these picture.

You might even as I talk through each one, be able to predict what the word might be.

So in the first picture, we have got Stax and looks like he is firing something out of his aeroplane.

But it's nothing too scary, is it,? It's presents, so imagine if somebody was up above you on your birthday and they were literally presents were falling from the the sky.

How might you describe that? In the second picture, Yin and Yang are arguing, but it looks like a sort of silly argument.

and Grit is just fed up, so he's put his headphones on.

In the third picture, we have got Grit and he's putting a flag in the ground maybe to mark some sort of victory.

And in the final picture, it looks like there is a castle and there's all kinds of weapons that have been flung at that castle.

I can see there, I think it might be Brick with a bow and arrow.

So just, you don't necessarily have to predict what each word might be, but you might want to.

But have a quick pause the video just to engage in these pictures a bit more before I tell you what each word is.

Okay, let's go through each one.

The first word is bombard, which means is a verb meaning to attack or batter, like overwhelming someone with presents on their birthday.

So even though this verb means to attack or batter, it could be with something like presents.

You might bombard some someone with cards through their door.

So it's not always associated with something violent, but it could be something violent.

The second one is bicker.

It means to argue over silly things like sisters fighting about nothing.

So if you were in the car and you and your friend or you and your sibling were arguing, over something silly, like you know you wanted to sit on in on that side or in the middle or something like that, you might be described as that you were bickering.

Again, it's a verb, it's something you would be doing.

Conquer is also a verb, it means to defeat or get control over, like an army taking over new land.

So in this picture, it looks like grit has conquered that the enemy or the land, which means that they have got control over that land.

and he's marked it with a flag.

And siege, now this one's different because it's a noun, a bit like a feud, it's a thing.

It means a blockade or assault.

When an army surrounds a place and does not allow anyone to leave.

So imagine there's people in that castle and they have been assaulted or they've been blocked in and they're not allowed to leave, that is a siege.

So we've got three verbs, all things that you would do.

You might bombard.

You might bicker, or you might conquer, they're all doing words.

And then we've got a noun, which is a siege, like a feud, it's a thing.

Okay, could you match the.

or it says verb, but we know that actually siege is a noun.

So it should say match the verbs and noun to the correct image.

Let's just practise saying them, so first, the only one that's a noun, a siege, my turn, your turn, siege.

And then we've got the verbs, bombard, bitter, conquer.

Well done, could you see if you could match them to the correct illustration? Pause the video now.

well done, so the siege is the one with the castle.

Bombard is, but there is Stax bombarding someone with presents.

Bicker is what Yin and Yang are doing, they are bickering ,and Grit has conquered the land.

Okay, so for each of these four words, we have a a word map.

Now, I'm not going to go through the instructions for each one because you know, 'cause we've done this before, that in each one you need to first circle the synonyms and then you need to look to draw lines to the word pairs.

There will always be a sentence that I will read to you.

"The enemy conquered the city and put a new king on the throne." Now, because this is a verb conquer, I've just changed it to conquered in the past tense.

So could you now pause the video and just remember with these ones, we've gone through the definition of each word, but we haven't looked at the synonyms and word pairs.

So it might be a little bit more tricky than the ones that we've done earlier, but I think you're gonna do really well.

So pause the video and complete this word map.

Well done, so the synonyms are defeat, overpower and triumph, which means kind of win, and the word pairs are conquer the country, conquer the world, imagine that? Conquer your feelings, so imagine if you got really anxious or worried about something, if you maybe had some therapy where you spoke about your fear and why you had it, and then you managed to conquer your feelings, it might mean that you don't get worried about that thing anymore.

Conquer the castle, conquer your fears, perhaps you've got a fear of holding a spider.

If you've conquered your fear, you haven't got that fear anymore, and conquer the city.

So well done if you spotted that, if you managed to find the synonyms and the word pairs.

Okay, the same thing for the verb bicker, "Yin and Yang.

Bickered, noisy all day long and Grit couldn't listen to it anymore." Pause the video while you find the synonyms and the word pairs.

Okay, well done, the synonyms are squabble, argue and fight.

Remember, it's a silly fight, isn't it? A bicker, it's not something really serious.

The word pairs, which here look like they're adverbs, which describe a verb and they end in LY.

They can also describe adjectives, but in this case, they're describing the verb.

There are constantly bicker, so over and over and over again, playfully bicker, so not very serious, childishly bicker, continuously bicker, a bit like constantly, it's happening over and over again.

Bitterly bicker, that one sounds a bit more nasty and occasionally bicker.

So you might say, me and my friend get on really well, but we occasionally bicker.

You sometimes have a silly argument, that's what happens in most friendships.

Okay, we've got bombard another verb, "Stax used a plane to bombard his girlfriend with gifts." Could you pause the video while you circle the synonyms and draw lines to the word pairs? Well done, the synonyms are attack, barrage and batter.

The word pears are bombard your enemy, bombard the town, bombard a castle, bombard users.

Now this one's a bit more tricky.

If you were going to bombard users, it might involve overwhelming them with a large volume of something like lots of information or lots of messages or notifications.

So perhaps if you had an app on your phone and if you were a user of that app, the people who were in charge of that app might bombard their users with notifications and you might get sick of it and turn your notifications off.

So you could bombard your users.

You might also bombard your viewers.

If you are watching a programme, you might bombard your viewers, for example, with adverts or bombard a city.

So we can see how versatile this word is.

It can be used in in associations with fights like a bombarding your enemy or bombarding a castle.

But it's useful in other contexts as well, like bombarding your viewers.

Okay, the last one, this time it's a noun, it's a thing, a siege.

"Despite their best efforts, the army's unsuccessful siege left the castle unharmed." So the army have tried their hardest, but they have left the castle unharmed.

Their siege has been unsuccessful.

So could you pause the video while you complete this final word map? Well done, so the synonyms are assault, encirclement.

So imagine you've encircled someone and a blockade, you've blocked someone in.

The word pairs are a long siege, so a long assault, a brutal siege, an unsuccessful siege, a siege that has failed, a bloody siege, a bit like a bloody feud where people have got injured.

A costly siege, an assault that has cost someone something, not necessarily money, it could have cost lives or it could cost them their homes.

A famous siege, the kind of sieges that you might learn about in your history lesson.

And a memorable siege, again, similar to a famous siege.

So well done for completing that final word map.

We now have one last task for you to complete before the end of the lesson.

In this task, you have to fill the gaps with either the word ambush, feuded, bickered, conquer, bombarding, or siege.

And you'll notice in some of those words, for example, bickered, I've turned that into the past tense.

So that might be a clue in which gap it fits in.

So I'm going to read six sentences to you, and they all have one word missing and you need to, as I'm reading them, start thinking about which word fits in which sentence.

"Brick's friends teased him all day, with insults about his new trainers." "The family had started years ago with a fight about money." "Oz wanted to her fear of spiders, so she bought a pet tarantula." "Tigers hide in the long grass, waiting patiently before they their prey." "Brick and Bernice childishly about who would get to eat their last chocolate chip." "The city endure a long before they finally surrendered." So if you get to one of these sentences and you are unsure which word fits in the gap, then leave it out and move on to one that you feel confident about and then go back to the one that you weren't sure about and they'll hopefully be less choices because we're only going to use each word once.

So that's a little trick to help you if you are unsure.

So good luck with this final task, pause the video now.

Okay, well done, let's go through the answers.

"Brick's friends teased him all day, bombarding him with insults about his new trainers." Almost like battering him with insults, poor Brick.

"The family feud had started years ago with a fight about money." Remember, a feud is a noun, it's a thing, it's an argument that's been going on for a long, long time.

Oz wanted to conquer." "She wanted to overcome or conquer her fear of spiders, so she bought a pet tarantula." "Tigers hide in the long grass, waiting patiently before they ambush their prey." They surprise or suddenly attack their prey.

"Brick and Bernice bickered childishly about who would get to eat their last chocolate chip." That would be a silly argument, wouldn't it? 'cause it's one tiny chocolate chip.

And that's what bickering means, it's a silly argument.

"The city endured a long siege before they finally surrendered." Well done if you managed to put those in the correct gaps.

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

We've learned that ambush is a verb, a doing word.

It means to make a surprise attack like a soldier leaping out suddenly from a hiding place.

A feud is a noun, it's a thing, it's a disagreement or argument that is never settled, like people fighting about the same thing for years.

Bombard is a verb, it means to attack or batter, like overwhelming someone with presence on their birthday.

Bicker is a verb meaning to argue over silly things like sisters fighting about nothing.

Conquer is a verb, meaning to defeat or get control over like an army taking over new land or taking control over fear or your feelings.

A siege is a noun, it's a blockade or assault when an army surrounds a place and does not allow anyone to leave.

So well done for all your hard work in today's lesson.

I hope you feel really proud of yourselves, that you've learned six really impressive new words, and I hope they're useful in your speaking and in your writing, or also in your history lessons, perhaps they might be useful.

So thank you so much for learning with me today, and hopefully I'll see you for some more learning another time.