Lesson video

Hello everyone.

My name's Mrs. Riley, and I'm here today to do some learning with you.

Thank you for joining me.

In our lesson today, we're going to be learning six new words that are associated with running.

So hopefully, by the end of today's lesson, we're going to have lots of new and exciting ways of describing how people or animals might run.

So let's get started.

The outcome of today's lesson is to use the words hurtle, scamper, and other rich vocabulary associated with running.

Here are our key words for our lesson today.

Let's start off by saying each one out loud.

Noun, verb, synonym, word pair.

Now let's look at the definitions.

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

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

Now, running is something we do, it is an action.

So run is a verb.

So it's highly likely today if we're learning words associated with running, that we'll be learning new verbs.

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

So for example, run and sprint are synonyms, because they have a similar meaning.

Word pairs are words that often appear together.

And when we learn the new words today, we'll be looking at word pairs for each word, which will help us know how to use these words correctly and appropriately.

So 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 cycle.

And then in the third one, we're going to be looking at four words together.

So by the end of today's lesson, we're going to have six new words associated with running.

Let's look at the first one.

So have a look at what is happening in this picture.

Armie is the character in this picture, and there is an enormous asteroid in this picture.

Could you pause the video, and have a think about what's happening, or describe what's happening if someone's close by now? Okay, well done.

Well, Armie is just minding his own business, reading his newspaper on it looks like a sort of sunland or a deck chair.

And little does he know that this enormous asteroid is sort of, I don't want to use the word that it, the word that I'm about to teach you, but it is falling or it's coming towards him.

It looks like it's doing that very quickly, and Armie is completely unaware.

So let's find out what this word is.

Hurtle, that's what I was trying not to say.

I kept nearly saying the asteroid was hurtling towards him.

So hurtle, let's just practise saying it.

My turn, your turn.

Hurtle.

Hurtle is a verb, it's an action, a doing word, and it means to rush or move very quickly, like a big asteroid plunging towards earth.

Other forms are hurtled, hurtling, and hurtles.

So in that sentence I said, the asteroid is hurtling towards him.

And that's because the word hurtle is a verb and we have lots of different tenses of verbs.

And the verb changes depending on what tense we use, for example, hurtled is the past tense, if something has already happened.

So to rush or move very quickly.

Quite often the word hurtle might be associated with something quite big, like a big asteroid.

Or if someone was rushing through with a big trolley through a supermarket, you might say, "They hurtled past me." It's not associated with something sort of small and dainty like a, you wouldn't have a feather hurtling past you or you wouldn't probably have a little tiny mouse hurtling along the floor.

Okay, so these words are synonyms of hurtle.

Plunge, charge, and rush.

Here's the word in a sentence.

The asteroid hurtled towards earth at incredible speed.

These words are word pairs of hurtle.

The asteroid hurtled, a comet hurtled, a spaceship hurtled, a truck hurtled, a train hurtled, a rock hurtled, and a ball hurtled.

All of these use hurtled in the past tense, so it's the past tense verb.

We could say the asteroid hurtles if it was in the present tense, but I've put it in the past tense here.

And we can see, can't we? That all of these things are quite big things, an asteroid, a spaceship, a truck, a train.

So we can see that this word is associated with quite sort of big, heavy things.

Could you pause the video now, and read these word pairs out loud, just like I did? Because it's through saying the words that's going to help us to really commit them to memory.

Pause the video now.

Okay, well done.

Let's check what we've just learned.

Which of these words is a synonym of hurtle? Is it A, skip? B, charge.

Or C, wonder? Could you pause the video while you think about your answer? Well done.

The correct answer is B, charge is a synonym of hurtle.

We've now got our first task in today's lesson.

In this task, you have a word map with the word hurtle in the middle.

Around the word hurtle there are either synonyms of hurtle or word pairs.

I would like you to, first of all, circle the synonyms, and once you've done that, you could draw lines to the word pairs from hurtle up or across or down to each word pair.

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

Here's a sentence to help you, the asteroid hurtled towards earth at incredible speed.

Now remember, if the word is a synonym, it has a similar meaning.

So you might be able to, if you find a synonym, turn it into the past tense and see if you can replace the word hurtled in that sentence.

For example, rush, the asteroid rushed towards earth.

Yeah, that makes sense.

So that, I think, probably might be a synonym.

Let me try ball, the asteroid balled towards earth or balls towards earth, that doesn't sound right.

Hurtle, a ball hurtled, yep, I think ball is a word pair.

So there are two tricks to help you if you are unsure how to identify if it's a synonym or a word pair.

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

The synonyms are rush, plunge and charge.

The word pairs are asteroid hurtles, a comet might hurtle, a spaceship could hurtle, a truck might hurtle, a train can hurtle, a rock can hurtle, and a ball can hurtle.

So if we were going to put those into a sentence, we'd obviously think about the tense.

For example, you might say, "The train hurtled past me as the ground trembled." Okay, let's take a look at our second new running word.

So the first one was hurtle, let's find out what this one's going to be.

Okay, what's happening in this picture? This is Yin and Yang.

Have a look closely.

They're chasing a truck, but what kind of truck? And why do you think are they chasing it? Pause the video and have a look closely at what's happening in this picture.

Well done.

Well, Yin and Yang are chasing after this truck, because it looks like it's some kind of rent-a-kill, and it looks like it is, so looks like it's a truck.

I think they're hoping it's gonna be full of mice or rats, but they are chasing after it, because they're probably hoping to eat some.

So let's find out what this word is.

Scamper.

My turn, your turn.

Scamper.

Scamper is another verb, it means to scurry or dash.

How you would run if you were excited.

So we spoke earlier about how the word hurtle implies such a kind of big, heavy force, but scamper, scurry or dash, almost implies more of a small dainty thing that might scamper across the room.

Again, because this is a verb, there are other forms, for example, scampers, scampered or scampering.

So we might say, "Yin and Yang scampered after the truck." Or we could say, "Yin and Yang had been scampering after the truck all morning." So there's different forms, because we have different tenses when we use verbs.

So these words are synonyms of scamper, run, dash, scurry.

The hungry pair quickly scampered after the rent-a-kill truck, hoping they would be able to eat some mice.

These are word pairs of scamper.

Scamper away, scamper inside, scamper hurriedly, scamper happily, scamper suddenly, scamper wildly.

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

Which of these words is a synonym of scamper? A, scurry.

B, charge.

C, away.

Pause the video while you think about your answer.

Well done.

Scurry is a synonym of scamper, it has a similar meaning.

Okay, another task now, this time we've got the word scamper in the middle of a word map.

Just as you did before, I would like you to first circle the synonyms of scamper, and then draw lines to the word pairs.

Here's the word in a sentence again.

The hungry pair quickly scampered after the rent-a-kill truck, hoping they would be able, hoping they would eat some, be able to eat some mice." So again, you might replace, cover up that word, pick a word to see if you think it's a synonym.

And if you do, you would have to just turn it into the past tense, because scampered is in the past tense.

So for example, dash, you would turn it into, "dashed after the rent-a-kill," if you think that's a synonym.

So first circle the synonyms, then draw lines to the word pairs.

Pause the video now.

Well done, let's go through the answers.

The synonyms are dash, run and scurry.

The word pairs are scamper away, scamper inside, scamper hurriedly, scamper suddenly, scamper wildly, and scamper happily.

We've got another task now.

This time we're going to write a sentence using either the word hurtle or scamper.

Use the word pairs to help you.

Here's the word pairs for hurtle, and here are the word pairs for scamper.

So start off by picking which verb you're going to use, hurtle or scamper.

Then pick your word pair.

For example, you might pick scamper, and you might pick the word pair, inside, scamper inside, or scampered inside, or scampering inside.

Then you might think, "What or who is scampering inside?" Come up with your basic idea, and then see if you can add any extra detail to make this a really ambitious sentence.

We're only writing one sentence in today's lesson, so let's try to make it the best sentence you can possibly write.

Pause the video now.

Okay, well done.

Let's look at a sentence together.

Does this sentence use scampered correctly? The two dogs happily scampered along the shore.

What do you think? Thumbs up or thumbs down? Yeah, I agree, it makes sense.

I've got a word pair, happily.

The two dogs happily scampered along the shore, so where the sea is meeting the coast.

Now, I just wonder though, is this the best sentence I can write? The two dogs happily scampered along the shore.

I think I could maybe add some more detail to this sentence.

So let's improve it.

So I'm gonna turn, the two dogs happily scampered along the shore, to the two elated dogs scampered along the shore, jumping in and out of the frothing waves.

So, can you see how I just added some extra detail? I've used an adjective, elated, to describe that the dogs were feeling really happy, and I've added a non-finite clause.

We're using the verb, jumping, jumping in and out of the frothing waves.

I've just added that extra bit of detail.

Perhaps you could pause the video, and check how effective your sentence is? Maybe you might even be able to add a little bit of detail to make your sentence even more effective.

Pause the video while you check your sentence now.

Well done.

Let's move on to our next running words, we've got four more to look at.

Before I tell you what they are, let's look closely at these pictures.

As I describe them to you, maybe you could even predict what each word might be, or you might be able to have a think about it.

So in the first picture, we have got Brick, he looks like he's dressed up as a viking, and he's got an enormous, an enormous sort of whole tree trunk, it looks like, that he is running forwards with.

I wonder what that word might be? In the next picture, there's a game of football, and it looks like Armie has kind of zigzagged past all of the opposition with the ball.

In the third picture, Stax is, looks like he is there, Armie's just shot that gun to start the race, and he has got off to a really quick start.

And in the final one, Armie is running, or he's kind of, I don't know, I don't want to say the word again, but he is running away from that wave as quickly as possible.

So if you want, you can pause the video now, and you might want to guess what any of these words might be before I tell you.

Okay, let's find out if you are right.

So the first verb is charge, to run or lunge towards, rushing towards a target as fast as you can.

The second one is dart, to sprint or bolt, running somewhere suddenly and rapidly.

The next one is dash, to race or rush, like a sprinter running at full speed towards the finishing line.

And finally, scurry is a verb meaning to scamper or scuttle like a scared armadillo trying to outrun a huge wave.

Let's just practise saying these words out loud.

My turn, your turn.

Are you ready? Charge, dart, dash, scurry.

And again, because these are all verbs, we could have different forms in different tenses.

For example, if I put them all in the past tense, they would become charged, darted, dashed, and scurried.

Okay, can you match the verb to the correct image? These verbs are quite similar in meaning, so this might be a little bit tricky.

See if you can remember which verb matches each image.

Pause the video now.

Okay, well done.

Well, I think the most, the sort of two ones that stand out here are, sorry, not dash, are charge and scurry 'cause they're quite opposite.

Again, charge a bit like the word hurtle, implies quite a big force coming towards you.

Whereas scurry, again, a bit like, a bit like scamper implies something a bit more dainty.

Dart and dash are much more similar.

So let's go through them.

Dash is Stax dashing off in the race.

Dart is Armie darting forward with the ball.

Scurry is Armie scurrying away from that wave.

And charge is Brick charging forwards with that tree trunk.

Okay, so for each of these new words, we've now got a word map.

We're going to go through these ones a bit quicker, because we've done two of them already.

In every single one, I would like you to first circle the synonyms. Now, I haven't told you the synonyms and word pairs of these words, so it might be a little bit more tricky.

But first, circle the synonyms, and once you think you found them, there's three in each word map, then draw lines to the word pairs and read them out loud as you do them.

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

Stax dashed across the finish line, winning first place by miles.

And just remember there's that trick that you could try out the synonyms in that sentence.

Just remember, you might have to change the tense.

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

The synonyms are race, rush, and dart.

The word pairs are suddenly dash, dash headlong, dash forward, dash across the line, dash onto the pitch, dash away, dash madly or madly dash, dash downstairs, and dash across the road.

So we've got two different types of word pairs here.

Some of them are adverbs that end in -ly, like suddenly dash or madly dash.

And then the other ones are kind of like prepositions of place, they're saying where someone is dashing to.

Dashing forward, dashing onto the pitch, dashing downstairs.

Okay, let's take a look at the next word map, this time we've got dart.

Armie darted forward with the ball, heading straight for the goalpost.

Could you pause the video while you circle the synonyms and draw lines to the word pairs? Well done, let's go through the answers.

The synonyms of dart are sprint, bolt and dash.

So we can see that dash and dart are very similar, because they are synonyms for each other.

The word pairs are dart forward, dart around, dart away, nervously dart or dart nervously, dart back, dart ahead, and again, suddenly dart or dart suddenly.

Well done if you managed to identify those correctly.

Okay, we've got charge now.

This one again, a bit more different to the dash and dart.

Here's the word in a sentence.

Brick charged at the enemy at full speed, hoping to scare them away.

Could you pause the video while you circle the synonyms and draw lines to the word pairs? Okay, well done.

So the synonyms are rush, run and lunge.

The word pairs are charged forwards, charged furiously, charged boldly, charged headlong.

You might say he charged headlong into the enemy.

Charge valiantly.

Now, valiantly is if someone does something courageously or bravely, often in the face of danger.

So, it looks to me like Brick is charging valiantly in that illustration.

And suddenly charge or charge suddenly.

And finally, we've got a word map for scurry.

Armie scurried away as quickly as his legs would carry him.

When I think of the word scurry, I think of like a little insect or something moving quite quickly.

So could you again pause the video while you complete this final word map? Okay, so the synonyms of scurry are scuttle, hurry and scamper.

The word pairs are scurry along, scurry quickly.

scurry frantically or frantically scurry, we can put those adverbs before or after the verb.

Scurry hastily, scurry away, and scurry past.

You might say, "A crab just scurried past me on the beach." Okay, well done.

So for our final activity today, we have got a gap filling activity.

I'm going to read you six sentences, and as I read you them, I would like you to think about which verb could fit in each gap? Now you'll notice that I've turned these verbs into the past tense, hurtled, scampered, darted, dashed, charged, and scurried.

They've all been turned into the past tense.

And we also know that these verbs, some of them are very similar.

For example, hurtled and charged are similar.

Scampered and scurried are similar.

Darted and dashed are similar.

So you might find that there is actually more than one option that works, so it's just about picking the one that you think sounds best.

So listen carefully as I read these sentences.

The mice (beep) quickly across the field to escape the hungry cat.

The kids (beep) downstairs as fast as they could, hoping it would be sausages for dinner.

The windows rattled as a huge truck (beep) past the house at dangerous speed.

The bull broke free from its cage and furiously (beep) at the crowd.

Bearnice (beep) across the room to pick up the phone before it stopped ringing.

Yin and Yang lit the fireworks and quickly (beep) to safety behind the tree.

So, think about, if you are unsure, you can always refer back to your word maps and see if you can find any word pairs to help you.

But as I say, I think, I'm pretty sure you could put these verbs in any sentence and they would still sound okay, because ultimately they're all synonyms of the word run, to run.

And in all of these sentences, there is something running or something similar.

So, this one, there's not necessarily only one that works, it's just about you finding the one that works the best in each sentence.

So pause the video while you complete this task.

Okay, well done.

Let's go through the answers.

So for the first one, I've got the mice scurried quickly across the field to escape the hungry cat.

You might also have said the mice scampered quickly across the field, or they darted quickly across the field.

So we can see how there's more than one option that works.

The kids dashed downstairs, downstairs is a word pair for the word dash.

But again, you could have said, the kids charged downstairs, if there were lots of children coming down as fast as they could.

So again, we can see that there's more than one option that works, so don't feel disheartened if you didn't choose the same one as me.

Now for this one, I think there is really one or two options that works the best.

The windows rattled as a huge truck hurtled past the house at dangerous speed.

Hurtled, we had the word pairs, things like asteroid, a truck, a train.

So I think hurtled works really nicely there.

You might have also chosen charged past the house.

The bull broke free from its cage and furiously charged at the crowd.

Again, those words, hurtled and charged, both imply quite a big force coming to towards you.

Bearnice darted across the room to pick up the phone before it stopped ringing.

And Yin and Yang lit the fireworks and quickly scampered to safety behind the tree.

So those were the options that I had, but again, there are more, they're not the only right answers.

So don't feel disheartened if you chose something a bit different.

Perhaps you could compare if there's someone close by what they put and what you put, and you could discuss which one you think fits best.

So, well done for completing that task.

Let's summarise what we've learned today.

We've learned six verbs.

So different ways of saying that something might run.

Hurtle means to rush or move very quickly, like a big asteroid plunging towards earth.

Scamper means to scurry or dash, how you would run if you were very excited.

Charge means to run or lunge towards, rushing towards a target as fast as you can.

Dart means to sprint or bolt, running somewhere suddenly and rapidly.

Dash means to race or rush, like a sprinter running at full speeds towards the finishing line.

And scurry means to scamper or scuttle like a scared armadillo trying to outrun a huge wave.

So now, if you were writing a story, or if you were telling a story, and you had a character or it might be a person, or an animal or something that was running, you've got six different ways of saying the word that they, instead just saying they ran.

You could say they hurtled, scampered, charged, darted, dashed, or scurried.

So you've got lots of different ways of describing that something might be running somewhere.

So I hope those words are really helpful.

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

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

Bye.