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

In our lesson today, we're focusing on learning new vocabulary and we'll be learning words associated with anything wet.

You already know thousands and thousands of words, but it's always good to try to learn as many words as possible and especially to learn impressive words that can be used in lots of different contexts.

And that's what the words will be learning today, they'll be used in other contexts as well as just being associated with wet things.

So they'll be really helpful new words to have in your vocabulary toolkits, so let's get started.

The outcome of today's lesson is to use the words submerged, drenched, and other rich vocabulary associated with the word wet.

Here are our key words for our lesson.

These are words we'll be thinking and talking about over and over again so let's first of all practise by saying each one out loud.

My turn, your turn, are you ready? Noun.

Verb.

Synonym.

Word pair.

Well done, 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 today's lesson, we're going to be looking at three different learning cycles.

And in each learning cycle, we'll be learning new vocabulary associated with the word wet.

So let's look at our first new wet word.

What is happening in this picture? This is Grit, the dog but what's he doing here? How might you describe him? Could you pause the video and either have some thinking time or describe out loud what you see now? Off you go.

Well done, well, Grit is in a diving suit here and he has gone completely underwater.

He looks like he's gone so far down into the sea that he's actually at the sea bed and he looks extremely happy because he has found some treasure.

Well, we might not see a treasure, but there's his version of treasure, those dog bones that he has found.

So let's find out what this word is, submerged.

My turn, your turn, submerged.

Well done, submerged is an adjective, which is a word that describes a noun.

So in this situation, Grit is the noun.

It's a naming word for a person, place, or thing and submerged describes him.

Grit is submerged in the water.

Submerged means completely underwater like a diver at the bottom of the sea.

Now other forms of this word are submerge, which is a verb.

A verb is a doing, being, or a having word so if you submerge something, it's something you do.

Now this is quite a tricky nuanced difference between these two words 'cause they sound obviously very similar.

So if I was going to get a.

Let's think of something.

If I was gonna get a brick, that's something that's heavy that will sink, and if I dropped the brick into the water into maybe a swimming pool, I would say the brick is.

I'd say the submerged brick is on the bottom.

I'm describing the brick.

The brick is the thing, it's the noun and I'm using submerged as an adjective to describe it.

The submerged brick has been at the bottom of the pool for years.

But if I was to say, I have completely.

If I was gonna say, "I will submerge the brick in the water.

I will submerge the brick in the water." That's something I'm doing.

I will submerge, it's something I'm doing so in that situation, it's a verb.

So there's submerged and submerge, can be exactly the same.

Cause if I.

I could say, "I submerged the brick yesterday." In the past, so it can look exactly the same and be spelled the same but one of those forms is an adjective describing a noun and one of them is as a verb, which is a doing word so that's something to just watch out for.

Okay, so these words are synonyms of submerge, the adjective which describes something completely underwater.

Sunken, underwater, and buried.

"In the bottom of the sea, Grit finally found the submerged treasure he had been looking for." So we can see in that example, submerged treasure.

Treasure is the noun, it's the thing, submerged describes the treasure.

So in this sentence, submerged is an adjective not a past tense verb.

So these words are word pairs of submerged.

So that means these are words that if we were to find this adjective, submerged, in a book or in if someone was saying the word, it would likely be paired with one of these words.

Submerged feet, so imagine your feet completely underwater.

Submerged rock, completely underwater.

It's not half in, half out.

If it's submerged, it's completely underwater.

Submerged diver, like Grit in this picture.

Submerged submarine.

Submerged cave, a cave underwater, and a submerged shipwreck.

So could you pause the video now and read these word pairs out loud? Well done, which of these words is a synonym of submerged? A, underwater, B, rock or C, cave? Pause the video now.

Well done, the correct answer is A, underwater is a synonym of submerged.

You could describe a submerged rock or a submerged cave, they were word pairs, but the synonym is underwater.

So we're gonna be thinking a bit more now about the difference between synonyms and word pairs in this word map.

You've got the word submerged written in the middle.

Around the word submerged, you either have synonyms, words that have a similar meaning or word pairs.

I'd like you to first circle the synonyms. And once you've done that, I'd like you to draw lines from submerged to each word pair.

And as you draw the lines, perhaps you could say the word pairs out loud.

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

"In the bottom of the sea, Grit finally found the submerged treasure he had been looking for." So if you get to a word for example, feet, the first one in the top left corner, and you are not sure if it's a synonym or a word pair, you could take out that adjective submerged and you could put it in the sentence.

"Tn the bottom of the sea, Grit finally found the feet treasure." Hmm, that doesn't sound right, so I think that's probably is a word pair.

The next one, buried.

"In the bottom of the sea, Grit finally found the buried treasure." Now that does sound right, so that means it's probably a synonym.

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

And that will be a useful trick to use for the rest of the lesson because we're going to have more of these word maps coming up.

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

The synonyms are buried, sunken, underwater.

The word pairs are submerged feet, submerged diver, submerged submarine, submerged shipwreck, submerged rock, and submerged cave.

Well done for completing that word map.

Okay, so the first word was submerged an adjective.

Let's find out what our second new wet word is.

So what's happening in this picture? I can see Yin and Yang, but what's happening here? What are they doing? How would you describe what's happening? Could you pause the video and describe what's happening in this picture now? Well done, well it looks to me like Yin has tipped a whole bucket of water over Yang and Yang looks not just a little bit wet, Yang looks completely soaking wet.

Water is literally dripping off her and there's a pool of water around her.

She doesn't look very happy about it, does she? Even though Yin seems find this hilarious.

Let's find out what this word is, drenched.

My turn, your turn, drenched.

Drenched is also an adjective, it means sopping wet or soaked like a tiger cub who has had a whole bucket of water thrown over her.

So if you went outside in the rain and perhaps it was a tiny bit of drizzle, you wouldn't say, "Oh, I'm drenched." But if you fell in a swimming pool with all your clothes on, then you would be drenched.

It means you are sopping wet or soaked.

These are synonyms of drenched, sopping wet, dripping wet, and soaked.

"Yang absolutely drenched Yin, laughing as she tipped the water over her sister's head." These are word pairs of drenched, drenched hair.

So again, it's not after you've maybe dried it a bit with the towel, it's when it's literally just come out of the shower or out of the.

For a swim and it's literally dripping wet.

Drenched clothes, drenched coat, drenched skin, drenched earth.

There might be drenched earth after heavy rain.

And drenched trees, again, maybe after heavy rain.

So could you now pause the video and read these word pairs out loud? Well done, which of these words is a synonym of drenched? A, clothes B, sopping wet or C, earth? Pause the video now.

Well done, the correct answer is B, sopping wet is a synonym of drenched.

Okay, so our second word map of the day, just as we did earlier, I'd like you to first circle the synonyms of drenched and then draw lines to the word pairs.

Here's your sentence to help you.

"Yang absolutely drenched Yin, laughing as she tipped the water over her sister's head." And remember that trick? You can always put a word, if you're unsure if it's a synonym or a word pair, in that sentence and if the sentence still flows, it's probably a synonym.

So pause the video now while you complete this task.

Well done, you may have discovered as you were doing that, that actually sometimes even though a word can be a synonym, it doesn't always fit in the sentence.

So for example, the synonyms are sopping wet.

"Yang absolutely sopping wet Yin, laughing as she tipped the water over her sister's head." That doesn't make sense.

Neither was dripping wet but soaked would.

"Yang absolutely soaked Yin, laughing as she tipped the water over her sister's head." So, even though they have a similar meaning, they're not always.

They can't always just be put in a sentence and that's where we have to be careful using synonyms. Because sometimes you might think.

You might look up in a thesaurus a synonym for a word to try and make.

Use a different word that sounds a bit more clever but it doesn't always fit in the sentence even though they have a similar meaning.

Okay, so the word pairs are drenched trees, drenched hair, drenched clothes, drenched coat, drenched earth, and drenched skin.

Okay, we're now going to write a sentence and you can either use the word submerged or drenched.

Use the word pairs to help you.

Here are the word pairs for the adjective submerged and here are the word pairs for the adjective drenched.

So that's how you might start your idea.

You might pick the word, for example, you might pick drenched and you might say drenched earth.

And then you might think, okay, what's my idea gonna be that why would the earth be drenched? And try to be really ambitious with your sentence.

For example, you could just say, "The earth was drenched." Full stop.

But if you want to exaggerate that drenched means dripping or soaking wet, you might add some extra detail to exaggerate that.

For example, "After months of torrential rain," comma, "the earth was drenched." That's adding detail.

You might even add something after that.

"After months of torrential rain, the earth was drenched and.

." And you might add some extra detail.

So we are thinking about writing a sentence, but using drenched or submerged.

We're thinking about being really ambitious and putting as much detail in our sentence as possible.

So pause the video now and have a go at writing your own sentence using submerged or drenched.

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

Does this sentence use submerged correctly? "The submarine, which was submerged deep within the icy waters, was almost impossible to see." Well, I can see that I've used this word correctly because I've got a word pair.

I'm describing the submarine.

"The submarine, which was submerged deep within the icy waters, was almost impossible to see." In this sentence, I've used a relative clause.

I've used that to describe extra information about the submarine.

The main clause is just, "The submarine was almost impossible to see." That could have just been my sentence, but I've added in some relevant information about the submarine.

"The submarine, which was submerged deep within the icy waters, was also impossible to see." I have commas either side of my relative clauses.

It's almost like it interrupts the main clause by adding some extra detail and it's a really nice trick to use in your writing.

So because the submarine was almost impossible to see, that shows me how deep down it was.

So that shows me that it is submerged, it's completely underwater.

So how effective is your sentence? It's always great to take the time to read your sentence back.

So could you just pause the video now while you read your sentence back and maybe you might even be able to add some detail to it.

Or if not, you could just check what you've written.

Well done, okay, we're onto our final learning cycle.

In this learning cycle.

We'll be looking at four wet words altogether.

So we've learned submerged and drenched.

Let's find out what these next words are.

Okay, so look at these pictures and as I'm just talking a bit about them, you might even be able to predict what each word might be.

In the first one there's.

It says, "Dunk the dog." And it looks like you have to throw a ball at that target and if you hit the target, poor old Grit goes down in that water.

It looks actually, you could say he's submerged 'cause he's completely covered up by the water but it's not submerged it's something else.

The next one we can see Bearnice has got some water pistols, I wonder how you would describe what she's doing with them.

In the third picture, Stax looks like he's poured some water on a fire which has gone out and Armie looks a bit upset about it.

And in the fourth one, Bearnice has dived off that cliff and poor Armie looks like he's about to be squashed because she's about to fall on him.

So just pause the video and take a bit of time, see if you can predict what each word might be.

Pause the video now.

Okay, let's see how you got on.

The first one is immerse.

My turn, your turn, immerse.

Lovely, it's this time a verb.

It's not an adjective, it's a verb.

It's a doing word it means to dunk or plunge, like pushing something, someone right to the bottom of a tank of water.

So if I was going to get something and if I was going to immerse it in water, it's something I am doing, which is what makes it a verb.

Squirt is a verb, it means to spray or splatter.

Like making water from a super soaker go in all directions.

Douse is a verb, it means to drench or put out with water like pouring a bucket of water over a bonfire.

So you might douse the flames, you're putting them out with water.

And plunge is a verb, it means to dive or plummet, like when you jump off the highest rock into deep water.

So each of these words that's associated with something wet are all verbs, they are all things that you can do.

And because they're verbs, we can have different versions of them, if we are saying.

If we're using a different tense, for example, the past tense, immersed, squirted, doused, plunged.

Or we might be using the progressive tense, so we might have I-N-G on the end.

"I was dousing the flames when something happened." Or, "Bearnice was plunging off the cliff when she noticed someone was underneath her." So there's different forms of each of these words because they're verbs and we can use different tenses.

Okay, so could you match the verb to the correct image? We've got.

In fact, we haven't said each one so let's just quickly say them.

Plunge, immerse, squirt, douse.

Well done, so pause the video and see if you can match the correct verb to the correct image, off you go.

Okay, let's see how you got on.

So plunge is Bearnice plunging off the cliff or plunging into the water.

Immerse is Grit, who's been immersed in that water.

Squirt is Bearnice with her super soakers or her water pistols.

And douse is Stax putting out those flames.

Well done, if you manage to match those up correctly.

Okay, so for each of these four new words that we've just looked at, we're going to do a word map.

Now in every single one, we are doing the same task.

We're first trying to look for the synonyms and we're going to circle them, and once we found those, then we're going to draw lines to the word pairs.

And if we can, read them out loud 'cause it's saying things out loud that really helps them stick in our memories.

For each one, there'll be a sentence that I'll read to you.

And remember there's always that trick where you could try replacing the word with.

Just check if it's a synonym.

Remember it doesn't always work but it can be a useful tool.

Now these are gonna be a little bit more tricky because in the other two learning cycles, we had already gone through the synonyms and the word pairs, whereas now you are seeing these words for the first time.

So you're going to have to decide if a word is a synonym or a word pair.

Another helpful trick is you can actually pair up the words to see if they sound right.

For example, for example, douse the flames.

Yeah, that sounds right so that's probably a word pair.

Whereas if I said, douse the drench or douse drench, that doesn't sound right, so that means drench is probably a synonym.

So there's two different tricks that can help you identify if it's a synonym or a word pair.

So here's a sentence using this word, "Stax doused the flames in water until they went out completely." So could you pause the video and first try to circle the synonyms and then draw lines to the word pairs? Off you go.

Okay, let's go through the answers.

The synonyms are put out with water, soak, and drench.

The word pairs are douse the flames, douse the fire, douse the embers.

If you've had a fire and then perhaps you've gone to bed and the fires kind of died down, there might be glowing embers in the fire left over like the last few bits of wood or coal, or whatever you were burning that might still be glowing.

But there's not really flames anymore, it's kind of died down but they're still glowing embers.

So you might douse the embers with water to completely put them out.

Douse the house, oh that rhymes.

Douse the blaze and douse your fear.

So if you were.

It's like putting out your fear.

Imagine if you had a fear of something.

If you were to douse your fear, you have put out that fear.

You've squashed that fear.

Okay, the second one is for squirt, "The only way to get Stax out of bed was to squirt water in his face with a water gun." So again, could you first circle the synonyms and then draw lines to the word pairs? Pause the video now.

Okay, so the synonyms are splatter, spurt, and spray.

The word pairs are squirt ketchup, squirt venom, it's like poison from perhaps like a snake.

Squirt lotion, maybe sun lotion.

Squirt juice, squirt soap, and squirt water.

The next word map is immerse, here's the word in a sentence.

"Poor Grit became fully immersed in the freezing water every time someone hit the target." So pause the video while you complete this word map.

Well done, the synonyms are put underwater, submerge, and dip.

So submerge as a verb, not the adjective submerged, and immerse are synonyms, they're very similar.

The word pairs, and you'll notice some of these word pairs are in fact, all of these word pairs are adverbs, which describe a verb or an adjective.

In this case, they're describing the verb immerse.

And you can say the adverb then the verb, or the verb then the adverb.

So we could say immediately immerse or immerse immediately.

Wholly immerse or immerse wholly.

Partly immerse, so partly putting something underwater.

Fully immerse, deeply immerse, or quickly immerse or immerse quickly.

Okay, the final word map this time is for plunge.

"Bearnice did an amazing somersault in the air before plunging down into the water." So could you pause the video and complete this final word map? Well done, the synonyms are dive, plummet, submerge.

The word pairs are boldly plunge, plunge headlong, plunge forwards, plunge down, suddenly plunge or plunge suddenly and recklessly plunge.

If you recklessly plunge, it means that you are.

You haven't really thought about the risks.

If you're reckless, you are.

You just kind of do it without thinking about it.

So if so in this picture, you could say, "Bearnice recklessly plunged off the cliff before checking to see if someone was below her." Okay, so well done.

We've gone through all of the word maps now and for our final task in today's lesson, we've got some sentences.

And I would like you to fill the gaps with either the word submerged, drenched, squirted, doused, immersed, or plunged.

So you can see all of those four verbs I've put in the past tense.

So I'll read each sentence to you, and as I read them, I'd like you to start thinking about which word fits best in each sentence.

"The rain (Mrs. Riley hums) the last embers of the campfire until they went out completely." So can you remember which verb meant to put out? "Brick put on his diving suit and went in search of the (Mrs. Riley hums) shipwreck." Now, that one I think is gonna be an adjective 'cause it's describing shipwreck, which is a noun.

"Bearnice's coat was totally (Mrs. Riley hums) from the heavy rain." "Armie was so deeply (Mrs. Riley hums) in his book that nothing could distract him from it." "Yin and Yang (Mrs. Riley hums) washing up liquid at each other instead of on their dirty dishes." It's supposed to be.

Well, whatever they're doing on the dirty dishes, but instead they're doing it on each other.

"The power cut caused chaos as the school was (Mrs. Riley hums) into darkness." So could you pause the video and if.

Just a quick tip, if you.

If any of them you're unsure which word fits in it, just skip that one out and go to the next sentence and do the ones that you feel confident with and then cross the ones off that you've used, and then you'll have less options.

So those ones that you were a bit unsure of, you can go back to, so there's a trick to help you.

So pause the video now while you complete this final task of today's lesson, good luck.

Okay, let's go through the answers.

So in the first one, we've got, "The rain doused, the last embers of the campfire until they went out completely." Remember, douse means to put something out.

"Brick put on his diving suit and went in search of the submerged shipwreck." That one's an adjective describing the shipwreck that's completely underwater.

"Bearnice's coat was totally drenched from the heavy rain." Again, it's an adjective describing the coat.

It was completely drenched, dripping wet.

"Armie was so deeply immersed in his book.

." Now this is interesting because this is nothing to do with being wet.

So we can already see how these words can be used in other contexts and how helpful that these words will be.

He, "was so deeply immersed in his book that nothing could distract him from it." Has that ever happened to you? Where you're almost so like deep in your book that you can't be distracted by anything? "Yin and Yang squirted washing up liquid at each other instead of on their dirty dishes." And, "The power cut caused chaos as the school was plunged into darkness." Again, nothing to do with being wet here so this word is very versatile, it can be used in lots of context, "plunged into darkness." You might be plunged into chaos.

"The classroom was plunged into chaos." So these words can be used in other contexts.

They've been grouped together because they're linked with wet things, but they can be used in other contexts as well.

Okay, so let's summarise what we've learned today.

We have learned the adjectives submerged, meaning completely underwater, like a diver at the bottom of the sea.

And drenched, meaning sopping wet or soaked.

Like a tiger cub who's had a whole bucket of water thrown over her.

But we've also learned four verbs.

Immerse means to dunk or plunge, like pushing someone right to the bottom of a tank of water.

Squirt means to spray or splatter, like making water from a super soaker go in all directions.

Douse means to drench or put out with water, like pouring a bucket of water over a bonfire.

And plunge means to dive or plummet, like when you jump off the highest rock into deep water.

So well done for all your hard work today, you have learned six very impressive new words, and I hope they're really useful in your speaking and in your writing.

Perhaps you might even come across one of these books.

One of these words in a book that you're reading.

So well done for your hard work and hopefully I'll see you for some more learning another time.