Lesson video

Hello, everyone, my name's Mrs. Riley.

And I'm here today to teach you some new vocabulary.

The vocabulary we'll be learning today is associated with flavour.

So we're going to be learning new ways of describing different flavours.

But we'll see that lots of these words that can describe flavours can also describe many other things.

They're going to be really useful words for us to have in our vocabulary.

Let's get started.

The outcome of today's lesson is to use the words bland, savoury, tangy, tart, peppery, and sugary effectively in multiple contexts.

These are our key words for today's lesson.

I'm going to say each one, and I'd like you to repeat it to me.

My turn, your turn.

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

Noun, adjective, synonym, word pair.

Well done, let's find out what these words mean.

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

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 in today's lesson, because we'll be describing flavour, we're going to probably be learning adjectives because they're describing words.

The word pairs are probably going to be nouns because adjectives can describe nouns.

So if we're thinking of describing a flavour, and then the noun might be the type of food we're describing.

And then synonyms, it's always useful to learn synonyms which have similar meaning when we're learning new vocabulary so that we can think, oh, okay, it's a bit like this word and it might be a word that you already know.

So in today's lesson, we have three learning cycles, but we're not learning three words.

We're actually learning six.

So in the first learning cycle, we'll be looking at our first flavour word, then we'll look at another flavour word.

And then in our third learning cycle, we're going to be looking at four words altogether.

So the first two words we'll look at in a little bit more detail, and then we'll look at the other four in a little bit less detail.

So let's get started with our first new flavour word.

So what is happening in this picture? This is Armie, the armadillo.

Can you pause the video and either have a think or you could describe out loud how he's feeling, how he would describe this food.

Off you go.

Well done, well, Armie here looks like, it looks like he's eating a little block of wood and he is tipping a whole pot of salt on top of it.

He looks quite bored as he's doing this.

Like he's eating something really boring and he's trying to make it a bit more tasty by adding the salt.

So let's find out what this word is.

Bland, my turn, your turn.

Bland, well done.

Bland is an adjective.

It means plain or flavourless.

Food that is tasteless and boring.

Can you think of anything bland that you have eaten recently? Something very plain, tasteless, or flavourless.

I'm trying to have a think as well.

Oh, I had some porridge for breakfast the other day and it was very bland.

So I had to add some peanut butter and a mashed up banana and a little bit of syrup to try and make it a bit more tasty.

I wonder what you thought of that was tasted a bit bland.

We could add ly to turn this word into an adverb, blandly.

Here's the word in its sentence.

She spoke blandly with not a hint of enthusiasm.

So adverbs can describe adjectives or verbs.

In this sentence, it describes a verb spoke.

It describes how she spoke.

She spoke blandly.

That means she spoke in a very plain or boring way.

So these synonyms, these words are synonyms of bland: plain, flavourless, boring.

No amount of salt could rectify the bland meal.

These are word pairs of bland: bland food, bland diet, bland taste, bland flavour.

Could you pause the video and read these word pairs out loud? Well done, we've got four more word pairs.

Bland smile, bland statement.

A statement is just something that you might say like a fact.

Bland expression, so how your face looks.

And a bland tone.

Tone might be the way you're speaking, how your voice sounds.

So straight away, I can see here that whilst bland can describe flavour, for example, the bland meal, it can also describe lots of other things like a smile or a statement or an expression or a tone.

So hopefully, you can see that this is a really helpful, useful word for us to have.

Again, can you pause the video and read these word pairs out loud? Well done, so which of these words is a synonym for bland? A.

Spicy, B.

Soggy, or C.

Plain? Pause the video while you think about your answer.

Well done, the correct answer is C.

Plain is a synonym for bland.

It's time for our first task.

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

I would like you to, first of all, see if you can circle the synonyms. Look at all those words around bland and see if you can identify the synonyms, and then circle them.

And then I would like you to draw lines to the word pairs.

So you might say bland food and draw a line from bland to food.

And as you do that, it would be really helpful to say it out loud.

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

No amount of salt could rectify.

That means could kind of cure the bland meal.

If you're unsure if the word is a synonym, you could take out the word bland and see if the synonym could replace the word.

And if it can, that's a good hint that that word is a synonym and not a word pair.

Can you pause the video now while you complete this task? Excellent, well done.

Let's go through the answers.

The synonyms are plain, flavourless, and boring.

The word pairs are bland food, bland diet, bland taste, bland statement, bland expression, bland flavour, bland smile, and bland tone.

So if I wanted to use this word in a sentence, I could pick any of those word pairs, for example, bland diet, and I could then put it into a sentence.

I wish my daughter would try new foods because she has such a bland diet.

So that's how we can put this.

We can use this word effectively by using one of those word pairs.

Okay, we're gonna look at our second new flavour word.

The first word was bland.

Well done, let's see what the second one is.

What's happening in this picture? This is Grit, the dog.

And this is an enormous steak.

Could you describe what you can see? Pause the video now.

Well done, well, Grit looks extremely excited to be presented with this gigantic steak that's so big.

It's kinda flopped over the top of his bowl.

It definitely won't fit in his dog bowl.

There's little hearts in his eyes 'cause he's so excited with what he sees.

He's springing up in the air.

So let's find out how we would describe this flavour of this steak.

Savoury, my turn, your turn, savoury.

Savoury is an adjective like bland.

It means salty or spicy; like pizza sauce or a peppery steak.

So often we categorise food into two different categories, sweet or savoury.

So anything sweet would be something like a pudding, like rice pudding, or ice cream, or sweets, or chocolate, anything like that we would describe as sweet.

And everything else we would describe as savoury.

So whether it was that you were having pizza, or a casserole, or a curry, or a sandwich, all of these things we could describe as savoury food.

So these words are synonyms of savoury: salty, spicy, or not sweet.

Grit dreamed about a delicious, savoury steak.

These are word pairs of savoury: savoury steak, savoury food, savoury flavour, savoury stew, savoury snack, and savoury dish.

Do you prefer sweet or savoury food? Oh, I think lots of you probably prefer sweet food.

I actually prefer savoury food.

So maybe I'm a bit strange.

Could you pause the video and read these word pairs out loud? Off you go.

Well done, which of these words is a synonym for savoury? Plain, salty, or sour? Pause the video now.

Well done, the correct answer is B.

Salty is a synonym for savoury.

I would now like you to, again, look at this word map.

And first, circle the synonyms for savoury, and then draw lines to the word pairs.

There's a sentence here to help you.

Grit dreamed about a delicious, savoury steak.

So remember, you could take out the word savoury and see if you could replace it with one of the synonyms if you're unsure.

Pause the video now while you complete this task.

Excellent, let's go through the answers together.

The synonyms are salty, spicy, not sweet.

The word pairs are savoury steak, savoury food, savoury flavour, savoury stew, savoury snack, and a savoury dish.

We're now going to write a sentence using either of these two words we've just learned, either bland or savoury.

Use the word pairs to help you.

Remember, they'll help you to use the word correctly.

So here are all the word pairs for bland and here are the word pairs for savoury.

You only need to write one sentence.

So you can either write a sentence using bland or savoury.

Really important though is to use those word pairs to help you.

Try and be really ambitious when you write your sentence.

And try and add detail that really exaggerates how bland or savoury the food is.

For example, I don't want you just to say, "Armie liked bland food." or "Armie liked savoury food." I want you to say something that really shows that Armie liked bland food.

So you might say something like, "Armie tried all kinds of different foods "from all around the world, "but it was no good." Don't stop.

"He only likes plain, bland food." So I'm really adding a lot of detail to really help exaggerate that he only likes bland food.

So think about being ambitious in your sentence.

Think about all the things you've learned about in your English and grammar lessons.

Could you try and include those in your sentence as well? Pause the video now.

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

Does this sentence use bland correctly? The interviewer yawned "at Grit's incredibly boring, bland statement." So Grit is being interviewed and the interviewer yawned at Grit's incredibly boring, bland statement.

Well, I can straightaway see I've got the word pair statement, bland statement.

That was one of the word pairs.

So I know I've used this word correctly.

The fact that the interviewer yawned shows how bored they are by this very plain, boring statement.

So I think I've used this word correctly.

How effective is your sentence? Perhaps you might just have one read to check it back and check if you think it's effective.

Maybe you could even add something to it.

Off you go.

Well done, so we have learned two words, bland and savoury.

And now, we've got four more to learn.

Here they are.

Now, before I tell you what each word is, I want you just to spend a little bit of time looking at each picture.

Perhaps you could even have a guess or an estimate what the word is.

So you might look at that first picture and think, oh, it looks like he's eating something peppery.

I can see some little red, some chilies in whatever Plato's eaten.

And it looks like steam is coming out in his mouth.

So you might decide this word is, I don't know, spicy or something like that.

Look at each picture and have a think about what's happening.

And then see if you can guess what the word is going to be.

Pause the video now.

Okay, well done, let's look at each one.

So we've already spoken about the picture in this first one.

This word is peppery.

My turn, your turn, peppery.

Peppery is an adjective meaning spicy or fiery, like food that makes your face go red and your eyes run.

Have you ever eaten anything so peppery or spicy that your eyes water? For me, I had some mustard the other day and it was so peppery.

It made my eyes water.

The next one is sugary, very sticky and sweet; how your bath would taste if it were full of donuts.

So in this one, Plato is in a bath full of donuts, but he kind of looks a bit sick, doesn't he like, he's had too much sugar.

Sometimes if we have too many sugary foods, it can make us feel a bit sick.

The next one is tangy, flavorful, and sharp; like the sour taste of a grapefruit.

There are those sweets called Tangfastics and they are very tangy because they're very sharp and sour.

And finally, tart, which means sharp and sour; like the taste of freshly squeezed lemonade.

So tart and tangy are similar words.

They both mean have quite sharp taste.

So tangy and tart used to describe things like something very citrusy, like a lemon or a grapefruit.

Okay, can you match the adjective to the correct image? So we've got tangy, peppery, tart, and sugary.

Tangy and tart might be the two that you find difficult 'cause they are similar.

But see if you can match the adjective to the correct image now.

Perhaps you can draw an imaginary line in the air.

Off you go, pause the video now.

Well done, so let's go through each one.

So tangy is the one where Stax is eating some grapefruit.

Peppery is the one where Plato is spitting out his food because he's had some chilies.

Tart is the one where Plato is having some freshly squeezed lemonade.

And sugary is the one where Plato is lying in a bath full of donuts.

So for each of these four words, we are now going to do a word map just as we've done earlier.

So in each one, you need to circle the synonyms first, and then draw lines to the word pairs.

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

And remember that trick that you can always take out the word tangy and replace it with the synonym.

So I'm not going to say that each time, but just remember, that's why that sentence is there to help you.

So could you now pause the video while you complete this first, or not this first, but this word map for the word tangy? Off you go.

Well done, let's go through the answers.

So the synonyms of tangy are flavorful, sour, and sharp.

The word pairs are tangy fruit, tangy flavour, tangy jam, tangy dressing.

So dressing you might put in a salad.

Maybe if it had lots of sharp vinegar in it, it might taste tangy.

Tangy sauce, tangy odour.

So imagine a smell that was tangy, maybe like some really strong cheese.

And tangy cheese.

So well done if you managed to spot those word pairs and those synonyms because, obviously, that was the first time we were looking at them.

Okay, the next word map is for sugary.

There's your sentence to help you.

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

Off you go.

Well done, right, let's go through them.

So first, the synonyms are syrupy, sticky, and sweet.

The word pairs are sugary donuts, sugary snack, sugary food, sugary cereal, sugary treat, sugary syrup, sugary tea, and sugary drink.

So these are all things that we might describe as sugary.

Okay, the third one, peppery.

Again, here's the word in a sentence.

The peppery aftertaste of the spicy kebab stayed in Grit's mouth for days.

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

Off you go, pause the video now.

Excellent, well done.

Let's go through these together.

The synonyms are spicy, fiery, and hot.

The word pairs are peppery taste, peppery flavour, peppery smell, a peppery aftertaste.

So the kind of taste that lingers in your mouth after you've eaten something.

A peppery salad, and peppery sauce.

Perhaps you might have a peppery sauce on some steak.

And finally, we have got tart.

Again, circle the synonyms, draw lines to the word pairs.

Here's the word in a sentence.

As Oz tried the tart cherry pie, she winced to herself, trying not to offend the baker.

So obviously, it was a little bit too tart.

This cherry pipe needed a bit more sugar.

Pause the video while you complete this word map.

Okay, well done.

Let's go through the answers.

The synonyms are sharp, tangy, and sour.

The synonyms are sharp, tangy, and sour.

The word pairs are tart fruit.

So if it's not fully ripe, for instance, if you had a plum and it wasn't really ripe yet, it might taste a bit tart.

A tart taste, tart flavour, tart sauce, tart cherry, tart juice, tart apple, and tart reply.

Now, all of those word pairs, apart from one, a link to flavours or different types of food.

But the one that stands out is a tart reply.

Now, if you said something to someone and they gave a tart reply, it would be quite a sharp or unkind reply.

So that's why.

So we can see this word tart is mainly used to describe different flavours, but can also be used to describe someone's words.

They gave a tart reply.

Okay, so for our last task of this lesson, we have got to fill the gaps with either the word bland, savoury, sugary, tangy, peppery, or tart.

So all six words that we've learned in our lesson today.

I'm going to read each one to you.

And as I read these sentences, you can start thinking about which word, which adjective you think is going to fit in that sentence in the gap.

Plato smacked his lips at the sharp taste of the source.

The actor had such a expression on his face that nobody knew how his character felt.

Okay, so no one knew from looking at that expression how he felt.

Armie liked spicy food so he ordered steak with extra chilli.

Brick couldn't decide whether he wanted a sweet or snack.

The dentist told Yin to cut down on drinks, unless she wanted to lose her teeth.

The flavour of the sour sweets made Grit's eyes water.

So if you are unsure when you go through, for example, the first one or the second one, which word fits, just leave it out and do the others.

And then you can always go back to it because it might be that then you've got less options to choose from.

And then you know which one fits.

So don't feel like you have to do them in this order.

Start with the one you think is the most obvious, and then work your way from there.

And we know that tangy and tart have a very similar meaning.

They're actually synonyms for each other.

So those two you might find could fit in two different sentences and that's fine.

But just think, which one do you think fits best in each sentence? Pause the video now while you complete this task.

Well done, let's go through the answers together.

Plato smacked his lips at the sharp taste of the tangy sauce.

Now, you might have written tart sauce in there as well, and that's fine.

That would also work in that sentence.

The actor had such a bland expression on his face that nobody knew how his character felt.

His expression was very plain.

Armie liked spicy food so he ordered peppery steak with extra chilli.

Brick couldn't decide whether he wanted a sweet or savoury snack.

The dentist told Yin to cut down on sugary drinks, unless she wanted to lose her teeth.

And the tart flavour of the sour sweets made Grit's eyes water.

Again, you might have put the tangy flavour of the sour sweets made Grit's eyes water.

And that would be okay as well.

So well done for completing the final task of today's lesson.

Let's summarise what we've learned.

So we have learned six new words that are all associated with flavour.

As we've seen in today's lesson, they can be used in lots of other contexts as well.

Bland is an adjective, meaning plain or flavourless; food that is tasteless and boring.

Savoury means salty or spicy; like pizza sauce or peppery steak.

And you can have sweet or savoury food.

Tangy means flavorful and sharp; like the sour taste of a grapefruit.

Peppery means spicy or fiery; like food that makes your face go red and your eyes run.

Sugary means very sticky and sweet; how your bath would taste if it were full of donuts.

And tart means sharp and sour; like the taste of freshly squeezed lemonade.

So perhaps this evening or later on today, when you're eating a meal, you might be able to use one of these words to describe what you are eating.

Are you eating something bland or is it something that's peppery? Is it sugary or is it tangy? So I hope these words are really helpful and that you can use them in your speaking and in your writing.

Maybe you might even come across one of these new words in a book that you are reading.

Thank you so much for learning with me today.

You've done really well.

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