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(birds chirping) <v ->Hello everyone.

</v> My name is 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 hunger or thirst.

So by the end of this lesson, rather than just being able to say, I feel hungry, or I feel thirsty, we're going to have different ways of describing that hunger or that thirst.

So these words are going to be really useful.

Let's get started.

The outcome of today's lesson is to use the words crave and insatiable and other rich vocabulary associated with hunger or thirst.

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

So before we think about what they each mean, let's just practise saying them out loud.

Are you ready? My turn.

Your turn.

Noun, adjective, verb, synonym, word pair.

Well done.

Let's go through the meanings.

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

An adjective is a word that describes a noun.

So for example, if we imagined a bear would be a noun, a naming word for a thing, and a hungry bear hungry would be the adjective to describe the bear.

The hungry bear.

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

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

Word pairs are words that often appear together.

In today's lesson, we're mainly going to be learning adjectives, describing words.

For example, the hungry bear, hungry would describe the bear, but we're going to be learning different ways of saying hungry.

We are going to be learning one verb, which in the example we are looking at is a doing verb.

So something that you might do.

And when we look at all these different words we'll be learning today, we'll be learning synonyms of them to words that have similar meanings 'cause that will help us to really understand what each word means.

And we'll be looking at word pairs for each word.

So for any word we learn, it's really useful to learn what words it's often paired with.

So we can actually not only understand what that means, but we can understand different contexts in which to use it as well.

So let's look at our learning cycles.

There are three learning cycles in today's lesson.

In the first two, we'll be looking at one word in each in a lot of detail.

And then in the third learning cycle, we'll be learning four other hungry or thirsty words all in one go.

So let's start with our first learning cycle, our first new hunger or first word.

Have a look at this picture.

This is Mrs. Wordsmith herself, but what is she doing here? How do you think she's feeling? And why? Could you pause the video and either have some thinking time or if someone close by you could discuss out loud what's happening here.

Pause the video now.

Well done.

Well in this picture, Mrs. Wordsmith is kind of almost huddled over her coffee machine.

She's staring desperately as one drop at a time of her coffee is appearing in that jug.

She looks like she really, really wants a cup of coffee.

Let's find out what this word is.

Crave.

My turn.

Your turn.

Crave.

Crave is a verb.

So it's something that we do.

It means to long for or desire.

When you want something so much, it's all you can think about.

So imagine that you were someone who loved chocolate and you had chocolate all the time.

And then perhaps you tried for your New Year's resolution.

You thought, I'm gonna try and give up eating chocolate.

But on the 1st of January, you craved it.

You really longed for chocolate, really desired it.

It's just different from just wanting something.

It's you really long for or desired.

It's all you can think about.

Now because this is a verb, there are other versions we could say craved, craving or craves because we can put this in different tenses.

For example, Mrs. Wordsmith craved coffee all night long.

Mrs. Wordsmith is craving coffee.

Or Mrs. Wordsmith craves coffee every morning when she wakes up.

So there's different versions of this verb.

These are synonyms of crave.

Long for, want or desire, but we know it's more really than just wanting.

It's like a strong wanting.

Here's the word in a sentence.

Mrs. Wordsmith would crave a coffee every morning as soon as she woke up.

These are word pairs of crave, crave chocolate, crave food, crave sugar, crave coffee, crave success.

So this an interesting one.

Chocolate, food, sugar, coffee are all food and drink related, but success isn't food or drink related.

But you can still want or desire success to be really successful at something.

Again, crave attention, nothing to do with food now, but you might crave attention.

You want all everyone's attention on you.

So we've got six word pairs there.

Could you please pause the video and read the word pairs out loud 'cause that's going to help us to remember this word and how to use it appropriately.

Pause the video now.

Well done.

So we've got some more word pairs now.

Crave power, crave affection.

So if you have not been around people for a long time, you might crave some kind of affection.

Craves touch, crave adventure, crave excitement.

Maybe someone might be an adrenaline junkie and they might crave excitement in their lives.

Crave love.

So again, we've got there some very different word pairs.

Actually none of these again are linked to food.

So we can see that crave is a really useful verb to use because we can crave lots of different things.

So again, can you pause the video and read these word pairs out loud? Well done.

Which of these words is a synonym for crave, A, power, B, food or C want? Pause the video now.

Well done, the correct answer is C, want is a synonym for crave.

Synonyms are words that have a similar meaning.

So for your first task in today's lesson, you have a word map.

We're gonna see lots of these word maps in the lesson.

This word map has got the word crave in the middle.

Around the edge are either synonyms or word pairs.

So first I would like you to find the synonyms of crave the words that have a similar meaning.

And when you find them, circle them.

Then I would like you to draw a line from crave to each word pair.

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

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

Mrs. Wordsmith would crave a coffee every morning as soon as she woke up.

Now if the word is a synonym, you might be able to replace it with the word crave in that sentence.

So that's a good way of checking.

If you have a suspicion, one of those words is a synonym.

You could check by replacing it in a sentence.

There's a little trick to help you.

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

The synonyms for crave are desire, long for and want.

The word pairs are crave success, crave attention, crave chocolate, crave food, crave sugar, crave power, crave affection, crave adventure, crave excitement, crave coffee, crave love.

So let's now take a look at our second new hunger or thirst word.

What is happening in this picture? This is Bernice, but what's she doing here and how might you describe her? Could you pause the video while you think about that or describe what you see out loud now? Okay, well done.

Well, there are some fish here that ask coming down and going onto this conveyor belt.

And Bernice is at the end of that conveyor belt.

So all of these fish are going to plop straight into her mouth.

And it looks like there's a lot of fish that are coming down that conveyor belt, but she seems to want to eat them all.

So I'm guessing Bernice is feeling quite hungry.

Let's find out what this word is.

Insatiable.

My turn.

Your turn.

Insatiable.

Insatiable is an adjective.

It means greedy or impossible to satisfy.

So hungry you never fill up.

So we might say, looking at this picture, that Bernice has an insatiable appetite.

It's impossible for her to fill up her appetite because she's so hungry.

These are synonyms of insatiable, bottomless, greedy or hungry.

Bernice had an insatiable appetite, so she snacked all day long.

These are word pairs of insatiable: insatiable appetite, insatiable desire.

So a desire is a strong feeling or wanting or longing for something.

So if it's insatiable, it's like it's impossible to satisfy.

An insatiable curiosity.

So again, curiosity is a desire to learn or explore something new or unfamiliar.

So if you have an insatiable curiosity, it's like it's bottomless.

It's like the more you find out, you just keep wanting to find out more.

You are so curious, you never can be filled up.

Insatiable hunger.

So imagine you've got an insatiable hunger.

It's like bottomless hunger.

You eat and eat and eat, but you are still hungry.

Can you pause the video and read these word pairs out loud? Well done, let's look at some more insatiable need.

So you have an insatiable need for something that just, you can't seem to satisfy it.

It's bottomless.

Insatiable greed, insatiable demand.

Now a demand is a desire for a particular product that someone might buy.

So let's imagine you invented something and there was an insatiable demand for it.

It meant that that thing that you'd invented, people just kept wanting to buy it, that it was like you just needed to keep making them because the more that you made, they just kept getting sold.

So there was an insatiable demand.

And insatiable thirst, that you're so thirsty, you're drinking and drinking and drinking, but it's just not satisfying you.

You need to keep drinking.

So there's four more word pairs.

Can you pause the video and read those out loud? Well done.

So which of these words is a word pair for insatiable? A, lunch, B, appetite, or C burger? Pause the video now.

Well done.

The correct answer is B, appetite is a word pair for insatiable.

Insatiable appetite.

You couldn't have an insatiable burger or an insatiable lunch.

That wouldn't work.

So it's time for another word map.

This time insatiable is in the middle.

Could you first circle the synonyms and then draw lines to the word pairs? Here's a sentence to help you.

Bernice had an insatiable appetite so she snacked all day long.

And remember, there's that trick of replacing the word insatiable if it is a synonym.

So pause the video now.

Well done.

Let's go through the answers.

The synonyms are bottomless, greedy, and hungry.

The word pairs are, insatiable appetite, insatiable desire, insatiable curiosity, insatiable hunger, insatiable need, insatiable greed, insatiable demand, and insatiable thirst.

For the second part of this task, I would like you to write a sentence using either the word crave or insatiable.

Remember, because crave is a verb, you might use a different version craved, craving, craves.

Use the word pairs to help you, So crave there are the word pairs for crave.

And here are the word pairs for insatiable.

So first, pick which word you are going to write a sentence about.

Or perhaps you might even be able to find a way of bringing both of them into a sentence or two sentences.

Then pick your word pair.

For example, you might say insatiable curiosity.

And then you might think, right, who is gonna have this insatiable curiosity and how can I write a sentence that exaggerates how insatiable that curiosity is? So use the word pairs to help you.

That's really important.

Take your time, try to write a sentence that you feel really, really proud of.

And always take time to read back through your work and check for any errors or if you can improve it, pause the video now.

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

Do these sentences use insatiable and craved correctly? After fasting for a day, Plato craved food more than ever.

When he finally ate something, his insatiable hunger was impossible to satisfy.

Well, I can see straight away that I've got a word pair for craved Plato craved food and a word pair for insatiable, his insatiable hunger.

So I know I've used the words both words correctly because of using those word pairs.

I can also see here that I have exaggerated the meaning of both these words.

I've exaggerated how much Plato craved food because I've added that extra detail after fasting for a day.

Now, if I had fasted for a whole day, I hadn't eaten a morsel of food for a whole day, I am going to probably really crave food.

And I've added that extra more than ever.

When he finally ate something, his insatiable hunger was impossible to satisfy.

Again, it was impossible to satisfy.

I've kind of exaggerated how insatiable his hunger was.

So perhaps you could just check now how effective is your sentence? Is there anything you can add to it to really exaggerate the meaning of whichever word you've used? Perhaps just pause the video and just check your sentence one more time.

Well done.

Okay.

It's time to look at our final four words.

So look at these pictures.

Perhaps you might even be able to predict what each word might be.

Pause the video now.

Ooh, let's see if you were right.

So in the first picture, we have Bernie's drinking some water.

Looks like they're in somewhere very hot, perhaps the desert.

There's sand, there's burning scorching sun.

There's no shade.

Bernice has got an umbrella, but there's no shade for poor army who looks like he's panting on the floor.

He looks so hot, we can see there's kind of heat waves coming off him.

He's sweating.

His tongue is kind of drooling out and he's reaching his hand like he's desperate for that water.

So I think this word is gonna be something to do with being thirsty.

Parched is an adjective.

It means dry or thirsty, how your throat feels if you run out of water in the desert.

In the second picture again, we've got Bernice, but this time she is looking very hungry.

Her knife and fork already her tongue is hanging out.

She looks like she's kind of panting for food and this word is famished.

Very hungry or ravenous.

How you feel when you are wild with hunger.

So this isn't just like, yeah, I'm a bit peckish fan as snack, you have to be really seriously hungry if you're going to describe it as famished.

In the next picture, we've got Plato and he is scoffing burger after burger after burger.

This at word is voracious.

It means greedy or very hungry, like having a never ending hunger for hamburgers.

And finally we've got grit the dog who has got two whole rose chickens on his forks that he looks like he's gonna put in one go.

Again, he looks very hungry.

Ravenous, hungry or starving when you feel like you could eat an entire roast dinner in one bite.

So we've got four words here.

Let's just practise saying each one.

My turn.

Your turn.

Parched, famished.

Voracious, ravenous.

Well done.

So parched is about thirst.

So it's a bit different.

Famished, voracious and ravenous are all linked to being very hungry.

So very similar words, especially famished and ravenous.

They're very similar words.

So let's look at word maps for each one.

Oh, sorry, before we do that, let's just check what we've just learned.

So here are the images for each adjective with the words underneath them.

Could you match the adjective to the correct image? Pause the video now.

Okay, well done.

Let's go through the answers.

So voracious is Plato eating his burgers.

Parched is Army in the desert, desperate for that water.

So thirsty and dry.

Ravenous is Grit eating whole roast chickens and famished is Bernice feeling very hungry in the restaurant, waiting for her food.

Okay, so the first word map is voracious.

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

Plato's appetite was voracious.

So he ate burgers nonstop from morning until night.

Could you first of all try and find the synonyms for voracious? Remember it's more tricky now 'cause I haven't told you what they are already.

And then can you look for the word pairs? Pause the video while you complete this word map.

Well done, let's go through the answers.

The synonyms for voracious are greedy, ravenous, and insatiable.

The word pairs are voracious reader, voracious appetite, voracious eater, voracious curiosity.

So we saw earlier you could have an insatiable curiosity and insatiable as a synonym.

So you could have a voracious curiosity.

Voracious carnival, a meat eater, voracious predator, and a voracious learner.

So all of these word pairs are linked to food apart from a reader and a learner, a sorry, and curiosity.

So we can see here that this is again a really useful word because we can use it to describe a voracious eater or appetite.

But also you could be a voracious reader like you are almost greedy to read.

You want to just read and read and read to learn so much a voracious curiosity, almost like a bottomless curiosity and a voracious learner, almost like you are hungry to learn.

Okay, let's look at the second word map for the these other four words, famished.

The famished bear pleaded for some food in the restaurant.

Could you first circle the synonyms and then draw lines to the word pairs? Pause the video now.

Well done.

The synonyms are very hungry, ravenous and starving.

The word pairs are famished beast, famished traveller.

Perhaps they've been travelling for miles and miles and they haven't come to anywhere to get food.

So they are famished.

Famished army, perhaps they've been fighting for days.

They haven't had a meal for days.

So they're famished army.

Famished guests ooh dear.

If someone was staying with you, you wouldn't want your guests to feel famished.

You wouldn't have been looking after them very well and feeding them very well if they were.

A famished dog, famished chicken and a famished lion.

So we can see some animal kind of animal theme here.

Famished beast, famished lion, famished chicken, famished dog.

Okay, next one is parched, which is the one that links to being thirsty or dry.

Arm's throat was parched and he given anything for a drop of water.

Could you pause the video while you circle the synonyms and then draw lines to the word pairs.

Well done.

Let's go through the answers.

The synonyms are thirsty, dry.

The word pairs are, oh, sorry and one more, baked.

So baked, dry and thirst are all synonyms. The word pairs are parched lips.

So imagine you've got dry lips, parched throat, parched mouth, when your mouth feels really dry.

That can happen when you are really thirsty.

But also sometimes it might happen if you are feeling a bit nervous or if you've been talking lots and lots and lots.

Parched soil, imagine soil, it hasn't rained for weeks and weeks.

So the soil is parched very dry.

Parched earth, parched desert.

So again, we can see that this can mean thirsty, but we can it in lots of contexts.

Parched soil, parched earth, parched desert.

So again, a really useful word.

Okay, and the final word map for today is ravenous.

The ravenous dog ate and ate and still wanted more.

Pause a video while you first circle the synonyms and then draw lines to the word pairs.

Well done.

So the answers are, the synonyms first of all are, hungry, famished and starving.

The word pairs are ravenous dog, ravenous sharks.

Ooh, I wouldn't want to go swimming in the sea if there were ravenous sharks around.

Ravenous wolf, ravenous monsters, ravenous appetite, ravenous beast.

So again, a bit of an animal theme on this one.

Okay, it's time for the final task in today's lesson.

I'm going to read some sentences to you.

And in each sentence there is one word missing.

You need to fill the gaps with either of any of these six words that we've learned today.

So as I'm reading these to you, start thinking about which word you think goes in each sentence.

The beast let out a hungry roar in his desperation to find food.

Army's thirst for knowledge meant he that he always wanted to learn more.

The children ran the canteen like a pack of hungry wolves.

The predator was always on the lookout for the next animal to hunt.

Plato's tongue felt like sandpaper in his dry mouth.

The celebrity attention and enjoyed being followed around by photographers.

So some of these sentences has one clear option.

Other sentences, there might be a few that work.

And that's because the six words we've learned today some of them are quite similar, they have a similar meaning.

So my suggestion to you would be to first of all, do the ones that you are sure about and then that will narrow your options for the final few.

But there are more than one option that works for some of these.

So we might have slightly different answers, but there are definitely some which only one works for.

So pause the video now while you complete this task.

Well done.

Let's go through the answers.

The famished beast let out a hungry roar in his desperation to fight food.

So this is one where you could have said, the ravenous beast would work here as well.

I don't know if at if any of the others would work, but famished or ravenous would both work.

Army's insatiable thirst for knowledge meant that he always wanted to learn more.

You could also say army's voracious thirst for knowledge because we know voracious and insatiable have a similar meaning.

But I think insatiable is the best option here.

The ravenous children ran the canteen like a pack of hungry wolves.

So again, famished and ravenous is very similar.

So you might have done famished there instead.

The voracious predator was always on the lookout for the next animal.

Plato's tongue felt like sandpaper in his dry parched mouth.

So definitely that one needed to be parched because there's only one word there which describes dry or thirsty and it's that it's parched.

And the celebrity craved attention and enjoyed being followed around by photographers.

Again, only craved works there.

It's the only verb.

And we're looking for a verb in that sentence.

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

We have learned one verb, crave, and five adjectives.

And all of them are associated with hunger or thirst.

Crave is a verb meaning to long for or desire.

When you want something so much, it's all you can think about.

Insatiable is an adjective meaning, greedy or impossible to satisfy.

So hungry you never fill up like Bernie there eating those fish.

Parched means dry or thirsty.

How your throat feels if you run out of water in the desert, famished means very hungry or ravenous.

How you feel when you are wild with hunger.

Voracious means greedy or very hungry, like having a never ending hunger for hamburgers.

And ravenous means hungry or starving.

When you feel you could eat an entire roast dinner in one bite.

Well done, for all your hard work today, some of these words are really quite tricky and you've done extremely well to not only complete the word maps, but to write your own sentence.

And that final task of filling in the gaps.

You have now got six very impressive new words to use in your speaking and writing.

So you should feel very proud of yourselves.

Thank you for working so hard and hopefully I'll see you for some more learning another time.