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Hi there my name's Mrs. Riley, and I'm here today to teach you some new vocabulary.

Today we're going to be learning six new words that are associated with the word delicious.

So I hope you're not feeling too hungry ahead of this lesson, because we're going to be thinking about lots of delicious food and lots of different ways of describing delicious food.

But as you'll see in this lesson, whilst these words have been grouped together, because they can describe something delicious, they can also be used in lots of other contexts as well, so these words are going to be extremely helpful, let's get started.

The outcome of today's lesson is to use the words, irresistible, tantalising and other rich vocabulary associated with the word delicious.

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

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

My turn, your turn, you ready? Noun.

Adjective.

Synonym.

Word pair.

Well done, so a noun is a naming word for people, places or things.

An adjective is a word that describes a noun.

If I took such a thing like an ice cream, that would be a noun and then I might describe it with an adjective, the delicious ice cream.

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

For example, I might describe the ice cream as sweet or sugary.

Sweet and sugary have a similar meaning, they're synonyms. Word pairs are words that often appear together.

For example, if we looked at the word sugary and then looked at the word pears for that word, it might be sugary snack, sugary pudding, sugary treat, they would all be word pairs.

So these are the words that we're going to be using again and again in our lesson today.

In today's lesson, we have three learning cycles.

We are going to look at two delicious words in a lot of detail in the first two learning cycles, and in the third learning cycle, we're going to look at four other delicious words in slightly less detail.

So by the end of today's lesson, we are going to have six new ways of describing something as delicious, let's start with our first new delicious word.

So what's happening in this picture? This is Yin and Yang, the tiger twins.

Can you pause the video and either have some thinking time, or if you like, you could describe out loud what is happening here, pause the video now.

Well done.

Well in this picture, Yin and Yang, I always get them confused which one's which.

But one of the tiger twins is reaching, jumping forward with knife and fork ready, because they are obviously desperate to eat that fish.

And the twin is pulling back on her tail to try and stop her, they're trying to prevent her from eating this fish, but you can see it's obviously so tempting, they want that fish so badly.

So let's find out what this word is.

Irresistible.

My turn, your turn.

Irresistible.

Well done.

Irresistible is an adjective, so describing word and it means gorgeous and inviting, like something so tempting you can't help reaching for it.

Now, we could take off the E of irresistible and add LY to turn the word into an adverb.

Irresistibly for example, the smell of sizzling bacon was irresistibly, enticing, coaxing everyone to the breakfast table.

An adverb describes an adjective or a verb.

In this sentence it's describing the verb enticing, which means it's kind of luring you in, it's irresistibly enticing.

So we can use this word irresistible as an adjective or as an adverb, which would be irresistibly.

Just need to remember before adding LY, we need to take off that E.

So these words are synonyms of irresistible, inviting, appealing and gorgeous.

So in that picture, the fish is inviting or appealing to Yin.

The irresistible temptation was too much for Yin who just had to taste the fish, these are word pairs of irresistible.

irresistible charm, so imagine someone was so charming that their charm was irresistible.

It was like so inviting and tempting that you couldn't resist it.

Irresistible craving, so imagine you are there.

This is what happens to me sometimes trying to work and not think about the chocolate that's downstairs in my kitchen, but if I have an irresistible craving, it's like it's so inviting and tempting that craving that of what me wanting a chocolate, irresistible attraction.

So if an irresistible might be, maybe there was a new fairground ride near where you lived and it was an irresistible attraction.

You just couldn't, you tried to resist, but you could not resist, it was too tempting to go and give it a go and an irresistible smile, so irresistible smile.

Imagine someone, maybe someone like really cute and they've asked for something and you say no, and they give you an irresistible smile, and then it's just too gorgeous, too tempting, you can't say no.

And finally, an irresistible temptation, something that's so tempting or gorgeous or inviting that it's just irresistible.

So could you pause the video now and read those five word pairs out loud just as I did? Pause the video now well done, we've got four more word pairs, an irresistible impulse.

So an impulse is like a sudden spontaneous urge or inclination to act or react in a certain way.

So if you had an irresistible impulse, it would be one that would be just, you couldn't ignore it, it would just be too tempting to do it and irresistible force that would be something that would be powerful or a compelling influence or factor that's just impossible to resist and irresistible urge.

And finally, an irresistible offer.

Perhaps you are trying to save your money, but there's an irresistible offer.

Maybe buy one, get one free and you just can't resist it.

So can you pause the video and read those four word pairs out loud? Well done, so we can straight off see that whilst irresistible could describe something delicious, it can be used in so many other contexts.

An irresistible offer, an irresistible impulse or urge to do something, an irresistible smile.

So this word is a really useful word to have in our vocabulary toolkits.

Okay, which of these words is a synonym for irresistible? A, damp, B, inviting, or C, Sweet.

Pause the video now.

Well done if you got the answer.

B, inviting is a synonym for irresistible.

In this task, I would like you to look carefully at the word map with the word irresistible written in the middle around the word irresistible are either synonyms or word pairs.

If you think the word is a synonym, I would like you to circle it and I would first like you to look for all of the synonyms. Once you've done that, I'd like you to draw lines from the word irresistible up or across or down to the word pairs.

And as you do that, perhaps you could read them out loud, because that's gonna help us to really remember this word and how to use it appropriately.

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

The irresistible temptation was too much for Yin who just had to eat the fish.

Now, if you are unsure, if a word is a synonym or a word pair, you could take out the word irresistible in that sentence.

And if the word is a synonym, you might be able to replace it with the word irresistible, so that's a trick to help you pause the video now, while you complete this first task.

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

So first of all, the synonyms are gorgeous, inviting and appealing.

The word pairs are irresistible charm, an irresistible force, an irresistible craving, an irresistible attraction, an irresistible urge, an irresistible smile, an irresistible offer, irresistible temptation and an irresistible impulse.

Well done, if you managed to identify the synonyms and word pairs.

It's time to look at our second new delicious words, the first one was irresistible.

Let's have a look what's happening in this picture.

This is one of my favourite Mrs. Wordsmith illustrations.

This is brick, but what is he doing here? How would you describe those donuts? Can you pause the video and describe what you can see now? Well done.

Well, those donuts look delicious, don't they? I think we can all agree they look delicious, but you can see that brick, I think is outside the shop and the shop window.

And they're in the window and he's kind of got his hands and his pressed up against the glass and he's looking at those donuts, and they look like they're almost tempting him.

They're kind of glinting in the sunlight, and he's got little love hearts in his eyes, like he really wants to have one of those donuts, so let's find out what this word is.

Tantalising my turn, your turn.

Ready, tantalising.

Lovely.

Tantalising is also an adjective, it means tempting and tormenting.

So we can see straight away that it's a similar word to irresistible, because both of them had tempting in the definitions.

But the slight nuanced difference here is it's tempting and tormenting like delicious donuts that you can't reach.

So tantalising, a bit like irresistible has got that element of it's tempting you in, but there's something, an element of torment in it, it's something like something you want but you can't reach.

Let's just see, so we said we could turn irresistible into irresistibly.

Could we turn this into an adverb? Tantalisingly, what do you think? Show me thumbs up or thumbs down.

Do you think tantalisingly could be an adverb? Yes, well done, it could be.

You could say the donuts, glinted, tantalisingly in the shop window.

So these words are synonyms of tantalising, tempting, tormenting and irresistible.

So we can see how similar these words are, because they are synonyms of each other.

The baker put out a tray of tantalising donuts to tempt people into her shop.

These are word pairs of tantalising, tantalising food, tantalising taste, a tantalising smell and a tantalising glimpse, you might catch a glimpse of something tantalising.

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

A tantalising possibility, perhaps for example, if you were going to buy a lottery ticket, even though there was such a small, small chance of you winning, there is still a tantalising possibility that you might win that might make you want to buy the ticket.

A tantalising promise, so perhaps someone's trying to tempt you to do something and they say, "If you do it, then I promise you will get a box of freshly baked donuts." And you might say, "Oh, that's a tantalising, a tempting promise." A tantalising hint.

So maybe you really want, someone says, I've got a really big piece of gossip, and you really want to find out, and they give you a tantalising hint about what the gossip is, but they don't tell you.

Remember, there's that element of it's enticing you in, but there's an element of it being tormenting like you can't quite get to it.

And a tantalising detail, again maybe a bit similar to like that tiny hint that you don't know the rest, but you just know a tantalising detail.

So again, could you pause the video and read these word pairs out loud? Well done, which of these words is a synonym for tantalising.

A, tormenting, B, hint or C, smell? Pause the video while you think about your answer.

Well done, the correct answer is A tormenting is a synonym for tantalising.

So our second word map of the day, this time with tantalising in the middle.

First, could you circle the synonyms? And second, could you draw lines to the word pairs? Here's the word in a sentence.

The baker put out a tray of tantalising donuts to tempt people into her shop.

Remember, if the word is a synonym, you should be able to replace it with the word tantalising in that sentence, pause the video while you complete this task.

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

The synonyms are tempting, tormenting and irresistible.

The word pairs are tantalising food, tantalising possibility, a tantalising promise, a tantalising taste, a tantalising smell, a tantalising glimpse, a tantalising hint and a tantalising detail.

So again, we can see, we can describe food or a taste as tantalising, but we can use this word in so many other contexts, a tantalising glimpse of something.

It might not be food, it might be a Valentine's Day card that you glimpse through the letterbox, a tantalising possibility of getting a job that you really want or getting the main part in a play, a tantalising detail of something you really want to know, so it's a really useful word.

Okay, it's now time for you to write your own sentence and you can either use the word irresistible or tantalising.

Use the word pairs to help you, here are the word pairs for irresistible, here are the word pairs for tantalising.

So first, choose which word you are going to use in your sentence perhaps you might choose irresistible.

Then pick your word pair, that's gonna help you to use this word really appropriately.

For example, an irresistible offer and then you can think about your idea for your sentence, what might the irresistible offer be? And how can you really exaggerate that the offer is irresistible? Think about really exaggerating the meaning of that word.

So good luck writing your sentence, make sure you take time to read it back and check your work once you've finished and try and be as ambitious as possible.

In this sentence, write the best sentence that you possibly can.

Pause the video now.

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

This sentence uses the word tantalising.

Does it use tantalising correctly? Oz tried to resist with all her might, but the irresistible offer of the cookies was too good to refuse.

So straight away I can see I've used a word pair, the irresistible offer, so I know I've used this word correctly.

I've said Oz tried to resist with all her might, and that shows me how much she wants a cookie.

I could have just said the irresistible offer of the cookies was too good to refuse, but I've exaggerated that how irresistible the offer is by showing that Oz tried to resist with all her might, but she couldn't refuse, because that's how irresistible this offer was.

Can you check how effective is your sentence? Is there a detail you could add that exaggerates how irresistible or tantalising something might be? Okay, well done, let's move on.

So we're going to look at our other delicious words, we've got four more.

I'm gonna start off by showing you the pictures for them.

Take a look at each picture and see if you might even be able to predict what each word might be, pause the video now.

Okay, so in the first picture, we can see Plato, the platypus is drooling, looking at that gigantic donut and the word is mouth watering.

It's an adjective and it means looking or smelling delicious, like a giant donut that makes you drool or dribble when you see it.

Mouth watering is an actual thing that happens if it has ever happened to you before, when you've been really hungry and you've seen something that you really want to eat and your mouth actually starts to produce saliva in anticipation of eating it.

So mouthwatering is something that does actually happen to us when we see something that we really want to eat that looks or smells delicious.

In the second picture, we have a peach and it looks like there's some kind of machine here that is sucking out all of the juice and it looks very juicy.

This word is succulent, juicy and fresh, like perfectly ripe peaches that are full of delicious juice, so something juicy and fresh succulent.

In the third picture, we've got Oz and she looks like she's having some kind of very fancy tea party with strawberries and donuts and cakes and little tiny sandwiches and it looks delicious.

This word is scrumptious, tasty or delicious, like a fancy selection of cakes.

You might say, it was absolutely scrumptious.

And finally, Mrs. Wordsmith has got a chocolate cake, but it looks like it's oozing with some sort of chocolate icing, looks like chocolate milk is coming out of it and this word is moist.

It means damp or not dry, like a fluffy chocolate cake that oozes chocolate milk.

If any of you like watching cooking programmes where they cook cakes, they often talk about how a good cake is moist.

You don't want a dry cake, you want a moist cake, one that's nice, that almost is like it's oozing with icing or it's not sort of dry.

So let's just practise saying each word.

My turn, your turn, are you ready? Sitting up.

Mouthwatering.

Succulent.

Scrumptious.

Moist.

Well done, so here are those pictures for each word and there are our four adjectives.

Succulent, mouthwatering, moist and scrumptious.

Could you pause the video and see if you can match the adjective to the correct image? Off you go.

Well done, let's go through the answers.

So succulent is that picture there of that succulent juicy peach.

Mouthwatering is where we can see Plato drooling at that donut.

Moist is that very, that chocolate cake oozing with chocolate milk and scrumptious is that delicious tea party that Oz is eating.

Okay, well done.

So for each of these words, now we're going to do the word map, starting with scrumptious, scrumptious is in the middle.

You've got to first circle the synonyms and then find the word pairs, here's the word in a sentence to help you.

The bakery made the tastiest most scrumptious cakes in town.

Could you pause the video while you complete this word map? Well done.

So the synonyms are tasty, mouthwatering and delicious.

The word pairs are scrumptious cakes, scrumptious dessert, scrumptious meal, scrumptious pastries, scrumptious recipe and scrumptious feast.

So whereas tantalising and irresistible, I nearly forgot it then are two adjectives, which could describe food, but could be used in lots of other ways.

We can see from the word pairs of scrumptious that this is an adjective that is for food.

All of these things are a type of food, a cake, a dessert, a pastry, a recipe, it's all related to food.

So scrumptious is definitely a word that is associated with different foods.

Okay, the next word map is succulent, so here's the word in a sentence.

The succulent peach was bursting with sweet juice.

Again, could you first find the synonyms and circle them and then draw lines to the word pairs? Pause the video now.

Let's go through the answers.

The synonyms are juicy, fresh and moist.

The word pairs are succulent steak.

So not a dry overcooked steak, but a juicy succulent steak, succulent fruit, succulent peaches, succulent lobster.

Ooh, I've never tried lobster before.

Succulent berry, a succulent morsel.

A morsel is just a sort of a small amount of food, so imagine you might try, it was a succulent morsel.

A succulent shrimp or prawn and succulent chicken.

So we can see here that succulent can be used to describe lots of fruits like peaches or berries.

They might be really juicy, but also some meats or fish like steak, lobster, chicken, shrimp.

So we don't want, for instance if you were going to have some chicken, if you ate meat, you wouldn't want the chicken to be sort of dry and overcooked, you'd want it to be nice and succulent.

So again, all of these words, a bit like the last word we looked at, which, oh, look, I'm forgetting all these words that we're learning.

So we said tantalising and irresistible could be used in lots of different contexts, but scrumptious and succulent look like they're more used just to describe different tastes or different foods.

Okay, mouth watering.

Here's the word in a sentence.

Plato looked at the mouth watering donut, his tongue hanging out of his mouth.

So again, first circle the synonyms and then draw lines to the word pairs, pause the video now.

Well done.

The synonyms are delicious, tantalising and scrumptious.

The word pears are mouthwatering, dish, mouthwatering recipe, mouth watering meat, mouthwatering smell, mouth watering dessert, mouthwatering menu, mouthwatering treat.

So again, these word pairs, are all about some kind of form of food.

So a dish, a recipe, a smell, all kind of linked to different foods and our last word map is for moist.

Mrs. Wordsmith liked moist cakes, not dry ones.

Could you pause the video while you circle the synonyms and draw lines to the word pairs? Well done the synonyms are damp, soaking, not dry, a little soggy.

The word pears are moist cake, moist bread, moist soil, moist climate, moist earth, moist air, moist forest, moist skin, moist lips, moist towel.

So this word like tantalising an irresistible can be used to describe food like cake or bread, but can also be used in lots of other contexts, moist soil or earth perhaps after it's rained, the ground might feel moist.

If the air felt moist, it's almost like might make your skin feel a bit clammy.

If your lips are moist, then maybe it might be, 'cause you've just put some sort of lip balm or lips gloss on the opposite of having dry cracked lips, so moist can be used in lots of different contexts.

For our last task in today's lesson, you need to fill the gaps in each of these sentences with all of these six words that we've learned today.

So listen, as I read them and as I read them, start thinking about which word fits best in each sentence.

Brick drooled into his lap as the mm dish arrived at his table.

What a mm pudding yelled Stax as he took a bite of the delicious, sticky toffee pudding.

Mrs. Wordsmith only used the ripest most mm apricots in her jam.

Oz's mm charm meant that people found it impossible to dislike her.

Brick caught a mm glimpse of the parcel through his letterbox After the rain had fallen, the worms wriggled happily in the mm earth.

Now as we saw in the lesson, lots of these words have a very similar meaning.

So perhaps you might start with a sentence that you think, ooh, I'm sure that I know which one goes there.

For example, that last one to describing the earth, I think I'm sure I know which one goes there, so I can put that in and cross that off my list.

And that means that the trickier ones to find the correct answer, then there's gonna be less options.

But you might find that there is more than one option that works in a certain sentence and that's fine, so pause the video now while you complete this task.

Well done, let's go through the answers.

So Brick drooled into his lap as the mouth watering dish arrived at his table, there was a bit of a hint there, 'cause he was drooling.

What a scrumptious pudding yelled Stax as he took a bite of the delicious sticky toffee pudding.

Mrs. Wordsmith used only used the ripest, most succulent apricots in her jam.

We know that means juicy.

Oz's irresistible charm meant that people found it impossible to dislike her.

Brick caught a tantalising glimpse of the parcel through his letterbox.

And after the rain had fallen, the worms wriggled happily in the moist earth.

So you might have have got the answers a little bit different, some of them there were particular answers that had to work.

For example, we couldn't say after the rain had fallen, the worms wriggled in the mouthwatering earth or in the tantalising earth, moist only works in that one.

Equally succulent apricots.

Actually, I suppose you could say Mrs. Wordsmith only used the ripest, most mouthwatering apricots in her jam, so some of them were more than one option that works.

Those are the answers that I think fit best, but you might have had slight variation.

And a really good way to check if you're unsure, is just looking at the word pairs, we could even look back at the word maps that we've just done to find word pairs to help us.

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

We have learned six new adjectives all associated with the word delicious.

We've learned that irresistible means gorgeous and inviting like something so tempting, you can't help reaching for it, like Yin reaching for that fish.

Tantalising means tempting and tormenting like delicious donuts that you can't reach.

Mouth watering means looking or smelling delicious, like a giant donut that makes you drool a river of saliva when you see it.

Succulent means juicy and fresh, like perfectly ripe peaches that are full of delicious juice.

Scrumptious means tasty or delicious, like a fancy selection of cakes.

Moist means damp or not dry, like a fluffy chocolate cake that oozes chocolate milk.

So I hope you have enjoyed learning these words today.

In fact, it's made me feel really hungry, what about you? Hopefully you can all eat some delicious or scrumptious or irresistible or mouthwatering food at some stage today.

Thank you so much for all your hard work today.

I hope you've enjoyed learning with me, and I hope these words are really helpful in your speaking and in your writing.

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