Lesson video

Hi everyone.

And welcome to our lesson today.

In our past few lessons, we've worked really hard to first of all, understand the features of persuasive letters.

We've then got to understand the context and learned a little bit about the characters for our writing unit.

Then we worked on our understanding of relative clauses.

And today we are going to deepen on our understanding of using persuasive techniques in our writing.

Our learning objective today is to practise using persuasive techniques.

This is lesson six of 10, and it's our third writing outcome in this unit.

In this lesson, you will need your exercise book or paper, your pen or pencil and your best learning brain.

Make sure to pause the video if you need to go and grab any of those things.

So our agenda today, firstly, we're going to be developing our vocabulary.

Then we're going to recap the features of a persuasive letter.

And then we are going to practise using persuasive techniques.

Before we get started, we are going to start with a quick spelling warmup.

Circle the correct spelling.

Let's go through them together to start with.

Assistance.

Your turn.

Blue knight, your turn.

Now both of these spellings are correct, but I want you to choose the spelling of blue knight, which is correct for our letter.

So the horse's name in this context.

Request, your turn.

Intelligence, your turn.

Excellent.

Okay, so pause the video now.

While you decide which spelling is correct and press play when you're ready.

Okay.

Everyone, so we've all paused the video and we've all had a good think about which spelling is the correct version.

Now I am going to reveal the answers.

So the first one assistance, is an A N C E word.

Assist ANCE.

Both of these sound like they could be spelled with an ENCE or an ANCE, this is just one of those words that we need to know how to spell.

Now for the next one.

As I already said, both of these spellings are technically correct, but I wanted the spelling of blue knight as in the resource that we're writing about in our letter.

It is spelled blue knight as in the knight that has a silent K.

Up next, the word request, the correct spelling is R E Q U E S T.

And finally, intelligence.

This time we need to work out whether intelligence has an I in it or an E and it has an I, intelligence.

Well done if you've got those right.

If you weren't sure of some of them make sure to jot down the correct spelling now so that you've got it if you need it later for your writing.

Well done everybody.

So let's start with deepening our vocabulary.

We know that our characters are very wealthy.

They would write extremely formally.

And here is our image of a Lord and Lady Stoughton.

So the features of formal writing, we would have formal synonyms or formal words, which mean the same thing as maybe our more commonly used words.

We're going to look at some formal synonyms that you might use in your writing today.

We would not use any contracted words in our writing.

A contracted word is a word that has been shortened using an apostrophe.

For example, the word I've is a contraction of I have and we also would not use any exclamations.

So no sentences ending an exclamation marks.

Here are some examples of formal synonyms that we might use.

Now, grab your pen and pencil and jot these down.

So formal synonyms for help.

Aid, your turn.

Support, your turn.

Assistance, your turn.

Fantastic.

So I might.

Right, to ask for Sherlock Holmes aid or his support or his assistance rather than writing the word help.

Here are some formal synonyms for the word, ask.

Request, your turn.

Implore you to, your turn.

Appeal to you to, your turn.

These words or phrases we might use instead of writing the word ask.

So I might write dear detective Holmes.

I request that, I implore you to support me, or I appeal to you for your assistance.

If you haven't already done so then pause the video to copy down your formal synonyms for help and your formal synonyms for ask.

And you can press play once you are finished.

Okay, everyone, so we've just developed our understanding of some formal synonyms and we've enriched our formal vocabulary here.

You've got your word banks with your high level formal synonyms for help and ask.

Now, we need to develop our understanding of how Lord and Lady Stoughton might feel.

How do you think they feel after being victims of this crime? Have some thinking time.

I think they might feel quite upset, quite worried, anxious, maybe quite angry.

I'm going to go to someone though to help me, Mrs. Wordsmith.

So here are some sad words from Mrs. Wordsmith that we could definitely use to describe how Lord and Lady Stoughton are feeling.

My turn, heartbroken.

Your turn.

Well done.

This is an adjective, meaning extremely sad or miserable.

When you sob on the sofa, eating ice cream all day.

Desolate.

Your turn.

Excellent.

Another adjective meaning miserable, depressed and lonely.

How you feel when you lose everything and are all alone.

Inconsolable, your turn.

Fantastic.

Another adjective meaning very unhappy or brokenhearted like feeling so sad it's impossible to cheer you up.

These words could be used to describe Lord and Lady Stoughton.

Perhaps Lord and Lady Stoughton also have children.

And maybe the children also feel this way.

You could refer to your inconsolable children in your letter, if you would like.

So now we're going to recap the features of a persuasive letter.

There are five key features.

So evidence to support our points, flattery, presumption, rhetorical questions and veiled threat.

We want to showcase some of these in this lesson.

So here's our checklist.

Our flattery, evidence to support points, veiled threat, rhetorical questions and presumption.

Now we're going to start with flattery.

What could we write to Sherlock Holmes to flatter him? Hmm.

Have some thinking time.

What could we compliment Sherlock Holmes on? Okay.

Everyone, I bet you have got some incredible flattery sentences written down.

Here are some of mine.

I am aware that you are an incredibly important and busy man.

Have a quick check of yours.

Did you remember your capital letter and your full stop? If you did that's fantastic.

If not, just edit them and quickly now.

Remember you can always magpie from my examples, if you would like to add to your own as well.

Here's my next example.

We are incredibly fortunate to have an investigator as astute and quick witted as yourself.

Full stop.

Remind me, what does astute mean? Of course, intelligent.

Well done.

Fortunate means lucky.

We are so lucky or incredibly lucky to have an investigator as intelligent and quick witted as yourself, but I've just used that more high level, ambitious and formal vocabulary for this sentence.

And here's another example of a flattery sentence from me.

I am certain that you are the only detective with the skills and intelligence to be able to solve this crime.

Okay.

Everyone.

And that brings us to the end of our lesson today.

So you should now have a few high level, ambitious sentences using flattery, which you are really, really proud of and are ready to go for our writing lesson when we write our letter opening.

That's so excellent that you've already done some of the really high level thinking in preparation for your writing lesson next.

Well done everybody.