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Hi, everybody, it's Ms. Gardner and welcome to today's vocabulary lesson.

In today's lesson, we are going to be focusing on learning words that we can use to describe the feeling of anger.

I wonder what words you already know that you could use to describe how you're feeling when you're feeling really angry.

There are lots of different reasons that you might feel angry and lots of different situations which might make you feel anger.

And we're going to learn six different words that we can use to describe the feeling of anger, depending on the situation or the context.

So, thank you for joining today's lesson and I hope you enjoy it.

Let's get started.

Your learning outcome for today's lesson is to effectively use the words livid, spiteful, and other rich vocabulary associated with anger.

We'll start by looking at the keywords.

We'll do my turn, your turn.

Noun.

A noun is a naming word for a person, place, or thing.

Adjective.

An adjective is a word that describes a noun.

Synonym.

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

And word pair.

These are words that often appear together.

So, there are three learning cycles in our lesson today.

In the first, we'll be learning our first new anger word.

Then we'll be learning our second new anger word.

And then in the third learning cycle, we'll be learning four new words associated with anger.

So, let's start by learning our first new anger word.

Before I reveal what the word is, I want you to have a really close look at this image.

What can you see? What's happening in the picture? In a moment, I want you to pause the video and have some thinking time or discuss this with your partner or whoever you're with.

And maybe you can use these sentence stems to help you.

Grit has.

Grit seems..

Or, I can see.

Pause the video now and off you go.

Okay.

So, what is happening in this picture? I can see Grit.

You can see his eyes are blood red, which is a sign that he's maybe really, really angry.

He's gritting his teeth, he's clenched his fists.

He's got smoke puffing out of his ears.

He looks really angry.

And why? Because it says, game over.

So, perhaps he's lost the game.

So, we'll do my turn, your turn.

Your word today is, livid.

Livid.

Livid is an adjective and it's a describing word to describe when you are raging or furious, how you feel when you lose a video game.

You might not all feel that angry when you've lost a video game.

This is Mrs. Wordsmith showing maybe anger in a really exaggerated way.

But in this picture you can see that Grit is livid that he has lost this game.

Other ways we can use the word livid is as an adverb, lividly.

Maybe you would say Grit screamed lividly at the screen when he realised he had lost.

So, lividly is then describing the verb how he screamed.

These words are synonyms of livid.

Remember, a synonym is a word which has a similar meaning to another word, because livid is an adjective that means all the synonyms will also be adjectives too.

We'll do my turn, your turn.

Raging.

(aeroplane engine droning) Furious.

(aeroplane engine droning) Enraged.

(aeroplane engine droning) Enraged and raging, you can see are really similar.

They come from the same root word of rage.

Let's have a look at the word livid in a sentence.

Grit's face was livid when he realised he had lost the video game.

(siren wailing) These words are word pairs of livid.

Remember, word pairs are words that are found next to each other.

Because livid is an adjective, this means the word pairs today will be nouns.

I'm going to read aloud the word pairs first, and then we'll pause the video and you can read aloud the word pairs because we know that to really help us remember things, just seeing them and listening to them isn't enough.

We want to be able to say them too.

Livid glare.

So, that's how you look at someone.

You're glaring at someone.

It's really angry.

And a livid glare is a really angry glare.

Livid face.

That was Grit's face, wasn't it? With the blood-red eyes and the angry mouth.

Livid response.

So, if someone says something to you that makes you really angry and you reply and in a really livid way, you would call that a livid response.

The livid student, a student is someone who is studying, maybe they're livid because something's gone wrong in the exam or someone's really annoyed them in their class and they just can't concentrate on their lesson anymore.

So, they're feeling really angry and frustrated.

But, so a livid student.

A livid parent.

They might be livid because their child has caused absolute chaos in the living room.

So, they're really angry.

And then a livid protestor.

A protestor is someone who will hold up a sign and march and protest against something that they.

And protest for something that they really believe in.

And this can often make them feel really angry.

So, a livid protestor is someone who is protesting about something and they would feel really angry about it.

So now, pause the video and off you go, reading aloud the word pairs.

Well done.

Okay.

Checking for understanding.

Which of these words is a synonym of livid? Remember, synonym is a word which has a similar meaning to another word.

A, enraged.

B, calm.

Or C, glare.

Pause the video now.

Okay.

So, the synonym of livid is, A, enraged.

Well done.

We know that because it comes from the root word of rage, which means an anger.

It wouldn't be, B, calm, because that's actually an antonym.

An opposite meaning of livid.

Calm is when you're really peaceful and not angry.

And then glare, C, is a word pair.

Well done, everybody.

So, it's time for Task A.

Here is a word mat.

In the middle of the word mat, you can see the word livid, and then you have some word pairs and some synonyms around the outside.

In the task today, you need to read each word and decide if it is a synonym.

So, a word which means a similar thing, or a word pair.

First thing you'll need to do is circle the synonyms. Then you can draw lines to the word pairs.

There's a couple of tricks you can use to do to help you with this.

If you're trying to find out if it's a word pair, have a go at saying the word livid next to it.

And if it makes sense, if it sounds right and like you could use it in a sentence, then it's probably a word pair.

For example, the livid parent shouted across the road.

However, saying, the livid raging shouted across the street.

That doesn't make sense because raging isn't a word pair.

It's not a noun that you can pair next to livid.

So, try saying the words next to each other, next to livid.

And if it makes sense and you could use it in a sentence, then it's a word pair.

Another trick is to use the sentence to help you.

"Grit's face was livid when he realised he had lost the video game." If you could replace the word livid with another word and it still makes sense in the sentence and the sentence still makes sense, then it is most likely a synonym.

'Cause we know that a synonym has a similar meaning, is a word which has a similar meaning to another word.

So, pause the video now and off you go completing Task A.

Great job, everybody.

Well done.

Let's go through these.

So, our synonyms of livid are enraged, furious and raging.

And the word pairs, livid glare.

The look on your eye.

A livid face and livid response.

The livid student, the livid parent, and the livid protestor.

Well done.

It's time for the second learning cycle today where we're gonna be learning our second new anger word.

So, just like last time, before I reveal this word, I want you to take a really close look at the picture and think about what you can see, what's happening? You can use these sentence stems to help you.

Yin has.

Or, Yang's face is.

And, or, I can see.

What can you see happening in the video? Pause video now and have some thinking time or discuss this with your partner, whoever you're with.

Off you go.

Okay.

So, what can you see happening in this picture? Yin has done something, hasn't she? She seems to have poured a pot of coloured water or coloured paint over Yang's artwork.

And how does Yang look? Yang looks really upset, doesn't she? Really annoyed.

Why did Yin do it? Hmm.

I wonder if that's helped you know what the word might be? This word is spiteful.

Spiteful.

Spiteful is an adjective and it means hateful or mean, like purposefully spilling paint on someone's work just to ruin it.

So, that's what you can see happening in the picture there, can't you? Yin has been really spiteful here by deliberately ruining Yang's work.

Another way we can use this, other forms of using the word, spiteful, are as a noun, spite.

That was a act full of spite or spitefully as an adverb.

She spitefully spilled paint over Yang's work.

These words are synonyms of spiteful.

We'll do my turn, your turn.

Hateful.

Mean.

Cruel.

Let's have a look at it in a sentence.

"It takes a spiteful person to deliberately ruin someone else's work." It's a really mean thing to do.

If someone accidentally ruined someone's work.

That's very different, isn't it? Because it was an accident, they didn't mean to.

Whereas deliberately doing it is much meaner.

It's much more spiteful.

These words are word pairs of spiteful.

Remember, because spiteful is an adjective, this means our word pairs will be nouns.

I'm going to read them out loud first and then you are gonna have a chance at reading them aloud after.

Spiteful person.

Spiteful gossip.

So, gossip is when people are talking about somebody else behind their back.

And that's called gossip.

So, spiteful gossip is when you're talking really meanly about somebody.

Spiteful action.

So, that was a spiteful action what Yin did by pouring paint over Yang's art.

A spiteful comment.

So, something you might say to somebody about somebody else that isn't very nice or about them that isn't very nice, could be called a spiteful comment.

A spiteful remark, again, similar to a comment.

Something you say that's spiteful or mean.

And a spiteful attack.

If you start to attack somebody and say really lots of really horrible things to them in front of everybody that could be called a spiteful attack.

So now, pause the video and off you go saying these word pairs aloud.

Well done.

Okay, so checking for understanding.

Which of these words is a synonym of spiteful? A, comment.

B, hateful.

Or C, silly.

Pause the video now.

A synonym of spiteful is, B, hateful.

A, comment, is a word pair.

And C, silly, isn't the same thing.

It doesn't quite mean the same thing.

You could spill paint on your friend's work because you were being really silly.

But that's different because you didn't do it.

It wasn't a really mean.

It didn't have mean or spiteful intentions.

It was just being a little bit silly and then an accident happened.

Well done.

Okay, it's time for the first part of Task B, and we're going to fill in another word mat.

You can see here that the word spiteful is in the middle.

The first thing you need to do is circle the synonyms and then you need to draw lines to the word pairs.

Just like last time, try to use the tricks I explained earlier, saying the word next to spiteful to check if it could be a word pair.

Or you can use the sentence to help you.

"It takes a spiteful person to deliberately ruin someone else's work." If you can replace the word spiteful with another word and the sentence still makes sense, it's most likely a synonym.

So, pause the video now and off you go completing the word mat.

Well done, everybody.

Great job.

Here are our synonyms for spiteful.

Hateful.

Mean.

Cruel.

And then the word pairs.

Spiteful person, spiteful gossip, spiteful attack, spiteful remark, spiteful comment and spiteful action.

Well done.

Now, we're going to write a sentence and we're going to use either the word, livid.

So, that word that means really, really angry or spiteful.

So, the word that means really mean.

Use the word pairs to help you.

Here are the word pairs for livid and the word pairs spiteful.

The first thing you need to do is choose which adjective you're going to use.

Then choose your word pair and then you can build your sentence around that.

I want you to try and be as ambitious as possible with your sentence and add as much detail as you can to explain why the person you're writing about might be livid or spiteful.

So, pause the video now and off you go.

Well done, everybody.

I hope you enjoyed writing your sentence.

Can you help me check if this sentence uses the word spiteful correctly? Show me with your thumbs up or thumbs down.

Have I used the word spiteful correctly? "The child made a spiteful comment to his partner during the task." Yes or no? Yes, I have, haven't I? I've used the word pair, comment.

"The child made a spiteful comment to his partner during the task." So, I did use it correctly, but I want to improve this sentence and write it a little bit more ambitiously.

So, let's improve it.

"Folding his arms crossly, the child turned away from his partner, who had made a spiteful comment during the task." So, in this sentence, I've started it with a non-finite clause, "Folding his arms crossly, the child turned away from his partner." And this has shown how the spiteful comment affects the child.

It's made him really cross, hasn't it? Because he's folded his arms and he's turned away.

So, I've added extra detail to my sentence here to show that's what the effects of a spiteful comment might be.

So now, pause the video, read back through your sentence and have a think about this question.

How effective is your sentence in using the word livid or spiteful? Pause the video now.

Great job, everybody.

It's now time for the third learning cycle where we are learning our four new anger words.

Have a look at these pictures.

I'm going to explain the pictures, and as I'm reading, talking 'em through, you can be thinking about what you predict each word may be.

So, in the first picture, we have a very, very angry looking bull, don't we? It's got red eyes.

Smoke is coming out of his nostrils.

His mouth looks like it's really, really angry.

And he is charging at, it looks like Bogart.

Bogart's probably very scared because there's an angry bull coming towards him.

So, that's my clue for you there.

It's talking about describing the bull.

Then, in the next picture we have Grit, who looks like he's holding some kind of cream.

At the front of the picture are lots of stinging nettles.

So, that's my clue for you there.

And he looks like he's a little bit uncomfortable, doesn't he? He's scratching himself because he looks like he might have been stung by the stinging nettles and it's caused a bit of a reaction.

Then, in the third picture, we have Yin and Yang and they've got their backs to each other.

They're folding their arms crossly, they've got cross expression on their face and they look like they are refusing to talk to each other.

And then in the final picture, we have Oz who looks, again, very angry and she looks angry at the person in the ticket office who is saying that there's no more tickets, we're sold out.

So, there's no point trying to buy a ticket, that's made Oz feel very angry.

So now, pause the video and have a little think about what you think each word might be.

Okay, let's go through these.

We're going to do my turn, your turn for each word.

Our first word was raging.

Raging.

Raging is an adjective, which means furious or fuming, like an angry bull on a rampage.

And you can see that in the picture there.

That bull is on a rampage 'cause he's so angry.

He's charging towards Bogart.

Then our second word is irritated.

Irritated.

Irritated is an adjective which means annoyed or peeved, like your skin when you fall in stinging nettles.

Now, this is a bit more complex, this word, because there are two different ways, context, which we would use the word irritated.

If you're describing the emotion irritated, you are describing somebody who's a little bit annoyed about something.

They are not raging, like the the bull in the first picture.

They're just quite annoyed or a bit peeved.

It's not as extreme anger as raging.

But you can also use it in the context of describing your skin.

You can say you have irritated skin or your skin is irritated when it has been stung by something and you've got a rash and it's really itchy and causing you quite a bit of pain.

(aeroplane engine droning) So, there's two different ways you can use the word irritated.

Then our third picture this time is a noun and it is grudge.

Grudge.

(aeroplane engine droning) A grudge is a noun, which means hatred or bitterness, when you stay angry with someone and refuse to forgive them.

So, you can see Yin and Yang are holding a grudge against each other in this picture, and they're refusing to forgive each other.

Then our final word is, furious.

Furious.

Furious means very angry or enraged.

So, quite similar to livid or raging.

And it's how you would feel if all the tickets to your favourite band were sold out.

So, checking for understanding.

Can you match the adjective and the noun to the correct image? Pause the video now.

Okay, so the first word, furious, is the final picture with Oz furious about the tickets being sold out.

Then irritated, it's the picture of Grit with his irritated skin and it means mildly angry.

So, a little bit less angry, just annoyed or peeved.

Ragings, the raging bull.

And then grudge is Yin and Yang with their backs to each other.

They're holding a grudge and refusing to speak to each other.

Well done.

So, let's put time for the first part of Task C and we're going to complete the word mat for grudge.

However, this time we haven't gone through the word pairs and the synonyms beforehand.

So, you're going to have to use the picture, the definition, and the sentence to help you.

The sentence for grudge is, "After arguing for days, Yin and Yang agreed to bury their grudge and be friends again." So, remember the tricks of replacing the word in the sentence, and if it still makes sense, it's probably a synonym or trying the words next to each other to see if it's a word pair.

And use those tricks to help you.

Pause the video now and off you go.

Well done, everybody.

Let's go through these.

Our synonyms for grudge.

We're remembering that synonyms will have to be the same word class.

So, the synonyms will also be a noun and they are, hard feelings, bitterness and hatred.

And then the word pairs are verbs.

You hold a grudge against somebody, you nurse a grudge.

So, that means you're keeping it for quite a long time, this grudge.

You settle a grudge.

So, you make up and you put the grudge away and you're friends again.

You bear a grudge similar to hold.

You're bearing a grudge against somebody or holding it for a while.

Bury a grudge, similar to settle, you bury it, put it down, don't worry about it anymore.

And harbour a grudge.

It's a bit like hold and bear.

If you harbour a grudge against someone, you're annoyed at them for a while.

Great job.

Now, we're going to complete the word mat for the word irritated.

Here's your sentence to help you.

"Grit's skin quickly became irritated after walking through a field of nettles." Remembering that there are two contexts in which we'll use the word irritated to describe the emotion, but also to describe your skin if it's been stung or if you have a rash.

So, pause the video now and off you go completing the word mat for irritated.

Well done, everybody.

Good job.

So, our synonyms for irritated are, peeved, exasperated and annoyed.

And then the word pairs are, irritated mood, so if you're a little bit annoyed.

An irritated glance.

So, how you look at someone if you're a bit annoyed with them.

An irritated voice, an irritated tone, the way you speak.

If you're irritated, you have an irritated tone in your voice.

And then your irritated skin or your irritated face if you've got a rash.

Great job.

Now, we're going to complete the word map for raging.

Here is your sentence to help you.

"Bogart screamed in fear as the raging bull charged straight towards him." So, finding the synonyms, which will also be an adjective and the word pairs.

Pause the video now and off you go.

Well done.

Our synonyms for raging are, wild, fuming, and furious.

These all words mean really, really angry.

And then the word pairs, the raging bull, a raging fire that's quite similar to wild, wild, raging fire.

It's out of control.

A raging storm, really loud thunder, lightning, rain, really aggressive, powerful storm.

So, you could call it a raging storm.

A raging debate where everyone's arguing and shouting over each other.

The raging sea.

Can you picture a raging sea? Really big waves, rough seas.

And then a raging temper.

Someone who's very angry all the time.

You could describe them as having a raging temper.

Well done.

Now, we need to complete the word map for furious.

Use the picture and the definition and the sentence to help you.

Here's your sentence.

"The furious customer shouted at the ticket officer when she heard the show was sold out." So, circling the synonyms and drawing lines to the word pairs.

Off you go.

Great job.

Here are our synonyms for furious.

Fuming, very angry and enraged.

All of these quite similar as well to livid.

Then the word pairs are, a furious reaction.

How do you react to somebody? And when you are angry, it's a furious reaction.

A furious attack.

You attack somebody, probably physically and violently.

A furious debate.

Everyone's shouting over each other.

The furious mob.

That's a crowd of people who are all really angry, maybe all of them walking down a street, shouting and protesting.

The furious customer.

Someone who's not happy in the shop or the ticket office or the venue.

And then a furious pace.

If you're walking at a furious pace, you're walking really quickly and angrily down the street.

Well done.

So now, it's time for the final task of this lesson.

You need to fill the gaps with either the word livid, spiteful, irritated, grudge, raging, or furious.

I'm going to read the sentence out now, and as I'm reading, you can think about which word could fill in the missing blanks.

Remember, these words are really similar in meaning, lots of them.

So, sometimes a sentence could work in.

So, sometimes a word could work in a different sentence as well.

"The 'mm' mob of people protested against the airport's new runway." "Grit held a 'mm' against Bearnice all year because of her silly prank." "Oz gave the noisy group on the bus an 'mm' glance." "The students could tell the teacher was angry from her 'mm' face." "Grits's 'mm' temper meant that even the smallest issue made him angry." "Although the bully's 'mm' remark was hurtful, deep down Armie knew it wasn't really true." Remember, you can refer to the word mats from the previous lessons, especially looking at the word pairs to help you with this task.

So, pause the video now and off you go.

Well done, everybody.

Great job.

Let's go through these.

Remember, some of these words are very similar, so if you've used the word in a different sentence and it still makes sense, that's okay.

"The furious mob of people protested against the airport's new runway." "Grit held a grudge against Bearnice all year because of her silly prank." That one definitely had to be grudge 'cause it's the only noun.

"Oz gave the noisy group on the bus an irritated glance." "The students could tell the teacher was angry from her livid face." "Grit's raging temper meant that even the smallest issue made him angry." And finally, "Although the bully's spiteful remark was hurtful, deep down Armie knew it wasn't really true." Great job today, everybody.

Well done.

Here is a summary of everything we've learned.

Livid is an adjective, which means raging or furious.

How you feel when you lose a game.

Spiteful is an adjective which means hateful or mean, like purposefully spilling paint on someone's work just to ruin it.

Raging is an adjective which means furious or fuming, like an angry bull on a rampage.

Irritated is an adjective which means annoyed or peeved, like your skin when you fall in stinging nettles.

Grudge is a noun, which means hatred or bitterness when you stay angry with someone and refuse to forgive them.

And then furious is an adjective, which means very angry or enraged, how you would feel if all the tickets to your favourite band were sold out.

Great job today, everybody.

Well done.

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