Lesson video

Hello everyone.

My name is Mrs. Riley and I'm here today to do some learning with you.

In our lesson today, we're focusing on learning some new words that are associated with feeling hopeful.

So if you are starting this lesson today and you are feeling a bit negative or a little bit pessimistic about the day ahead, perhaps these words that we're going to learn together will turn your mood around and make you feel more positive and hopeful.

Let's get started.

The outcome of today's lesson is to effectively use the words auspicious, sanguine and other rich vocabulary associated with hope.

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

That means these are the words that we're going to be thinking about a lot.

So let's start off by saying each one out loud.

My turn, your turn.

Noun.

Adjective.

Synonym.

Word pair.

Fantastic.

Now let's see their definitions.

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

An adjective is a word that describes a noun.

So you could look around you and see anything or a person or a place and you could then describe it with a noun.

For example, here I've got my glasses case.

It's a thing, so it's a noun, and I'm gonna describe it as stripey, the stripey glasses case.

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

Word pairs are words that often appear together.

So when we're learning our new words today, we will look at synonyms, so words that have a similar meaning and that will really help us to understand what each word means.

But we'll also look at word pairs.

So what words, the word we're learning, what it's often paired up with and that will help us to be able to use the words appropriately and correctly.

So synonyms and word pairs are really important in our learning today.

We've got three learning cycles in our lesson today.

In the first two learning cycles, we'll just be looking at one word in each.

And then in the third learning cycle, we're looking at four words grouped together.

So by the end of today's lesson, we're going to know six really impressive new words for you to use in your speaking and in your writing.

Some of these words you might have heard before, but not quite know what they mean.

Some of them you might have never heard before.

Some of them you might feel like you kind of know what they mean, but you don't know how to put it in a sentence confidently.

So hopefully by the end of today's lesson, you're going to know what they mean and how to use them appropriately.

So let's start with our first new hope word.

Now, before I tell you what the word is, I'd like you to look at this picture and describe what is happening.

This is Mrs. Wordsmith, but what's she doing here? Could you pause the video and either have a little bit of thinking time to look at that picture, or if someone's next to you, you could describe what's happening to them.

Pause the video now.

Okay, well done.

Well in this picture, Mrs. Wordsmith looks like she's standing on the top of a rock and she looks like she's got her camera and is taking a photo and suddenly this beautiful full rainbow has appeared.

And sometimes we see a little part of a rainbow, but it's quite rare to see a full rainbow.

So I wonder what this sign is, what this word is going to be.

Let's find out.

Ah, auspicious.

My turn, your turn.

Auspicious.

Lovely.

Auspicious is an adjective, so it's a describing word.

It describes something that is hopeful or encouraging, like getting a sign that everything is going to turn out well.

So Mrs. Wordsmith perhaps has seen that rainbow as an auspicious sign, a hopeful or encouraging sign.

Perhaps she thinks it's a sign that she's going to have a really good rest of her day.

We can also use this word as an adverb.

Now, an adverb describes a verb or an adjective.

The adverb version of this word is auspiciously.

So for example, you might say, after the storm cleared, an auspiciously, vibrant rainbow arched across the sky.

So in that sentence I'm describing the vibrant rainbow.

Vibrant is the adjective, but I'm adding an adverb to describe the adjective, an auspiciously vibrant rainbow.

So we can use this word as an adjective, auspicious or an adverb, auspiciously.

So these words are synonyms of auspicious, that means they have a similar meaning: hopeful, lucky and encouraging.

A rainbow in the sky is an auspicious sign of good things to come.

So it's a hopeful sign or a lucky sign or an encouraging sign of good things to come.

These are word pairs of auspicious.

So if you found the word auspicious in a book you were reading, it might be paired with one of these words, an auspicious start.

So like if you had a first day at a new school and perhaps you went in and you were sitting next to your very best friend, you might see that as an auspicious start, a kind of hopeful and encouraging and promising start to that your time at that school.

An auspicious omen.

Now an omen is a sign from nature and it could be a good omen that something really good's gonna happen to you, like if you saw a lovely full rainbow or it could be a bad omen that something bad might happen to you.

So if you were walking through the woods and a beautiful multicoloured bird flew in front of you, you might see that as an auspicious omen.

It might be a encouraging promising omen.

But if you saw, if you saw something a bit more negative perhaps you might think it was a bad omen.

But an omen is like a sign from nature.

An auspicious beginning, so similar to an auspicious start.

An auspicious occasion, which is like an event.

An auspicious sign, so similar to an an omen, an auspicious sign.

And finally an auspicious day.

So I would like you now to pause the video and read these word pairs out loud because it's not just from hearing these words or seeing them written down, it's actually saying them out loud that's going to really help us commit this word to memory.

So pause the video now while you read these word pairs.

Well done.

Okay, let's check what we've just learned.

Which of these words is a synonym of auspicious? Remember, synonyms are words that have similar meaning.

A, hopeful.

B, sign.

C, omen.

Pause the video if you want some time to think about your answer.

Okay, the correct answer is A, hopeful is a synonym of auspicious.

Sign and omen are both word pairs.

So well done if you managed to find the correct answer.

Right, it's time for our first task in today's lesson.

In this task you have a word map with the word auspicious in the middle.

Around the word auspicious, you've either got synonyms or word pairs.

First, I'd like you to try and find all the synonyms, so the words that have a similar meaning.

And when you find them, I'd like you to circle them.

Once you've done that, I'd like you to draw lines from the word auspicious up or across or down to the word pairs.

And as you do that perhaps you could again read them out loud.

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

A rainbow in the sky is an auspicious sign of good things to come.

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

That's a good way of checking if it might be a synonym.

It doesn't always directly fit 'cause synonyms aren't always interchangeable, but it kind of gives you an idea.

And you might also, another trick to help you is you might try to read auspicious with all the words to see if you think it's a word pair, for example, auspicious start.

That sounds right, so that's probably a word pair.

Auspicious hopeful, now that doesn't sound right.

So that doesn't sound like a word pair.

So there are a couple of tricks to help you if you are unsure if a word is a synonym or a word pair.

Could you pause the video now while you complete this task? Well done.

Let's go through the answers together and you can check your work.

So the synonyms of auspicious are encouraging, lucky, and hopeful.

The word pairs are auspicious start, auspicious omen, auspicious occasion, auspicious sign, auspicious beginning, and an auspicious day.

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

Okay, so our first hope word was auspicious.

It was an adjective.

Let's find out what our second new hope word is.

Okay, so this is Bogart the Fly.

What's happening in this picture? Could you pause the video and take a little bit of time to describe what's happening here? Okay, well done.

Well, Bogart looks like he's maybe doing some kind of presentation.

He's got one of those little sticks like he's pointing at this graph and maybe presenting someone.

And this graph looks like it's showing how business is going.

But if we look at this graph, it looks like it kind of was going quite well and then it's gone very quickly downhill.

And yet Bogart looks really pleased about this.

So I would say this picture is showing us something that it's like things are going really badly for Bogart and his business, but he still is being really positive.

Let's find out what this word is.

Sanguine.

My turn, your turn.

Sanguine.

Well done.

You might not have heard of this word before.

Sanguine is an adjective like auspicious, and it means optimistic and cheery, like when you feel happy even though things are going wrong.

Well that makes sense of Bogart here because his business is going very badly, but he still is very happy or cheery or sanguine.

These words are synonyms of sanguine, so they have a similar meaning: hopeful, optimistic, and cheery.

We're going to think more about the word optimistic later in the lesson, so don't worry if you are not completely confident with that word yet.

Bogart's sanguine personality meant that he was upbeat even when things seemed bleak.

These are word pairs of sanguine, sanguine expectations.

So if you were going on holiday and if you had sanguine expectations, you would have really optimistic or cheery expectations of what that holiday was going to be like.

A sanguine prediction.

Now a prediction is like an educated guess, so it's not just a random guess.

It's a guess based on knowledge or observations or patterns or data.

So a sanguine prediction, again, would be an optimistic or hopeful or cheery one.

Sanguine attitude.

Your attitude is what you're like as a person, kind of like your personality.

So if you have a friend who's always really cheery and optimistic and hopeful, you might describe that they had a sanguine attitude.

Sanguine hope, sanguine outlook.

So your outlook is kind of how you see things.

And sanguine people.

So you might say their family is full of sanguine people.

Again, could you pause the video now and read these word pairs out loud? Well done.

Let's check what we have just learned.

Which of these words is a synonym of sanguine? A, hope, B, hopeful or C, expectations? Pause the video while you think about your answer.

Well done.

The correct answer is B, hopeful is a synonym of sanguine.

Okay, so we have another word map now, this time with sanguine in the middle.

Could you first circle the synonyms of sanguine and then draw lines to the word pairs? And as you do that, read them out loud.

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

Bogart's sanguine personality meant that he is upbeat even when things seemed bleak.

Could you pause video while you complete this task.

Okay, well done.

So remember, there's always that tip if you are unsure of covering up sanguine and seeing which word could fit in.

So let's try that trick now.

Sanguine, so let's see, Bogart's people personality.

No.

Bogart's cheery personality.

Yes, so I think cheery is a synonym.

Bogart's hopeful personality.

Yes.

Bogart's expectations personality.

No, I don't think that is, let me just see if I can find any other synonyms. Oh, I think it's Bogart's optimistic personality.

So the rest are word pairs, sanguine people, sanguine expectations, sanguine prediction, which is like an educated guess, sanguine attitude, sanguine hope and sanguine outlook.

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

Now there's another part of this task, and that is to actually write a sentence using one of these two words that we've just learned, either auspicious or sanguine.

Use the word pairs to help you.

Here they are.

So you've got the auspicious word pairs and the sanguine word pairs.

So first of all, pick your word.

You might pick auspicious, then pick your word pair.

For instance, you might pick auspicious omen.

And then you can start to build your idea around that word pair.

What might the auspicious omen be? Who's seeing the auspicious omen? Is it Mrs. Wordsmith character? Is it a friend? Is it a character from a book you are reading? And then once you've got your kind of basic idea, see if you can improve it.

See if you can add a little bit more detail to it to make it a really, really ambitious sentence.

Try and make it the best sentence you can write.

We're only writing one sentence in this whole lesson, so let's make it a really good one.

Pause the video while you write your sentence now.

Okay, well done.

Let's look at an example together.

So I've used the word auspicious in my sentence.

Plato's career had an auspicious beginning.

Hmm, okay, well I know that I've used the word pair beginning, an auspicious beginning.

And your career is, it's like the jobs that you have, but it's not just a job.

It's like if you looked at your whole career, it's like all the different jobs that you've had in your life.

So Plato's career had an auspicious beginning, so it had a positive or hopeful beginning.

Now I'm just wondering though, if I could improve that sentence.

I've got my basic idea.

I've used the word correctly 'cause I've used the word pair, but I feel like I could add a bit more detail to my reader so that they understand a bit more about what this means.

So let's improve it.

Plato's career had an auspicious beginning.

Let's change it to, After an auspicious beginning, Plato's career took a turn for the worse when the company he worked for faced a financial crisis.

Ah, so can you see how we've now added extra detail to this sentence and now the sentence is much more impressive.

We've now got an adverbial complex sentence, starting with the subordinate clause, after an auspicious beginning, comma, and then we have our main clause, Plato's career took a turn for the worse when the company he worked for faced a financial crisis.

So I wonder now if you could just have a quick look at your sentence and I wonder if you could improve your sentence at all, or maybe you might even find a mistake that you could correct.

So pause the video while you do that now.

Okay, well done.

Let's look at our final learning cycle, this time looking at four words altogether.

So here are the pictures that represent each word.

I'm going to describe what's happening in each one.

As I do that, perhaps you might be able to even predict what any of these words might be.

In the first picture, Mrs. Wordsmith looks like she, there's a little sign there that says "Prez" and she's got her feet up and she's kind of daydreaming and the front page of the newspaper says "Peace Achieved." And she's there doing the peace signs.

So she is obviously in charge and she thinks that that's what's going, she's kind of daydreaming.

That's what her vision is.

She wants world peace.

In the second picture, Grit is doing some weights and Brick is cheering him on.

He looks like he is kind of giving him words like positive words and he's got his arms up in the air to try and keep grit going when he's doing that very heavy weight.

In the third picture, there is a little tiny baby Army who's in his cot, but he's not just playing like a normal baby would with a teddy bear.

It looks like there's a screw diver and some tools and it looks like he has made a rocket which he has attached to his teddy, and that it is now zooming up.

So he's made a successful rocket.

So that's a pretty intelligent baby we've got there.

And finally we've got a grownup Army who is looking very upbeat and positive, having a picnic, even though it's pouring with rain.

So if you'd like, you could pause the video now or maybe have a quick chat with someone if someone's close by, see if you can work out or guess what any of these words might be.

Okay, let me go through each one.

So the first one is idealistic, an adjective meaning very optimistic and unrealistic, like someone dreams of creating a perfect world.

So whilst it's a very nice thing that Mrs. Wordsmith is dreaming that she'll have world peace, it's maybe a bit unrealistic that that's going to happen.

The second one is encouraging.

It's an adjective, meaning positive or motivating, like someone who cheers you on.

I don't know if you've ever gone to watch when there's a marathon, people are running a marathon, but I once went to watch the London Marathon because my friend was running in it.

And it's so lovely because all the people along the side who are watching are shouting really positive, motivating words, saying, yeah, "well done," "keep going," "not far left." And it's really encouraging for all the runners.

It's a really lovely thing to go and watch if you've never watched a marathon.

The third one is promising.

It means hopeful or encouraging like a baby rocket scientist.

And the fourth one is optimistic, that word that's come up a few times already today.

It means hopeful and positive.

Like being certain the weather is going to get better.

There's an opposite word to optimistic, which is pessimistic, which means the opposite.

It means you sort of always think things are going to go badly.

But if you're optimistic, you always are looking on the bright side and always thinking things are going to go well.

So let's just say these words, my turn, your turn.

Are you ready? Idealistic.

Encouraging.

Promising.

Optimistic.

Well done.

Okay, let's check what we've just learned.

Could you match the adjective to the correct image? Pause the video while you see if you can do that now.

Okay, well done.

So promising is that baby who has managed to invent a rocket.

Encouraging is Brick who is motivating Grit.

Optimistic is Army who's feeling upbeat and positive even though it's pouring with rain.

And idealistic is that slightly unrealistic Mrs. Wordsmith dreaming of world peace.

Well done if you remembered those.

So for each of these four words now we're going to do a word map.

We're going to go through these a little bit quicker because hopefully you feel comfortable now with how to complete this task.

For each one there's a sentence to help you.

So this sentence is the fact that the baby had invented a rocket, indicated that he had a promising future ahead.

So for each one, first, could you circle the synonyms and then draw lines to the word pairs? They're going to be a little bit more tricky because of course I haven't told you the synonyms and the word pairs yet.

So you are going to have to think about the definition that we've gone through.

Think about that sentence and see if you can figure out the synonyms and the word pairs.

Pause the video while you complete this task.

Okay, let's go through the answer, answers.

So the synonyms are inspiring, encouraging and hopeful.

The word pairs are promising talent.

So perhaps if a child, a young toddler scored an incredible goal at football, you might say, "Wow, they've got promising talent," encouraging talent, a promising youngster, a bit like that baby who's invented the rocket.

A promising student.

That doesn't have to be a student at sort of school.

It could be a student of anything.

It could be a student in a dance school or it could be a student who's learning how to garden.

But if they were promising, you would think, wow, it looks like they're gonna be really good.

A promising sign, a promising result.

So if you had perhaps went to the doctor and you were a bit worried about something and they maybe did a blood test and they might say, "Well, this blood test is a promising result." It means things that look like, looks like you're going to be okay.

A promising future and a promising career.

Okay, well done.

Let's look at encouraging word map.

Here's the word in a sentence.

Brick's encouraging words kept Grit motivated in the gym.

If I was gonna go to the gym, I'd quite like Brick to be there encouraging me.

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

Well done.

Let's go through the answers.

The synonyms are uplifting, motivating and positive are all synonyms of encouraging.

The word pairs are encouraging start, encouraging feedback, encouraging smile, encouraging sign, encouraging results, encouraging word, encouraging progress, encouraging response and encouraging news.

Okay, we've got idealistic now.

Mrs. Wordsmith's idealistic vision of world peace, while noble and inspiring faced numerous challenges.

Again, could you pause the video, circle the synonyms first and then draw lines to the word pairs? Okay, let's go through these answers.

The synonyms are unrealistic, visionary, and very optimistic.

The word pairs are idealistic dream and idealistic goal.

So perhaps you tried to score a goal from right, perhaps the goalkeeper of the other end booted the ball and tried to score a goal from the other end.

You might say that was a bit idealistic, maybe a bit unrealistic.

An idealistic vision, an idealistic student, an idealistic philosophy.

So philosophy is the study of really big questions about like our existence and our values.

It means you sit and think very hard about things like, you know, I wonder why I feel this way about something.

So if you have an idealistic philosophy, again, it may be, it might be a bit, it's very optimistic, maybe a bit unrealistic.

And an idealistic teacher.

Okay, we've got one more word map this time, optimistic.

Army's mood remained optimistic despite the awful weather.

So for the final time, could you circle the synonyms and draw lines to the word pairs? Well done.

The synonyms are positive, hopeful and cheery are synonyms of optimistic.

The word pairs are optimistic attitude, optimistic forecast.

That's the weather forecast, or it might not be the weather forecast, it could be the forecast of something else, but it's telling us what's going to happen or predicting what's going to happen.

Optimistic mood, optimistic view, optimistic tone, and optimistic outlook.

Okay, so we have now got one final task.

I'm going to read you six sentences and in each sentence there is a gap missing.

I'd like you to, as I read them, start thinking about which of these words fits best in each sentence.

And the word pairs will also hopefully give you a bit of a clue, so listen carefully.

Bearnice gave brick an mmm smile to show him support.

"An mmm omen indeed," said the fortune teller, "I see great happiness in your future." Brick held on to the mmm hope that he'd get his dream job even when times got tough.

The mmm weather forecast predicted that it would be sunny forever.

At dance school, Mrs. Wordsmith had been a mmm student of ballet.

The mmm youngster thought he could change the world just by dreaming about it.

So if you're unsure which word fits best, leave that one out and go to the next one.

And start off with the ones that you feel confident you know which word fits.

And then when you go back to the ones that you were struggling with, hopefully there'll be less options to choose for and that might help you.

You also might want to look back at those word maps to check the word pairs, because that will also help you.

So pause the video while you complete this final task of today's lesson.

Okay, let's go through the answers.

So the first one is, Bearnice gave Brick an encouraging smile to show him support.

There was a bit of extra clue there because we used the article an, instead of a, when the following word starts with a vowel: a, e, i, o, u.

So you had the options there of auspicious, which starts with an A, encouraging, which starts with an E, idealistic or optimistic.

So actually it didn't help you that much 'cause there's only two of those words, sanguine and promising that starts with a consonant.

The next one is "An auspicious omen indeed," said the fortune teller, I see great happiness in your future." Brick held on to the sanguine hope that he'd get his dream job even when times got tough.

The optimistic weather forecast predicted that it would be sunny forever.

At dance school, Mrs. Wordsmith had been a promising student of ballet.

And finally, the idealistic youngster thought he could change the world just by dreaming about it.

Well done for completing that final task.

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

We've learned six new adjectives and they're all associated with hope.

Auspicious means hopeful or encouraging, like getting a sign that everything is going to turn out well.

Sanguine means optimistic and cheery; like when you feel happy, even though things are going wrong.

Idealistic means very optimistic and unrealistic; like someone who dreams of creating a perfect world.

Encouraging means positive or motivating; like someone who cheers you on.

Promising means hopeful or encouraging; like a baby rocket scientist.

Optimistic means hopeful and positive; like being certain the weather is going to get better.

So I hope this lesson has left you all feeling optimistic and cheerful because you've learned all these lovely, positive, hopeful words.

These words will hopefully be really useful in your speaking and in your writing.

And especially today, these words have been quite challenging, especially words like auspicious and sanguine, so you should feel really proud of yourselves to have these words in your vocabulary toolkits.

So thank you so much for working with me today, learning with me today, and hopefully I'll see you for some more learning another time.