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Hi, everybody, it's Ms. Gardner and welcome to your final vocabulary lesson on our unit on words describing setting.

In today's lesson, we are going to be learning six new adjectives that we can use to describe houses.

All these words can be used in really different contexts to describe houses in very different ways.

So I hope that we really useful to you at some point in the future when it comes to writing.

So let's get started with today's lesson, and I really hope you enjoy it.

Your learning outcome for today's lesson is to effectively use the words dilapidated, palatial, and other rich vocabulary associated with a house.

Let's start by looking at the keywords.

We'll do my turn.

Your turn.

Noun.

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

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.

There are three learning cycles in our lesson today.

And the first, we'll be learning our first new word associated with a house.

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

And then in the final learning cycle, we'll be learning four new words associated with a house.

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

Before I tell you, what is the word for this picture? Can you take a really close look and think about what is happening? What can you see? Here's some sentence starters you could use to help you.

I can see.

The house is.

Bogart looks.

Have a think about this by yourself or discuss this your partner or class, whoever you're with.

Pause the video now.

Okay, so what is happening in this picture? Bogart, this is Bogart's home.

It looks like he's pretty tired, isn't doing much to clean the house, is he? He looks like he's just sat there watching TV and the house around him is falling apart.

The windows are breaking, the curtains are ripped, there's cobwebs everywhere.

Paintings are falling off.

The carpets are dirty.

It looks very, very messy and not very well looked after.

So the word to describe this house is dilapidated.

My turn.

Your turn.

Dilapidated.

Dilapidated is an adjective and it means run-down or shabby, like a dirty, messy house with broken windows and leaky ceilings.

So Bogart's house here is dilapidated.

These words are synonyms of dilapidated.

We'll do my turn.

Your turn.

Shabby.

So not very smart.

Crumbling.

Falling down.

Falling apart.

Run-down.

Very old, not very looked after.

Here's the word in a sentence.

Bogart's dilapidated house was falling to pieces and becoming shabbier by the day.

These words are word pairs of dilapidated.

I'll say them aloud first and then you can have a go at seeing them aloud as well.

Dilapidated shack.

Shack is like almost like a hot, a very small house.

A dilapidated house.

A dilapidated barn.

Maybe on a farm that animals used to live in.

It's dilapidated, no one's looking after it anymore.

It's falling apart.

Dilapidated condition.

You could describe the condition of a house as dilapidated.

A dilapidated hovel.

So an old shed or shack or shelter that's falling apart.

And then a dilapidated farmhouse house on a farm.

Now, pause the video and off you go, saying aloud the word pairs.

Well done.

Let's check for understanding.

Which of these words is a synonym of dilapidated? a, barn, b, shabby, or c, pristine.

Pause the video now.

The synonym is, b, shabby, a, barn is a word pair and c, pristine is an antonym opposite meaning.

Well done.

Now, it's time for task A.

We need to complete the word mat for the word dilapidated.

The first thing you'll do is circle the synonyms, so words which have a similar meaning, test to dilapidated, and then you'll draw lines to the word pairs, words that could be described as dilapidated.

Here's the sentence to help you.

Bogart's dilapidated house was falling to pieces and becoming shabbier by the day.

Remember the trick of covering up the word dilapidated and replacing it with one of the words from the word mat.

If the sentence still makes sense, then the word is most likely a synonym.

So pause video now and off you go.

Well done.

Let's go through it.

Our synonyms for dilapidated were shabby, crumbling, and run-down.

Our word pairs were dilapidated shack, dilapidated barn, dilapidated house, dilapidated condition, dilapidated hovel, and a dilapidated farmhouse.

Well done.

Now, we're going to learn our second new house word.

Before I reveal what the word is, have a close look at the picture.

What can you see? Here are the sentence starters to help you.

I can see.

Stax is.

Or the house looks.

How could you describe the house in this picture? Pause the video now.

Okay, so how could we describe the house? Well, it looks like a beautiful mansion, doesn't it? It's very big.

Lots of beautiful trees and amazing pool.

Stax looks like he's leading a very luxurious lifestyle in this house.

A house that is fit for the royal family.

So you could describe this house as palatial.

Palatial.

Palatial is an adjective and it means vast, really big or splendid, like a mansion where you live in the lap of luxury.

So the most luxurious lifestyle, the most luxurious houses can be described as palatial.

These words are synonyms of palatial.

We'll do my turn.

Your turn.

Vast.

So really big.

Splendid.

So full of splendour, amazing.

Stately.

A stately home is one where very wealthy families living.

Here's the word palatial in a sentence.

Stax built a palatial mansion with a vast swimming pool to make himself feel like a superstar.

These words are word pairs of palatial.

I'll say 'em loud first and then you can have a go at saying them as well.

A palatial villa.

A villa is a house, which often has a pool.

A palatial dwelling.

Dwelling is another word for your home or a house.

Palatial abode.

Your abode is where you live.

A palatial mansion, a really big house.

Palatial residence.

Again, where you live, the residence was palatial.

And a palatial house.

So now pause video and off you guys saying aloud the word pairs.

Well done.

Just check for understanding.

Which of these words is a word pair of palatial? a, stately, b, car, or c, residence.

Pause video now.

Our word pair is residence.

Where someone lives, you could describe it as palatial.

Stately is a synonym and you wouldn't describe a car as palatial.

Well done.

Now, it's time to complete the word mat for the word palatial.

So just like last time, you circle the synonyms and draw lines to the word pairs.

A trick to help you see if it is a word pair is say the word next to palatial.

Can it be described as palatial? If it can be, then it's most likely a word pair.

Here's the sentence to help you.

Stax built a palatial mansion with a vast swimming pool to make himself feel like a superstar.

Remember, if you can cover up the word palatial and replace it with another word and the sentence still makes sense, then it's most likely a synonym.

Pause video now and off you go.

Well done, everybody.

Let's go through it.

Our synonyms of palatial are vast, stately and splendid.

Our word pairs, the palatial dwelling, palatial house, palatial abode, palatial villa, and palatial mansion, and palatial residence.

Well done.

Now, it's time to write a sentence using either the word dilapidated or palatial.

These have very different meanings, almost opposite meanings, don't they? So choose your word pairs really carefully for this.

Here are the word pairs to help you.

Here they are for dilapidated.

And here they are for palatial.

So choose your adjective, then your word pair, and then you can build your sentence around it.

For example, Stax sat outside his palatial villa.

However, I want you to try and be even more ambitious than that.

Can you describe the villa? Why is it so palatial? Or can you describe this dilapidated shack in a little bit more detail using maybe a non-finite clause or relative clause, some figurative language, or make it a complex sentence.

Whatever you want to do to make it as ambitious as possible.

Pause video now and good luck.

Well done, everybody.

Can you help me check? Does this sentence use dilapidated correctly? Show me thumbs up or thumbs down.

The dilapidated farmhouse was in a terrible state.

Have I got a word pair here? I have, haven't I? Farmhouse is the word pair and it's described as dilapidated.

However, I think we can improve this sentence.

We can describe it this dilapidated farmhouse in a little bit more detail.

After having been neglected for nearly a decade, the crumbling, dilapidated farmhouse was in a terrible state.

Here, I've used some not subordinate clause to explain why the house is dilapidated.

It's dilapidated because no one was looking after it and been neglected.

So now, pause the video and off you go.

Reading back through your sentence and thinking about how effective it is in using the word dilapidated or palatial.

Off you go.

Well done.

Okay, it's time for the third learning cycle in today's lesson where we're going to be learning our final four words associated with the house.

Have a look at these pictures.

Can you predict what each word may be? I'll talk you through the pictures first, and then you can have a think about what each word might be.

So in the first, it looks like it Stax's bedroom, which is really, really messy.

There's things everywhere, toys, clothes, furniture.

It looks very untidy with lots and lots of items everywhere.

So how could you describe the room? Then in the next picture, Mrs. Wordsmith looks like she is cleaning this very smart house.

Everything is shiny.

You can see the floor is literally glimmering because it's so clean.

The mirrors are shiny, so is the clock.

So it is a perfectly clean house.

So how could we describe the house.

Then in the third picture, Armie is hunched over in a what looks like a cupboard under the stairs, trying to find a little bit of light to read his book.

It looks very, very small.

How could you describe what the room he sat in here or the cupboard? And then the final picture, it's Armie as well in her house that looks like he's moving out of.

So everything has been cleared.

There's no more furniture left apart from one sole chair, and the room is very empty.

So how could you describe the room? Pause video now and have a think.

Okay, well done.

We'll do my turn.

Your turn for each word.

Our first picture is cluttered.

Cluttered.

Cluttered is an adjective, which means messy or littered, like a room with clothes and toys thrown all over the place.

So Stax's room here is cluttered.

Our next picture is immaculate.

Immaculate.

Immaculate and adjective, which means perfect or spotless, like a house that is so clean it shines and glitters.

The house in this picture is immaculate because Mrs. Wordsmith has cleaned it so thoroughly.

Third picture is poky.

Poky.

Poky is an adjective, which means tiny or cramped, like a closet or cupboard under the stairs where there is barely room to squeeze inside.

Then finally, sparse.

Sparse.

That is an adjective, which means scarce or few, like a big empty room with hardly any furniture.

This room in the picture sparse, 'cause there's nothing in it.

Okay, let's check for understanding.

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

Okay, so our first word, immaculate.

It's the picture with Mrs. Wordsmith having cleaned the room so thoroughly, everything is shining.

Sparse is Armie's house, which is moving out of which there's nothing left inside.

It's empty in sparse.

Cluttered is Stax's this really, really messy room with everything thrown everywhere.

And then poky.

It's the tiny little cupboard under the stairs.

Well done.

So it's time to complete the word mat for the word poky.

We've already completed two word mats in this lesson already, but in the previous two, we've already looked at the synonyms and the word pairs already.

So this time it's going to get a little bit more challenging 'cause you're going to have to work them out yourself.

You can use the picture, the definition, and the sentence to help you and your knowledge of what is a word pair and what is the synonym.

Here is the sentence for poky.

Armie hid in the poky cupboard under the stairs to read his book.

Remember, poky is an adjective.

So the synonyms will also be adjectives and will also work in this sentence.

So pause the video now and off you go.

Well done.

Let's go through it.

Our synonyms of poky.

Narrow, so opposite of wide.

Tiny.

And cramped if a room is cramped or a cupboard is cramped, it's really, really small, so everything is squashed together.

Then the word pairs.

A poky office, a really small office.

Poky lodgings where someone lives.

A poky corner, poky corner of the room, really small corner of the room.

A poky room, a poky home, a poky flat, a poky cupboard like the cupboard in the picture.

And then a poky house.

A really, really small, cramped house where, and there's not enough space for everyone to live.

Well done.

Now is the time to complete the word mat for the word immaculate.

Here's a sentence to help you.

Mrs. Wordsmith had an immaculate house because she cleaned it thoroughly every day.

So the synonyms are words, which mean really, really clean as well.

So circling the synonyms and drawing lines to the word pairs, words, which could be described as immaculate.

Pause the video now.

Off you go.

Well done.

Let's go through it.

What are the synonyms of immaculate? They are perfect, flawless, without a flaw, without a problem.

Spotless if something is spotless, as so clean, you couldn't even see a speck of dirt.

Then the word pairs, immaculate timing.

Perfect timing.

They arrived at the station with immaculate timing the train arrived as they arrived.

Immaculate lawn, that's the garden outside someone's house.

That has been, if it's a immaculate, it's been perfectly mowed.

It's really neat and tidy.

It's immaculate.

In immaculate performance, you could describe someone's performance on stage as immaculate.

It was perfect.

An immaculate suit.

What someone wears a tie, blazer, it's no creases.

It's perfectly clean.

It's immaculate.

Immaculate house like Mrs. Wordsmiths house in the picture.

An immaculate garden, the lawn's really tidy.

There's flower beds are all neat.

It's immaculate and tidy.

An immaculate appearance.

If your appearance is immaculate, all your clothes are perfectly ironed.

No creases, no stains.

It's perfect an immaculate.

And then immaculate condition.

You could describe the car as being an immaculate condition.

It's perfect condition.

Nothing's wrong with it.

Well done.

Now, it's time to complete the word mat for the word cluttered.

Remember, cluttered means very, very messy and things are everywhere.

So here's a sentence to help you.

Clothes, toys and furniture covered the floor in Stax's cluttered room.

So circling the synonyms as words, as adjectives, which have a similar meaning to cluttered.

Cluttered and drawing lines to the word pairs.

Pause the video now.

Off you go.

Well done.

Let's go through it.

Our synonyms of cluttered are untidy, the opposite of tidy.

Messy and littered.

Littered.

Litter is everywhere.

Then the word pairs a cluttered shop.

Your cluttered mind.

If your mind is cluttered, it's got loads and loads of crazy thoughts running through it.

You can't think straight.

A cluttered flat.

Your cluttered desk.

So where you work, there's pencils, stationary, books, everything.

It's really messy.

A cluttered office again where you work.

Cluttered room, and then the cluttered garage.

Some people might have a garage in their house where they store items that they don't need to have in the house, and then it can get really messy and cluttered.

And so you could describe the garage as cluttered.

Well done.

Now, it's time to complete the word mat for the word sparse.

Remember, sparse meaning really empty.

Nothing's in there.

So use the sentence to help you.

The furniture in Armie's house was so sparse that he only had one chair.

So remember, sparse is an adjective.

So our synonyms are also adjectives.

Pause video now.

Off you go.

Okay, let's go through it.

Our synonyms for sparse are meagre.

Meagre amount is when there's not enough of something.

Scarce.

Again, there's few, there's not much of something.

And few, very little of something.

Our word pairs, sparse clumps.

Sparse clumps of dirt.

There's a few clumps of dirt everywhere.

Sparse crowd.

Not many people in the crowd.

Sparse woodland.

Not many trees, not many plants.

Sparse furniture.

Not much furniture in a house, just like the one single chair in that picture.

Sparse vegetation, not much plants or flowers in somewhere.

Sparse population.

There's not many people who live in the place.

You could describe it as at the place as having a sparse population.

Sparse evidence.

Police are trying to solve a crime.

There isn't much evidence, they can describe the evidence as sparse.

Well done.

Now, it's time for the final task of today's lesson where we are gonna be filling in the gaps with either the word dilapidated, palatial, immaculate, poky, cluttered, or sparse.

It's a really good idea to have the word mats from earlier on the lesson.

Here when you're completing this task to help you, the word pairs in particular will be particularly useful.

I'll read the sentence out loud now, and as I'm doing it, you can be having a think about, which word could fill in the blanks.

Grit kept all of his stuff in messy piles in the garage.

That barn had broken windows and holes in the walls.

Bogart's classic car was in condition because he polished it daily.

That villa had so many rooms that no one had seen them all.

That room in the hotel was so small that Brick could barely fit inside.

And Oz planted more trees to turn the woodland into a proper forest.

So pause the video now and off you go.

Well done.

Let's go through it.

Grit kept all of his stuff in messy piles in the, let's hear it, cluttered garage, well done.

The dilapidated barn had broken windows and holes in the walls.

Bogart's classic car was in immaculate condition because he polished it daily.

The palatial villa had so many rooms that no one had seen them all.

The poky room in the hotel was so small that Brick can barely fit inside.

And Oz planted more trees to turn the sparse woodland into a proper forest.

Great job.

Well done.

Here's a summary of everything we've learned today.

Dilapidated is an adjective, which means run-down or shabby, like a dirty, messy house with broken windows and leaky ceilings.

Palatial is an adjective, which means vast or splendid, like a mansion where you live in the lap of luxury.

Cluttered is an adjective, which means messy or littered, like a room with clothes and toys thrown all over the place.

Immaculate is an adjective, which means perfect or spotless, like a house that is so clean it shines and glitters.

Poky is an adjective, which means tiny or cramped, like a closet under the stairs where there is barely room to squeeze inside.

Sparse is an adjective, which means scarce or few, like a big empty room with hardly any furniture.

Great job today in this lesson and this whole unit everybody, really well done.