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Hi everybody, my name's Ms. Gardner, and welcome to the first lesson of our new vocabulary unit where we are going to be generating vocabulary that we can use to describe different settings.

The setting is where a Burke or a film or a play is set.

You might have written a setting description before, or you might have just described settings in some of your writing, but we're going to be looking at different settings, so houses, cities, villages, countryside, mountains, all of these.

And we're going to be learning lots of precise and ambitious vocabulary that we can use to describe these settings.

So in our first lesson, we're going to be looking at different words that we can use to describe the city.

So let's get started.

Your learning outcome for today's lesson is to effectively use the words affluent, diverse, and other rich vocabulary associated with the city.

Let's get started with our 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.

Word pair 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 city word, then we'll be learning our second new city word, and then we'll be learning four new city words.

So let's get started with our first new city word.

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

What can you see? What's happening? How does Oz look? What does Oz look like she's doing? In a moment, you can pause the video and discuss this with your partner, your class, whoever you're with, or just have some thinking time.

So pause the video now and off you go.

Okay, well done.

So what is happening in this picture? So you can see that Oz is sat on a very smart looking sports car.

It's gleaming, it looks new, probably very expensive.

Behind the sports car are some big gates to a house.

And on those gates, there's a big dollar sign which kind of shows that it's a very expensive place.

Then in the background, right at the back, you can see an absolutely massive house, can't you, with beautiful gardens and lawns and a fountain.

So it looks like a very expensive place to live.

So the word for this picture is affluent.

My turn, your turn.

Affluent.

Affluent is an adjective and it means rich or wealthy like a neighbourhood where everyone lives in fancy houses.

So you can see here that Oz lives in a very affluent neighbourhood because the houses are so big and expensive.

Other forms that you can use the word in is as a noun.

You can say affluence.

The area had a lot of affluence, it had a lot of wealth.

These words are synonyms of affluent.

A synonym is a word that is similar in meaning.

It doesn't have to mean the exact same thing, but they are close in meaning.

We'll do my turn, your turn.

Rich.

Prosperous.

If a place is prosperous, there's lots of opportunity, lots of ways to make money.

Wealthy.

That's another word for rich.

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

Oz had moved to an affluent neighbourhood with big houses and fancy cars.

These words are word pairs of affluent, so words that you would find typically near or next to the word affluent in a sentence.

I'm gonna say them out first and then we'll pause the video and you can have a go at saying aloud the word pairs because we know that the best way to remember things is not just by listening and hearing them, but also saying them ourselves.

Affluent neighbourhood.

So that's an area of a city or a town.

An affluent area.

Affluent suburb.

A suburb is a area or a little small town just outside of the city, on the edges of a city.

Affluent family for family or affluent.

The whole family is very rich and very wealthy and has a lot of power maybe.

Affluent lifestyle.

If you live an affluent lifestyle, you spend lots of money on cars and clothes and houses.

Maybe you go to really fancy dinners and parties and you mix with other very affluent and wealthy people.

That makes an affluent lifestyle.

And then affluent household, a bit like a family, the household is the people who live in a house.

So you can describe a family in a house as an affluent household.

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

Well done.

So just checking for understanding.

Which of these words is a synonym of affluent? Pause the video now.

So the synonym of affluent was A, prosperous.

B, family is a word pair, and C, struggling is almost an antonym of affluent, it's an opposite meaning.

Well done.

So it's time for Task A.

We have a word mat for the word affluent.

You can see we have affluent in the middle and then around it are other words.

First thing you need to do is circle the synonyms, so the words would have a similar meaning to affluent.

Affluent is an adjective, so you know the synonyms will also be adjectives.

Then you need to draw lines to the word pairs.

There are a couple of tricks you can use to help you.

To find the word pairs, say the word next to affluent.

And if it makes sense, then it's probably a word pair.

For example, affluent neighbourhood, that makes sense as a word pair, words that are next to each other.

It wouldn't make sense to say affluent prosperous because those are not a word pair, they're synonyms. Another trick you can use to help you is by using a sentence.

Oz have moved to an affluent neighbourhood with big houses and fancy cars.

If you cover up the word affluent and replace it with another word, so for example prosperous, Oz have moved to a prosperous neighbourhood, the sentence still makes sense, so then it's most likely a synonym.

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

Great job, everybody.

Let's go through it.

So the synonyms for affluent were wealthy, prosperous, and rich.

And then the word pairs, affluent area, affluent suburb, affluent household, affluent lifestyle, affluent family, and affluent neighbourhood.

Great job.

Now it's time to learn our second new city word.

Before I tell you the word, I want you to look really closely at the picture again? What can you see? What is happening? You can use the sentence starters to help you.

I can see.

Or all the characters are.

Pause the video now and off you go discussing this with your partner, your class, or just having some thinking time.

Okay, so what can we see happening in this picture? We have all the Mrs. Wordsmith characters, don't we, in this picture? And they're all holding hands and standing around a globe.

All the Mrs. Wordsmith characters are really different, aren't they? They're different animals, they're different genders, they have lots of different personalities.

We know that from all the words we've learned.

So there's a real range of characters, yet they're all still together in the same world.

So your word for this picture is diverse.

My turn, your turn.

Diverse.

Diverse is an adjective and it means mixed or varied, like a group of people who are all very different to each other.

The Mrs. Wordsmith characters are all very different to each other, but they're all still holding hands and living in the same world.

Other forms you can use the word diverse is as a noun.

Diversity, there was a lot of diversity in the classroom.

There was lots of different people in the classroom.

These words are synonyms of diverse.

We'll do my turn, your turn.

Mixed.

Different.

Varied.

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

The diverse neighbourhood was home to people from every corner of the globe.

So you can see this picture shows that there, doesn't it? That Mrs. Wordsmith characters are from all around the globe.

And a diverse neighbourhood is one that has people who live from different countries all around the world and they've all come to live in one neighbourhood.

So it's a diverse neighbourhood.

These words are word pairs of diverse.

I'll say them out out first and then you'll pause the video and you can have a go at saying them as well.

Diverse population.

Population is the people who live in a country or a city or a town.

A diverse culture.

If the culture in a town is diverse, it's a culture that's become diverse because it's so many different people from different countries around the world live there.

Diverse backgrounds.

Your background is where you're from.

So if a football team is filled with diverse backgrounds, all the players are from different places around the world.

Diverse neighbourhood, that's a diverse area of town.

A diverse community.

A community is a group of people who all live in the same area or all take part in the same activities or all have something in common.

They're a community.

So diverse community is a community filled with people from all around the world with lots of different backgrounds and cultures.

And then diverse views.

Your view, your point of view is your opinion about something.

So diverse views is when there's lots of different opinions and views.

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

Great job.

So just checking for understanding.

Which of these is the word pair for diverse? A, mixed.

B, community.

Or C, diversity.

Pause the video now.

The word pair for diverse is B, community.

A diverse community.

A, mixed is a synonym.

And C, diversity is the noun form of diverse.

Well done.

It's time for Task B and we now need to complete the word mat for diverse.

You can see here we have the word mat with the word diverse in the middle and then lots of different words around it.

Just like last time, you need to circle the synonyms and draw lines to the word pairs.

Remember a synonym is a word which has a similar meaning.

Diverse is an adjective, so your synonyms are also going to be adjectives.

And remember the trick of finding a synonym, use the sentence to help you.

The diverse neighbourhood was home to people from every corner of the globe.

If you can replace the word diverse with another word and the sentence still makes sense, that other word is most likely a synonym.

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

Great job.

Let's go through it.

So our synonyms for diverse are different, varied, and mixed, and our word pairs are culture, population, backgrounds, views, community, and neighbourhood.

Great job, everybody.

Now we're going to write a sentence which is very exciting.

We need to write a sentence using either the word affluent or diverse.

You can choose.

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

Then you'll use the word pairs to help you.

Here are the word pairs for affluent.

Here are the word pair for diverse.

Choose the word pairs and then you can build your sentence around it.

So for example, you could say, Oz lived in an affluent neighbourhood.

However, I'd really like you to try and be ambitious with your sentences.

Maybe you can include a non-finite clause such as, "Growing up in an affluent neighbourhood," that's your non-finite clause, "Oz was used to having fancy cars." So try to make your sentence as ambitious as possible.

Pause video now and off you go.

Well done, everybody.

I hope you enjoyed writing your sentence.

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

The students came from diverse backgrounds.

Thumbs up, thumbs down.

Does that make sense? Have I used diverse correctly? I have, haven't I? I've used the word pair backgrounds in this sentence, so yes.

However, I think we can improve this.

How can we show that students coming from a diverse background is a really positive thing? "There was a wonderful range of cultural traditions in the classroom because of the diverse backgrounds of the peoples." So here, I've shown that there was the positive effect of diversity.

The fact that there's a wonderful range of cultural traditions because everyone was from such diverse backgrounds.

So now pause the video, read back through your sentence and think about how effective it is in using the word affluent or diverse.

Off you go.

Great job, everybody.

Well done.

It's time for the third learning cycle of today's lesson where we're going to be learning four new city words.

So have a look at these pictures.

Can you predict what each word might be? I'm going to talk through each picture.

And as I'm doing that, you can maybe have a think about what the word might be, and just remember that yes, this unit is about city words, but these words can also describe other things as well.

So that might help you with working out what the word might be.

So in the first picture, we have a very busy market, don't we? You can see Bearnice and Mrs. Wordsmith.

They look like they're going to buy different items. There's loads of different stalls.

There's things hanging down.

It looks really busy and lively, doesn't it? It looks very fun market.

So which word is describing the market there? Then in the next picture, we have Bearnice who looks like she's doing a million things at once, doesn't she? She's cycling on her bike machine.

She's trying to drink coffee, well the coffee's on the ground, but she was trying to drink coffee.

The phone's ringing.

She's got a crazy schedule and calendar.

She's trying to write things in her diary whilst also being on the phone.

That looks like a very busy day and a very busy situation.

So what could the word be to describe this moment, this picture? Then in the third picture, we have a huge house.

In fact, it looks like maybe more like a town hall and you can see Armie looking.

No, sorry, Grit looking up at it and a bit in awe really, maybe looking a little bit nervous, doesn't want to enter.

So what word could we use to describe that building? And then the final picture, you have Stax walking through and it looks like he's in quite old fashioned clothes, maybe from the Victorian era.

You can see in the background, there's chimneys from factories releasing lots of smoke.

He's having to cover his mouth so he doesn't breathe in that air.

So how could we describe the city and the air in this picture? Which word could we use? Pause video now and off you go having a think about what these words might be.

Okay, well done.

Let's go through these.

We'll do my turn, your turn for each word.

Our first picture was bustling.

Bustling.

Bustling is an adjective which means crowded or lively, like a busy market full of shoppers.

That market in the picture is bustling with so many people and so many stores.

It's really busy and crowded.

Our next picture was hectic.

Hectic.

Hectic is an adjective, which means very busy or manic.

How your day is when you have to do everything in a mad rush.

So clearly, Bearnice is having a hectic day.

But we can also describe a city as hectic if it's really busy and manic and loads of traffic and cars and people and everything.

Our third picture is imposing.

Imposing.

Imposing is an adjective which means grand or impressive, like a building so big and important, it towers over you.

So that house in that building, in that picture is very imposing.

Armie, I'm sorry, Grit almost looks quite nervous looking up at it, doesn't he? So we can describe different buildings in a city as imposing.

And then finally, our word is polluted.

Polluted.

Polluted is an adjective, which means dirty or foul, like smelly air you try not to breathe in.

The air in that picture is polluted.

So it's making the city quite a polluted place to walk around in.

Well done.

Okay, so now let's check for understanding.

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

Okay, so bustling was the picture of the busy crowded marketplace.

Hectic was the picture of Bearnice having a hectic day, a really busy day at work, trying to do everything at once.

Polluted is the picture of Stax walking through the city, having to cover his mouth, doesn't breathe in the polluted air.

And then imposing, it's the picture of the big grand house that Grit almost looks nervous to enter.

Well done.

It's time for Task C and we're going to complete the word mat for imposing.

Because we've already completed two word mats already, I'm not going to talk lesson, I'm not going to talk through the instructions in too much detail.

Just remember you need to circle the synonyms and draw lines to the word pairs.

Unlike the Task A and Task B, we haven't gone through the word pairs and the synonyms already, so you're going to have to work them out yourself.

You can use the picture, the definition, and the sentence to help you.

Your sentence for imposing is, "Grit was too scared to knock on the door of the imposing mansion." Remembering the trick of replacing the word imposing with another word.

And if the sentence still makes sense, it's most likely a synonym because they'll have a similar meaning.

So pause the video now and off you.

Well done, everybody.

Let's go through it.

So the synonyms for imposing are impressive, awe-inspiring, it inspires awe, makes you feel awe struck, struck with awe.

You can't believe what you're seeing.

And grand, so really big and impressive.

Then the word pairs, an imposing mansion, a really big house, an imposing building, imposing structure, so maybe like a statue or some kind of column, and imposing presence.

You can say somebody, a person has an imposing presence.

That means they're probably very confident.

They stand really tall, they're impressive, they inspire you.

An imposing figure.

Again, a person can be imposing, the imposing figure.

The imposing house, an imposing appearance, that mansion has an imposing appearance.

Well done.

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

Here's the sentence to help you.

"Bearnice had a hectic day in the office; her phone did not stop ringing." So we can use hectic, remember, to describe a place, but also something like your day or your schedule.

So bear that in mind when you're working out what are the synonyms and the word pairs.

Pause video now and off you go.

Okay, so our synonyms for hectic are very busy, manic, and frantic.

These will mean quite similar to hectic.

Those all have similar meanings to chaotic and hectic.

Then the word pairs, a hectic corridor.

I'm sure sometimes at school, your school corridor can get really hectic at the end of the day when everyone's trying to leave.

Hectic week, you've got a plan every single day, and every single night, it's a hectic week.

Your hectic schedule, so many plans in one day and meetings and calls.

A hectic day.

Hectic lifestyle, if you lead a hectic lifestyle, you're doing something all the time.

Every evening, you have a club or an activity.

On the weekends, you're seeing friends or you're doing sport.

This is a hectic lifestyle.

A hectic place, you could describe maybe a city or a town or a road being as a hectic place.

And hectic streets, some of you might have been to a bit really hectic street on a busy Saturday where everyone's shopping and doing their jobs.

The streets are really hectic.

Well done.

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

Remember, you can use the picture and the definition and the sentence to help you.

Here's your sentence.

"Bearnice walked around the bustling market, weaving her way through the crowded streets." Pause the video now and off you go circling the synonyms and drawing lines to the word pair.

Well done.

Let's go through it.

Our synonyms for bustling are crowded, lots of people, lively, and busy.

Our word pairs, a bustling market, like in the picture.

Bustling city, a really busy city.

Bustling community, bustling streets.

Bustling metropolis, metropolis is another word for a city.

And a bustling town.

Well done.

Now we're completing the word mat for polluted.

Here's the sentence to help you.

"Stax wore a mask over his mouth to keep out the dirty, polluted air." So off you go completing the word mat for polluted.

Pause the video now.

Okay, so the synonyms for polluted are foul, so smelly, dirty, dirty, and contaminated.

If something's contaminated, it has been affected with chemicals or poisonous things.

Then the word pairs.

A polluted city, polluted water, maybe a river water which has got loads of oil and chemicals in, it's polluted.

Polluted air, the air in the city in the picture above is polluted because of all the smoke coming out of the factories.

Polluted ocean.

We know the oceans around the world are sadly polluted with lots of plastic.

The polluted river, again, a bit like the oceans, they can become polluted if people throw their rubbish in it.

A polluted area.

And then the polluted environment.

You could say the environment in the countryside was really polluted because of all the rubbish and fumes.

Well done.

Now it's our final task of today's lesson, and we are going to fill in the gaps with either the words affluent, diverse, hectic, imposing, bustling, or polluted.

I'll read out the sentences first, and as I'm reading them out loud, you can be thinking what word could go in the blanks.

The city, which was mm, with people, never seemed to sleep.

Oz's mm lifestyle mainly involved private jets, expensive dinners, and designer handbags.

Plato lived in a mm community with people from all over the world.

Oz had a very mm day, packed with meetings all over the city.

Bogart built a giant, mm mansion on the hillside.

And a huge, smoky cloud hung above the mm city.

If you are stuck on any of them, I suggest that you leave it blank.

Go and complete the other sentences which you're feeling more confident with, and then come back to it at the end when there are a few less options.

So pause video now, off you go and good luck.

Great job, everybody.

Let's go through these.

So the city, which was bustling with people, never seem to sleep.

Oz's affluent lifestyle mainly involved private jets, expensive dinners, and designer handbags.

Plato lived in a diverse community with people from all over the world.

Oz had a very hectic day, packed with meetings all over the city.

Bogart built a giant, imposing mansion on the hillside.

And a huge, smokey cloud hung above the polluted city.

Great job, everybody.

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

Affluent is an adjective which means rich or wealthy, like a neighbourhood where everyone lives in fancy houses.

Diverse is an adjective, which means mixed or varied like a group of people who are all very different from each other.

Bustling is an adjective, which means crowded or lively, like a busy market full of shoppers.

Imposing is an adjective which means grand or impressive, like a building so big and important, it towers over you.

Polluted is an adjective, which means dirty or foul, like smelly air that you try not to breathe in.

And hectic is an adjective, which means very busy or manic.

How your day is when you have to do everything in a mad rush.

Great job today, everybody.

Well done.