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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 learning six new words associated with nighttime.

We're going to be learning two nouns to describe a different time of the night, and we'll also be learning some adjectives that we can use to describe the nighttime in different ways, and then hopefully you'll be able to use some of these words in upcoming writing.

So let's get started with today's lesson.

Your learning outcome for today's lesson is to effectively use the words eerie, dusk, and other rich vocabulary associated with the night.

Let's start by looking at the key words.

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.

So there are three learning cycles in our lesson today.

In the first, we'll be learning our first new night word, then we'll be learning our second new word associated with the night.

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

So let's get started with our first learning cycle.

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

What is happening? What can you see? What time of night does it look like? What's Armie doing? Have a think about this by yourself or discuss this with your partner, your class, or whoever you're with.

Pause the video now.

Okay, so what is happening in this picture? It looks like Armie's gone fishing.

It looks like he's had a successful time fishing.

He's got lots of fish in his bucket, so he's heading home for the day.

It's the end of the day and the sun is going down, and it's created this lovely kind of purple night sky.

So at the time of day that it is is dusk.

My turn, your turn.

Dusk.

Dusk is a noun and it means, and it's twilight or nightfall, so when night is falling.

And it's the time just before the sun goes fully down, and when the evening sky is still glowing.

So you can see in the picture here, it's not pitch black, it's not the middle of the night, but it is when the sun has just started to go down and there's this beautiful evening glow.

These words are synonyms of dusk.

Dusk is a noun, so the synonyms are also nouns.

We'll do my turn, your turn.

Evening.

Twilight.

Nightfall.

So these all describe times of the day, which is the beginning of the night, the evening, the end of the day when it's starting to get dark.

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

"As dusk was falling, the last of the light disappeared, so it was time for Armie to stop fishing." These words are word pairs of dusk.

I'm going to read them aloud first, and then you can have a go at saying them yourself, because it's really important to have a go at saying things aloud too, not just seeing them or hearing them because then it helps us to remember them.

So I'll go first.

Dusk fell.

So fell here is the verb.

Dusk deepened.

As dusk deepened, the sky gets darker and darker.

Dusk approached.

That means it's the end of the day, dusk is approaching.

Evening is about to start.

Dusk descended.

You can almost describe, think of it as the sun going down, so dusk is descending into the sky.

And then some adjectives to describe the dusk.

Golden dusk.

Golden dusk is like a sunset when the sky is golden and orange, you can describe it as a golden dusk.

And then warm dusk, a warm evening in a long summer's day, the warm dusk.

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 dusk, a word which has a similar meaning? Is it A, twilight, B, dawn, or C, deepened? Pause the video now.

That's right, the synonym is twilight.

B, dawn is the opposite, it's the morning.

And C, deepened is a word pair 'cause it's a verb.

Well done.

It's time for task A.

You need to complete the word mat for the word dusk.

You can see here the word dusk is in the middle, and then you've got lots of different words around it.

The first thing you need to do is circle the synonyms, so words which have a similar meaning.

Dusk is a noun, so that means the synonyms are also nouns.

Then you draw lines to the word pairs.

A good way to help you check if a word is a synonym is to use the sentence.

"As dusk was falling, the last of the light disappeared, so it was time for Armie to stop fishing." To check it was a synonym, cover up the word dusk and replace it with another word that you're checking.

If the sentence still makes sense, then most likely it is a synonym 'cause they have a similar enough meaning.

If it doesn't make sense, then it's probably a word pair.

For example, "As approached was falling, the last of the light disappeared." That doesn't make sense, does it? Approached isn't a noun, so it can't be a synonym.

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

Well done everybody.

Let's get through it.

Our synonyms for dusk are nightfall, twilight, and evening.

The word pairs, here we have the verb, fell, dusk fell.

Dusk deepened.

Dusk approached.

And then adjective to describe dusk, golden dusk.

A verb, dusk descended.

And then another adjective, the warm dusk.

Well done.

It's now time for the second learning cycle where we are learning our second new word associated with the night.

Just like last time, before I reveal what the word is, I want you to take a really close look at the picture and think about what is happening.

You can use these sentence steps to help you.

I can see Armie is or Armie seems. The room looks.

How could you describe the room? So have a think about this or discuss it with your partner, your class, whoever you're with.

Pause the video now.

Okay, so what is happening in this picture? Armie is entering a room.

It looks maybe like an attic or a loft.

He looks a little bit nervous, a little bit hesitant to go in.

It looks quite creepy and dark, doesn't it? It's got cobwebs, skeletons, creaking, cracked floorboards, an old clock, and then scary eyes on the doors.

So it looks quite scary and a little bit strange and not very comfortable.

So how can we describe the room? We can describe it as eerie.

My turn, your turn, eerie.

Eerie is an adjective and it means weird, ghostly or creepy, like a dark, spooky room full of skeletons and cobwebs.

So the room in this picture we can describe as eerie.

It's a bit creepy and ghostly.

Other forms that we can use the word eerie is as a noun.

Eeriness.

The room was filled with an eeriness.

But we're going to be looking at it today, an adjective.

These words are synonyms of eerie.

We'll do my turn, your turn.

Ghosts, ghostly.

Weird.

Creepy.

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

"The eerie stillness in the attic made Armie's hair stand on end with fear." So we're describing the stillness in that room.

Nothing is moving, it looks like it hasn't moved for years, so it's an eerie stillness.

These words are word pairs of eerie.

I'll read them aloud first and then we'll pause the video and you can have a go yourself.

Eerie atmosphere.

That's kind of the feeling in a room or a crowd.

Eerie silence.

No one has said anything.

There's nothing you can hear.

No one's moving.

There is an eerie silence.

Eerie stillness.

Again, nothing moving.

Eerie stillness.

The clock in the picture isn't chiming.

It's just an eerie stillness.

An eerie glow.

If you could describe a light coming from in the darkness as an eerie glow.

An eerie sound, something you hear, which is ghostly, scary, creepy.

And then an eerie shadow, something behind you.

You can see a shadow.

It's creepy.

It's creepy, it's scary.

It's an eerie shadow.

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

Well done.

These words are more word pairs of eerie.

An eerie calm.

Maybe you could say the end of the day when nothing's happening anymore, it's silent, there's no movement, but it's a bit creepy, it's an eerie calm.

Eerie mist.

You could describe the mist, it's falling on a silent, dark lake.

There's this eerie mist.

An eerie darkness, you can't see anything.

It's creepy.

The eerie darkness.

And eerie music.

You could describe music that's quite scary or creepy as eerie.

Again, pause the video and off you guys saying aloud these word pairs.

Well done.

Let's check for understanding.

Which of these words is a word pair of eerie? A, sun, B, creepy or C, silence.

Pause the video now.

A word pair of eerie is silence.

The eerie silence in the room.

Well done.

It is time for the first part of task B, where you need to complete the word mat for the word eerie.

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

Here's a sentence to help you.

"The eerie stillness in the attic made Armie's hair stand on end with fear." Remember that if you cover up the word eerie and replace it with another adjective and the sentence still makes sense, then it's most likely a synonym.

A good way to check if it's a word pair is say it next to eerie, and does it make sense? Could eerie, could this word be described as eerie, for example, the eerie music? Yes, it can, so it's a word pair.

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

Well done.

Let's go through it.

Our synonyms for eerie are ghostly, creepy and weird.

Our word pairs are silence, stillness, glow, darkness, music, calm, atmosphere, shadow, and sound.

Well done.

Now we're going to write a sentence using either the word dusk or eerie.

Use the word pairs to help you.

So here are your word pairs for dusk, and here are your word pairs for eerie.

First thing you need to do is choose the adjective you're going to use, then the word pair, and then you can build your sentence around it.

I'd like you to be as ambitious as possible here.

Maybe you could use a non-finite clause.

Maybe you could do some show not tell language or some figurative language, or an ambitious complex sentence.

Whatever you do, make sure it's as ambitious and as effective as possible.

Pause the video now.

Okay, well done.

I hope you enjoyed writing your sentence.

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

There was an eerie atmosphere inside the castle.

Does that make sense? It does, doesn't it? And I've used the word pair atmosphere.

However, I think we can be more ambitious here.

We can explain why it's such an eerie atmosphere.

So let's improve it.

"The cobwebs, candlelight and creepy old paintings gave the castle an eerie atmosphere, making shivers run down Oz's spine." So how have I improved it? I started by describing what was making the atmosphere so eerie, the cobwebs, the candle lights, those creepy old paintings.

And I also made it a complex sentence by adding a non-finite clause, which shows the effects of the eerie atmosphere.

It made shivers run down Oz's spine.

So now pause the video, read back through your sentence, and think about how effectively you use the word dusk or eerie.

Pause the video now.

Well done.

Great job everybody.

It's now time for our final learning cycle where we are learning four new words associated with the night.

Have a look at these pictures.

Can you predict what each word may be? I'll talk through each picture, and as I'm doing that, you can be thinking about what word it might be.

My clue is that three of the words are an adjective, one is a noun.

So in the first picture, we can see Stax is wide awake at nighttime, lying in his bed, and his eyes are wide open.

He was clearly trying to read a book and he cannot seem to sleep.

So what could we describe that night as for Stax? Then in the second picture, Oz is leaning on a lamppost.

It's obviously evening time.

There's still a slight glow in the sky.

It's not the middle of the night.

It looks like she's walking home or walking out maybe to meet somebody.

She's tried to read something on her phone.

In the third picture, Armie is sitting outside a tree or is sitting on a tree with a torch shining on his face because it is pitch black and it's quite creepy there, isn't it? There's loads of bats with their eyes lit up in the dark.

And then in the final picture, it's Armie again this time in space and it looks like the moon is shining and it's lighting up the night sky.

So pause the video now and off you go, having a think about what each word might be.

Okay, we're going to do my turn, your turn.

Our first picture was sleepless.

Sleepless.

Sleepless is an adjective, which means wide awake and disturbed.

Like one of those nights when you can't get a wink of sleep.

Stax had a sleepless night because he couldn't get to sleep.

Our second picture is twilight.

Twilight.

Twilight is a noun.

It's similar to dusk.

It means dusk or early evening.

The soft light of evening that is too dim to read by.

So you can see there in the picture, Oz is struggling to read.

It is in the middle of the night.

There's still a soft glow, but it's becoming darker and darker.

Then our third picture is nocturnal.

Nocturnal.

Nocturnal is an adjective which means nightly or active at night, like bats and owls that come out to hunt when it gets dark.

Bats and owls are nocturnal creatures, that's why in the picture, they're the creatures that we can see because it's the middle of the night, so they're awake.

Then our final word is moonlit.

Moonlit.

Moonlit is an adjective which means lit up by the moon, like a bright night sky.

So in the picture, the night sky, we can describe as moonlit 'cause the moon is bright, the moon is shining.

Okay, so checking for understanding.

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

Okay, let's go through it.

Twilight was the picture of Oz walking out for the evening at the beginning of the night.

Moonlit is the night sky that's been lit up by the moon.

Sleepless.

Stax had a sleepless night, couldn't get any sleep.

And then nocturnal, creatures that are awake at nighttime, we can describe as nocturnal.

Well done.

So it's time to complete our word mats.

We're going to complete first the word mat for the word nocturnal.

Now we've already done two word mats in this lesson, so I'm not going to talk through them in too much detail.

But remembering, you are circling the synonyms and drawing lines to the word pairs.

This time though we haven't gone through the synonyms in the word pairs already.

So you're going to have to use the picture, your knowledge of what a word a pair is, and what a synonym is, the definition and the sentence to help you.

Here's the sentence for nocturnal.

"Armie's sleepwalking meant that he went on many nocturnal adventures." Pause the video now and off you go.

Okay, well done.

Let's go through it.

Our synonyms for nocturnal were active at night, done at night and nightly.

And then our word pairs were nocturnal creature.

An owl is a nocturnal creature.

Nocturnal predator, an animal that haunts its prey at nighttime.

Nocturnal adventure.

An adventure that happens at night.

A nocturnal hunter, again, an animal or a hunt, something that goes out and hunts other things at nighttime.

Nocturnal wildlife, so animals that are awake at night.

A nocturnal animal, such as an owl or a bat.

Nocturnal sound, so the sounds only hear at nighttime, for example, the sound of an owl.

And then a nocturnal journey.

Might make a journey overnight, so you can describe that as a nocturnal journey.

Well done.

Now we're going to complete the word mat for the word twilight, remembering that twilight is a noun, so the synonyms also have to be a noun.

Here is a sentence to help you.

"The fading twilight almost made it too dark for Oz to see the words in her book." So circling the synonyms and drawing lines to the word pairs.

Pause the video now.

Well done.

Let's go through it.

What were our synonyms for twilight? They were semi-darkness because it's not pitch black.

Twilight's not the middle of the night.

Early evening and dusk.

Our word pairs were fading twilight.

So it's becoming even less and less light.

It's becoming more and more dark.

It's fading.

The cool twilight.

Maybe a cool summers evening, you could describe as cool twilight.

The lingering twilight.

That light was lingering.

It wasn't quite getting pitch black.

The dim twilight.

Not that dark.

Not quite dark.

A soft twilight, a long twilight.

A really long summer's evening.

The deepening twilight.

It's becoming darker and darker.

Then early twilight in the winter evenings become earlier, so an early twilight.

Well done.

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

Here's a sentence to help you.

"Stax had a sleepless night tossing and turning unable to get comfortable." Pause the video now and off you go.

Well done.

Let's go through it.

Which are synonyms of sleepless? Restless.

You don't get any rest, sleepless, you can't stop moving.

Wide awake and disturbed.

A disturbed night is one that you're woken up a lot in.

And then our word pairs.

A sleepless night, a sleepless city.

You can describe some cities around the world as sleepless.

If restaurants stays open all night, people are still doing things throughout the night, it's a sleepless city.

A sleepless hour, the time of the day.

The sleepless child, a child that stayed up all night.

A sleepless journey.

Maybe you got a plane overnight and didn't sleep a wink.

A sleepless journey.

A sleepless state.

When you just cannot get to sleep, you're in a sleepless state.

And then sleepless vigilance when you're over, you're looking over somebody, keeping watch or something to protect it maybe, you can describe that as a sleepless vigilance.

Well done.

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

So circle the synonyms, draw lines to the word pairs, and here's the sentence to help you.

The moonlit sky was made even brighter by the sparkling stars.

Pause the video now and off you go.

Well done.

Our synonyms for moonlit were starry, so filled with stars.

Cloudless, not a cloud in the sky, just lit up by the moon.

And starlit, just like starry, lit up by the stars.

Our word pairs.

The moonlit night.

A moonlit stroll.

You could, if you went for a walk or a stroll along a beach at nighttime, you could describe it as a moonlit stroll.

The moonlit sky, the moonlit sea.

The sea might be glistening at night because it's lit up by the moon.

A moonlit beach, a moonlit walk, and the moonlit street.

Well done.

Now it's time for the final task in today's lesson where we need to fill in the gaps with either the word dusk, eerie, twilight, nocturnal, sleepless, or moonlit.

Remember, two of these words are nouns, so think about that when you're filling in the blanks 'cause it needs to make sense as a noun in the sentence.

I'll read the sentence out loud now, and as I'm doing that, you can be thinking about which word could go in the blanks.

"Bogart found the mm silence in the street creepy as he walked home alone." "The mm predator prowled through the night sky, searching for prey." "The couple walked hand in hand along the mm beach, amazed by its beauty at night." "The mm city was alive with activity from morning until night." "Grit yawned sleepily as the mm faded into night." "And mm settled on the desert and it was finally cool enough for the animals to come out." So pause the video now and off you go.

Well done everybody.

Let's go through it.

So, "Bogart found the eerie silence in the street creepy as he walked home alone." "The nocturnal predator prowled through the night searching for prey." "The couple walked hand in their hand along the moonlit beach, amazed by its beauty at night.

"The sleepless city was alive with activity from morning until night." "Grit yawned sleepily as the twilight faded into night." However, in this sentence also dusk would work.

And "Dusk settled onto the desert." Again, twilight could work here.

And "It was finally cool enough for the animals to come out." Great job today, everybody.

Really well done.

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

Dusk is a noun, and it's twilight or nightfall, the time just before the sun goes down when the evening sky is glowing.

Eerie is an adjective which means weird, ghostly, or creepy, like a dark, spooky room full of skeletons and cobwebs.

Sleepless is an adjective, which means wide awake and disturbed, like one of those nights when you can't get a wink of sleep.

Twilight is a noun, which means dusk or early evening.

The soft light of evening that is too dim to read by.

Nocturnal is an adjective which means nightly or active at night, like bats and owls that come out to hunt when it gets dark.

Moonlit is an adjective, which means lit up by the moon, like a bright night sky.

Great job today everybody.

Well done.