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Hi everybody, it's Ms. Gardner.

Thank you so much for joining in on today's vocabulary lesson.

In today's lesson, we're going to be learning six new words that we can use to describe parts of the outdoor world.

There's quite a range of words today to describe different contexts and places.

I really hope that you enjoy the lesson and that you can use some of these words in any future writing.

So let's get started.

Your learning outcome for today's lesson is to effectively use the words impenetrable, barren, and other rich vocabulary associated with the outdoors.

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.

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 outdoors word.

Then we'll be learning our second new word.

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

So let's start with looking at our first word.

Before I reveal what the word is, I want you to be a detective here and look really closely at the picture.

What is happening? What can you see? You can use these sentence starters to help you.

I can see, Grit is, the location is.

So pause the video now and off you go talking about this with your partner, your class, whoever you're with, or just having some thinking time.

Pause the video now.

Okay, so what is happening in this picture? Grit looks like an explorer.

You can tell by what he's wearing, he's got this explorer hat on, his backpack.

He's clearly been walking through what looks maybe like a jungle or a forest, and has arrived at something which says, "No entrance." He cannot get through.

So it looks like it's not possible for him to access this, maybe it's a fort or a ruin, or they could be trees that are just so closely together that it's impossible for him to get through.

But for some reason it seems impossible for him to get any further.

So the word to describe this picture is impenetrable.

My turn, your turn, impenetrable.

Impenetrable is an adjective and it means dense or inaccessible.

So dense means really thick, like a big, sturdy fort that you cannot find a way to enter.

So that fort that Grit has arrived at is impenetrable, he cannot get through to it.

Other meanings that we can use to describe impenetrable is when something is extremely difficult to understand.

You could maybe say that the crossword was impenetrable, it was impossible to understand what the clue was.

Okay, so these words are synonyms of impenetrable.

We'll do my turn, your turn.

Thick, dense, inaccessible.

Something is inaccessible, you cannot get through to it.

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

"The explorers struggled on, trying to get through the impenetrable jungle." The jungle is impenetrable, there's loads of thick leaves, there's branches all over the ground and the trees are everywhere.

It's really thick, dense jungle with no clear path, so it's impenetrable.

These words are word pairs for impenetrable.

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

Impenetrable forest, a bit like the jungle if a forest is impenetrable, there's so many trees and plants and branches that you can't get through it.

An impenetrable jungle.

The impenetrable undergrowth.

So that's what like all the plants and branches are growing on the floor, which makes it really impossible to walk through.

An impenetrable barrier, something that's been put up.

It could be a natural barrier like a tree or maybe a manmade barrier, that means it's impossible to get through.

And then the impenetrable mystery, it's impossible to understand what the mystery is, you cannot solve it.

And then impenetrable darkness.

Maybe you're walking at night and it's incredibly dark.

You cannot see anything so it's impossible for you to get through, it's impenetrable darkness.

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

Well done, let's check for understanding.

Which of these words is a synonym of impenetrable? A, inaccessible; B, clear; or C, darkness.

Pause the video now.

The synonym is A, inaccessible.

B, clear is almost an antonym, an opposite meaning.

And C, darkness is a word pair, well done.

It's time for Task A, and you need to complete the word mat for impenetrable.

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

Impenetrable is an adjective, so the other synonyms are also going to be adjectives.

Then you'll draw lines to the word pair, so the words that could be described as impenetrable.

Here's a sentence to help you.

"The explorer struggled on, trying to get through the impenetrable jungle." If you can replace the word impenetrable with another word such as thick and the sentence still makes sense, most likely that thick is then a synonym.

So use that trick to help you.

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

Well done everybody, good job.

Let's go through it.

The synonyms were dense, inaccessible, and thick.

And the word pairs, impenetrable forest, impenetrable jungle, impenetrable undergrowth, impenetrable barrier, impenetrable mystery, and impenetrable darkness, great job.

Now we're going to learn the second new word associated with the outdoors.

Before I tell you what the word is, can you look really closely at the picture and think about what is happening? What can you see? What is the location, how could you describe the location in this picture? Have a think by yourself or discuss this with your partner or your class or whoever you're with.

Pause the video now.

Okay, so what is happening in this picture? In the background you can see Brick who looks like he's on a walk 'cause he's got a walking backpack and he looks very hot.

He's probably been walking for a long time.

It looks like this is a desert, doesn't it? Because of the orange sky.

The earth that he's walking on, it doesn't look very luscious or healthy, does it? Doesn't look like it's seen much rain, only burning sun that's created this really dry, cracked earth where nothing seems to be able to survive.

You cannot see a single plant or animal apart from, we can see an animal bone so it looks like animals can't survive, just this one scorpion.

So the earth and the landscape does not look like a place where plant life can thrive.

So how could we describe the landscape then? The word for this picture is barren.

My turn, your turn, barren.

Barren is an adjective and it means empty or bare, like a lonely desert where nothing can grow.

So this desert, this earth is barren.

There's no plant life there, it's empty.

These words are synonyms of barren.

We'll do my turn, your turn.

Empty, bare, unproductive.

It's unproductive because no plant life can be produced.

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

"Brick strode across the barren earth, hoping that he'd see some signs of life soon." If an area is barren, there's very little sign of life, plant life, animal life, anything.

These words are word pairs of barren.

I'll say them aloud first and then you can have a go at saying them as well so it's easier for you to remember them.

The barren earth, so the ground that Brick is walking on is the barren earth.

Barren expanse, so that's a kind of a big space that is very barren.

The barren desert, barren wasteland.

Wasteland is an outdoor area where nothing grows and there isn't much signs of life, so you can describe an area as a barren wasteland.

The barren landscape, again, the outdoors and outdoor areas, the landscape, what you can see.

Barren fields, fields which are not growing loads of plants, flowers and luscious green grass.

Instead it's just a kind of bare, empty, barren field.

So 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 word pair of barren? A, productive; B, landscape; or C, bare.

Pause the video now.

A word pair of barren is B, landscape.

A, productive is more of an antonym, opposite meaning.

And C, bare is a synonym, well done.

Now you're going to complete the word mat for the word barren.

Just like last time in Task A, you're going to circle the synonyms and draw lines to the word pairs.

Remember to find a word pair.

You can try saying the word next to barren.

Barren fields, that makes sense, so those must be word pairs because you can use the word barren to describe the fields.

You can also use this sentence to help you.

"Brick strode across the barren earth, hoping that he'd see some signs of life soon." If you can replace the word barren with another adjective and the sentence still makes sense, it's most likely a synonym.

So pause the video now and off you go.

Well done, let's go through it.

Our synonyms for barren are empty, bare, and unproductive.

And our word pairs are barren earth, barren desert, barren wasteland, barren landscape, barren fields, and barren expanse, great job.

Now we're going to write a sentence and we're going to use either the word impenetrable or barren.

Here are the word pairs that should help you.

Here are the word pairs for impenetrable and here for barren.

First thing to do is choose which adjective you want to use and then choose your word pair, and then you can build your sentence around it.

So for example, you could say, "Grit walked through or struggled through the impenetrable forest." However, I'd like you to be a bit more ambitious than that.

Maybe you could include a non-finite clause, a relative clause, maybe some show-not-tell language, just so you're trying to make sure you're using either word as effectively and ambitiously as possible.

Pause the video now.

Off you go and good luck.

Well done, everybody.

Can you help me check if I've used this sentence correctly? Show me thumbs up or thumbs down.

Have I used the word barren correctly in this sentence? "Bogart's vegetable patch was a barren wasteland." Does that make sense? It does, doesn't it? I've used the word pair wasteland.

His vegetable patch was a barren wasteland, so there was no vegetables growing, nothing was surviving.

However, I think we can add more detail to this sentence, I think we can improve it.

"Last summer, Bogart's vegetable patch was a barren wasteland where nothing could survive due to the relentless heat." So I've made the sentence more ambitious and I've explained why the land is barren.

It's barren because of that relentless heat, the heat that did not stop, which meant that it was too hot for the plants and the vegetables to grow.

So now pause the video, read back through your sentence, and think about how effectively you used the word barren or impenetrable.

Off you go.

Well done, everybody, great job.

Now we're going to learn our final four new words associated with the outdoors.

Have a look at these pictures.

I'm going to talk through them, and as I'm doing that you could be trying to think about which each word might be.

So in the first picture, you've got Armie.

He looks like he's a scout, a cub or a scout, he's on an activity in the outdoors and he's in an outdoor area where there is loads of beautiful wildlife, flowers, plants, animals.

It looks like a really thriving outdoor space, doesn't it? Then in the next picture we have Yin and Yang and they're on a boat and they look like they're in a jungle or a swamp of some kind, and they're trying to get through but they almost look like they're stuck.

Why are they stuck? What's happened, what's caused 'em to get stuck? Then in the third picture, Grit looks very sad, doesn't he? He's trying to water his tree, but it almost looks too late, doesn't it? The tree, all the leaves have died.

The branches look really sad and wonky.

It doesn't look like a very luscious tree bursting with life, does it? So how can we describe the tree? And then in the final picture, Bogart is stuck in a web.

So how could we describe this picture, this image of Bogart stuck in a web? Pause the video now and off you go thinking about what each word may be.

Okay, let's go through these.

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

Our first picture was teeming, teeming.

So teeming is an adjective and it means full or crowded, like a park that is overflowing with birds, insects and animals, it's teeming with animals.

Our next picture is overgrown, overgrown.

Overgrown is an adjective which means wild or tangled, like a jungle with plants growing on top of each other everywhere.

That jungle which Yin and Yang are trying to ride that boat through it's completely overgrown, which means they keep getting stuck.

The third picture is withered, withered.

Withered is an adjective which means wilted and drooping, like a dying shrivelled tree that doesn't grow leaves anymore.

So that tree in that picture we could describe as withered.

Our final picture is tangled, tangled.

Tangled is an adjective which means twisted or knotted, like a fly trapped in a spider web.

So let's check for understanding.

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

Okay, so our first word overgrown was the picture of Yin and Yang trying to get through the overgrown jungle.

Teeming was Armie in the park that was teeming with wildlife and animals.

Tangled is Bogart stuck in the tangled web.

And then withered is that tree, the sad-looking tree that can't grow any leaves and plants.

Well done, now we're going to complete the word mat for withered.

Now we've already completed word mats twice in this lesson, so I'm not going to explain in too much detail how you work out which is a synonym and a word pair, it is the same as before.

However, this time we haven't gone through the word pairs and the synonyms already, so you need to be working 'em out by yourself.

However, you can use the picture to help you.

You can use your knowledge of what is a synonym and what is a word pair.

You can use the definition to help you and this sentence.

"Grit took one look at the withered tree and knew it was dead." So which words have a similar meaning to withered? Those are your synonyms which you circle.

And which words could be described as withered? Those are your word pairs.

Pause the video now.

Okay, so let's go through these.

Which words are synonyms of withered? Faded, it's fading away, it's not really surviving anymore.

Wilting, so kind of falling apart.

And then drooping, those branches in the picture are drooping, they're dropping down to the ground.

Then the word pairs.

A withered branch, a withered tree, just like in the picture.

A withered plant, a plant that is about to die, it's not no longer producing leaves or flowers.

And then actually you can use it to subscribe a withered hand.

Maybe you would think if you were describing a witch, you could describe them as having a withered old hand.

A withered heart.

That could be some quite effective show-not-tell language or descriptive language to describe if someone's feeling maybe a little bit heartbroken, a withered heart.

A withered flower, the petals falling off.

And a withered leaf, a leaf that has fallen off the tree.

Well done, now we're going to complete the word mat for the word overgrown.

Here's your sentence to help you.

"Yin and Yang struggled to move through the overgrown track." So thinking about the word pairs, you'll draw lines to them, what could be described as overgrown, and then circling the synonyms. Pause the video now.

Well done, everybody.

Let's go through it.

Our synonyms for overgrown were wild, lush, and tangled.

Then our word pairs are the overgrown path.

If you might have gone on a walk before where you're trying to walk through, but it's so overgrown with flowers and plants and grass that you have to tread on everything and tread over the plants because you can barely see the path, it's so overgrown.

An overgrown track, similar to path.

An overgrown garden, a garden which maybe hasn't been looked after for a while, is overgrown, grown with weeds and plants, and there's too much in there, too many flowers and too many plants.

An overgrown forest.

An overgrown ruin.

A ruin is an old building which no one lives in anymore and often they can be quite forgotten about and then plants and weeds and grass can grow all around it so it almost covers the ruin in grass, in greenery.

An overgrown patch, so maybe a patch of garden or a patch of land that is overgrown with flowers.

Overgrown shrubbery, so kind of bushes which are overgrown and have not been trimmed for a really long time, well done.

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

Here's your sentence to help you.

"Everywhere Armie looked, the jungle was teeming with plants, animals, and insects." Now I know you might think that this is a verb 'cause verbs often end in -ing, but this is an adjective, so the synonyms for teeming are also adjectives.

If you can replace the word teeming with a word and the sentence still makes sense, remember that's most likely an adjective.

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

Well done, our synonyms for teeming are crowded, full and swarming.

The word pairs are the teeming streets.

The streets were teeming with people, cars, buses, they're really busy and crowded.

The teeming city, again, a really busy, crowded city.

The teeming crowd, the teeming forest.

The forest was teeming with plant life and animals.

The teeming metropolis.

Metropolis is another word for a city, so a really busy, crowded city.

Teeming and wildlife, the forest was teeming with wildlife, well done.

Now you're going to complete the word mat for the word tangled.

Here's the sentence to help you.

"The fly struggled in the tangled web and got even more stuck." So circling the synonyms, so words which have a similar meaning to tangled, so also adjectives.

And then drawing lines to the word pairs, words which could be described as being tangled.

Pause the video now, off you go.

Well done, let's go through it.

So our synonyms for tangled were muddled, knotted, and twisted.

So all of these which show that something's in a bit of a mess, it's tangled, it's all kind of caught up in each other.

And then our word pairs.

Tangled weeds, weeds are things that grow in your garden which you don't want to be growing there, and if they're left for too long and become overgrown, they can start to become tangled and a bit of a mess.

Tangled heap, maybe children are playing in the playground, one person falls over and another person falls over, you're all in a bit of a tangled heap on the floor.

Tangled hair, maybe you go to bed with your hair in a plat, a messy plat, and then you wake up the next morning, your hair tie's stuck and your hair is in a tangled mess.

You can describe your hair as tangled.

A tangled mess, just like the hair.

Tangled wreckage, maybe you are driving a remote-controlled car and it crashes into something and it breaks maybe a Lego tower, and that's a tangled wreckage.

The tangled jungle, really overgrown, loads of plants, things hanging down.

Trees, branches, leaves, it's all bit of a tangled mess.

The tangled web, just like in the picture, the spider's web.

And then tangled undergrowth.

Plants, leaves, branches, all on a floor on the ground of like the forest, completely overgrown, and it's all tangled together, well done.

Now it's time for the final part of our lesson today and you're going to fill in the gaps with either the word impenetrable, barren, overgrown, withered, teeming, or tangled.

Here are the sentences.

As I'm reading, you could be thinking about which word could fill in the blanks.

"There was just one tiny cactus in the hmm landscape." "Brick felt his way through the hmm darkness, unable to see a thing." "Armie could barely see over the tall grass in his hmm garden." "Oz tugged at her bike, which had become caught in some hmm weeds." "Yin struggled to cross the street because it was hmm with people." "And Plato felt sad for the hmm trees out in the hot, desert sun." You could definitely use the word mats from earlier in the lesson to help you with this, particularly the word pairs will be really useful.

So pause the video now and off you go.

Well done, everybody, let's go through these.

"There was just one tiny cactus in the barren landscape." "Brick felt his way through the impenetrable darkness, unable to see a thing." "Armie could barely see over the tall grass in his overgrown garden." "Oz tugged at her bike, which had become caught in some tangled weeds." "Yin struggled to cross the street because it was teeming with people." And, "Plato felt sad for the withered trees out in the hot, desert sun." Great job, here's a summary of everything we've learned.

Impenetrable is an adjective which means dense or inaccessible, like a big, sturdy fort that you cannot find a way to enter.

Barren is an adjective which means empty or bare, like a lonely desert where nothing can grow.

Teeming is an adjective which means full or crowded, like a park that is overflowing with birds, insects and animals.

Withered is an adjective which means wilted and drooping, like a dying shrivelled tree that doesn't grow leaves anymore.

Tangled is an adjective which means twisted or knotted, like a fly trapped in a spiderweb.

And overgrown is an adjective which means wild or tangled, like a jungle with plants growing on top of one another everywhere.

Well done today, I hope you've enjoyed this lesson.