Lesson video

Hello, and welcome to Unit 24 Lesson number One, Starting Sentences With and, with me Mr. Halpin.

I hope you're ready.

Before we begin, I would like you to make sure you have a pen, some paper and your brains are engaged.

Please pause the video if you need to collect any of this equipment now.

Resume the video when you're ready.

All set? Fabulous.

Today's session is going to look like this.

We're going to recap unit 23.

We're going to look at sentences starting with the word and.

We're going to visit capital letters and prepositions.

Then you're going to create some fantastic writing and then you're going to complete your quiz.

Sound good? Perfect.

Let's recap, I hope you can remember Unit 23.

When must you use a capital letter? Pause your video to read the options or listen to me read them aloud.

Option number one, only at the start of a sentence.

Option number two, at the start and the end of a sentence.

Option number three, at the start of a sentence and the name of a specific person or place.

Or option number four, at the beginning of every line on your page.

After three, I'd like you to point at the screen or call out your answer.

One, two, three, option number three.

Well done if you've got that correct.

We must have a capital letter at the start of our sentence but also whenever we name a specific person or place.

Fantastic start if you've got that right.

How about this then? Which of these is an irregular verb? Pause the video if you wish to read the options yourself or listen to me, read them aloud.

Option one, ran.

Option two, skipped.

Option three, hopped.

Option four, jumped.

After three point at your screen, or shout out loud.

One, two, three, ran.

Fantastic.

Ran doesn't follow the -ed suffix ending when we change regular verbs to past tense.

Superb if you got that correct.

How about this one then? What must a complete sentence contain? Pause the video to read the options yourself or listen to me read them aloud.

A complete sentence must contain, option one an objective.

Option two, a subject and a verb.

Option three, a subject.

Option four a verb.

One, two, three, option two, well done.

A complete sentence must contain a subject and a verb.

Brilliant if you managed to get all of those correct.

Starting sentences with and.

I have a rule for you to pay close attention to.

Here it is.

Do not start a sentence with and.

If you see a sentence starting with and, you must remove it and then fix the sentence.

You have already done amazing work with complete sentences and you also know how to break fused sentences.

Whenever you are creating a new sentence, you must make sure you do not start that sentence with the word and.

Here are two examples.

I'll read them aloud to you.

Example number one, I love watching TV and I love playing video games.

Example number two, I love watching TV and I love playing video games.

Can you spot the difference between these two sentences? Sentence number two is incorrect.

Can you see that sentence number two has a sentence that begins with and? I love watching TV.

And I love playing video games.

We must remove the and.

The sentence should look like this at the bottom of the screen here.

I love watching TV.

I love playing video games.

Your turn now.

Do you think you can fix these sentences? Let's have a look at the first one together.

Number one, I went to the cinema.

And I saw a film.

Look closely, I went to the cinema.

And I saw a film.

Do we have a sentence that begins with the word and? Yes we do.

We must fix this sentence.

You must remove the word and.

I went to the cinema.

I saw a film.

Brilliant.

Your turn now.

Pause the video and fix these sentences.

Resume your video when you're ready to do so.

Well done, superb effort.

Do your answers look like mine? Fantastic work if they do.

Make sure none of those sentences begin with the word and.

Make sure you removed the word and at the start of your sentences.

Fantastic work, well done.

Which of these sentences is correct? Pause your video read the sentences to yourself or listen to me read them aloud.

Gareth lives in California.

And he loves living in California.

Jess brought a new bike.

She loves riding her bike.

The train slowed down it stopped at the station.

After three, point or screen one, two, three, brilliant, Jess bought a new bike.

She loves riding her bike.

The sentence there does not begin with the word and.

Now we have not mentioned the same subject twice in our sentence.

Super work if you've got that correct.

Well done.

Moving on now, capital letters.

Hopefully you remember, you must use a capital letter if the word is the name of a specific person or place.

Otherwise, do not use a capital letter.

Remember, capital letters are used for specific names of people and places.

Words like I, the month of June, or the name Donald.

I'd also like to introduce you to prepositions.

A preposition is a word that tells you when or where something is.

Words like in above or under.

And these words do not need to have a capital letter.

Remember, capital letters must be used when naming a specific person or place.

Our prepositions though, do not need capital letters.

Pause your video to look at this table.

On the left-hand side, there is a list of prepositions.

These words are not specific names or places.

Therefore, they do not need a capital letter.

These words have been used in the right hand column too.

You can see how the names of specific people and places need capital letters.

The prepositions though, do not.

Your turn now.

I would like you to proofread this passage.

I know you've done lots of wonderful work with your writing and you've checked your writing all the time.

Can you check someone else's? I want you to pause your video to read this paragraph and see how many capital letter errors you can spot.

Pause your video, resume once you are ready.

Finished? Wonderful.

Did you find them all? Well done if you did.

Excellent work.

I grew up on a quiet street in a small town in Hampshire.

Those prepositions, the part that tells when or where, doesn't need to have a capital letter.

Well remembered, superb work.

Which of these sentences uses capital letters correctly? Pause your video to read the options or listen to me read them a loud.

I bought a magazine at Sainsbury's.

Capital I, at the start of the sentence there full stop at the end.

I bought a magazine at Sainsbury's.

Capital I, at the start of the sentence, capital A on the word at, capital S on the word Sainsbury's.

Or, I bought a magazine at Sainsbury's.

Capital I, at the start of our sentence, capital S on the word Sainsbury's.

After three point your screen.

One, two, three, well done if you've got that right.

I bought a magazine at Sainsbury's.

Capital letter of I, naming a specific person or place.

Bought a magazine at Sainsbury's no capital for the at, the preposition, but we have a Capitol for Sainsbury's, the specific place, Sainsbury's.

Well done if you recognised that as the correct answer, superb.

Moving on to your writing now.

In this unit, you will continue writing stories based on a sequence of pictures.

You must remember to be accurate with your writing in order to achieve your writing checks.

And here are the writing checks for today's lesson.

Make sure you do not start any of your sentences with the word and.

Make sure you start a new sentence when the next subject appears.

And check number three, make sure all of your sentences contain a subject and a verb.

Keep those checks in your mind whilst you're planning and writing.

You must make sure that your writing is realistic and believable.

And you know you can do this by telling what you know happened, writing in the past tense.

Also, in this lesson, you won't have to decide what must have happened in between two pictures.

This is a wonderful skill and it's called inference, using your knowledge of something at the beginning and something at the end to fill in the gaps.

Here is your full sequence for today's writing.

You can see the beginning of your story on the left-hand side.

You can see the ending to your story on the right-hand side.

Certain things must have happened in the middle for this writing to be realistic and believable.

This is the start of your story.

Pause your video and give yourself a brief moment to look at this image.

Who do you see? Subject.

What happened? Verb.

Subject, David and Jamil.

Verbs, wrote or turned.

Verbs you might use in your writing.

Can you think of any others? We have a blank space.

We don't really know what's going on here, do we? What do we remember? We're telling what must have happened.

We already know how our story begins.

We also know how our story ends.

Pause your video and have a brief look at the ending of the sequence of pictures.

Our subjects are still David and Jamil.

Some verbs you might use at the ending of your writing, tilted, crashed, perhaps.

Let's revisit this blank box in the middle.

Can you remember the name of the skill? Inference, well done.

Using your knowledge to make a guess about what must've happened? Would we be accurate if we wrote, the dragon roared loudly? No, I don't think we would.

That wouldn't be believable or realistic, would it? How about this? David stretched across the classroom with the note.

Looking at the start of our story, looking at the end of our story, would this be believable and realistic? It would, wouldn't it? Superb.

I would like you to begin your story with this sentence, David and Jamil were in class.

Pause your video now to write your fantastic story based on this sequence of pictures.

Resume your video when you're ready to do so.

Finished your fantastic work? Incredible effort, well done.

Here's what I wrote.

Does your writing sound like mine? David and Jamil were in class.

David wrote a note.

He turned to Jamil.

Jamil, looked at David.

David stretched across the classroom with the note.

His chair tilted.

It slipped over.

David crashed to the floor.

Jamil laughed.

Well done if your writing is anything like mine, superb.

Did I meet our writing checks? Let's have a look.

Check number one.

Have I started any of my sentences with the word and? No, I don't think I did, did you? Fantastic if you didn't.

Check number two, did I start a new sentence with every new subject? I think I did.

Did you? Superb? And does every one of my sentences contain a subject and a verb? Have I written incomplete sentences? Yes I have.

Have you? Amazing effort.

Well done, you should be very proud of yourself.

That brings us to the end of this first session in Unit 24.

I hope you enjoyed it.

Please remember to complete your quiz to continue showing off all of your wonderful knowledge.

And if you would like to, please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter, tagging @OakNational and #LearnwithOak.

See you next time.