Lesson video

Hello there.

My name is Mr. Tilstone.

I'm a teacher, and I'm excited and delighted to be working with you today on your maths lesson.

Our unit is all about time and today's lesson is going to be all about the days of the week.

So, if you are ready, let's begin.

The outcome of today's lesson is I can use yesterday and tomorrow to describe events.

So that's our target for today.

Our keywords.

My turn, yesterday, your turn.

My turn, today, your turn.

My turn, tomorrow, your turn.

So, we're going to be using those words quite a lot.

Perhaps you've heard them before.

Our lesson today is split into two cycles.

The first describe the day before and the second describe the day before and after.

So if you are ready, let's begin by describing the day before.

In this lesson, you're going to meet Alex.

Have you met Alex before? He's going to give us a helping hand today.

Let's sing a song to reminders of the days of the week.

You might have heard this song before, you might not.

So, it's the "Days of the Week Song." I'll sing it, sing along with me if you know it, and then we'll sing it again.

Are you ready? So the Days of the Week Song goes like this.

♪ Days of the week ♪ ♪ Days of the week ♪ ♪ Days of the week, days of the week, days of the week ♪ ♪ There's Sunday, and this Monday ♪ ♪ There's Tuesday and there's Wednesday ♪ ♪ There's Thursday, and there's Friday ♪ ♪ And then Saturday ♪ Shall we sing it again? Let's go.

♪ Days of the week ♪ ♪ Days of the week ♪ ♪ Days of the week, days of the week, days of the week ♪ ♪ There's Sunday, and this Monday ♪ ♪ There's Tuesday and there's Wednesday ♪ ♪ There's Thursday, and there's Friday ♪ ♪ And then Saturday ♪ The days go in a special order and they cannot be jumbled up.

The first day of the week is Sunday and then Monday.

Can you remember what comes after Monday? Think about the song.

Tuesday.

What about what comes after Tuesday? Wednesday.

What about what comes after Wednesday? Think about the song if you need to.

The day after Wednesday is, Thursday.

What about the day after Thursday what's that? That's Friday.

What's about the day after Friday? Is Saturday.

Tell your partner the days of the week.

They won't be on the screen.

Gotta see if you can remember it.

If you need to sing the song, do that.

Did you manage to do that? Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

That's the order that they go in, the special order that they're go in.

Now, let's use our keyword tomorrow.

We can use tomorrow to describe the day that comes after today.

We're going to use a stem sentence.

I'll say it.

We'll say it, then you say it.

So, our stem sentence is this, if today is um, tomorrow will um.

Right, we're gonna say that again together.

Ready? If today is um, tomorrow will be um.

And now just you, ready, go.

We're going to be saying that stem sentence quite a lot.

Let's start practising it.

So, let's think about this.

See what you can see.

Got a Tuesday and a Wednesday.

Can we put those words into the stem sentence I wonder? If today is Tuesday, tomorrow will be, what do you think? Wednesday, right? Let's read that together.

If today is Tuesday, tomorrow will be Wednesday.

Now just you.

Let's do another one.

Okay, have a look.

See what you can see there.

Can we complete our stem sentence using those two days? If today is Friday, tomorrow will be, what do you think? Saturday.

Let's read that together.

If today is Friday, tomorrow will be Saturday.

Just you.

Okay, here's Alex.

Alex is saying, if today is Monday, tomorrow will be Sunday.

What do you think about that? Is that correct? What do you think? Let's have a look it didn't sound right, did it? So, here's today is Monday and the day after Monday, it's not Sunday.

Sunday's the day before Monday.

It's Tuesday.

Sunday comes before Monday.

Tuesday is the day after Monday.

So, now it goes if, let's read it together.

If today is Monday, tomorrow will be Tuesday.

Just you.

Let's do a check.

If today is Wednesday, tomorrow will be M.

Pause a video and give that a go.

So, the answer is if today is Wednesday, tomorrow will be Thursday.

Shall we say it together? If today is Wednesday, tomorrow will be Thursday.

Just you.

Brilliant, Alex thinks he can say this stem sentence, without looking at the days by singing that days of the week song and thinking which day comes next each time.

He's confident.

And remember, the song goes.

♪ There's Sunday and there's Monday ♪ ♪ There's Tuesday, and there's Wednesday ♪ ♪ there's Thursday and there's Friday ♪ ♪ And then there's Saturday ♪ So, he's got Sunday.

If today is Sunday, let's sing the song.

Shall we sing it with me if you know it.

♪ There's Sunday and there's ♪ What comes after Sunday? ♪ There's Sunday and there's Monday ♪ So, if today is Sunday, tomorrow will be Monday.

Let's say that together.

If today is Sunday, tomorrow will be Monday.

Now just you.

What about this one? If today is Thursday, shall we sing the song together, until we get to the Thursday part? Let's go.

♪ There's Sunday and there's Monday ♪ ♪ There's Tuesday and there's Wednesday ♪ ♪ There's Thursday and there's ♪ What comes after Thursday? Friday.

So, that's if today is Thursday, tomorrow will be Friday.

Let's read that together.

If today is Thursday, tomorrow will be Friday.

Now, it's just you.

What about this one? Saturday.

If today is Saturday, let's use the song.

♪ There's Sunday and this Monday ♪ ♪ There's Tuesday and there's Wednesday ♪ ♪ There's Thursday and this Friday ♪ ♪ And then this Saturday ♪ Oh, okay.

It is a tricky one.

Alex is right, because the song ends on the Saturday, but try to pitch the line again.

So, if you come to the end of the line on Saturday, you go back to the start of the line.

So, that'll be Sunday.

So it starts again.

So, if today is Saturday, tomorrow will be Sunday.

Let's read that together.

If today is Saturday, tomorrow will be Sunday.

Now just you.

Alex now feels confident enough about the order of the days of the week to use the words today and tomorrow with without seeing the days and without singing the song.

Ooh, that is confident.

Do you think you could do that as well? He can picture them lined up in his head.

He can see them in a line.

So, we've got the table here.

We've got today in one column and tomorrow in the other column.

So today, so today's Thursday, which means tomorrow is what? What comes after Thursday? Do you know now without singing the song? Friday.

Today is Thursday, tomorrow is Friday.

Let's do another one.

Saturday.

So, today's Saturday.

What's tomorrow? What comes after Saturday? Sunday.

And Tuesday, what's the day after Tuesday? Without singing the song, what do you think? Wednesday? The song is lovely, but it does take some time, doesn't it? So, if we can do it without singing the song, all the better.

Let's do a check.

Which of these are true? If today is Tuesday, tomorrow is Wednesday.

Is that true? If today is Thursday, tomorrow is Wednesday.

Is that true? If today is Sunday, tomorrow is Tuesday.

Is that true? If tomorrow is Saturday, today is Friday.

Is that true? There's more than one right answer here.

So, pause a video and see if you can spot them.

Did you manage to find them? There were two.

If today is Tuesday, tomorrow is Wednesday, that's true.

And if tomorrow is Saturday, today is Friday.

Okay, you're gonna have a go at some independent work now, so good luck with this.

So task number one, you're going to complete the table.

So, we've got a table and then we've got the days Friday, Monday, Tuesday, Saturday, and Thursday.

So, what's going to be the day after? And then task two, you're going to practise completing that stem sentence in as many ways as possible.

So, if you've got a partner, you can say it to them.

If you haven't got one, you can say it's on your own.

So, if today is um, tomorrow will be um.

Pause a video.

Welcome back.

How did you get on with that? Let's have a look.

So, if today's Friday, tomorrow's Saturday.

If today is Monday, tomorrow's Tuesday.

If today's Tuesday, tomorrow's Wednesday.

If today's Saturday, that's a tricky one.

Tomorrow's Sunday.

And if today is Thursday, tomorrow is Friday.

And then you had a go at practising that stem sentence.

And did you perhaps work systematically to find all the possible ways? So, did you start with Sunday for example? If today's Sunday, tomorrow will be Monday.

If today's Monday, tomorrow will be Tuesday, that would be a good way to get all of them in.

You've done really well so far.

Really well indeed.

Let's move on to the second cycle, which is describing the day before and after.

The word yesterday can be used to describe the day before today.

Let's read the story of "Pedro the Panda" and think about those words.

You might have seen the story of Pedro Panda before.

If not, don't worry.

One Sunday morning in the mountains, Pedro, the panda felt hungry.

He yearned to eat something other than bamboo.

As the sun rose in the sky, he decided to go on an adventure to find something new to eat.

He climbed down the mountain, he swam across the river.

He came across a jungle full of food he hadn't seen before.

There he found and ate one huge watermelon, but it didn't taste as good as the bamboo.

So, it's Sunday, the first day of the week he's found one watermelon.

Today is Sunday.

What day would it be tomorrow? What's the day after Sunday? Monday.

On Monday he ate two juicy apples.

So Monday, second day of the week, two juicy apples.

But guess what? They didn't taste as good as bamboo.

So, today's Monday.

What day was it yesterday.

So, what was the day before Monday? What did Pedro do before that? What was the day? Yesterday was Sunday, Pedro ate a watermelon.

And what day will it be tomorrow? So, today's Monday.

What's tomorrow? Tuesday.

On Tuesday he ate three prickly pineapples.

So, Tuesday is the third day of the week and he's eating three pineapples.

But guess what? They didn't taste as good as bamboo.

So, today is Tuesday.

What day was it yesterday? Can you remember? Yesterday was Monday and Pedro ate two apples.

What day will it be tomorrow? So, today's Tuesday, tomorrow is? Wednesday.

On Wednesday he ate four ripe bananas.

So, Wednesday is the fourth day of the week and he's eating four ripe bananas.

But guess what? They didn't taste as good as bamboo.

Today's Wednesday.

What day was it yesterday? Yesterday was Tuesday.

Pedro ate three pineapples yesterday.

Today's Wednesday.

So, what day will it be tomorrow? What do you think? Thursday.

On Thursday, he ate five red tomatoes.

So, Thursday is the fifth day of the week and he is eating five red tomatoes.

But guess what? They still didn't taste as good as bamboo.

So, today is Thursday.

What day was it yesterday? Yesterday was Wednesday.

Pedro ate four bananas.

So, today's Thursday.

What day will it be tomorrow? What's after Thursday? Friday.

On Friday, he ate six bunches of grapes.

So, Friday is the sixth day of the week and he is eaten six bunches of grapes.

But guess what? They didn't taste as good as bamboo either.

Today is Friday.

What day was it yesterday? It was the day before Friday.

It was? Thursday.

Yesterday was Thursday in Petro ate five tomatoes.

What day will it be tomorrow? So, today's Friday.

Tomorrow is Saturday.

On Saturday, he ate seven ripe oranges.

Saturday's the seventh day of the week and he is eaten seven ripe oranges.

But guess what? Once again, they didn't taste as good as bamboo.

Today is Saturday.

What day was it yesterday? What was before Saturday? Friday and Pedro ate six bunches of grapes.

That evening, he was still feeling rather hungry and missed his family in the mountains.

As the sun began to set, he decided to go home.

He swam back across the river, he climbed back up the mountain.

Pedro was finally home.

That evening, Pedro ate some bamboo and he ate and he ate and he ate, until it was morning again.

Pedro had eaten bamboo all night.

With a very full tummy, Pedro decided that bamboo was his favourite food after all.

And that's the story of "Pedro the Panda." So, today is Saturday.

Pedro's adventure has come to an end.

Maybe tomorrow he will have a new adventure.

Who knows? What day will it be tomorrow though if today's Saturday? Because Saturday is the seventh day of the week.

So, it's going to be a new week starting tomorrow.

A new week is? Sunday.

So, tomorrow will be Sunday again.

We can keep saying the days in order over and over.

The days repeat in a cycle.

They never end.

So, let's have a look at this example.

Look, we can go Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and so on and so, and it keeps going on and on.

And you can see that from the direction of the arrows, they're going a bit like a clock.

So to find tomorrow, that's the day after today, we can work forwards, which is what we're doing now, but to find yesterday, the day before today, we can work backwards.

So, the arrows will change to the opposite direction.

And we can use a stem sentence.

If today is um, yesterday was um.

Say that with me.

If today is um, yesterday was um, now just you, please.

So, if today is Tuesday, yesterday was what? What was the day before Tuesday? Look at the cycle.

Follow the arrows.

Monday.

If today is Tuesday, yesterday was Monday.

Can we say that together? If today is Tuesday, yesterday was Monday.

Now just you.

What about this one, Sunday? Use the arrows, use the cycle if you need to, if today is Sunday.

Yesterday was what? Can you see? Shout it out if you know it.

Ready? Saturday.

If today is Sunday, yesterday was Saturday.

Let's say it together.

If today is Sunday, yesterday was Saturday.

And just you.

Let's do a check for understanding.

So, if today is Friday, yesterday was what? Pause the video.

If today is Friday, yesterday was Thursday.

Alex now feels confident to use the words today and yesterday without the cycle, because he can picture the order of the days in a week.

So if today is Tuesday, yesterday was the day before Tuesday was? Monday.

If today is Saturday, the day before yesterday was? Friday.

And what about this one? If yesterday was Thursday, today must be? That's a bit trickier, isn't it? Alex says, if yesterday was Thursday, today must be Friday.

Alex challenges himself to use yesterday, today, and tomorrow to talk about the order of the days in a week.

So, today is Tuesday.

That means yesterday was Monday and tomorrow is Wednesday.

Today's Saturday.

So, yesterday, the day before was? Shout it out if you know it.

Friday.

And the day after.

A bit tricky this time is? Sunday.

So, if today's Saturday, yesterday was Friday.

Tomorrow is Sunday.

If today's Friday, what was yesterday? Yesterday was Thursday.

What would tomorrow be? Saturday.

Let's use our knowledge to talk about Pedro.

So, we're going to use this stem sentence.

Today is um.

Pedro is um.

Yesterday was um.

Pedro um.

Tomorrow will be um.

Pedro will um.

Let's have a look.

So, today is Wednesday.

Pedro is eating four bananas.

So, look at Wednesday.

What was yesterday then? What day was yesterday and what was he doing? Use the little chart, the pictures to help you.

Yesterday was Tuesday.

Pedro ate three pineapples.

So, today's Wednesday.

What's tomorrow? Look at the chart if you need to and what's happening.

Tomorrow will be Thursday.

Pedro will eat five tomatoes.

Right, let's do a check.

Today is Friday.

So, can you see the Friday on there? Pedro is what, what's he doing? There's a little picture to help.

Yesterday was what, what day was it? And what was Pedro doing? And tomorrow will be what and Pedro will be what? Pause the video, give that a go.

Did you get it? Let's have a look.

Today is Friday.

Pedro is eating six bunches of grapes.

So, if today's Friday, yesterday was Thursday, Pedro ate five tomatoes.

Tomorrow will be Saturday.

And Pedro will eat six oranges.

Time for some practise.

So, you're going to complete the table.

So, we've got today, and that's got Monday, Thursday, and Sunday on.

What was yesterday and what's tomorrow? And then number two, use the jumbled up cards from Pedro's story to complete these sentences.

Today is um, Pedro is um.

Yesterday was um.

Pedro um.

Tomorrow will be um, and Pedro will um.

And number three, use a stem sentence to talk about events in your own life.

So, today is um, I am um.

So, what are you doing? Yesterday was um, I um.

And tomorrow will be um, I will um.

So, let me give you a quick example from my life.

Today is Thursday for me.

I am recording this video for you.

Yesterday was Wednesday.

I went for a run yesterday.

I like going running.

And tomorrow will be Friday.

I will be having a delicious Chinese takeaway with my wife and kids.

Pause the video.

Good luck exploring that and I'll see you soon for some feedback.

So, if today's Monday, yesterday was Sunday.

Tomorrow will be Tuesday.

If today's Thursday, yesterday was Wednesday, tomorrow's Friday.

And if today's Sunday, yesterday was Saturday, tomorrow is Monday.

But number two, you might have said something like, today is Tuesday.

Pedro is eating three pineapples.

Yesterday was Monday, Pedro ate two apples.

Tomorrow will be Wednesday.

Pedro will eat four bananas.

Lots of examples of that.

And then some stem sentences to talk about events in your own life.

You might have said something like this, today is Friday.

I'm doing PE.

Yesterday was Thursday, I visited my grandparents.

Tomorrow will be Saturday, I will be going to watch a football match.

We've come to the end of the lesson and I had great fun today.

Hope you have too.

Today we've been sequencing events across a week in chronological order.

So, the word yesterday describes a day before today.

The word tomorrow describes the day after today.

Events can be described using yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Very well done on today's lesson.

Give yourself a pat on the back.

Hopefully, I'll get the chance to spend some more time with you and do another maths lesson.

But until then, take care.

Enjoy the rest of your day and goodbye.