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Hello, I'm Ms. Rivers, and I'm looking forward to working with you today.

I'm glad you've chosen this lesson.

We're going to have fun learning together.

So let's get started.

Today's lesson is from the unit caring, how do stories inspire actions? This lesson is called the story of the Good Samaritan.

By the end of today's lesson, you will be able to retell the parable of the Good Samaritan, and explain that Jesus taught that everyone is our neighbour.

We're going to focus on listening carefully to the story so that we can remember it.

Jesus told this story, so we will be learning about him too and thinking about why he told this story in the first place.

Today's learning is about Christian beliefs.

Some of today's learning will be new for everyone, so we will need to work really hard together, but I'm here to help and we can all learn together.

The key words we'll be using today are parable.

That means a short story that usually has a deeper meaning.

Neighbour, that's someone who lives very near to you.

And commandment, a rule about how you should behave.

Some of these words might be new to you, so let's practise saying them together.

I'll say them first and then you say them back to me.

Parable.

Neighbour.

Commandment.

We'll be exploring and using these words all through the lesson, so listen carefully and see if you can spot them.

In the first part of the lesson, we'll be learning about Jesus.

What did Jesus teach about caring for others? Can you see the big Bible in the picture? The Bible is a special book for Christians.

A long time ago, lots of people followed Jesus because they wanted to hear what he had to say.

He taught people about God.

Some of Jesus' words have been written down in the Bible.

Many Christians read the Bible to find out about God and to learn about Jesus and his life.

Sometimes Jesus told stories called parables to help people understand what God is like.

I wonder if you know any parables.

Do you know the story of the Good Samaritan or the story of the lost sheep? A parable is a short story with an important message.

Jesus liked to say important things by telling a story that everyone could enjoy listening to.

And lots of Jesus' parables are written down in the Bible so people can still read and remember those stories today.

So what have we learned today? Let's have a quick quiz to see.

This one is a true or false quiz.

So you need your thumbs to show me true or false.

So here's the question.

A short story with an important message is called a parable.

Is that true or false? Have a think.

That's right, it's true.

A parable is a story with a deeper meaning or an important message.

Well done if you got that right.

Some of the people who listened to Jesus were very religious.

They followed lots and lots of rules and commandments.

Can you remember that key word, commandment? A commandment is something you have to do or a rule you have to follow.

One day, one of these very religious people came to ask Jesus a question.

He asked, "Which is the most important commandment?" I wonder why he asked that question.

Maybe he was hoping that Jesus would tell him not to bother following all the many, many commandments, just choose one or two.

Jesus answered the question in a really clever way.

He said that there were two very important commandments to follow.

They are: love God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and love your neighbour.

Jesus had put all those many, many commandments together in two really important ones that were easy for everyone to remember.

So here's a quick check to see what we can remember.

Can you remember, what did Jesus say were the greatest commandments? Was it, A, love God with all your heart, soul, and mind, or B, love your brothers and sisters, or C, love your neighbour? Be careful, there might be more than one answer.

Pause the video and have a think.

That's right, there were two answers to this question.

It was love God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and love your neighbour.

Those were the two greatest commandments that Jesus said.

So Jesus gave a good answer to the question, but the person who asked was still puzzled.

He still wanted to ask another question.

"Who is my neighbour?" they said.

Jesus answered the question using a parable to help them to understand who their neighbour was.

And this parable is called the story of the Good Samaritan, and I'm really looking forward to telling you this story in the next part of the lesson.

But first, we need to do a little bit of practise.

So it is time for us to do some practise to show what we've learned.

I wonder if you can fill the gaps in these sentences.

You might need some of our key words from today.

Can you remember them? They were parable, commandment, and neighbour.

So I'm going to read the sentences and I'll leave a little space where there is a gap, and you can be thinking what word would fit into that space to make it make sense? So listen carefully.

Jesus said there were very important commandments.

They are to love with all your heart, soul, and mind, and to love your.

Jesus told a about the Samaritan to help people understand these commandments.

I wonder if you worked out which words go in those gaps.

Pause the video while you do your writing and then we'll see if we found the right words.

Well done.

You've worked really hard to complete the task.

Did you manage to fill all the gaps? Listen carefully and see if you got those words right.

Jesus said there were two very important commandments.

They are to love God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and to love your neighbour.

Jesus told a parable about the Good Samaritan to help people understand these commandments.

Did you get them all right? Well done if you did.

In the second part of the lesson, we're going to find out what is the parable of the Good Samaritan.

So it's time for me to tell you a story.

This is a really important story for some people.

So get comfortable and be ready to listen carefully.

The parable of the Good Samaritan.

Once upon a time, there was a man who needed to travel from Jerusalem to Jericho.

The journey was very long and the road was lonely and dangerous.

There were huge rocks along this lonely road.

Sometimes robbers and thieves would hide behind the rocks.

They waited for people to go past, then they jumped out and took all their money.

The man walked all day along the lonely road through the hot, dry desert, near the rocks and the bushes.

Suddenly, some robbers jumped out and knocked the man to the ground.

They took all his money and clothes, and they ran away and left him, thinking he was dead.

But the man wasn't dead.

He was bleeding a lot, and it hurt to breathe in and out.

"Maybe someone will come and help me," thought the man.

Just then, a priest came along.

The priest spends his time in the temple praying to God and telling people how to live their lives.

"I am sure this priest will come and help me," thought the man.

The priest saw the man.

"Oh no," said the priest.

"There might be robbers waiting here to jump on me and rob me too." So the priest walked past the man as quickly as he could and ran all the way to Jericho.

The man lay there groaning.

The sun was so hot.

He was so thirsty, and he seemed to be bleeding so much.

"Am I going to die?" the man wondered to himself.

As he was wondering, he saw another man come towards him on the road.

This man was a Levite.

Levites helped the priests in the temple to sing and pray.

"I am sure this Levite will come and help me," thought the man.

The Levite took one look at the man and thought, "Oh no, there might be robbers here waiting to jump on me and to rob me," so he went past as quickly as he could and ran all the way to Jericho.

"Oh, no," thought the injured man.

"No one will help me." Let's have a quick check to see if you've been listening carefully to the story.

This is another true or false question, so you need to get your thumbs ready to show me true or false.

The priest and the temple worker were kind and caring to the man.

Is that true or false? Pause the video and have a think.

That's right.

It's false.

The priest and the Levite were religious leaders and they walked past and didn't help the man.

So here is the last part of the story.

I wonder what will happen to that poor injured man.

Well, he saw another man coming towards him with a donkey.

This man was a Samaritan.

He was from a different country.

"Oh, no," thought the injured man, "This man will not help me.

We are enemies." But the Samaritan saw the injured man.

He saw that this might be a place for thieves and robbers to jump out and hurt him, but he still stopped.

He went over to the man.

He gave him water to drink and put bandages on the places where the man was bleeding.

Then he carried the man to his donkey and they set off for Jericho.

Once they were in Jericho, the Samaritan took the injured man to a hospital and paid money for the man to be looked after until he was well again.

At the end of the story, Jesus asked the people who were listening a question.

He asked, "Which person do you think was a good neighbour?" I wonder how you would answer Jesus' question.

Pause the video and have a think.

Did you have a think about it? The Samaritan was a good neighbour to the man, wasn't he? He was the one who helped him.

And the man who asked Jesus the question got the answer right.

He knew that the Samaritan was a good neighbour 'cause he didn't walk past, he helped.

The people who were listening to Jesus would've had a big surprise at the end of the story.

They were Jewish, just like the man in the story.

They wouldn't have expected the Samaritan man to help because the Samaritan people and the Jewish people were enemies.

What a surprise that the Samaritan was the one who helped the Jewish man.

The parable of the Good Samaritan reminds Christians that they should follow Jesus' commandments to love God and their neighbour.

This means caring for everyone, not just the people who live next door, or the people you know, or the people they like.

It means everyone.

So here's a quick check to see if we've remembered everything we've learned.

This parable is about caring for our neighbours.

This means we should care for, is it A, the people next door, B, the people in our town, or C, everyone? Pause the video and have a think.

That's right, we should care for everyone, not just the people next door, but everyone.

I'm sure you got this right.

Now it's your turn to show what you've learned in our lesson today.

Use the sentence starters to tell the parable of the Good Samaritan in your own words.

The sentence starters are: "The traveller got hurt when," "The priest and the temple worker," "The Samaritan," "This parable might remind Christians to." So have a think.

Use the sentence starter and then use your own ideas to finish the sentence.

Pause the video while you are doing your writing, and I'll look forward to seeing what you have written.

Well done.

You've worked really hard today.

I wonder if some of your sentences looked a bit like this.

"The traveller got hurt when he was travelling on a lonely, desert road and the robbers took all his money." "The priest and the temple worker did not stop to help.

They just walked past and pretended not to see the man." "The Samaritan stopped to help.

He bandaged the man's wounds." "This parable might remind Christians to help and care for everyone." I wonder if your writing had some of these ideas in it.

Well done for working so hard.

So we've learned a lot today in this lesson.

We've learned that many Christians believe that Jesus taught that the most important commandments are to love God and love your neighbour.

And many Christians believe that Jesus told the parable of the Good Samaritan to teach everyone about loving their neighbour.

And one message of the parable of the Good Samaritan is that everybody is our neighbour, so we should be kind and care for everyone.

Well done for working so hard today.

I've enjoyed our lesson and I hope you have to.