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Thinking from Paddington and Floella Benjamin's perspectives

I can think from another person or character's perspective.

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Year 1

Thinking from Paddington and Floella Benjamin's perspectives

I can think from another person or character's perspective.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. One way of inferring a character's feelings is looking at their expressions in an illustration.
  2. One way of inferring a character's feelings is reading about how they move, what they do and what they say.
  3. Imagining how people might feel because of certain actions can help to understand the perspective of others.
  4. Discussing feelings of others helps to generate alternative & more powerful adjectives to describe an emotion or event.
  5. Using 'I', 'me' or 'my' is a way of speaking in the first person.

Keywords

  • Character - a person or animal in a story

  • Emotion - a feeling or mood

  • Facial expression - a way of communicating emotion through the face

  • Perspective - point of view

Common misconception

Pupils may struggle to speak in the fist person imagining they are someone else.

The sentence stems should support. Teachers should ask the question, then say the sentence stem and provide children time to speak to someone to rehearse answers in full sentences. If they don't reply in full sentences, always re-phrase it for them.

As well as understanding character emotions and feelings based on actions, a primary purpose of the lesson is to support vocabulary development. When the pupils freeze-frame, label their emotions for them: "You feel proud!" and ask them to repeat "We feel proud." to support this development.
Teacher tip

Equipment

You will need copies of the 2014 Harper Collins Children's Books edition of 'Paddington' by Michael Bond and the 2020 Macmillan Children's Books edition of 'Coming to England' by Floella Benjamin.

Licence

This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).

Lesson video

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6 Questions

Q1.
What is an adjective?
a naming word for people, places and things
a doing or being word
a word that describes or adds detail to a verb
Correct answer: a word that describes or adds detail to a noun
Q2.
Which of these adjectives describe feelings or emotions?
purple
bright
tasty
Correct answer: happy
Correct answer: angry
Q3.
What is the adjective in the following sentence? 'Floella felt overjoyed when she saw her Marmie.'
Floella
Correct answer: overjoyed
Marmie
saw
Q4.
What is the adjective in the following sentence? 'Paddington feels confused.'
Paddington
feels
Correct answer: confused
Q5.
Match each word class to its example in the following sentence: 'Floella feels excited.'
Correct Answer:noun,Floella

Floella

Correct Answer:verb,feels

feels

Correct Answer:adjective,excited

excited

Q6.
Which words would you use when talking about yourself?
Correct answer: I
he
Correct answer: me
Correct answer: my
they

6 Questions

Q1.
What does perspective mean?
a feeling or mood
a picture or drawing in a book
Correct answer: thinking from someone else's point of view
Q2.
Which of these words would you use if you were speaking in the first person perspective?
Correct answer: I
she
Correct answer: me
they
Correct answer: my
Q3.
Imagine that you are Paddington. What is your favourite food?
My favourite food is bacon.
Correct answer: My favourite food is marmalade.
My favourite food is broccoli.
My favourite food is honey.
Q4.
Imagine that you are Floella. How would your describe the cabin of the boat you stayed in?
The cabin on the boat was huge.
The cabin on the boat was beautiful.
The cabin on the boat was boring.
Correct answer: The cabin on the boat was small.
Q5.
Imagine that you are Paddington. Which room did you flood?
Correct answer: I flooded the bathroom.
I flooded the kitchen.
I flooded the lounge.
I flooded the cafe.
Q6.
Imagine that you are Floella. Which adjectives could you use to describe how Floella felt when she was honoured by the Queen?
Correct answer: proud
angry
Correct answer: successful
upset