New
New
Year 4

More rich vocabulary associated with dark and rainy words

I can use the words 'dreary', 'ominous' and 'splattered' effectively in multiple contexts.

New
New
Year 4

More rich vocabulary associated with dark and rainy words

I can use the words 'dreary', 'ominous' and 'splattered' effectively in multiple contexts.

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Dreary is an adjective which means boring or miserable.
  2. Ominous is an adjective which means scary, threatening or menacing.
  3. Splattered is an adjective which means splashed or sprinkled.

Common misconception

Pupils might use 'splattered' as a verb instead of an adjective. For example, 'The raindrops splattered onto her forehead' instead of 'She wiped the splattered drops of rain off her forehead'.

Allow pupils to also use the word as a verb; just make sure they understand that this is a different word class. Look at sentences where it is used as a verb and an adjective and ask pupils to identify the word class.

Keywords

  • Noun - a naming word for people, places or things

  • Adjective - a word that describes a noun

  • Synonym - a word that has the same or similar meaning to another word

  • Word pair - words that often appear together

  • Etymology - the study of the origin of words and the ways their meanings have changed over time

Ask pupils to make a list of chores that they might describe as 'dreary' to help them see this word in their own context.
Teacher tip

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6 Questions

Q1.
Which image represents the word bleak?
An image in a quiz
Correct Answer: An image in a quiz
An image in a quiz
An image in a quiz
Q2.
Which image represents the word downpour?
Correct Answer: An image in a quiz
An image in a quiz
An image in a quiz
An image in a quiz
Q3.
Which image represents the word drab?
An image in a quiz
An image in a quiz
Correct Answer: An image in a quiz
An image in a quiz
Q4.
Select the correct definition of bleak.
Correct answer: gloomy or depressing
a heavy rainstorm
spiralling or twirling
Q5.
Select the correct definition of downpour.
gloomy or depressing
Correct answer: a heavy rainstorm
dull or grey
Q6.
Select the correct definition of drab.
thin or fine
a heavy rainstorm
Correct answer: dull or grey
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6 Questions

Q1.
What adjective does this image represent?
An image in a quiz
splattered
ominous
Correct answer: dreary
Q2.
What adjective does this image represent?
An image in a quiz
splattered
Correct answer: ominous
dreary
Q3.
What adjective does this image represent?
An image in a quiz
Correct answer: splattered
omimous
dreary
Q4.
Match each word to its word pair.
Correct Answer:splattered,mud

mud

Correct Answer:dreary,task

task

Correct Answer:ominous,warning

warning

Q5.
Which of the following adjectives might you use to describe a silence?
dreary
Correct answer: ominous
splattered
Q6.
Which word would you use in the following sentence? 'Grit's __________ task of counting grains of sand on the beach was sending him mad!'
Correct answer: dreary
ominous
splattered
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