To analyse a film clip and order the story

Key Stage 2

English

The Robin - Narrative Writing

﻿Hi everyone. My name is Miss Webster. Can you tell me your name? It's lovely to meet you. So I'm excited because I get to teach you from writing, which is one of my favourite subjects. But even more excitingly, this is one of my favourite writing units to teach children. It's based on a film, which is all about a little robin, who has an adventure. So I hope that you're feeling confident and comfortable, and I hope that you're feeling ready to learn. In this lesson, you will need an exercise book or some paper, a pencil or a pen, and you'll need your brain. If you haven't got everything you need, pause the video, go and collect it, and I'll see you when you're ready. We'll start off with the writing warm up, then we're going to watch a film clip and analyse it. Then we will order the events of the story, and then we will practise sentence writing. Let's see what our writing warm up is. So in a second, I'm going to show you a picture and I would like you to write down everything you can see in the picture, being as descriptive as you can. Should I show you the picture? I think that's a very beautiful picture, and I can see lots and lots of things in it. I can see a beautiful blue sky, I can see a vast lake, have a really good look. And pause the video, write down what you can see, and then play the video when you've done that. Pause the video now. Here are some of my ideas. I could see a vast landscape. Forest is another way of saying big or small. What do you think? Really big. A big landscape. An endless stretch of sky. It looks as though the skies go on forever and ever so we could use the objective endless. A beautiful, blue sky. Immense, snow-capped mountains. Let's say that word, snow-capped. Well done. Now, that means that the tops of the mountains are covered with snow. The tops of the mountains are called peaks. Can you point to the mountain peaks in the picture? Well done, and they're covered with snow. So we can describe them as snow-capped. I also could see white fluffy clouds, deep, crystal clear water. Point to the lake. And I chose to describe it as deep, crystal clear. A shimmering lake. Maybe it's shimmering in the sunlight. And I can also see dense, lush trees. Dense means they're tightly packed together. So growing closely together. Tell me one thing that you wrote down. Well done. So let's have a closer look at some of these words. Can you see the words in blue? Can you see the words in pink? Okay, so I've got a few of my examples on the screen, vast landscape, immense snow-capped mountains, deep crystal clear water and shimmering lake. What are the words in blue? And what are the words in pink? What word class? I'm going to share some definitions that might help us. Listen to this one. An adjective describes a word. It tells us what it's like. Shall we say that together? One, two, three. An objective describes a word. It tells us what it's like. Can I share this one with you as well? I might invest and then we'll do it together. A noun is a P,P,T, a person, place or thing. Shall we say it together? One, two, three. A noun is a P,P,T a person, place or thing. So have a look at those words now. Which words are the nouns, which are the adjectives? Think about the blue words. Are they the describing words or are they the things? The blue words are the adjectives and the pink words must be the nouns because they are the things. Say, for example, the nouns that you can see. Landscape, water, mountains and lake. So they are the things. What's different about the words that I've circled? So circled white, fluffy clouds and immense snow-capped mountains. Can you see what's different about those compared to the other two that I've got on the screen? Can you think about how many adjectives there are? Is there any punctuation that I've got in both of those that I haven't got in the others? How many adjectives have I got in white fluffy clouds? Let's just count, white and fluffy. What about immense snow-capped? Immense snow-capped. I've got two adjectives in both of those. So when we have two adjectives, we need a comma to separate them. Can you point to the comma in white, fluffy clouds? Point to the comma in immense, snow-capped mountains. Well done. We are using a short film clip for our writing unit. This film clip was originally used as an advert to advertise a supermarket, but I think we can do some really great writing and write a fantastic story about it. Whilst we watch it, I want us to think about these questions. I want us to think about where the story takes place. I want us to think about who is in the story, and I want us to think about what happens in the story. So I'm going to play it now for us. It lasts about 90 seconds, which is a minute and a half. So it's not very long, and you can think about those three questions, where the story takes place, who is in the story? So what characters there are and what happens. Are you ready to watch? Well done for following along. I think we should lead to a false game now. So here's the first question. True or false? The main character is an animal. Is the main character an animal? Give me if you think it was an animal or wasn't an animal with your thumb, one, two, three, it was. The story is all about a robin going on a journey back home. Here's a picture of him. A robin is a type of bird, quite a small little bird, and they're characterised, which means, known for having red and orange markings on their chest and face. Have you seen a robin before? Yeah, I have and I think they're very cute little birds. Next question. The robin's journey is easy. Was it easy for him to make that journey? Think back to the clip, what sorts of things did he do? And with your thumb, if you think it was true or false. One, two, three. False, because along the way, he encounters a dangerous predator. Do you remember the bit where the bigger bird tried to swoop down and catch him with his tarlings. He also experiences driving rain, which means lashing down rain and really hard conditions to fly through. And he also flew over a very stormy sea, and he got quite badly injured, didn't he? So the robin's journey was not easy. There's a picture of the bigger bird that tried to catch him, and there's a picture of the stormy sea that he had to fly over. So he did not have an easy journey. Next one, the robin ends up in a different place than where he started. Think about where he started his journey. Did he go all the way back there or did he end up in a different place? One, two, three. True. He started in another country, and he's flown all the way home, back to England. Let's take a look at where and how far the Robin flew. Can you see those countries circled in that bigger circle? Those countries are called Scandinavia, which is actually a group of countries consisting of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. So his journey started somewhere in Scandinavia, and he flew all the way over the sea to the United Kingdom. Can you point to the United Kingdom? Well done. So that arrow, that green arrow shows how far he flew. And birds do this in real life, don't they? Do you know what it's called? It's called migration, that's a new term? Migration. Which is where they fly, and sometimes hundreds of miles like this robin did, to a warmer place, often in the winter. So what different landscapes did the Robin fly over? Can you see the pictures on the screen? I can see a desert. I can see a forest and I can see some fields. Did he fly over a desert? Yes or no? Shout it at the screen. He didn't fly over a desert. What about a forest? Yes or no? One, two, three. Yes, he did fly over a forest. What about fields? Did he fly over fields at any point in the journey? Shout at the screen. Yes or no? One, two, three. Yes. He did fly over fields. Here are some more pictures. We've got a stormy sea. We've got a city and we've got some mountains and a lake. Did he fly over a stormy sea? Shout at the screen? One, two, three. He did. Well done. What about a city? Yes or no? Try and think about whether you remember him flying over a city. One, two, three. He didn't fly over a city. What about a lake and some mountains? Shout yes or no in three. One, two, three. He did. Yes. well done. So I've got the four pictures of the landscapes that he flew over here. I want you in a second to pause the video and write down how you would refer to them in your writing. So what would you call the sea? How would you refer to it? How would you describe it? How would you describe that forest, those lakes and mountains in the fields as well. Pause the video, write your ideas down and then play the video when you're ready. Should we see what I thought? We could refer to it as a stormy sea. The forest could be a dense forest, which means it's tightly packed with trees growing closely together. I think we could use the word vast to describe the lakes, those vast huge lakes and immense mountains. And immense mountains, big mountains or little mountains. They're very big mountains, aren't they. And then we could use this word to describe the fields, lush fields, which means they're very green. Let's order the story now. So in our story, we have an opening, a build up, a climax and an ending. Let's read each key moment and then you can match the moment to the part of the story with it's letter. So A, the robin flew over a stormy sea and is badly hurt. B, at last, the robin returned home and was reunited with his friend. C, the robin sets off on his journey from Scandinavia. And D, he narrowly missed being caught by another bigger bird. So what happened first? What happened first, what happened next in the builder? So I'd like you to pause the video and just write down the opening and then the letter, builds up and then the letter, climax then the letter and ending and then the letter. Pause the video now. Have a go and play the video when you've done that. Should we check? What was the first thing that happened? Tell me the letter it was? C, because the robin set off from his journey. That means he started his journey from Scandinavia. Then what happened? What was the letter? It was D. He narrowly missed being caught by another bird. So that moment in the builds up where that bigger bird swooped down on him. That was a bit scary, wasn't it? And it really signalled that things were getting a bit harder for him on his journey. What happened in the climax, what was the lesson? It was A, the Robin flew over a stormy sea, and he got very badly hurt, didn't he? And then the final bit of our story was B. At last, the robin returned home and was reunited with his friend. Did you get that order? Well done. Let's practise some sentence writing. So I would like you to write one sentence about each picture from the clip. This is the first picture. Here's my example of my sentence, and I will read it aloud to you. The little robin started his journey from an old remote hut in the forest. The word remote means that it's not near anywhere else. It's a hot little hut, all on it's own, far away from any other buildings or people or anything else like that. Pause the video and write down your sentence for the first picture. Play the video when you've done it. This is the second picture, the mist covered forest and I can see some mountains in the background as well. Here's my sentence. He flew high above the vast misty lakes and past snow-capped mountains. Remember we had that word in our writing warm up, snow-capped, meaning the tops of the mountains, the peaks are covered with snow. Pause the video now. Write down your sentence for the second picture and play the video when you've done that. Can you tell me your sentence for number two? Read it aloud. Good job. Shall we see the next and final picture? The Little robin is caught in the rain there, getting soaking wet. Here's my sentence. The poor little bird got soaking wet in the driving rain. Driving rain is when it rains really hard, and you get soaking wet if you stand outside in it. Can you pause the video, write down your sentence for this picture and play the video when you've done that. Well done. Can you read me your third sentence, please? Fantastic. Well done. You've done our first lesson in this unit. So you should be feeling really proud of yourselves now. We did a great job in the writing warm up. We watched a clip and we analysed it, then we ordered the events of the story and we've finished off by practising writing some sentences. If you'd like to, you can share your work with your parent or carer, and I'm already really looking forward to seeing you for our next lesson very soon. Have a lovely rest of your day. Bye.

To analyse a film clip and order the story

To analyse a film clip and order the story

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