To develop a rich understanding of words associated with intelligence and confidence

Key Stage 2

English

Macbeth - Narrative writing

﻿- Hello, everyone, my name is Ms Butt and today we're going to be learning some new vocabulary together. Today we're going to be learning three adjectives to describe Macbeth. And that's because at the moment, I know you're working towards writing a character description, all about this intriguing character. I hope you enjoy today's lesson. Here's what we're going to do in today's lesson. First, I'm going to introduce the new vocabulary, one word at a time. And we're going to look at illustrations to help us get a deeper understanding of what these words mean. then we're going to identify word pairs and synonyms. And this will help us to use the words appropriately in lots of different contexts. Finally, we're going to apply the words in sentences. And we're going to be practising sentences that you can hopefully use in your character descriptions of the class. So right at the end of the lesson, you're going to need to do some writing yourself. So that means you're going to need something to write on and something to write with. you're going to need your brains and going to need to be focused from the very start of the lesson. So can you first pause the video now to get the things that you need, and make sure that you've cleared away anything that could distract you and that you're focused and ready for your learning? Okay, let's get started. Here's some key vocabulary we're going to be using today. I'm going to say each word and then I'd like you to repeat it back to me. Synonym, word pair, adjective.Noun. so this is what these things mean. A synonym is a word that means exactly or nearly the same as another word. So today, we're going to be learning some synonyms. word pairs are words that are often appear together. So we have the word bright. The word pairs might be a bright sun, a bright moon or a bright light. An adjective is a describing word. And when we're doing character descriptions, describing words are essential. So today we're going to be learning three adjectives. And nouns are a person or place or thing. So for example, we'll be describing Macbeth. He's a person so he would be a noun. Let's get started and think about three adjectives to describe Macbeth. Can you pause the video and do that now? Macbeth is a character who is very ambitious, and he's very intelligent. And he's also very confident because he'd have to be quite confident to try and pull off the plans that he has got in store. So today we're going to be learning some words that mean intelligent and confident. But we're going to be learning different ways of saying and referring to intelligence or confidence. Let's take a look at this image here . having had a close look at this picture and describe what you see. What would you What is this character up to? And how would you describe this character? Pause the video and do that now. I can see that this is a little fly and then he might be little, he looks like he is coming up with an evil plan. If I tilt my head I can just about see that it says evil plan. Looks like it involves some kind of rockets and he's drawn a sketch of what his evil plan is. His got his hands together like this, and he's looking. He's got a big evil grin? And it definitely looks like he's up to no good. So let's find out what this word is. Devious, devious. Devious is an adjective and it means cheating or sly; like someone busy making devious making evil plans. So if somebody is devious, they're not only Sly and cheating, that they also would be quite intelligent, because if they weren't intelligent, they probably wouldn't be able to come up with these evil plans. I want you to think that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are a little devious. I'm going to read you some words now. And I'd like you as I read these words to you, to see if you can spot the three synonyms of the word devious. If the words aren't synonyms, that means that word pairs which we'll go through afterwards sly, villain, plan, grin, cheating, plot, cunning, strategy, step and criminal so here's the word in the sentence to help you have more idea of the context. Macbeth devious plan was playing on his mind. Can you pause the video and see if you can identify the synonyms of devious? Remember a synonym is a word that means the same thing. So the synonyms are, sly, cheating and cunning. And that means the rest of these words are word pairs which I'll read to you now. A devious villain, a devious criminal, a devious plan. Definitely Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have a devious plan, a devious grin a bit like in this image, a devious plot, a devious step, and a devious strategy. Now whenever we learn new words, it's really important that we actually say them out loud ourselves. So I'd like you now to pause the video and read these word pairs just like I did. Lovely, well done. So before we move on, Can you remind me What does devious mean? That's right, it means cheating or sly. Before we move on Can you all show me a devious grin? Oh, very devious. Let's take a look at our second illustration. What do you think is happening here? What story is this picture showing us and how would you describe the character who is lying on the sun lounger? Pause the video and have a think about that now. Hmm, well, it looks to me like this character who's lying on the Sun Lounger is looking quite pleased with himself. And maybe that's got to do something to do with the fact that he's not helping to paint the fence. He's got his arms back, and he's looking very, very relaxed. And he's kind of doing a little bit of a cheeky grin as if to say, haha, I've got out of doing all the work. Let's see if that's got something to do with the meaning of this word. Cunning, cunning. Cunning is an adjective that means sly or crafty. Like someone who cleverly manages to get out of doing their chores. Quite often in stories, foxes play quite sly or cunning characters. I wonder if you can think of a story that's got a fox in it. That is cunning. So just as before, I'm going to read some words to you and I'd like you to see if you can spot the synonyms of cunning. Plan. Devil, Fox, disguise. Clever, plot, devious, thief, trick, smile. Sly, and ploy . a ploy is a bit like plan. Here's the word in a sentence. Macbeth's cunning ploy was soon to become a reality. Can you pause the video and see if you can spot the three synonyms of cunning? So here are the answers. Clever, Devious and Sly. And that means the rest of these words are word pads, which I'll read to you now. A cunning plan a cunning devil Cunning fox. Cunning disguise, cunning thief cunning ploy, cunning trick, cunning smile and cunning plot. Macbeth is told by Lady Macbeth that he's got to put on a cunning disguise. She says to him that he's got to act as if he's very he's Duncan's friend, that actually be the serpent. So actually he's got a cunning plan that he needs to put on this front or a disguise that he's really welcoming and please that Duncan is there at his house. Can you please pause the video now and read these word pairs out loud? Brilliant, well done. So before we move on to our last word, what does cunning mean? Use the picture if you want a clue. well done. It means sly or crafty? Let's take a look at our final image. Now this word isn't to do with being clever or cunning or devious. This is actually more to do with a confidence. So take a look at this picture. What's happening? What story is this telling? And how would you describe this character? Pause the video and have a think now. this character is stealing the wallet of this police man. And if you are going to be if you are a thief stealing anyone's wallet is obviously wrong and very daring and that you'd have to be very confident to try to do something like that. But to actually steal a wallet of a police officer is really shocking. It shows that this person doesn't seem to be afraid at all of the consequences. The policeman looks quite unaware. he's just munching on his doughnut. Let's find out what this word is brazen brazen. So this is an adjective and it means bold and shameless, like stealing a policeman's wallet in plain sight. So it's not even dark or night-time in this picture. in front of everyone in the plain light of day of all the people steal from this thief is stealing from a policeman. What a brazen thing to do. Let's take a look at which words can be synonyms of brazen. bold, thief, defiance, defiance is sort of showing open resistance or bold disobedience. attitude, lie arrogance. attack shameless attempt and blatant. And blatant that means that you do something openly and unashamedly. And it's quite often links to bad behaviour. Here's the word in a sentence. Macbeth brazen attempts to become king would soon lead him to his downfall. what Macbeth did was incredibly brazen because he's not again, he's not only he's not planning on murdering anyone, he's actually planning on murdering his own King. It's incredibly brazen attack. So could you pause the video now and see if you can spot the synonyms for this new word brazen. So the synonyms are bold, shameless, and blatant. the rest of the words therefore are word pairs which will lead to you now. A brazen thief like in this picture, brazen defiance. A brazen attitude, a brazen lie, brazen arrogance brazen attack, like the attack on King Duncan, and a brazen attempt. Could you please pause the video and read these word pairs out loud? Brilliant. So now I'd like you to remind me what's the word brazen means and again, use the image to help you if you have forgotten. Well done. It means bold and shameless. So we've learned three new words. And these words will hopefully be useful when you're describing it the character of Macbeth. Can you remember what each word is? Look at the pictures and see if you can tell me. pause the video and have a go at that now. Okay, so the first picture shows the word devious. The second one was cunning, and the final one was brazen. I'd now like you to come up with your own definition for each word. Because often when we put things in our own words that helps us to understand and remember what something means. So imagine that you were explaining to a younger child, what does devious cunning and brazen mean how would you define them? Pause the video and have a go that now. Okay, so you don't have to use those same definitions I use but just to remind you, here's what the words means. So you can see if you remembered more or less what these words meant. Devious means cheating and sly. Cunning means Sly and crafty and brazen means bold and shameless. Now we're going to try and apply these words in sentences. I'm going to read the sentence to you, and I'd like you to pick which adjective you think fits best in the gap. The pair looked enviously at Duncan, and knew what they had to do. If you're envious, it's a bit like being jealous. Pause the video and see if you can identify the adjective that fits best in the sentence. Now, you may have discovered that in fact, because these are all adjectives, we could describe the pair, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth as devious cunning or brazen. I've put devious in here. I think devious and cunning would be the ones that would work the best. Here's our second sentence. He act was done. Macbeth had killed his own king. which adjective fits in this sentence? The brazen act was done quite often in our writing. It's nice to include short, snappy sentences like this one to create drama. The brazen act was done. And of course, it was a brazen act because he's not killed anyone, any killing anyone would be brazen, but he's killed his own King. And finally, Macbeth glared, at Duncan, who was tucking into the feast, and planned his next move. Which word do you think fits in here? Again, any of these could work. I think the best option would be deviously or cunningly. Macbeth glared cunningly at Duncan, who was tucking into the feast and planned his next move. you may notice that this sentence has got an embedded relative clause in it. That's the part that starts with who after the comma, and then ends after feast again with a comma, embedded relative clauses is when you take a main clause, the main clause in this sentence would be Macbeth glared cunningly at Duncan and planned his next move. and you embed you put into it some relative information. So we're adding some more information about Duncan. Macbeth has glared cunningly at Duncan who was talking into the feast, but adding extra information about what Duncan's doing, and we're hugging it either side with commerce, and then the main course continues. Perhaps when you do some writing in a second, you could try to include an embedded relative clause as well. Now, you may have noticed that I've changed the word class. these words originally were devious, cunning and brazen. And I've turned them into deviously, cunningly and brazenly. So what word class are these words now? you have to think. So these words now are adverbs. Adverbs, often end in LY that ly sound. And adverbs describe verbs. they describe how verbs happen. So the verb in this sentence in the main class is Macbeth glared at Duncan. So when we say he glared cunningly, the cunningly best describes how he glared. Again, perhaps you could turn these words into adverbs and use them in your writing, just as you could use them as adjectives to describe Macbeth or Lady Macbeth. So it's now your turn to have a go at some writing. I'd like you to write a sentence using either the word devious, cunning or brazen, and if possible, try to write a sentence. That's going to be Helpful that you already to come to write your character descriptions. Now if you feel really ambitious, you could even try and write a sentence with each word in it. You could write three sentences. That's up to you. it can often be difficult just coming up with a sentence off the spot. So here are some sentence starters that might help you. This first one is a sentence scaffold with an embedded relative clause. Macbeth, who stared in determination at Duncan. So in that embedded relative clause that you could add some relative information about Macbeth. Here's another sentence scaffold as the pair schemed craftily comma, what else could they be doing? This is a complex sentence, it's got a subordinating clause as the pair schemed craftily and then the second part of the sentence which you would write would be the main clause. So you don't have have to use either of these sentence scaffolds that they that they're if you want to use them if you find them helpful. So can you pause the video now and have a go at writing your own sentence or sentences. Excellent, well done. So now we have looked at illustrations to help us really understand what these new words mean. We've identified the synonyms and the word pairs so we can see all the different contexts that we can use these words. And we've also put them into sentences. So I hope now you feel really confident with this new vocabulary. well done for watching this lesson and working so hard. If you want to share any of your work any of the sentences that you've written today, you can ask a parents or carer take a photo and upload them on Twitter. And then I would love to see the sentences that you've written. Thank you for watching and I'll see you soon. Bye.

To develop a rich understanding of words associated with intelligence and confidence

To develop a rich understanding of words associated with intelligence and confidence

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