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To develop our understanding of how to use verbs and adverbs

Key Stage 2

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A Christmas Carol - Narrative writing

﻿Hello everyone, it's Mr. Brown here with your English lesson for today. And, today, we are going to be looking at developing your knowledge of verbs and adverbs. Teaching you how to use them in your writing to really have a great effect on your reader, and to add that level of detail that we are always striving for. Let's start our lesson. Okay! Our learning objective for today is to develop my knowledge of verbs and adverbs. In this lesson you'll need an exercise book or a piece of paper, a pencil, and of course, your brain. Make sure you're switched on because these play a crucial role in writing descriptive sentences. Okay, generating verbs is the first thing we're going to start with on today's agenda. We're then going to look at generating adverbs, then I'll show you how to use those verbs and adverbs together in your writing. Let's start, though, with our word classes because, if we're going to be doing a whole lesson on verbs and adverbs we need to know exactly what they mean. So let's start with nouns and adjectives because they go together well. A noun is a PPT, a person, place, or thing. Say it with me, a noun is PPT, a person, place, or thing. Good! Adjectives. An adjective describes a word. An adjective describes a word. Or we can say an adjective is a describing word. An adjective is a describing word. Good! Verbs. A verb is a doing or a being word. A verb is a doing or a being word. And adverbs, an adverb describes a verb. And we know verbs and adverbs are best friends, they go together, we must make sure we see them as a two. Okay, warming up. Let's get started. And today's warmup I'd like you to write a compound sentence. I have got two main clause, simple sentences here for you, about the build up. Your job is to try and turn them into a compound sentence. I've given you some picture clues at the top. A Mr. Main picture clue and that BOA. Can you remember what BOA stands for? Have a go at pausing lesson and writing a compound sentence. If you'd like a clue then you can keep watching. If you're ready then pause and go for it. Okay your clue, there it is, I can show you what BOA stands for. Now try and write your compound sentence. Okay let's have a look. So, Scrooge stared at the door, he tightly gripped his chair. Let's put those together. Scrooge stared at the door, but he tightly gripped his chair. Doesn't really work for but, we know but is this isn't it, so Scrooge stared at the door, that's I guess a positive, but he tightly gripped his chair, it's not really, it doesn't quite work. Okay, try or. Scrooge stared at the door, or he tightly gripped his chair. No, that doesn't work is it, they're really just going to be like, what, which one do you mean, did he stare at the door, or did he grip his chair? Doesn't work. Let's try and. Scrooge stared at the door and he tightly gripped his chair. Perfect. It gives two bits of information, they're about the same topic, it's the same moment so and works really well. Well done to everyone who went for and there. Give yourself a tick, a high five, a big smile, good job. Okay, let's start with generating verbs. First thing that we need to do is, can you spot the verbs here? I've got some words and there are verbs in there but can you spot them? You can write them down, you could say them out loud. Can you spot the doing or being words? Let's see the results. There they are in green, we have smiled is something that you do. Glared, these are past tense because we are going to be using past tense verbs in our writing of a Christmas Carol. Slept, thought, ran, and jumped. Thought is a tricky one, isn't it? Because it's something you do even though you can't see it, you're not moving. Right now I am thinking, but it's one the inside, but that's still a verb. You can definitely have a thought, he mischievously thought of a plan. Okay! Watch the clip again and write down all the verbs that Scrooge does. So we're going to watch the build up to a Christmas Carol, I want you to write down all the verbs that Scrooge does, The things that he does in that scene. I've given you an example, he gripped, when he grips onto the side of the chair. What other verbs does he do? Let's watch the clip and see.

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Okay, so lots of verbs there, I wonder which ones you spotted. Let's start with the ones that I spotted and these ones are all for Scrooge looking at something. There was lots of moments where he looked at something as that happens in many scenes with lots of characters. But which verbs fit them? I went for looked, gazed, stared, and studied. Looked, most obvious one but not very descriptive, gazed, when you're really staring at something for a long time, stared, similar, and studied, when you're looking at something very closely. I think that will work well for when he's looking at the doorknob that's turning. He studied the doorknob. Okay, next ones I went for were gripped, grabbed, and clasped, and they were all for that moment where he grabs onto the chair. Gripped, grabbed, and clasped, is a nice one for when you hold something, you clasp your fingers around it. Shivered, trembled, and cowered, I also spotted. I've grouped these together, can you see, because they all are for a similar moment but different verbs fit that moment. Shivered, he was so scared he started to shake, trembled, again, very similar to shivered, and cowered, is when you kind of hide like this, you don't want, you want to protect yourself, that's what he's sort of doing in his chair, he's cowering away from the ghost. And, for when he shouts out, screamed, yelled, and shrieked work really well. Okay, we know have our verbs which means, of course, next up is our adverbs. Same thing, can you spot the adverbs that are hidden in these words here? And remember, an adverb describes a verb. You can say them out loud, you can write them down. I think you're going to be able to do this really easily because adverbs look a little different, don't they? They have something on the end of them, which, usually, which helps them to stand out. Let's have a look. There they are, carefully, swiftly, which means nice and quick, hesitantly, when you do something and you're hesitating when you do it, you do it bit by bit because you're maybe worried that something bad might be about to happen at the end of it, and wildly, you do something, you're out of control, wildly. These are all adverbs and they stand out because they end in -ly, exactly. Okay, so we have our verbs, we now need adverbs to match those verbs, to say how they happened. We know Scrooge looked, but how did he look? Anxiously, nervously, cautiously. These were the adverbs that I've added for looked, gazed, stared, and studied. And let's put them together and see how they sound and you'll hear that they work really well. Scrooge looked anxiously towards the door, perfect. Scrooge gazed nervously at the door. Scrooge stared cautiously at the door. It all works. You can mix them around as well. I said Scrooge looked anxiously but I could also say that he gazed anxiously, or stared anxiously, or studied the door anxiously. I could even put anxiously at the end of the phrase. Can you have a go for gripped, grabbed, and clasped, for the action of him holding onto the side of the chair. How did he do it? What adverbs would you use? Gently? That doesn't work, does it? You can pause this lesson at any time if you need a bit more time to write these down, or you can say them out loud. Gripped, grabbed, clasped. let's see what adverbs I came up with. Desperately, and tightly. He desperately gripped onto the chair. He was desperate for the chair to help him, to support him, to hide him from the ghost. And tightly describes actually how tight he was holding. And he was holding so tight because he was so scared. Let's do the same for shivered, trembled, and cowered. How did he do those things? Again, you can write them down or say them out loud. He shivered frantically. He trembled instantly. He cowered constantly. Frantically means you are doing something so frantic you want it to be quick and you're not worried about it being neat or tidy, you're frantically. If I told you you've got to tidy your bedrooms in thirty seconds you would be frantically tidying. Instantly means something happens straight away. Constantly means it keeps happening again and again. and again and again and again and again. Okay, let's have a go at the last ones. Screamed, yelled, and shrieked. What adverbs do you think suit those verbs? Can't just choose anything. Should we have a look? I've gone for loudly. I thought that worked actually really well with all of them. And then I thought I would borrow desperately and frantically from the other groups, and that is absolutely fine. You will find adverbs, like desperately and frantically, and anxiously, and nervously, work with all of these! Let me show you what I mean. Scrooge looked anxiously, we said didn't we, but he can go, Scrooge gripped anxiously onto his chair. Works perfectly well. He screamed anxiously, yeah! You can see how these are very flexible. Okay, how to use verbs and adverbs. Which one is the correct way to use a verb and adverb together? Let's have a look at some examples and you tell me which one is correct. Scrooge anxiously gazed at the door. Scrooge gazed anxiously at the door. Anxiously, Scrooge gazed at the door. Three completely different ways of using the verb gazed and the adverb anxiously. But which one is correct? For the first one I've gone with adverb, verb. Second one I've gone verb first and then adverb. And the last one is an interesting one, I've gone for adverb at the start, with a comma, and then gazed in the main phrase, in the main clause. Which one's correct? Well, well done if you said they are all correct. All of those are fantastic ways to use verbs and adverbs, and it comes back to what I keep saying to you, variety, variety is the spice of life. You've got to keep on varying your writing, making sure you are keeping the reader guessing, they do not know what the next sentence is going to look like. And this is a great way of doing it. Not always writing verb adverb, verb adverb, verb adverb, or adverb verb. Mix it up! And these are three examples of how you can do that, especially that bottom one, where you can put an adverb at the start of the sentence, and we will have another lesson later on in this unit looking at this really closely. This is called a fronted adverbial, and have a comma after it and then the main clause, the simple sentence. Okay, can you have a go at writing three sentences from the build up that have a verb and adverb in them? In each sentence, you must use the verb and adverb in a different way. Sentence one, I want you to write the adverb before the verb. Sentence two, I want you to put the adverb after the verb. And sentence three, I want you to put the adverb at the start of your sentence, with a comma after it. Don't forget that comma. Three sentences from any part in the build up. Could be when Scrooge hears the noise, the footsteps and the chains dragging. Could be when the ghost comes through floating through the door. Could be when the chains are flying through the door at Scrooge. Could be when he's screaming, it's up to you. And to help you, use this page. These are the verbs and adverbs that we have generated today, so have this up on your screen while you're writing your three sentences. So pause, write your three sentences, and use this screen for reference now. Okay, well done, we've generated verbs, we've generated adverbs, and we have had a go at using those verbs and adverbs in sentences. Great job everyone. And that's it, you've completed today's lesson. Excellent work. You've gone one step closer to being fully prepared to write the build up of A Christmas Carol. Well done everyone, I'll see you next time.

To develop our understanding of how to use verbs and adverbs

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