To explore the author's use of language and word meaning

Key Stage 2

English

London is the Place for Me by Lord Kitchener

﻿Hi everyone. We are in our third of five lessons in our guided reading unit, which is based of Lord kitchener's music and looking at the lyrics in it. Let's get learning. So, let's look at our agenda for today. First, we are going to recall what we have already learned about the language used in "London is the Place for Me". Then we are going to use semantic mapping to help build our comprehension of a phrase or a word. Finally, we are going to use other strategies to help us comprehend new words or phrases. So our focus today is language. Pause the video and if you don't have an exercise book or paper, your pen and your brain's note in gear, go for a little run around and get ready. Let's go. So, recalling what we have already learned about language. This is all revision and we've done this previously, so we should whiz through it, really quickly. Is the language used in the song, "London is the Place for Me", positive or negative. Show me a thumbs up or thumbs down. Correct. It's all positive language and we looked at some of the words. Lets re-look at them today. Which words or phrases are positive in these first two verses? Pause the video and see if you can remember them or re-find them. What did you find? "Place for me". That phrase made us think of belonging, which was a really positive thing like how you feel when you get home, like oh, this is just such a lovely place to be, or I feel like I belong here, it's a place for me. We found the adjective, lovely, that modal verb, must. "You must come back to London city". Glad, which was a synonym for, happy or content, well done. Something that you really want. "This is the place I wanted to know". And then Lord kitchener got to know it by going to London. So can you remember any of the adjectives we discussed in our previous lesson that we might use to describe the song? They were those positive adjectives. Did you remember any? I'll give you a clue. Not all of them are positive ones, not all of them are relevant to "London is the Place for Me". Which of the four can we use to describe the song? Upbeat. your turn. Optimistic. your turn. Hopeful. Intriguing. Those were our adjectives we can use to describe this song, and the two that weren't relevant were, dreary, and sombre. Those are not appropriate for this song. Now we're going to do something called semantic mapping. Let's practise saying it, semantic... Semantic mapping. Right. Now we're going to have a go using semantic mapping to help us understand the phrase "Mother Country". This is a phrase that we said in our first lesson was confusing and puzzled us about the lyrics in this song. So, first of all, 'Mother' and 'Country' are both nouns. A noun is a PPT, a person, place or thing, but there's a clue here, "Mother Country". both of those words have capital letters and usually they don't. What does this mean? Do you know? It means the phrase "Mother Country" is a proper noun, proper nouns have capital letters. Can you think of any other proper nouns? I can, Ms Henman, me. Birmingham. It's a city, it's a proper noun, it's got a capital letter. The last one I thought of, was this one. What does it say? Palace of Westminster and inside the Palace of Westminster are the houses of parliament. How is that related to this lesson? Can you remember? Yes. Big Ben, which is the tower, the clock tower attached to the house of the parliament, and rings those bells and those bells are what we hear in the first few seconds of Lord Kitchener's song, Semantics is the study of meaning specifically to do with words and language. I have put, "Mother Country" in the centre of my screen. Can you get a piece of paper, and write "Mother Country" in the middle of it. Pause the video whilst you do that. Okay. Now, I'm going to think about se.... Okay. Now, I'm going to think about adjectives that are often used to describe mothers. Now, all moms are different, but we have an idea of a stereotypical mother who is maybe, nurturing or kind. Can you think of any other adjectives to describe a mother? And write them down below the words, nurturing and kind, pause the video whilst you do this. I wonder if you came up with any of the same words as me, I also came up with, caring, loving, and protective. Hmm. I also came up with, authoritative. Can you say it? Authoritative. That means, a mother is sometimes the authority figure the person in charge. Can you think of any other synonyms? I thought of bossy. Pause the video and see if you can come up with other similar words to authoritative and bossy that we might associate with a mother. What did you find? Let me show you mine. Powerful. Impressive. Controlling. So, we have these two different sides of the stereotypical mother, the nurturing and kind side, and then maybe the side that's in charge and the figurehead of the family. The final thing we haven't looked at on our word map, is the word country. What does country mean? A country is a nation with its own government. So, on our map, we have written down all the words that we associate with, mother and country. How does this help us? The line of the song says, "I'm glad to know my Mother Country". And we have all of these words that we associate with mother and country. I've also put on the screen, the map that we saw in the first lesson, what can you remember about it? Yes. It's a map of the British Empire. Which country in the world do you think was referred to as the "Mother Country", by people who spoke English? Correct. Britain. So, when Lord Kitchener says, "I'm glad to know my Mother Country", what he is saying is, I'm glad to know, Britain. I'm glad to be in Britain. I'm glad to get to know the people, the culture, the customs. Can you see how the semantic map has helped us understand this phrase? I hope so. In the next part of our lesson, we're going to use other strategies to help us comprehend new words and phrases. So, just like we did with the phrase "Mother Country", my top tip is always to work out what word class the word or the phrases that you don't understand is. Sometimes you may not be able to do this, but it can give you a really big advantage. Then you might cover up the word, put your fingers on it and read around it and see if you can make sense of what the word might mean. Maybe you could make a guess of what it means, or maybe you could replace it with another word that you do know and see if it makes sense. Or, you can look at the word that you don't understand and see if you break it up into different pieces, whether you can work out what the word might mean. We're going to look at different examples of words that were a little bit tricky in this song and see if these strategies will help us. Before we do that, I've given you an example. Isla lifted the trophy triumphantly as a toothy grin stretched from ear to ear. Now I've bolded the two words that I thought you may not know, triumphantly and toothy. So let's have a go, triumphantly. What word class do you think that is? It's describing, how she lifted the trophy. So, if it's describing the verb, it's a, what is it? An adverb. Great. So, triumphantly is an adverb. Now, I'm going to, just think about if I was lifting a trophy how I would feel. I'd probably feel quite proud. Hmm. Now I'm going to break up that word triumphantly. I've got the word triumph and I know that a triumph is a victory or something really good and something maybe I've won. So, I think Isla lifted the trophy triumphantly, means that she felt proud that maybe she was the winner. I think that's helped me understand that word. Now I'm going to look at the word, toothy. As a toothy grin stretch from ear to ear. 'Toothy grin'. The grin is the noun. So what's toothy? What word class is that? What describes a noun? An adjective describes a noun. Hmm. So, toothy is an adjective. Now, I'm going to break it up. Can you spot a word within the word, toothy? I can. Tooth. As a grin stretch from ear to ear. Oh, that makes me think that she's smiling, a really big smile with her teeth. Okay. Let's now look at Lord Kitchener's lyrics. One word that we were a bit unsure about was the word, broadmindedly. "Well believe me I am speaking broadmindedly". Lots of children wrote this down as something that confused or puzzled them about the lyrics in this song. What strategy do you think might be useful, to help us understand this word? Correct. We're going to look at what word class it might be and see if that helps us. Broadmindedly. It ends in ly and it's describing how someone is speaking. So it's describing a verb it's giving us additional information of verb, it's an adverb. Now I can't really read around it. I covered up the word and it didn't really help me. So, we're left with, spotting a word or several words within this word. If you break it up, can you see any other words within this word? I can, broad and mind. Now I know what a mind is. Broad. Do you know what broad means? Broad can describe someone's shoulders, it can mean wide. So, when we describe someone as broad-minded, we are saying that their mind is wide or maybe open. A synonym for broad-minded is open-minded. So, if you are talking to someone or talking about something, broadmindedly, you are being open-minded. Why then does Lord Kitchener say , "I am speaking broadmindedly"? Pause the video and have a think. Have you ever met someone who is broad-minded or open-minded? I think I have. And what it means is that, they're open to new ideas and they're not biassed. So, when he says, "I'm speaking broadmindedly", I think he's saying, "I'm not biassed when I tell you how amazing London is, "I've been to loads of places". And he does. He lists all the places that people might have been to. He says, Australia, Asia, all of those places. France, America. But he's making a fair comparison. He has reflected fairly on how London compared to these places. I think it also shows us that he is not being influenced or persuaded, or paid to show London in a positive light. He has many followers because he's famous and they might be influenced by his music. But in saying, "I am speaking broadmindedly", he is implying and suggesting that he thinks this himself and no one else is influencing him. "To live in London you are really comfortable. "Because the English people are very much sociable." I'm going to focus on looking for words within words for these two. Comfortable. Can you see another word within it? I can, comfort. Sociable. Can you see another word within it? I can. Social. So, having found words within these words, we're going to use a semantic map to help us understand them a bit further. Can you get a piece of paper and write the word social in the middle of it. Pause the video as you do that. Okay. What does social mean? I want you to write down all the words that you associate with the word social. Here's one that I thought of. Chatty. Someone who is social is usually quite chatty. Here's another one I thought of, friendly. Someone who is social is usually quite friendly. Okay. Pause the video and see if you can think of any other words associated with the word social. I wonder if we got any of the same, let's have a look. I thought, a social person likes meeting new people. I also thought, a social person is welcoming, amicable. Amicable, that's a synonym for friendly. And finally I thought, a social person or a sociable person, enjoys other people's company. So, when Lord Kitchener sings, "the English people are very much sociable". What he is saying is that the English people are friendly, amicable, welcoming, enjoy other people's company, chatty and like meeting new people. Now we're going to do the same for the word comfort. Can you write that in the middle of the page and pause the video as you do that. Hmm.What words do you associate with the word comfort? And I thought about was, warm. I feel comfortable or competent when I'm warm and at home. Can you pause the video and write down any other words that you associate with the word comfort. I thought of the word, content. I told you a synonym for that before, it's happy. If you're comfortable, you might feel content. A nice bed might make you feel comfortable. Having lots of money might make you feel comfortable. How? Oh, well, I guess it means you can try new activities or you can afford to have a nice house or you can afford to eat nice food. So I guess that might make you feel a bit more comfortable. These are some other ones I have thought of. 'Snuggled up', and you're warm and comfy and snuggled up, maybe when you're with your friends or family you feel quite comfortable. And at home, maybe when eating your favourite foods. When Lord Kitchener says, "to live in London, you are very comfortable". He is suggesting that if you live in London, you will feel at home, you will be warm, you will have money, you will feel content, you'll be surrounded by friends and family and your favourite foods. I think that semantic mapping really helped us, understand those first two lines in this verse. Now we're going to have a look at this verse. Which words or phrases are you not sure of? Pause the video and write them down. I wonder what we got the same ones. I hope so. Residence and Hampton Court. So, residence is where you live. And actually, if you look for a word within a word and break it up, you can hear the word reside and you might know that reside means to live somewhere. So, Lord Kitchener sings. "And my residence is Hampton court". There's a clue here, Hampton Court has capital letters. What does that mean? What word class is it? Well done it's a proper noun. But what is it? Well, it's this place here. It used to be a Palace where King Henry the VIII lived. Do you really think Lord Kitchener lived here? I don't. I hope you have learned some fantastic strategies that will help you understand words and phrases when you come across them in your reading. I think you guys have worked fantastically well, and I look forward to teaching you next lesson. Have a lovely day. Bye.

To explore the author's use of language and word meaning

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