To practise speech punctuation

Key Stage 2

English

Spiderman - Journalistic writing

﻿Hi, welcome to another lesson with me Ms Chu. In today's lesson, we are going to be practising speech punctuation. And the reason we need to practise is because for this unit and for this outcome, we need to be able to write direct and indirect speech in our newspaper reports. So when you're ready, we can begin. Today's agenda is we're going to start with a writing warmup. Then we're going to look at types of speech punctuation. Then you'll be practising . And lastly, you will be doing your independent task. What things will you need? You need an exercise book or paper, pen or pencil and have your thinking head switched on. If you haven't got your resources, you may pause the video and go and get your things, and I'll be here waiting for you when you get back. The writing warmup. In today's writing warmup, I would like you to improve the sentence. to make it better. The car drove from the scene of the crime. And there's a picture of, the image is taken from the Spiderman clip that we watched in our previous lesson. I would like you to improve this sentence by adding an adjective to describe the car. I'd like you to improve the verb that's used in that sentence. So can you think of another verb instead of drove? Is there a better verb to use? Also, could you include an adverbial phrase, or an adverbial clause? Here is a sentence scuffled to help you. The mh you can describe it with two adjectives or just one. The mh car mh the doing word, the verb away mmh. Pause the video and have a go. Let's have a look. So I gave you a sentence that was quite boring. The car drove from the scene of the crime, and I said, you can make that better. So I said add an objective, improve the verb, add an adverbial phrase or clause. And hopefully you've had a chance to do that. Here's one that I came up with. I said the silver convertible Mercedes sped away, and I gave my phrase, down one of London's busiest high streets. Do you remember what the difference is between a phrase and a clause? Tell me, tell the screen. So yeah, so a clause has a verb and a phrase doesn't. So down one of London's busiest high streets doesn't have a verb. It's just telling me where is this? It's just the adverbial phrase, there's no verb in it. It is just down one of London's busiest high streets. Hopefully you've had a chance to add your adverbial phrase or clause. And remember at the end you can show a parent or carer your wonderful sentence. Let's look at types of speech punctuation. Now there are different types. A newspaper report will, or may it doesn't always contain direct speech. Depends how long the report is. Depends if they've interviewed any eyewitnesses. And it just depends if they want to include it or not. But if we did want to include speech in our newspaper reports, how would we punctuate our speech? And this is why we are recapping and learning in this lesson how to do it. I want you to pause now, and I want you to just have a quick think about how we punctuate speech. Brilliant. So hopefully you came up with the same speech punctuation as I have on the screen, which if you have a look, is a wonderful image of a sandwich. The best way to remember a speech it's called a speech sandwich, where we have our pieces of bread on the outside, and those are our inverted commas. And then we have our filling. So let's start looking at it. We have our inverted commas, we have the bread, capital letter, the speech what's being said, the punctuation, and then we have inverted commas again, to close our speech. If we remember the part in the middle, the speech part, the cheese, is the bit that they're saying. And then we have our tomatoes, because we're making a vegetarian sandwich obviously. If we have our tomatoes on the end they are our punctuation. So we always have to remember it's a bread, punctuation tomato, cheese is what we're saying. What we're saying is cheesy. Let's have a look. "It was absolute chaos!" reported a bystander. So we've got our what's being said is it was absolute chaos. And it's in the sandwich. We've got the bread, inverted commas there, we've got our tomato punctuation and then what's being said, reported a bystander. So if you have a look, I've circled the inverted commas. Inverted commas are used in direct speech. What else do we need to think about when we're including speech and our writing? Is it just what's being said? Is that the only thing we need to write? No, so we need to think about the rest of the speech sentence. For example, we need to say who has said it. If we said it was absolute chaos, and we didn't say who said it, we wouldn't know who the person was that said it. So we need to say who said it for clarity? So we've got our speech with the punctuation, but we also need to include at the end, who said it and how they said it, reported a, who's the person? Bystander. Following. Now let's go into the different types of speech. When we talk about speech, we can talk about it as speech first, speech second, or we could call it interrupted speech, and I will go into it in a minute, as to what those differences are. Here are my examples. I want you to pause the video in a moment after I've read the sentences, and I want you to have a think about what I've just said about speech first, second, and interrupted. And I want you to match which sentences go with which types of speech. So what you could do is pause the video and read through it yourself and then press play. Now I'm going to read it. "It was absolute chaos! I was scared for my life," reported a bystander. Second sentence, A bystander reported, "It was absolute chaos! I was scared for my life!" Third sentence, "It was absolute chaos!" a bystander reported. "I was scared for my life." Pause the video and have a think about which one each of those sentences are. So hopefully you've had a think and you've had a go at matching them, you could use your finger. Speech first, if you said that the first one, then you are right. "It was absolute chaos! I was scared for my life," reported a bystander. Is speech first because the speech comes first before who said it, you have a look. The punctuation, what's being said, your speech sandwich comes first and then it's who reported, a bystander comes second. There's the image to remind you. Speech second comes as no surprise, comes after the person who said it. A bystander reported, "It was absolute chaos! I was scared for my life!" The only difference between speech first and speech second is that you need a comma, can you see on the screen a comma, it's highlighted in pink, before you start the speech. You have a look at speech first, the comma is within the sandwich whereas in speech second, the comma is before the speech sandwich. Have a look again, the comma is before the speech sandwich, and the speech sandwich ends with an exclamation mark, or question mark if it was a question or a full stop, it doesn't end with a comma because it's the end of that sentence. Hopefully you remember that. And there it is again to remind you. Interrupted speech is tell me, exactly. It's when the speech is interrupted by the person who has said it. So for example, "it was absolute chaos." Then you put in who said it, a bystander reported, and then the rest of what he's saying, or she's saying, "I was scared for my life." Let's look at the punctuation used here. It's a bit tricky so we need to pay attention. "It was absolute chaos!" So we're starting again with our inverted commas and our capital letter and then the speech. And then we've got an exclamation mark, or we might have a comma, wouldn't have a full stop. So we look at it as if it is in speech first. So would use the same punctuation as we would in speech first. Except this time we put a full stop after a bystander reported full stop. And then you would start your speech again, capital letter and then a full stop at the end. So if you look at it, if you take off the last part of what they're saying, it just looks like speech first. And then you carry on with the speech and you don't have to say who said it because we already know that it's the bystander because it's carrying on from them. If it was someone else, a new speaker, then you would use a new line. Now it's time to practise. We are now going to practise writing some speech sentences using the speech in the speech bubble. I'm pretty sure I saw local hero Spiderman, but I wasn't sure it was him. We're going to use the speech sandwich that's on the slide to support us with our speech sentences. You may choose to write three sentences, speech first, second, and interrupted. Or if you just want to have a go at writing one, you can choose which one you'd like to do. Or if you want to challenge, you can write all three. Pause the video and have a go at doing that now. Really I hope you've all had a chance at practising your speech sentences. If you wrote speech first, this is what your speech sentence would look like. You would start your sentence with this speech, which is why it's called speech first. Look at your speech sandwich, you have your bread, your inverted comma, you have your capital letter then you have your speech. "I'm pretty sure I saw local hero Spiderman, but I wasn't sure if it was him," and because we're using speech first, we have the comma because we haven't finished our sentence, we've got our inverted commas, then we've written who said it, reported a passing bystander by the name of David Krejca. And then we have our full stop at the end. If you look at the difference between the top sentence and the bottom sentence, the top sentence has the full stop after him, because it's the end of that sentence. But we have it at the end of who has said it because we always need include who has said it, otherwise we don't know who was giving that recount of events of what they saw. The reason as well I've highlighted comma but there, is because it's the coordinating conjunction. It's not part of the speech punctuation. It's not in pink, it's in blue because it's part of that sentence. It's a compound sentence. I've just highlighted there so you know. If you wrote speech second, this is what it would look like. You would start with the person that said it. A passing bystander by the name of David Krejca reported, and this is the part where you've got to remember you've got your comma before your speech in speech second, reported, comma inverted commas capital letter "I'm pretty sure I saw local hero Spiderman, but I wasn't sure it was him full stop." So now your full stock goes at the end because it's the end of that sentence. If you wrote interrupted speech, and you had a go at doing interrupted speech, this is what it would look like. You have your speech, inverted commas, capital after. "I'm pretty sure I saw a local hero Spiderman," comma, inverted comma. And then you have in the middle, it's being interrupted by who said it, a passing bystander by the name of David Krejca of reported, comma "but I wasn't sure." Now it's really important, when you're doing interrupted speech that you start the second part of the speech without a capital letter if you're continuing a sentence. They're not two separate sentences. If it was "I'm pretty sure I saw local hero Spiderman. I wasn't sure if it was him." then you would need a full stop after reported in the second sentence. And you would need to start with a capital letter, "I wasn't sure if it was him." However, if you're using a coordinating conjunction like but you're continuing the sentence, but it's interrupted, then you just continue as is no capital letter is needed. I hope that is clear. You independent task now. Your task for today is you're going to write some speech in the speech bubbles. So one of the speech bubbles should contain speech from a mother with her baby in the coffee shop. And there's a picture of a cute, cute baby, so cute. And what would she say if she had seen what had happened? You can have a go at writing what she could say. It could be anything, it's totally up to you. And then the second speech bubble, it's comes from a man on a bus. I want you to think of something different that he could say, something different to the mother with her baby in the coffee shop. And then once you've had a go at that, we can look at writing them into speech sentences. So pause the video now and have a think and have a go. Don't worry if it's nothing exciting. It's just coming up with something that they could say they've seen Spiderman, or they saw the car chase, pause it and have a go. Great, I had a go at writing one for the mother, with her baby in the coffee shop. And I said that she said, "I had just popped into grab a coffee with my baby when I heard shouting." maybe she was in the coffee shop where it first started. If you're going to use mine, I'd like you to pause the video and have a gut writing it into a speech sentence. If you've got your own that you'd like to use, pause the video and have a go at doing that now. Brilliant, so if you use mine, this is what it should look like, using the speech sandwich image. I would have my bread, I would start with my inverted commas, then I would have my punctuation tomato capital, "I had just popped in to grab a coffee with my baby when I heard shouting," reported Agnes Smith , I thought I'd give you that extra bit of information about Agnes with the cute baby. Hopefully you've got the same. The only thing that would be different is the speech. Everything else should be the same. The inverter commas, the capital letters and the punctuation. All of that should be the same. And then the rest, whoever said it, that could be different as well. Here's what I wrote for the man. "I was on my way home and noticed the bus had come to a standstill." There was a huge commotion outside Oxford Circus. That's why he's making a shocked face. Pause the video now and have a go at putting my sentences into a speech sentence using the correct punctuation or the accurate punctuation. Or you can use your speech bubble, what you wrote in yours. Pause the video. Fabulous, so here is mine accurately, hopefully punctuated, "I was on my way home and noticed the bus had come to a standstill," stated key witness, Mark Jones. Now remember because there are two separate sentences, you can treat the first part as speech first. And then you can just add on the next part of the speech. "There was a huge commotion outside Oxford Circus." And you don't have to repeat who said it because we already know it's mark Jones that was on the bus making a surprise faces. So here two separate sentences, full stop in the middle, full stop at the end, if it's one sentence that's been broken up, then it wouldn't be a full stop in the middle, after the person who said it, it would just be a comma, two main differences there. Amazing, we've come to the end of this lesson. Well done. In this lesson, you have learned many, many things. The main things you have learned are, speech punctuation for different types of speech, and you've had a go at practising , so that in our next lesson, you will be able to write the next part of your newspaper report with ease, definitely with ease. Rather than you've come to the end of your lesson, I would really love it if you could share your learning with your parent or a carer, and I look forward to teaching you in next lesson.

To practise speech punctuation

To practise speech punctuation

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