Video: To write complex sentences about our healthy snack

﻿Hello and welcome to lesson nine. My goodness, I can't believe we're up to lesson nine already of our unit on healthy food, persuasive writing, where we will be writing a persuasive advertisement in our next lesson. Today we are going to be focusing on complex sentences, and we'll talk a little bit more about what that is in our lesson. You're going to be writing these sentences about the healthy snack you designed. So the healthy snack I designed was a healthy homemade oat bar, you need to make sure you have the details of your healthy snack with you for your lesson today. Let's have a look at our agenda for today. First, we will do our warm up, next, we will learn about complex sentences, then we will practise writing some complex sentences, and finally, we will complete our task. In this lesson you will need an exercise book or some paper, a pencil, and to help you with all your thinking, you'll need your brain. If you don't have your exercise book, your paper or your pencil, please pause the video and go and get them now. Okay, let's get started. It's time for our writing warmup. I would like you to match these slogans to their persuasive device. In our previous lesson, we looked at slogans and we looked at things like rhyme, pun and alliteration. I would like you to match these slogans to what they are showing. I'm going to read the slogans for you now. Our bread is toastally awesome. Does that slogan have an example of rhyme, pan or alliteration? The second slogan says, Barry's brilliant beef burgers. What is that an example of? And the third slogan says, enjoy a groovy smoothie. Pause the video and match the slogan to the persuasive device now. Good job, let's go through it together. Our bread is toastally awesome. I can hear the word toast in there, but it also sounds a bit like totally awesome so I know that that is a pun. When we use a word that sounds similar to another word. Barry's brilliant beef burgers. Oh, I just said b, b, b, b, a lot, so I know that when every word starts with the same letter or letters, that is alliteration. And finally, enjoy a groovy smoothie. I can hear that the sound at the end of the word groovy and the sound at the end of the word smoothie is the same, so that is an example of rhyme. Give yourself a tick for everyone that you got correct, well done. Let's explore complex sentences. A complex sentence consists of a main clause and a subordinate clause. A clause is a group of words that contains a verb, a doing word. So, I have this sentence here. If you want a healthy snack, buy this delicious and nutritious oat bar. In this sentence, my subordinate clause is if you want a healthy snack, and my main clause is, buy this delicious and nutritious oat bar. I wonder can you find what the verbs are in each of my clauses? Remember, both my subordinate clause and my main clause, need to have a verb. Can you find the verbs in this sentence? Pause the video and write them down. Good job, let's have a look. In my subordinate clause there is the verb want, and in my main clause, there is the verb, buy, well done if you found both of those. So how can we tell which clause is which? How do we know which is the subordinate clause, and which is the main clause? Have a think what can you notice about my subordinate clause? What do you notice about my main clause? Let's read the sentence together. As part of a healthy diet, you should eat a range of vitamins every day. Pause the video, we can tell the subordinate clause because, say your answer aloud. Okay, let's have a look, I wonder if you managed to figure out how we can tell which one is the subordinate clause and which one is the main clause. Well, this is how we know, it's because the subordinate clause doesn't make sense on its own. The subordinate clause is as part of a healthy diet. That's not a complete sentence. It doesn't make sense on its own, but our main clause does make sense on its own. You should eat a range of vitamins every day is a complete sentence on its own, but a subordinate clause doesn't make sense on its own, and that's how we can tell which one is our subordinate clause, and which one is our main clause. Subordinating conjunctions introduce a subordinate clause. So these are some examples of subordinating conjunctions, they are words like my turn, if, your turn, because, your turn, as, which, when, these joining conjunctions introduce a subordinate clause. Can you find the subordinating conjunction in this sentence? If you want a healthy snack, buy this delicious and nutritious oat bar. My subordinate clause is at the beginning of my sentence, if you want a healthy snack, my main clause, the bit that makes sense on its own, is at the end of my sentence, buy this delicious and nutritious oat bar. What is the subordinating conjunction in this sentence? Pause the video and write it down. Excellent work, I wonder if you found it. My subordinating conjunction is drumroll, if, good job, give yourself a tick if you found if. It's right at the beginning of my subordinate clause, introducing my subordinate clause. Okay, you've got a chance to find another one. What is the subordinating conjunction in this sentence? As part of a healthy diet, you should eat a range of vitamins every day. I can see my subordinate clause there at the beginning, as part of a healthy diet and my main clause making sense on its own at the end, you should eat a range of vitamins every day. Okay, have a think, what is the subordinating conjunction in this sentence? Pause the video and write it down. Good job, okay, let's find out what it is. Drumroll again. It was as, good job, give yourself a tick if you identified as as the subordinating conjunction in this sentence. Now we are going to practise writing some complex sentences. Okay, I've given you the start of the sentence, and I would like you to complete my sentence. I've given you the subordinate clause, starting with the subordinating conjunction when, when you are hungry, what should you do when you are hungry? Thinking about our healthy snack, maybe when you are hungry, you should eat the healthy snack we designed. Remember, the main cause you're adding needs to make sense on its own and it needs to have a verb in it. Can you pause the video and complete my sentence now. Great job, now I would like you to circle the verb in your main clause. Pause the video and do that now for me. Okay, good job, let's have a look at what my sentence was. When you are hungry, this tasty snack will keep you full for hours. The tasty snack I'm referring to is my homemade oat bar. You might have written something like when you are hungry, eat a snack, or when you're hungry, eat a delicious snack. You could have written anything as long as the main clause was connected to the idea in the subordinate clause and made sense on its own, give yourself a tick. Okay, I've got another sentence that I would like you to complete. This time I've given you the main clause. I've given you the main clause, buy this oat bar and the subordinating conjunction because. Why should people buy my oat bar? What's good about it? Pause the video and write the rest of my sentence for me now. Great job, I wonder why you decided people should buy my oat bar? I have said, buy this oat bar because it is delicious and healthy. Give yourself a tick if you wrote a subordinate clause, telling me why or telling the reader why they should buy this oat bar. You're doing so well, it's tough work writing all these complex sentences, but you're doing a great job. I've got another one for you, are you ready? This time I've given you the main clause again. My main clause is this oat bar is full of vitamins. Then I've written which, my subordinating conjunction is which, what do vitamins do? Why are vitamins good for us? Maybe that's the end of your sentence. This oat bar is full of vitamins, which are good for you. Have a think how you going to end this sentence? Pause the video and write the end of my sentence. Really well done, I wonder how you have ended my sentence, writing a subordinate clause. My subordinate clause was, which are an important part of a healthy diet. So my sentence all together reads, this oat bar is full of vitamins comma, which are an important part of a healthy diet. Okay, wow, you've practised writing some complex sentences, now it is time for our task. For your task today, I would like you to write complex sentences about the healthy snack you designed. So I will be writing complex sentences about my homemade oat bar, but you will be writing sentences about the snack that you designed. I would like you to make sure you remember that snack, so pause the video now and write down the name of your healthy snack. Okay, good job. So you're going to be writing complex sentences, so sentences with a subordinate clause and a main clause. I would like to see if you can use some of the vocabulary that we've been learning about this unit as well. I have a word bank for you at the bottom of the screen to help you. It would be great if you could use some comparatives, so words like sweeter, tastier and healthier. Maybe you could use some superlatives like sweetest, tastiest and healthiest. You might be able to use some of your scientific vocabulary, words like protein, vitamins, minerals. And of course, if you're going to be writing a complex sentence, you're going to need to include your subordinating conjunctions, words like if, when, as because and which? I'm going to have a think now and I'm going to practise saying a sentence aloud. I'm going to look at my vocabulary and think what I want to include. I'm going to start with the subordinating conjunction if. If you would like a snack that is tastier than chocolates, you should buy this delicious oat bar. That's my sentence starting with if. I might put my main clause first this time and use a subordinating conjunction because, so you should buy this healthy, comma, nutritious snack because it is full of, and I'm going to look at my scientific vocabulary, it's full of vitamins comma, minerals and fibre. Those are my sentences that I've practised saying aloud. I wonder if you can write your complex sentences now. Make sure you pause the video and use the word bank to help you. Also make sure you say your sentences aloud. Okay, good job. Since you've been working, I've been working too and I've come up with some new complex sentences, let's go through them together. My first sentence is, if you want a tastier comma, healthier snack, comma, look no further than Miss Bourke's oat bar. So I've got my subordinating conjunction, if, at the beginning, give yourself a tick for your subordinating conjunction that's in your writing. Yours might be in the middle of your sentence rather than at the beginning. I've underlined my two verbs. So I've underlined want, which is the verb in my subordinate clause and look which is the verb in my main clause, give yourself a tick, if you have a verb in your subordinate clause, and your main clause. I've also underlined tastier and healthier, because they are my comparative adjectives. I would give myself a tick for those as well. So you give yourself a tick for any vocabulary that you have used from the word bank. And finally, make sure you check your capital letter and your full stop, and give yourself a tick for your capital letter, and a tick for your full stop. My second sentence is parents and carers love this snack because it contains vitamins comma, minerals and fibre full stop. Okay, just like last time, give yourself a tick for your subordinating conjunction. My subordinating conjunction was because. Then give yourself a tick for your verb in your main clause, and your subordinate clause, my verb in my main clause was love, and my verb in my subordinate clause is contains. I'm going to give myself a tick for each of those, and then I'm also going to give myself a tick for vitamins, minerals and fibre. Three words from my scientific vocabulary word bank, and last but not least, making sure we've got our capital letter and our full stop. Give yourself a tick if you've remembered those. Well done, you have done an incredible amount of writing today, you should feel very, very proud of yourself. We have done a warm up. We have looked at complex sentences. We have practised writing complex sentences, and then you wrote your own complex sentences in our task, great job. Congratulations, you have completed your lesson. If you would like to, please share your work with a parent or a carer.

Lesson summary: To write complex sentences about our healthy snack

In this lesson, children will explore complex sentences and subordinating conjunctions. They will choose appropriate conjunctions for a range of sentences and look at examples of complex sentences. Then, children will write their own complex sentences using scientific vocabulary, comparatives or superlatives.

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