Strictly Come Dancing Explanations Activity 1. Read Some Expl

English learning tasks for the week commencing 1st June Monday – Strictly Come Dancing explanations Activity 1. Read some explanations Read Judges explain their voting – Kimberley Walsh found below. Watch the video of the dance. How much of what the judges said can you notice? Read Judges explain their voting – Johnny Ball found below. Which judge is most positive? Which is most negative? Watch the video of the dance. Which of the judges do you most agree with? Activity 2. Highlight and annotate the text Take each text in turn. Highlight (using coloured pencils) and annotate the two texts to show any technical vocabulary about dance, any very positive phrases and any very negative phrases. Make notes about anything else that you notice in the way that the judges explain their voting. Compare your highlights with the Judging Sheets below. Activity 3. Give your own explanation Choose whether to think about the Stacey Dooley or the Brian Conley dance. Watch the dance and give it a score. Make notes of what you would say to explain your voting. Try to think of more than one reason and try to include technical vocabulary and some of the phrases that you found in the text. Try the Fun-Time Extra Practise using your plan to give a spoken explanation. Can you make yourself sound like a professional TV judge? Record your explanation and share it with somebody else. Judges explain their voting: Kimberley Walsh Len: I'll tell you what I thought. I thought you did a great job because the jive isn't easy—the steps have got to be clean, got to be precise and yet you've still got to show the fun, and exuberance of the dance. That you pulled off great footwork—spot on. There were one or two dodgy moments. I was a little bit anxious when you went flying through the legs but you got up from that nicely. In the end, the spins were a little bit off at one stage but overall, well done. Nice job. Craig: I could not agree more. I thought that was absolutely brilliant. Fast efficient footwork, I thought. Synchronicity was absolutely excellent. I loved the double turn at the end into the end pose—great technique. As Len said, going through the legs was very clumsy and for that reason you'll lose points. But you did a cracking job. Watch the video here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlGHLcJenx0 Or search ‘Kimberley Walsh & Pasha Kovalev Jive to 'Land of 1000 Dances' - Strictly Come Dancing 2012 - BBC One’ Judges explain their voting: Johnny Ball Craig: I've never really been a big fan of miming, darling. Your mouth was moving throughout and was very distracting. Your technique needs work because the jerks and spasms all the way through were worrying—a little more fluidity would be good. Darcy: Great energy. You surprised me—it was beautiful. Sadly, you have been unlucky with your partners changing. That doesn't make it easy. Your weight is always on your heels. This means your balance is wrong because in Latin you must be more on the balls of your feet, so try and remember this for your next dance. Len: Let me tell you this: first of all, you had good timing; there was plenty of content; you got out and performed it. A lot of people of a similar age would like to be able to get out and move like that. Ok, so your posture could be a bit better, your footwork could be cleaner but your enthusiasm was great. Watch the video here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vElnk0ZnX0I Or search ‘Johnny Ball & Iveta Lukosiute Cha Cha to 'Drive My Car' - Strictly Come Dancing - Week 1 - BBC One’ Judging Sheet – Stacey Dooley Technical Vocabulary for Dance Persona: balance footwork steps nice & supportive choreography overextend technique crisp passion timing grumpy & sharp-tongued entertaining personality transitions exciting posture flamboyant & enthusiastic fluidity rhythm tough but fair Link: Score /10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVHw3M1hOaU Judging Sheet – Brian Conley Technical Vocabulary for Dance Persona: balance footwork steps nice & supportive choreography overextend technique crisp passion timing grumpy & sharp-tongued entertaining personality transitions exciting posture flamboyant & enthusiastic fluidity rhythm tough but fair Score /10 Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TXEU7God94 Now write your explanation for the one you have picked. If you want to re-read the examples above again for Kimberley Walsh and Johnny Ball, then do that to help you write yours. Tuesday – Continuing giving explanations 1. Read an explanation Read Green Vale School Football Team below. How many reasons for the team’s success are given? Which of these reasons do you think is most important? Why? 2. Remind yourself about adverbials and conjunctions Use the PowerPoint about Adverbials and Conjunctions or, if that isn’t possible, remind yourself using the Revision Card below. Read Green Vale School Football Team again and circle at least six conjunctions and underline at least six adverbials. 3. Write an explanation Think about a person or team that you know that has been successful. You might choose a sports-team, a musician/artist or a contestant in a competition. Make notes on Explanation Planner about their success and the reasons that they have been successful. Use your notes to write an explanation. Check with the Explanation Features list as you do. Well done! Now show your explanation to a grown-up. Can they understand the reasons that you have given? Can you show them some of the Explanation Features that you have used? Try this Fun-Time Extra Draw a picture of you in ten years’ time. Imagine you have been really successful! Write what you have achieved and explain the reasons for your success. Green Vale School Football Team For the last five years, this village school football team has come top of the Small Schools' League. This year they entered and won the County Cup: a competition open to all schools in the area. How is it that a small school can produce such winning results, time after time? Size A surprising fact about the school is its size. Green Vale is a small school, comprising of fifty pupils. Whereas a typical school may have 30 children in Year 6 to choose from, Green Vale must select its team from across KS2 in order to have enough players. It is the small size of the school, however, which gives the team an edge over other teams. With such small class sizes, pupils know each other very well and the team often has siblings playing together. Therefore, the team's communication is very strong. Every player on the pitch is quick to call for passes and the goalkeeper keeps the team informed of close marking. Location On initial inspection, Green Vale's football pitch is unsuitable for practice: it is on a slope, uneven and on occasion, has livestock grazing. It is because of the unfavourable conditions that Green Vale players have developed renowned skills. The unpredictability of the ball movement results in quick reaction times for both attackers and defenders. Training on a slope results in greater fitness and avoiding a passing sheep presents players with practice in defensive dribbling and scanning the changing surroundings. Extra-curricular Activity One of the lesser known features of the school is its dance programme; all pupils attend ballet, tap and ballroom lessons from the age of five. In addition to PE lessons, clubs are run at lunchtime for those who wish to learn bhangra, Irish or street dance. Pupils often take part in festivals and performances. Dance develops balance, fitness and fast footwork. It is because of this that Green Vale players have great ball control. Since players easily change direction and use all parts of the foot, trips and falls are rare. Because players are used to leaps, springs and turns and demonstrate agility and poise on the pitch, it is a combination which proves devastating to opponents. Whatever the explanation for Green Vale's football success, local coaches and teams stand to benefit from the school's next project: a coach academy. It might be that the team will develop its own worthy competition. Team Statistics: 12 wins Recommendations for other schools: 3 draws 1. Build strong relationships between team members 1 loss 2. Use the limitations of your home-pitch to your advantage. 52 goals scored 3. Explore whether other sports or dance could aid your football 7 goals conceded performance. Revision Card: Adverbials and Conjunctions Planner Whose success are you explaining? What have they achieved? What reasons can you think of for their success? Which of these reasons is most important? Explanation Features Purpose – tells why or how something happens Range – Non-fiction book or article, encyclopaedia entry, write-up of a science experiment, technical manual. Title telling what needs to be explained Introduction (often making a link to the reader) Clear layout, e.g. sections or paragraphs Bullet points or sub-headings Diagrams and illustrations Technical vocabulary (often with definitions) Present-tense verbs Causal language (e.g. because; ‘if…then…’; the reason that; when; so; this results in; this causes; therefore) Passive verbs Formal connectives (e.g. however, therefore, consequently) Usually formal register Closing sentence to round off the explanation Wednesday – Poetry 1. Read and listen to two poems Read The Language of Cat and Russian Doll. Read each poem twice – once in your head and once out loud. How are these poems similar? How are they different? Do you prefer one? Why? Listen to Rachel Rooney (the poet) read the poems.

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