Hey gang, how ya doin' out there?
My name is Harmony Heart.
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Come fun learning with me.
Yes, welcome to Fun Learning!
Today we're going to have a great time with basic grammar and look at films like From
Left to Right, One and More Than One, Put Them Together, From Start to Finish, and Painting
with Words, so come fun learning with me.
Hi there, my name is Mel.
Welcome to our film, From Left to Right.
I'd like you to meet my friend Lem.
I said I'd like you to meet my friend Lem.
If you want to keep our names straight, you must read them from left to right.
And reading from left to right is what this film is all about.
Right.
No, from left to right.
Oh, sorry, left to right, yeah, right.
I see what you mean, pull and loop.
You could jump into a loop, but you couldn't swim in it.
Right, say, I know a word like that, toot, toot, yeah, toot, toot, like the train.
Everybody's the same word, from left or right, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
And spot is tops right. Oh no from left to right. Say you haven't seen my lick nap have you what's
a lick nap well you know my lick nap see I'm trying to write a story and well I got my paper
right here and now all I need is my lick nap. Give me an a. Give me a p. What do you got.
Give me a P. A. Give me an A. A. Give me an L. L. Give me an S. S. What do you got?
Help! Help! Help! Give me an L. Give me an E. Give me an M. What do you got? L. M. L. M. K.
Say there Mel, you haven't seen my Lick Nep have you? You know I can't write my story
without it. I don't know what a Lick Nep is. Look Mel, I'm trying to write a story and
to write a story you need paper and a Lick Nep. Here. What are you doing down there?
Oh I'm getting a book for you to read. A book? It's right here, just a minute. What do I want
with a book? I want my Lick Nep. You can borrow my book. Why not read a story if you can't
write one? All right. On! On! Hot! Hot!
Well, do you like the story? Oh yeah sure, but it's weird. What do you mean weird? It's
a very nice story about this little girl named Mary who goes to her grandmother's farm. What's
so weird about that? Listen to this. When her grandmother took her to the barn, Mary was
a pig. Wait a minute, let me look at that. When her grandmother took her to the barn,
Mary, Mary saw a pig. Oh, saw a gip, I mean pig. Are you sure you haven't seen my Lick Nep?
On! On! Hot! Hot!
No! No! Stop! Stop! On! On! Pots! Pots! On! On! Pots! Pots! Get it? On! On! Pots! Pots!
Pots! Pots!
Give me a slap, slap, slap. I mean pals, we're pals, right? Say pal, you've got my Lick Nep.
Where? Right there, that's my Lick Nep. This is a pencil. P-E-N-C-I-L. From left to right.
Let me check this out. P-E-N-C-I-L. Then it's not a Lick Nep, it's a pencil. Say pal, can
I have that pencil, please? Now I can write my story. Give me an L, give me an E.
He thought it was a stop sign, but it was really a pot sign.
Say goodbye, Lem. Oh, Lem by good say. No, no, not that way, the proper way. From left
to right. Say goodbye, Lem. Why? Because this is the end. Oh, goodbye, Lem.
Well, all right then. Isn't this a fun way to learn words? Here comes a film called
One and More Than One. This is a film about one and more than one. There are many ways
to make more than one from one. Most of the time we can simply add an S. Leg. Leg. Sometimes
we add E-S. Box. Boxes. When a word ends in Y, we change the Y to I and add E-S. Candy.
Sometimes we have to change the word. Foot. Feet. And other times to make more than one,
we do not have to change the word at all. Fish. Fish. One fish. Two fish. Mini fish.
Paula and the GBs have been invited to a birthday party. Today they are going to pick out presents
for their friends. Paula and the GBs like to shop for presents. And they like to make
more than one from one. Guppy. Guppies. Mouse. Mice.
Bird in a cage. Birds in a cage. Birds in cages.
Basketball. Basketball. Book. Books.
The GBs decide on books. But Paula goes back for a basketball. Paula and the GBs are really
excited because their friend lives on a farm. And the only thing more fun than a party is
a party on a farm.
A party on a farm is a good place for making more than one out of one. Hat. Hat. Cake.
Child. Children. Person. People. One person. Many people.
Man. Man. Woman.
Women. Women.
Farms are fun because animals live there. You can look for one animal, a few animals,
or many animals.
Birds. Birds.
Horses. Goose.
Geese. One sheep. Two sheep. Many sheep.
Paula and the GBs have learned to have fun with words for one and more than one. And
they know that the best words of all are friend and friend.
Are we having a good time yet? I am. Here comes Put Them Together!
When I get ready to go exploring, I pack a survival kit.
I pack one week's supply of food and water and clean white bandages in case I get wounded.
I need a telescope, a long telescope, a long telescope for spotting wild animals,
and a lantern. A large lantern. A large lantern with a big bright light. A large lantern with
a big bright light for sending signals.
When I'm ready, I put on my hard jungle helmet and my red jungle jacket.
When I go exploring, I never forget to bring my god, my faithful god, my faithful god who
led me through the jungle. And my trusty wild white horse.
We travel up a tall, tall mountain.
Over a bopping bumpy road.
Across a dry desert where there is no water in sight.
We gallop through the thick jungle forest.
My trusty wild white horse is very tired. I will let him rest here.
My faithful god and I will continue on foot.
It's a very hard and dangerous trip. We must go across a river. Across a raging river. Across a roaring raging river.
We climb tall, steep cliffs.
We must be careful because there might be an avalanche.
When we go exploring, my god and I make sure that we stop for food and water.
But even while we eat, we must keep a sharp lookout so we don't get ambushed.
I use my telescope to watch for a wild animal that may be nearby.
There's a tarantula. A giant tarantula. A giant poisonous tarantula.
A tiger. A tricky tiger. A fierce tricky tiger.
Because I go exploring often, I'm able to tame some of the wild beasts.
My
faithful guide fears for my safety.
But I'm not afraid. For every real explorer though, there is always the danger of the unexpected.
My faithful guide tries to warn me.
It's a good thing I brought along my emergency medical supplies. Before I was eating my blood, I must bandage the bite.
The deep bite. The deep bite on my leg.
I must get to my wild white horse. I hope I can make it. There he is. Just where I left him.
A tropical storm.
We must find shelter.
Oh, my wild white horse is wounded.
We will not abandon him. We'll help him find shelter.
It's raining. It's raining hard.
At last, our jungle camp. It has been a long, dangerous journey. But thanks to my wild white horse and my faithful guide, we've made it safely.
It's a hard job being a famous explorer.
Yeah, that's right. A famous fearless explorer.
Hey, gang. Now that you know about phrases, why don't we take a look at sentences, okay?
I like Saturdays. On Saturdays, my brother Billy and I usually go to some new place with Mommy and Daddy.
One Saturday last summer, we hiked along a nature trail. I didn't think walking could be very much fun, but this was different.
When we started out, Daddy gave each of us a trail guide with a map and numerals in it.
The numerals told you where you were and what you were looking at and what you could see if you looked very closely.
Daddy showed us our trail on the map. It was called the Discovery Trail.
We didn't hurry. We walked slowly.
We walked slowly on the trail.
We walked slowly on the trail because there was so much to see.
First we saw a thicket. Daddy said that a thicket is a habitat. A habitat is a place where plants and animals live.
I like that word habitat. I figured out that even though we don't live in a thicket, our house is a habitat too.
Rabbits and birds live in a thicket.
Rabbits and birds live in a thicket where they eat plants and insects.
Rabbits and birds live in a thicket where they eat plants and insects and hide from other animals.
Number two was the pond.
At the pond, Daddy gave Billy and me a surprise present.
It was a magnifying glass for looking at tiny little things more closely.
Plants and animals live in the pond. It's another habitat.
The plants and animals depend on each other for their food.
We saw frogs with Popeyes that catch insects with their tongues.
There's the frog. There's the frog that ate the spider.
There's the frog that ate the spider that ate the fly.
The pond smelled funny. Billy said it smelled like hard-walled eggs.
When we came to number three on the nature trail, it was just a wall of big stones.
Mommy said that farmers built the wall around their field years ago, and now the wall is a habitat too.
Who lives in the wall? Plants and insects live in the wall.
Plants and insects live in the wall too.
Then I saw a lizardy thing called a salamander running around on the rocks.
Billy wanted to take it home, but Mommy said it would be much happier in the woods where it belongs.
We found out that things live under rocks too.
We turned over a big flat one and watched some ants.
It was a colony of ants, Daddy said.
They all worked together to build their little tunnels. They sure looked busy.
Number four on the discovery trail was the stream.
We watched it from a wooden bridge.
The stream is a habitat where fish, plants, and insects live.
We saw spidery bugs that walked right on top of the water.
Bugs that can walk on water live at the stream.
Bugs that can walk on water and toads that can hop on land live at the stream.
At the pond the water was quiet and still, but here at the stream it moves all the time.
I closed my eyes.
I closed my eyes and listened to the stream.
It sounded like a big bathtub with a giant faucet running water into it.
Then I opened my eyes and took off my shoe and sock.
I put my foot into the stream.
When I put my foot into the stream the water felt cold and tickly.
When we got to number five I couldn't see a habitat.
Just an old dead log.
But Daddy asked us to look very closely and we saw lots of things.
Even a dead log can be a habitat because it gives food and shelter to plants and insects.
Nothing really dies in nature. It just becomes something else.
Someday the log will be soil for new plants and even for a new tree.
This is called recycling.
Nature can't recycle glass bottles.
Nature can't recycle glass bottles or aluminum cans.
We don't leave litter on the trail because nature can't recycle glass bottles or aluminum cans.
After a while we got really good at seeing things that were hard to see.
A dragonfly looks just like a twig when it sits on a branch.
An ant crawling on a tree trunk is hard to see because it's almost the same color.
Camouflage is nature's way of protecting animals from things that might hurt them.
Then I thought I saw a rock moving through the grass.
But it wasn't really. It was just a turtle camouflaged to look like a rock.
He looks so funny.
The last habitat is like a backyard.
The land around your house can be a good habitat if you do the right things there.
Birds would like this backyard because there is food for them to eat.
Some apples had fallen from a tree and we could see where birds have been pecking at them.
There are lots of nice trees for birds and other little animals to live in.
If there are berries, birds are sure to come to your yard.
You can even have special houses for them.
We could hear the bees buzzing around the flowers.
And we watched a pretty butterfly reaching way down to get nectar.
I'd like to have all those plants and animals living around me.
I'm glad I found out about habitats.
Now I'm going to know what to watch for so I don't mess them up.
We had a good time.
We had a good time when we went for a walk.
We had a good time when we went for a walk on the nature trail.
Boy, I like those ducks.
Do you like ducks?
Hey, now we're going to look at a film called Painting with Words.
This is really fun.
Everyone has seen simple sentences like girls wear shoes, boys climb hills,
people eat apples, men fly airplanes, dogs chase cats, birds fly,
man drives car, houses have rooms.
Each one is a single thought dealing with anything you can imagine.
Let's consider man drives car.
Well, that isn't much of a picture.
But I guess that's all the sentence tells us.
The trouble is, though, we don't know what color the car is or anything about the man.
Let us add a detail to the picture.
What color is the car?
Is it yellow?
Or might it be purple?
The car we would like to describe to you is brown.
That looks a little better.
Now we'll try matching the sentence to the picture.
Man drives brown car.
Usually, when we describe things, we put the descriptive word or adjective, as it is called,
before the thing described.
For example, red barn, green grass, black and white goat.
In our picture, brown describes the car.
So when we write the sentence, the word brown goes before car.
Shall we try adding some more details?
There must be other things besides colors.
What about the man?
Is he tanned from the sun?
Is he handsome or happy?
Our pictures should have these details, too.
Again, our sentence should be matched with a picture.
But where shall we put the words?
They must be in the right order.
Remember how brown describes the car?
Well, now we are describing man, so the adjective will go before man.
The man in our picture looks happy and young, so these words go before man, something like this.
Happy young man drives brown car.
But you notice, even though this sentence is correct and easy to understand,
it doesn't sound quite right.
We usually use some articles such as a, an, and the to help sentences flow more smoothly.
They are usually placed before nouns like a lion, the dog, an apple.
But when you add descriptive words, the article comes first.
A ferocious lion, the barking dog, an enormous apple.
Back to our young man in the car.
This sentence would be helped by some articles.
And where do they go?
Remember, before the descriptive words, a happy young man drives the brown car.
Notice our picture doesn't change when we add these articles, but they do help the sentence.
Now both our picture and our sentence are beginning to look better.
But there are still some details we could add.
How does he drive the car?
Swiftly?
Slowly?
Or proudly?
Our sentence then must show how he drives.
The car and driver we were thinking about looks like this.
That's the picture we wanted and there's the word that gives the added detail, swiftly.
Remember how we had words to describe things?
Ferocious lion, barking dog, brown car.
We also have special words called adverbs to describe action.
Quickly, slowly, and proudly are some adverbs, but there are many more.
Sometimes they describe other descriptive words.
Fast car, very fast car.
Long neck, extremely long neck.
In our case, swiftly describes our action.
Let's take swiftly out of our picture and put it into our sentence.
Where do we put it?
We'll try putting it before the action it describes.
A happy young man swiftly drives the brown car.
Sounds fine, but this type of adverb is most unusual.
Most words in the English language have their own special place,
but adverbs can wander to several places.
Watch how swiftly changes its position.
Swiftly, a happy young man drives the brown car.
A happy young man drives the brown car swiftly.
A happy young man swiftly drives the brown car.
Did you notice that the picture didn't change when the word moved?
So you see our adverb can be placed in several positions.
It is a most unusual word.
We only need one of these.
We'll use this one.
A happy young man swiftly drives the brown car.
So far, we have used two different types of descriptive words.
To make our sentence fit the picture, we used adjectives to describe things,
such as brown car, young man,
and we have used adverbs to describe action.
Swiftly drives.
Now we'll take a close look at our picture and see if it needs any more descriptive words.
The car and driver seem complete, but what about our background?
Where is he driving?
On a hill?
Over a bridge?
In a field?
Through the city?
Where is he?
Our man is driving in a field.
The words in a field work together to tell where the action took place,
but don't forget the field must have a color just like the car did.
In a green field.
Now where are we going to put this group of words in our sentence?
Just like the adverb, this group of words, or phrase as it is called,
can sometimes fit in several spots.
Let's try it at the beginning of our sentence.
In a green field, a happy young man swiftly drives the brown car.
A happy young man in a green field swiftly drives the brown car.
A happy young man swiftly drives the brown car in a green field.
That last sentence sounds good. We'll use it.
Now let us take one last look at our picture and make sure that it is complete.
It looks fine.
Now how about the sentence?
You might want to add many more details about the driver, the car, or the field,
but this we will leave up to you.
For now, our sentence is complete.
So we will indicate its completeness with a period.
If our sentence is really finished, you should almost be able to see the picture in your mind,
even if all that remains is the sentence.
A happy young man swiftly drives the brown car in a green field.
Nearly every good sentence creates a picture in your mind.
Forming this sentence and picture has been just one example of what can be done with words.
Really, it was quite easy.
We started with a basic sentence, man drives car.
Man drives brown car.
Happy young man drives brown car.
A happy young man drives the brown car.
A happy young man swiftly drives the brown car.
A happy young man swiftly drives the brown car in a green field.
So now it's your turn.
And what will you write about?
Try expanding any of these sentences.
Be certain that the picture you paint with words fits the picture you have in your mind.
This is the enjoyment of painting with words.
Well, gang, I hope you had a good time and I hope you learned something, too, about basic grammar.
Come on back and see me again for some more fun learning.
And remember, treat other people the way you want to be treated, okay?
Time for some astral projection.
Goodbye.
Thank you.