Travel Writing: An Introduction

ALL: will be able to identify the techniques of travel writing.
MOST: should be able to use some of the techniques in their own

writing.
SOME: could be able to use a range of the techniques.
Travel Writing: An Introduction

L/O: to explore the genre of Travel Writing.
L/O: to explore the genre of travel writing.
writing.
Starter:
Think, pair, share:
How do you find the best place to

go on holiday?
What research do you have to do?
writing.
Travel Writing genres:
When travel writing, you could be asked to

write an article, a letter of complaint, a
brochure or a leaflet.
The types of travel writing are:

Describe, Explain, Persuade, Review.
So you will need to be able to use a range of

techniques!
writing.
writing.
Write 3 sentences of a memorable holiday or a

short trip away.
Try to use at least one complex sentence!

writing.
So, what is travel writing?
The exact definition is:
A form of creative nonfiction in which

the narrator's encounters with foreign places
serve as the dominant subject.
writing.
You are the travel Agent!
Watch this clip about Ha Long Bay,

Vietnam, make notes on everything you
might need to inform me about it and
persuade me to visit it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=0ZnbaL_dhd4
writing.
Sentence starters to help you:
Ha Long Bay is… Don’t forget to

You should definitely
use visit because…
any of the
techniques you
The weather there is…
can to ensure
your writing is
You will see… interesting!
Did you know that…
Some interesting facts about it are:
The best thing about it is…
writing.
Peer Assessment
Read through your partner’s work and
check that they have:
Included facts and opinions.
Used capital letters correctly.
Used the correct spelling.
Used some interesting adjectives.
Used some descriptive techniques.
Used some persuasive techniques.
Now complete a WWW and EBI for your
partner’s work.
ALL: will be able to identify the techniques of writing to
describe.
writing.
Travel Writing: Describe

L/O: to explore the techniques of writing to describe.
ALL: will be able to identify the techniques of writing to describe.
writing.
.
Starter:
Try to find one of these techniques in your

AR book:
•Onomatopoeia
•Repetition
•Adjectives
•Similes
•Metaphor
•Personification
Why do you think the author included it?

writing.
.
These are the techniques we are going to
focus on today: Giving an non-living object
a human characteristic
Onomatopoeia
When a word is repeated
Repetition ‘nom, nom, nom’
A comparison saying
Adjectives something is something
else
Similes e.g ‘He is a pain in the
neck’
Metaphor Describing words
A comparison using the
Personification words as or like
e.g ‘He exploded like a
volcano’
writing.
.
. 1. Covers out-of-the-ordinary subject matter.
2. Uses humour to engage the reader.
3. Uses the first person.
4. Has a sense of the writer’s personality.
5. Uses personal experiences and anecdotes.
6. Uses descriptive techniques throughout
(noun phrases, metaphors, similes) to
create a picture in the reader’s mind.
7. Can be informal in tone.
8. Includes facts about the place being
described.
9. Uses lists of three adjectives (describing
words) for impact.
10.Has a bright and lively tone.
writing.
.
In this extract the writer gives his impressions of an
area of Montana called the Badlands.
Mauvaises terres. The first missionary explorers had given

this place its name, a translation of the Plains Indian
term meaning something like hard-to-travel country, for
its daunting walls and pinnacles and buttresses of eroded
sandstone and sheer clay. Where I was now, in Fallon
County, Montana, close to the North Dakota state line, the
Badlands were getting better. A horseback rider wouldn't
have too much difficulty getting past the blisters and
eruptions that scarred the prairie here. But the land was
still bad enough to put one in mind of Neil Armstrong and
the rest of the Apollo astronauts: dusty, cratered, its
green turning to seer yellow under the June sun.
Breasting the regular swells of land, on a red dirt road

as true as a line of longitude, the car was like a boat at
sea. The ocean was hardly more solitary than this empty
country, where in forty miles or so I hadn't seen another
vehicle.
writing.
.
. • The article is written in the 1st person, "
Where I was now.... the Badlands were
getting better".
• The article describe the places in great
detail. The writer creates a picture of the
Badlands as being huge, empty and desolate.
• The writer creates this vivid picture of
place by using very descriptive, imaginative
language. Did you spot the writer's use of a
simile when he described the size of the
Badlands? He said that the prairie was so
big that his car was like a "boat at sea".
• Notice how the writer made his feelings
about the Badlands clear. Words like
"daunting" and "solitary" give us an idea of
his reaction to his surroundings.
List as many words as you can describing this landscape.
Now list as many positive and negative words
as you can about this location.
Why is this so rubbish?

This landscape looks hot and
boring. There is lots of sand and
it all looks empty and nothing is
happening. I don’t like this
landscape because it looks dull
and I think I would be very hot
there.
writing.
.
Now it’s your turn!
Imagine you are in the picture on the next

slide.
Try to describe what you see, hear, feel,

touch and taste as well as your thoughts and
feelings.
Let’s hear them!
ALL: will be able to use a range of adjectives.
writing.
Travel Writing: Describe

L/O: develop our use of varied vocabulary and descriptive
techniques.
techniques.
writing.
Complex sentences:
techniques.
writing.
Complex sentences:
techniques.
writing.
The Task: Create your own country!

You’ve got to think very carefully about your
country before you make any decisions. This
country has got to:
Be somewhere that people are going to want to

visit.
Be appealing, exciting and diverse.
Be somewhere that you can sell to your reader.
Have something ‘special’ that makes people
choose this country over others in the world.
techniques.
writing.
It is important to use a range of descriptive

skills to enhance your writing.
One key skill to develop is your use of

interesting and varied adjectives.
To practise, choose adjectives to add in to

these sentences to make them more exciting:
There was a café in the centre of the town.

The village is situated two miles from the
sea.
The mountains could be seen from the hotel.
Creating your country…
1.What is the name of your country?
2.Where in the world is your country (roughly)?
3.What are the native people like?
4.What does your country look like from space? Is it
an island or attached to other countries?
5.What are the main cities or parts of your country
(at least three)?
6.What is the weather like? Is it the same or does it
differ depending on where you are?
7.7. What are the best parts of your country to
visit? (City? Beach? Mountain? Why?)
EXT: can
8.How Write
you a paragraph
travel to yourincountry
which and
youhow
introduce
much
your
will it country
cost? to a potential tourist, picking
9.Where can
outyou
thestay
keyinpoints
your country? (Tents?. Hotel?)
and features
10.What is the food like?
11.Are there any interesting plants or animals to
see?
12.Are there any key landmarks (like Buckingham
Palace and Hyde Park in London)?
Describe your country in one sentence
using the best vocabulary you can.
Effdruess is a dazzling country, where dreams
are awoken, souls soar and your imagination
awoken; a land of pure freedom.
ALL: will be able to use basic inference skills.
MOST: should be able to deduce information using inference.
SOME: could be able to consider the author’s intentions.
Travel Writing: Inference

L/O: to show a secure understanding of how to infer and
deduce information from the text.
L/O: to show a secure understanding of how to infer and deduce
information from the text.
Discuss with the person next to you: how are these
pictures linked?
Can anyone use their inference and deduction

skills to work out what today’s lesson is going to
be about?
Read the text about China.
1.Underline the words you aren’t sure of and

we will look them up in the dictionaries.
2.Highlight any techniques from AFOREST or
CAMPERS that you can spot.
Now, make a list of the impression you get

about China and include a quotation that
supports your ideas.
Point Evidence Explain

I get the This is shown This would make the reader
impression that when the text think that the writer is in
the girl is states: a place where travellers
embarrassed when ‘laughs don’t usually visit as she
she sees the through her is not used to seeing him.
traveller. fingers.’
Self Assessment:
Read through your work and check:

Have you used a quotation?
Have you explained your ideas?
Have you checked your capital letters and
full stops?
Have you check your spellings?
Now give yourselves a WWW and EBI.

Homework:
A) Complete the independent task about travel

writing.
B) Spellings.

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ALL: will be able to identify the techniques of travel writing.

MOST: should be able to use some of the techniques in their own

Travel Writing: An Introduction

Think, pair, share:

How do you find the best place to

Travel Writing genres:

When travel writing, you could be asked to

The types of travel writing are:

So you will need to be able to use a range of

Write 3 sentences of a memorable holiday or a

Try to use at least one complex sentence!

So, what is travel writing?

The exact definition is:

A form of creative nonfiction in which

You are the travel Agent!

Watch this clip about Ha Long Bay,

Sentence starters to help you:

Ha Long Bay is… Don’t forget to

Travel Writing: Describe

Try to find one of these techniques in your

Why do you think the author included it?

Mauvaises terres. The first missionary explorers had given

Breasting the regular swells of land, on a red dirt road

Why is this so rubbish?

Imagine you are in the picture on the next

Try to describe what you see, hear, feel,

Travel Writing: Describe

The Task: Create your own country!

Be somewhere that people are going to want to

It is important to use a range of descriptive

One key skill to develop is your use of

To practise, choose adjectives to add in to

There was a café in the centre of the town.

Travel Writing: Inference

Can anyone use their inference and deduction

Read the text about China.

1.Underline the words you aren’t sure of and

Now, make a list of the impression you get

Point Evidence Explain

Read through your work and check:

Now give yourselves a WWW and EBI.

A) Complete the independent task about travel

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