Warm Up

What’s your favourite season?

What’s your least favourite season?

What’s your favourite smell?

What’s your favourite type of music?

What’s your favourite food?

 Seasons

Can you name all of the seasons?

Spring Autumn

Summer Winter
 Senses

Can you name the five senses?

Sight Smell Touch

Taste Hear
 Can you match the adjective with the sense?

Colourful Sight

Salty Touch

Rotten Smell

Soft Hear

Noisy Taste
 Taste

We taste things with our mouth. Tastes can be

described with adjectives such as;
Crispy
What adjectives would you use to
describe the taste of this food? Sour Fresh

Delicious

Sweet Bitter

Creamy
Salty Spicy
 Smell

We smell things with our nose. Smells can be

described with adjectives such as;

What adjectives would you use to Sweet Bitter

describe the smell of these flowers?

Stinky Fresh Rotten

Minty Floral
 Sight

We see things with our eyes. Sights can be

described with adjectives such as;

What adjectives would you use to Ugly Dark

describe this picture of Mardi
Gras festival?

Rotten Pretty Bright

Beautiful Shiny Colourful

 Touch

We can touch things with our hands and feel Soft

Hard
things on our skin. We can describe things we
feel with adjectives such as;
Hot
What adjectives would you use to describe how Slimy
the things in this desert would feel?
Wet

Spiky
Cold

Bumpy
Fluffy
 Hear

We hear things with our ears. We

can describe things we hear with Noisy Quiet Calm
adjectives such as;

What adjectives would you use to

describe the sound of this band?
Beautiful Cheerful

Loud

Strange Thundering
 Describing with Five Senses

Talking about the five senses can be a useful tool when writing to bring a
scene to life and make you feel like you are really there.

Touch

Which senses are they

describing with here?

Walking in the hills, I

heard the sound of the
leaves rustling and felt the
breeze on my skin. 

Reveal the answers

Hearing
 Describing with Five Senses

Talking about the five senses can be a useful tool when writing to bring a
scene to life and make you feel like you are really there.

Smell

Which senses are they

describing with here?

At the spring picnic with my

friends, I smelt the sweet cherry
blossom flowers and tasted the
delicious chocolate brownie.

Reveal the answers

Taste
 Describing with Five Senses

Talking about the five senses can be a useful tool when writing to bring a
scene to life and make you feel like you are really there.

Sight

Which senses are they

describing with here?

At my cousin’s birthday garden

party, I saw the colourful
balloons and felt the hot sun.

Reveal the answers

Touch
 Describing with Five Senses

Talking about the five senses can be a useful tool when writing to bring a
scene to life and make you feel like you are really there.

Sight

Which senses are they

describing with here?

As I walked through the field, I

saw the beautiful purple sky
and heard the reindeers
grunting.
Reveal the answers

Hearing
 Your turn

Imagine you are at the beach on a hot summer day.

What can you see?

What can you smell?

What can you hear?

What can you touch?

What can you taste?

 Your turn

Imagine you are camping in the forest in autumn.

What can you see?

What can you smell?

What can you hear?

What can you touch?

What can you taste?

 Your turn

Imagine you are walking in the rain on a spring morning.

What can you see?

What can you smell?

What can you hear?

What can you touch?

What can you taste?

 Your turn

Imagine you are sitting on the sofa

watching a movie on a cold winter night.
What can you see?

What can you smell?

What can you hear?

What can you touch?

What can you taste?

 Your turn
Try describing this European Christmas
market, using your five senses.
 Your turn
Try describing this Asian fruit
market, using your five senses.
 Your turn
Try describing this autumn
scene using your five senses.
 Your turn
Try describing this French lavender
field using your five senses.