Wednesday, 3rd March 2021

C/W

Descriptive writing

Objective(s):
1. To explore the techniques of descriptive writing
2. To understand how to structure a descriptive writing piece.
Starter TASK: READ EACH EXAMPLE, AND
CREATE YOUR OWN.

Tool Examples Apply It

From To Your Turn
Using -ing verbs to I left the graveyard, Shivering and shaking, I To – laughing and having
begin a sentence shivering and shaking left the graveyard fun, I went to my house.
with fear.

Using ed verbs to John climbed the wall, Filled with fear, John To – Packed with fear,
begin a sentence filled with fear. climbed the wall Suzy ran to her house.

Begin a sentence with Rachel walked along Nervously, Rachel To – quietly, a robber
an adverb the canal bank walked along the canal entered the house.
nervously bank.
TASK
• Write a description using the photograph.

• Your description must have five paragraphs.

• Use the next slide to help you plan and write your description.
 What will we include in our description?

Paragraph 1: Imagine that you are Paragraph 4: Zoom/zoom – what tiny

looking at the picture from far away. detail can you pick out to describe?
What do you see from a distance?
Describe the setting, the mood and
atmosphere. Challenge: Personification.
E.G.
Challenge : use interesting adjectives.
The food was calling us.
The noisy, vibrant room.

Paragraph 2: Paragraph 5: Change your time of day and link back to

opening paragraph.
What will you ‘zoom in’ on?
What vocabulary will you use? Challenge: use a semi colon in your paragraph.

Challenge: use a simile. A semi-colon can be used to join two clauses when
events or ideas in each clause are closely linked.​
E.G. The room was a mess. It was like a Success criteria: TOP TIP: If you are struggling
tornado had hit it. USE SIMILES, what to ‘zoom in’ on, divide your E.G. The food arrived; it looked scrumptious
METAPHORS, picture into 4 and describe two ​
PERSONIFICATION For example:​
of the sections in detail eg. The I loved watching the new Marvel film; it was
Paragraph 3: What will you ‘further AND A VARIETY OF
DIFFERENT dinner ladies, the food, the thoroughly entertaining!
zoom in’ on?
SENTENCES. children, etc. ​

Challenge: use a metaphor Vocabulary bank

​

Add interesting and ambitious vocabulary

E.G.
The room was a pigsty.
My description
• In the photograph I can see some children eating a hot, scrumptious lunch made by the two teachers in the
back on the photograph. All of the children are enjoying themselves in the cafeteria and laughing together.
Happily, the children had their lunch because they were very hungry.
• While they were eating they kept the table all clean and spotless with no crumbs on it. This shows that the children have
manners when they eat and know how to keep things clean. This is amazing form a teachers view because they usually
expect children to make big messes. As clear as water, the table was exactly like that.
• When you look at the table everything is so clean and it is unbelievable to see it spotless and extremely clean. The room
was shiny like glass and looks like no one had use the table at all.
• The tiny detail that you can see is the children were happy about the food and looked like they were enjoying it very much.
• Before the food arrived it was calling the children to eat the scrumptious, delicious food. Licking their lips, the children
were very hungry.
Plenary
• What do you need to write a good description?
• How could you structure a good description?