DESCRIPTIVE WRITING

exam

• In your exam, you will be asked to read a text then
• Write a description of a
• Location
• Scene
• Situation

describe

• Using your five senses
• (six if you see dead people)
• See, Hear, Taste, Touch, Smell

Vision

• We take in most information about our surroundings visually
• Today we are going to become cameras!
• We are going to go outside and record visually what is there
• We are going to capture stills of our scene and describe them

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOQUATION

• Using a location describe what is there
• "By the trampoline..."
• "Behind the theatre..."
• "Under the tree..."
• "In the sky..."

Structured Descriptions

• Describing a scene from:
• Inside to Outside
• Then to Now
• General to Particular

Tense

• Write in the past: Felt
• Saw
• Heard
• Smelt
• Tasted

better than being there

• Leave your reader with the sense of:
• Longing, wishing, reminiscing
• Zoom in but be a spectator not an actor

NOW LET'S GO OUT AND "FILM"