6. Descriptive Writing – planning

Today we are going to plan our first descriptive writing task…

(The writing task will involve describing your house to a pen pal. However, we will first do a few preparatory tasks.)

1.

What techniques can we use when we want to describe something?

Have you completed your diagram on “Descriptive Writing”?

2.

Another tip for effective descriptive writing is to show your reader what you want to share with them rather than telling them…

How to Write a Descriptive Essay. (1:57 minutes long)

3.

POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

4.

Watch the following video. It is a detailed tutorial about descriptive writing…

How to Write a Descriptive Essay. (5:40 minutes long)

5.

Complete this quick revision task:

SOLUTION

6.

In the next lesson you are going to write a letter to a pen pal describing your home to them. It is important to plan carefully before you start writing. Therefore, we will complete a planning task: you are going to plan the language / words that you will use in your letter.

First complete the following table:

Test yourself:

• Can you match up the techniques below to their definitions?  
• Can you give examples of each technique?

SOLUTION

7.

Finally… Fill the boxes with as many describing techniques as you can!

8.

Choose five to ten words in your description that you are going to improve using a thesaurus!

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