Write and make it real!!

Descriptive writing works when the subject is brought to life. This is done by using concrete nouns, decorated by colourful adjectives. The nouns can also be described by sensory details - touch, sight, smell, taste and sound. Descriptive wriitng should also contain varied and interesting verbs.

When you read narrative texts, you will meet many different methods of starting a story. Some of the most common are:

 . Giving a description of the setting or the situation

. Going straight into some dialogue between two or more of the characters

. Offering a description of one or more of the characters

. Going straight into part of the action or narrative

Your Task:

Describe your special place and create a collage to bring it to life 

Write some loving lyrics. Get Musical!!

Listen to this song: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vTmcs9k_rzy
by Dire Straits about Romeo and Juliet

Now Find a song that attempts to describe Romeo’s love for Juliet.

Write the lyrics of an original song which encapsulates your opinion about Romeo and Juliet's love for each other.

Get Reporting!

Read the article below.


An Unexplained Visitor!
Yesterday, an extraordinary event occurred at a school in Leyton, London.

George Mitchell School had a very unusual visitor in the form a dragon.

Police arrived at the school at 2:15pm after receiving a number of calls from local residents reporting that there was a dragon in the school’s main playground.

Disbelief

When the police arrived they found a blood red, 13ft dragon casually standing in the playground, leaning over the gates to chew at the leaves of nearby trees. Staff and students were watching in disbelief from the safety of the school building.

During the schools lunch break students had begun shouting out ‘there’s a giant dragon’ in the canteen. However, staff ignored this, mistaking their cries for some kind of prank.

Mrs Jeffrey, the school’s headteacher, said ‘It was unusual for the students to be shouting like this, but their claim was so outlandish we ignored it at first. It wasn’t until one of the staff members came running into the office, frantic as a chicken, claiming that there really was a dragon on the school premises that we took the claim seriously.’
Experts have taken the photograph to for a thorough examination.

Stench

Local residents were the first to realise something very unusual was going on. One neighbour said, ‘I went out to hang my washing and could smell something awful. The stench was like horse manure. I looked around, but couldn’t see any horses. Then I heard a huge roaring sound. It was as loud as a clap of thunder.’

Another passer-by was struck by the dragons hideous appearance. ‘He had these flaming eyes that were red-hot like the sun. I’ve never seen anything like it!’

Expert opinion

Experts were escorted to the scene to examine the creature, but by the time they had arrived there was no trace of the dragon at all. Professor Flyer of the Prehistoric Creatures Association is still sceptical as to whether or not the dragon was merely a hoax. He claims, ‘a creature like this has not been seen for thousands of year. I believe that like I believe Elvis is still alive!’

By

An Reporter





TASKWrite your own newspaper article about a strange or bizarre incident that occurred at school. Use your imagination!

Use your imagination. Go on get creative :)

Click here and look at the description of Maslin beach in Australia.

. Using a holiday brochure and the internet, browse the description of the beaches of your choice.

. Select an image and write a description of your image using your senses and descriptive language. Remember to make your description evocative for your reader to transport them to another world!!

A New Gym

GMS is being rebuilt and Mrs Jeffery is inviting students’ suggestions for a new, state-of-the-art gym.

Draw your ideas for an aerial view of the layout of this gym.

What facilities should be available?

Using power-point, prepare a presentation to persuade your headteacher to approve your design.

Make sure that your presentation includes both the images of your proposed gym, as well as text to support the illustrations.

May 2008 - Poetry (KS3 Intermediate)

Read the following poem by May Swenson:

Southbound on the Freeway

A tourist came in from Orbitville,
parked in the air, and said:

The creatures of this star
are made of metal and glass.

Through the transparent parts
you can see their guts.

Their feet are round and roll
on diagrams--or long

measuring tapes--dark
with white lines.

They have four eyes.
The two in the back are red.

Sometimes you can see a 5-eyed
one, with a red eye turning

on the top of his head.
He must be special-

the others respect him,
and go slow,

when he passes, winding
among them from behind.

They all hiss as they glide,
like inches, down the marked

tapes. Those soft shapes,
shadowy inside

the hard bodies--are they
their guts or their brains?

1. Look carefully through the poem and see if you can figure out what it is about.
2. Write your own poem about something else on Planet Earth viewed through alien eyes.

Shakespeare- KS3 Intermediate FLO

How well do you know your Shakespeare?

See if you can guess correctly which plays the following characters come from.

1. Caliban
2. Cordelia
3. Ophelia
4. Desdemona
5. Dogberry
6. Escalus
7. Duncan
8. Viola
9. Leontes
10. Bottom

Who are the characters?
Which plays do they come from?

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Wikipedia

When you have finished, hand your work to your English teacher.