Using different techniques to write descriptively

1. Descriptive Writing

2. • The milky moon is hanging in
the night sky. I can see it clearly
from far away.
• The moon with its white light is
hanging low in the night sky over
the still and quiet countryside. I
can see it in all directions, from the
top of the mountain to the open
sea.

3. Lesson objectives
• To prepare students for the TSA writing task
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to…
1. review some of the descriptive writing techniques.
2. create a short piece of descriptive writing base on some images.

4. Describe this picture
30 seconds challenge
Use (adj + adj + noun) to describe one thing in this picture
crystal clear water
(adj + adj + noun)

5. What is an adjective?
• A word describing a ____________.
• e.g two handsome young Chinese gentlemen
noun
The order of multiple adjectives
Quantity, Opinion, Size, Temperature, Age, Shape, Colour, Origin, Material

6. The order of multiple adjectives
Quantity four, ten, a few, several
Value/Opinion delicious, charming, beautiful
Size tall, tiny, huge
Temperature hot, cold
Age old, young, new, 14-year-old
Shape square, round
Color red, purple, green
Origin Swedish, Victorian, Chinese
Material glass, silver, wooden

7. Quantity, Opinion, Size, Temperature, Age, Shape, Colour, Origin, Material
• I have a lovely old red post-box.

8. The play room has ____ ____ ____ (adj) ____. (n)
Quantity, Opinion, Size, Temperature, Age, Shape, Colour, Origin, Material

9. Use of adverb
• A word used to modify a verb ,adjective or another adverb.
• She speaks ______________(adv).
• She speaks softly in a ________ (adv) quiet room.
• She speaks_____ softly in a very quiet room.
softly / quietly
very
very
Try to use remarkably/ extremely/ outstandingly/ unbelievably instead of VERY

10. Use of a simile
• My dog is as smelly as dirty socks.
• He is acting like a baby.
We use the words _____ and _____ when saying one thing is
similar to another.
as like

11. • 1 minute challenge
• Think of a simile to describe yourself
• Mr Yeung is as gentle as Johnson’s baby wash.

12. Use of a metaphor
• A figure of speech in which two things are compared usually by saying
one thing is another.
• (Thing A) is (Thing B)
• (Thing A A) is (adj)
Jimmy is a pig.
Baby you are fireworks.

13. The 5 senses
• Good descriptive writing makes use of the five senses
Sight
Sound
Smell
Taste
Touch

14. Quick summary
•Use of adjective
•Use of adverb
•Use of simile
•Use of metaphor
•Use of 5 senses

15. Write a description of a market at a busy time
• Descriptions of some market scenes will be shown to you.

16. The shops were stuffed and street vendors made the street extremely narrow
forcing people to walk in a straight line like soldiers going to a war.

17. What can you see in the picture?
A large wagon decorated with a variety of _________ was parked next to __________and
its ________ stood next to it screaming the price and freshness of his _________.
He was swinging a radish which he used it to ward off the _______ pointlessly dancing around the vegetables.
vegetables a road
owner products
flies

18. Get ready to a field trip to a
fish market in Kenya.

19. 1. The ______ (n) warms up the
humid and __________(adj) air which
smells of _____(adj) _____(n) and
_____(adj) _____(n).

20. 2. No one ________(v) this sour, and
fishy smell which rules over the air
here.
(fill in one / two words)

21. Use the techniques we learned to
describe the following items:
(>10words)
• think about what you see, what is happening, how do you
feel
•Women
•Fishermen
•Fish
1.There are some dead fish on the
floor, and it smells very bloody and
disgusting.
2. A plastic bag full of dead fish is sitting
on the wet floor waiting to be collected.
The bloody smell of it is unimaginably
disgusting.

22. Descriptive Writing
• Don’t just use a lot of adjectives and metaphors.
• Choose you vocabulary wisely and use lots of different sentence
structures.
• Be adventurous, use your imagination!
• Think about what you can hear, see, touch , smell, and taste.

23. Writing task
• A new theme park just opened in Hong Kong. Your class was lucky
enough to visit the park before the grand opening.
Write an article for the school magazine describing what happened
during your visit.

25. What can you see,
smell and hear?
What is happening?
How do you feel?