a presentation about how to write a paragraph to describe something or somewhere. Topic and concluding sentences for descriptive paragraph.

1. Describing a place
Main Source:
First Steps in Academic Writing (Level 2)
Second Edition
By: Ann Hogue
Pearson Longman
Abdulaziz Assanosi
azizsanosi@gmail.com

2. Describe these pictures

3. Description
•Descriptions are words picture: you can tell
how something is looks, feels, smells.
•Adjectives are words used for that.
•Describe pictures in pp 95 – 97.

4. How to write a good description
•Use space order to organize your description.
•Use lots of descriptive details.

5. Space Order Description

6. Space order
•You can describe from
•right to left
•Top to bottom
•Near to far
•Outside to inside

7. Topic and concluding sentences for
descriptive paragraph
•The topic sentence
–The topic names the thing to be described.
–The controlling idea give a general idea about the
thing.
–Example:
–My town is a beautiful place to live in.

8. Specific details
•Specific means exact or precise the opposite
of vague:
VAGUEEXACT
700,000SRMuch money
600 kilometersLong road
107 kilogramFat man
AudiLuxurious car
113 kmphFast animal

9. Practice
•On p 101