This document provides examples and guidance on writing descriptive paragraphs. It explains that a descriptive paragraph paints a picture using details from the five senses. It should include a topic sentence, supporting details that use descriptive words and phrases, and a closing sentence. Examples are provided for different types of descriptive paragraphs, including describing a place, person, or event. The document also offers guidance on writing a character sketch by including details about a character's name, age, physical appearance, personality traits, and behaviors. Students are provided a sample character sketch as an example.
4. A Descriptive Paragraph
-The paragraph which describes and gives a clear picture
of a person, an event, a place or a thing.
-In a descriptive paragraph, you can use the different
senses to add more descriptions.
hear See Smell
taste
Touch
5. Examples of Descriptive Sentences:
1. That little girl is very cute.
2. My mother's cake is very delicious.
3. It is very noisy in the market.
4. The table surface is very rough.
7. Examples of topic sentences:
-Healthy food can change a person's life for the better.
-Friendship is one of the most precious gift in life.
-Summer Vacation is one of the most exciting times of the year.
-Healthy food is necessary for an athlete because it gives him the energy he needs to perform on the
field.
Examples of closing sentences:
Supporting details
- Good friendship is very difficult to come across. That is why we should appreciate this relationship
that is based on understanding and mutual respect.
-It was an amazing place ,I wish to visit it again.
8. Types of a descriptive paragraph:
2-Character Sketch:
1-Describing a place
When you write a character sketch, you want the reader to have a strong
mental image of the person including how the person talks, acts and thinks.
9. Character Sketch:
How to write a character sket
1-The character’s name. 2- Age (old –young)
3-Gender : Female /male :( man-woman-girl- boy)
height ( tall-short-average height)
4-Physical characteristics : nose, glasses ,
Face:
14. Write a character sketch about your best friend
in your copybook in one paragraph .
15. My friend Liz is the most amazing friend .We’re like sisters. We met on the first
day of school in grade one, both of us were nervous. Liz is cute. She has long red hair.
She laughs about everything and when she does, you see her bright white teeth. She
has wide green eyes. Liz likes to wear pants, sweatshirts, and wristbands. Sometimes
she wears fancy dresses . She never says anything mean about people. She always
supports me in everything I want to do. she also trusts me to give her my honest opinion
and to say what I feel. Liz is a wonderful listener. She lets me tell her all my
problems and worries. We don’t always agree on everything, and sometimes we even
fight like sisters. But, in the end, we always stick together.
16. 1- She has long straight hair.
2- She is tall.
3-He is young and has short straight hair.
4-She has wide blue eyes.
5- She laughs a lot.
6-He has short straight hair.