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2. Speed Dating Game
Have you ever heard of Speed Dating?
Do you think you can judge somebody’s character in
3 minutes?
Do you agree with the saying, ‘First impressions
count’?

3. Speed Dating Game – to find your ideal travel partner
• You are going to play a speed dating game.
• Compile your speed dating travel chart – add in one question
of your own
• You will be spending three minutes chatting to each person in
the group asking your questions and answering theirs. You
should aim to get their ideas down.
• At the end look over your sheet and decide who would make
your ideal travel partner and why.

4. Name Ideal companion or
travel nightmare?
QUESTION 1 Best place you have ever been
on holiday. Why?
QUESTION 2 Worst place you have ever
been on holiday – or place you don’t want
to go to. Why?
QUESTION 3 Weather - sun and heat or
cool and pleasant? Tropical or Arctic? Why?
QUESTION 4 Adventure, doing things
holiday, sightseeing or lazing around sun
tanning? Why?
QUESTION 5 Dream holiday if money was
no object…..Why?
QUESTION 6 Your own travel question…..

5. Where would your dream holiday destination be?
Choose write about a place your would love to go on holiday to
Or write about a place that you have been to on holiday and have enjoyed.

7. Travel writing style
Covers out of the ordinary subject Is vivid: create clear pictures in the
matter, not just what is in the reader’s head
brochures Has a bright, lively and fun tone
Uses humour to engage the reader Can be colloquial (written in a chatty
style, like the writer is having a
Is personal, perhaps using first person conversation with the reader for
narration example “tacky” or “roaring
Has a strong sense of the writer’s trade”)
personality Can use metaphors and similes to
Uses personal experiences and describe
anecdotes (stories from experience) Uses facts about the place being
Can use bathos (over exaggeration for
described
comic effect) Lists adjectives in threes for added
impact
Can use a noun phrase to describe (an
Uses sarcasm to add impact if
adjective in front of a noun, for describing a place the writer didn’t
example beautiful beach) like!

8. Rio

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12. • Write 5 golden rules for
Plenary – your successful travel writing
using knowledge from
learning today’s lesson

14. Noun Phrases at
Big black dog gate the at the the
gate
dog
Headword
(the most important word)
Premodifier (words before the big
the headword)
Postmodifier (words after black
the headword)

18. How to expand nouns using pre and post
modifiers
• Bed
• Comfy bed
• Extremely comfy bed
• The extremely comfy bed
• The extremely comfy bed in my bedroom

19. Make up your own in pairs
• Cat
• Horse
• Dress
• Girl

20. Now make up a similar sentence about this picture:
Use pre and post modifications.
Post modification could be a prepositional phrase: in…. on….. by…..
next to…..
Or it could be a subordinate clause: which… that…….

21. This is the only Grade I listed
pier in Britain. The West Pier has
been closed to the public since
1975 because of fears it might fall
down. The West Pier was
designed by Eugenius Birch and
was completed in 1866 as a
promenading pier.
Now imagine you are writing an entry for the West Pier in a
travel book. Persuade people it is worth visiting.
Are these sentences different to your first ones?

22. Foxhunting is…… a social pastime
an illegal activity
sport
AGAINST
– Foxhunting is a
traditional sport
• Fox hunting is a
bloodthirsty
FOR pastime
AGAINST

23. Write a sentence
For Sale!
advertising this for sale.
A rusty old van that could
be used for spare parts.
Now write
another
sentence
advertising one
of these dogs
for sale.
Remember to
say which dog
in the picture.

24. Today's lesson was about NOUN PHRASES – your learning is
important the challenge now is remembering the skill and using it….
How will you remember the skill and how will you use it?

26. Three people everyone talks
Step 1 One person talks for two minutes
about the topic

27. Starter
Write negative adjectives to describe the hotel accommodation
• The hotel was Writer’s challenge
• Can you change the
horrible. sentence to add detail
and description –
remember your noun
phrases

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29. Task
You are going to do a role play. You will imagine that you are either a
customer with a complaint while you are on holiday or you are the manager.
Read the questions below to help you to think about what you are going to
say, behave and feel during the role play.
Imagine you are the customer: Imagine you are the manager:
How has this problem ruined your What are you going to say about the
holiday? customers about their problem?
How do you feel about this problem? Is this problem the fault of the
holiday company?
What do you want the manager to
do about this problem? What solutions can you offer?

30. • An effective complaint……

31. To the Manager of Sunny Days,
I’m writing to tell you how your holiday company is ripping off its
customers. I went to Spain last month with Sunny Days and I had a
terrible time. There was building work outside my apartment and this
kept me awake all night, every night. How would you like to be kept
awake by constant drilling noises and workmen shouting?
The rooms were also dirty, so much so that I would not expect my dog to
stay in there for a fortnight! I complained to the holiday rep but he was
worse than useless.
I want all of my money back plus £500 compensation or I will tell everyone
not to book a holiday with you. I will make it my mission to ruin your
business.
You have been warned.
Mr B Taylor
A very, very dissatisfied customer

32. Structure your letter of complaint.
Before you write your letter, think about the following:
Paragraph 1 Word
Introduce yourself and tell the manager Formal Language. Avoid slang words.
where you went on holiday, when you Use key words. Make a list of the key words that you
need.
went on holiday and, briefly, what the
problem was. Sentence
Make sure that your sentences are linked together.
What linking words could you use?
Paragraph 2 & Paragraph 3 Use a variety of simple, compound and complex
sentences.
Write about the problem in more detail.
Give evidence and write about how Text
this ruined your holiday in detail. Link your paragraphs together. What linking words
could you use?
Make sure that you have evidence to support your
Paragraph 4 opinions.
Make sure that you use a range of persuasive
Write about how you want the manager to techniques.
solve the problem (for example, Tone of the letter. Be polite and firm. Do not be
aggressive.
money back, compensation, a free
holiday, an assurance that this will not
happen to anyone again)
•

33. Today’s Lesson Objective
To analyse the deliberate
“subliminal” messages used in a
constructed text.

34. First Impressions
• Luxury hotel
• independently-minded
• perfect opportunity
• cultural and scenic attractions
• magnificent deep-water
• splendid bays
• rich pool of cultural institutions
• myriad of colourful street festivals.
• What kind of text is it?
• Who is this aimed at?

35. GAP
• Genre
• Audience
• Purpose

36. What sort of
text would
you expect to
see on this
page?

37. Group Writing:
• Luxury hotel
• independently-minded
• perfect opportunity
• cultural and scenic attractions
• magnificent deep-water
• splendid bays
• rich pool of cultural institutions
• myriad of colourful street festivals.
• What kind of text is it?

38. Before I show you
this, look carefully at
your own – what
type of writing have
you used?
What techniques
have you employed?

39. Highlight the techniques being used.
• How similar is your own writing to the writing
that is used in this brochure?
• Explain your response in your book:
• This writing was written before I saw the
whole brochure page. I found that my writing
was different because...
• I found it was similar because....

40. Today’s Lesson Objective
To analyse the deliberate
“subliminal” messages used in a
constructed text.

43. You are going to see a
variety of words.
Think about:
1) What each word
tells you about this
text?
2) What type of text
might it be?

44. Dawn

45. Granite

46. Bridge

47. Lake

48. Temple

49. Ceremony

50. Colin Thubron: Shadow of the Silk Road
In the dawn the land is empty. A causeway
stretches across the lake on a bridge of silvery
granite, and beyond it, pale on its reflection, a
temple shines. The light falls pure and still. The
noises of the town have faded away, and the
silence intensifies the void—the artificial lake,
the temple, the bridge—like the shapes for a
ceremony which has been forgotten.

51. What can we infer about China?
List the impressions you
get about China, the
girl and the traveller
and explain how you
inferred them.
Example:
– I get the impression that the girl is embarrassed when she sees the
traveller from the phrase “laughs through her fingers”

52. Do you think this is a good description?

54. What might come next?

55. Can you
tell if this
is fiction
or non-
fiction?

56. Examples

57. Travel Writing
• To understand how language
devices are used to create
humour.

58. Can you match these to the
correct answer?
Pun Click to editcontempt text styles
Showing Master by using irony
Second level
Sarcasm Putting togetherlevel things you wouldn’t
Third two
expect Fourth level
Fifth level
Irony A play on words
Juxtapositision A writer’s attitude to his subject and
audience, shown by his choice of words
Tone Using words to mean something different to
their literal meaning

59. Which puns make these jokes funny
and why?
Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly; but
when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank,
proving once and for all that you can't have
your kayak and heat it.
The other day I sent my girlfriend a huge pile
of snow. I rang her up, I said "Did you get my
drift?".
So I said to this train driver "I want to go to
Paris". He said “Eurostar?” I said, "I've been
on telly but I'm no Dean Martin".

60. Why is this ironic?
“They were having a festival of
litter…Citizens had taken time off from
their busy activities to add crisp
packets, empty cigarette packets and
carrier-bags to the otherwise bland and
neglected landscape. They…brought
colour and texture to the pavements
and gutters.”

61. It is the home of the largest living thing on Earth, the Great
Barrier Reef, and of the most famous and striking monolith,
Ayers Rock (or Uluru, to use its now official, more respectful,
Aboriginal name). It has more things that will kill you than
anywhere else. Of the world’s ten most poisonous snakes, all are
Australian. Five of its creatures – the funnel web spider, box
jellyfish, blue-ringed octopus, paralysis tick and stonefish – are
the most lethal of their type in the world. This is a country
where even the fluffiest of caterpillars can lay you out with a
toxic nip, where seashells will not just sting you but actually
sometimes go for you. Pick up an innocuous coneshell from a
Queensland beach, as innocent tourists are all too wont to do,
and you will discover that the little fellow inside is not just
astoundingly swift and testy, but also exceedingly venomous. If
you are not stung or pronged to death in some unexpected
manner, you may be fatally chomped by sharks or crocodiles, or
carried helplessly out to sea by irresistible currents, or left to
stagger to an unhappy death in the baking outback. It’s a tough
place.

62. “And I’m pulling on the cord, and pulling and
pulling, and the engine is just going putt, putt,
pffft. And all the while the crocodile’s coming.
Finally, miraculously, the engine catches and
we’re able to move off. Only we’re pointing in
the wrong direction. Anyway, after much
messing around and crashing into banks and a
little affectionate discussion of how we’re all
going to die in a minute and it’s all my fault,
we get turned round. Only to get out of there
we have to go towards where the crocodile
is.”

63. Bill Bryson Exracts
1. Find and copy out an example of irony. What
effect does it have on the reader?
2. Find and copy out an example of
juxtaposition. What effect does it have on
the reader?
3. How is Bryson’s travel writing different
from the others we have looked at?
4. How does Bryson STRUCTURE his writing to
make it funny?