Remote Learning – Year 8 English (Wednesday)

Year 8 

Describe image 1 Year 8  

Success criteria 

• Aim to write at least 4 paragraphs  
• Consider the mood and atmosphere of your setting  
• Use a variety of descriptive techniques, including appealing to the senses 
• Try including similes, metaphors and personification 
• Use powerful verbs and adjectives  

Additional option: Describe image 2  

Challenge – use a thesaurus to develop your vocabulary (https://www.thesaurus.com/) 

Support – sentence starters: 

Drop into the action: The tyre swing swung…  

Shift your attention to describe something else: Smiling, the boy…   

Zoom in to a small detail: Creaking, the grey chunky chain…  

Zoom out, imagine what is beyond the image: Next to the tyre swing, a see-saw was waiting…