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Learning to learn (Units 1 and 2)

Writing a descriptive text

Tips

When you write a descriptive text, think about the following:
• Structure
When you change topic, start a new paragraph. Think about how the paragraphs link. Make sure you
have a good paragraph or sentence to end your text.
• Punctuation

When you’ve finished writing, read through carefully and check the punctuation.
• Language
Use strong adjectives. For example, instead of nice or good, choose wonderful, fabulous or cool.
Think about which adjectives you can use to describe senses. For example:

sight beautiful, bright, colourful, ...
smell rotten, sweet, spicy, ...
touch rough, smooth, cold, warm ...
sound high, loud, soft, low ...
taste sweet, spicy, bitter ...

1 Do you understand the adjectives above? Check, then write one more for each category.

2 A Match the punctuation to its use.

A Use this at the beginning of a sentence. 1 Full stop (.)
B Use this before a list. 2 Comma (,)
C Use this at the end of a sentence. 3 Capital letter (I, Y, H)
D Put this between things in a list and to 4 colon (:)
indicate a pause in a sentence.

B Now punctuate this.

there are lots of things to see in London museums galleries famous buildings
i went there last summer it was a bit cold but i had a great time

3 Read and underline all the adjectives in the text. Check you understand them.

It was a freezing winter day when I went for a walk along the beach near my new house.
I put on my warmest coat and wrapped a soft scarf around my face, then left my house.
The rocks were at the end of the beach. They were cold and hard under my hands
and feet. I climbed towards the cliffs, then I saw the cave. I stopped to stare at its black
entrance.
Inside the cave, ….

4 Continue the story from exercise 3. Use strong adjectives and the correct punctuation.

16 UNIT 2