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    Term: Second Subject: Language Arts Grade: 5

    Date: Tuesday 28th January 2021 Topic: Descriptive Writing

    Descriptive writing is meant to describe something in detail. It can describe a


    person, place, event, object, or anything else.
    The main purpose of description is to paint a picture in the reader’s mind.
    Writers do this by using strong adjectives, concrete nouns and sensory details.
    Sensory Details / Sense Impressions: In descriptive passages, writers’ often
    describe what they observe with their senses, e.g. what they can see, hear, smell,
    taste, or feel.
    Activity 1:
    Close your eyes for a moment. Imagine one place or location where you were or
    visited during your vacation. What did you see, hear, taste, smell or feel?
    Record your sense impressions in a sensory chart.
    Activity 2: Read the passage ‘My Favourite Place’
    My Favourite Place
    As I walked through the noisy, crowded streets on my way to work, a childhood
    image came back to me. In my mind’s eye I saw the overhanging trees concealing
    the entrance to my favourite place. A sandy path wound away from the stony track
    and led up to the clear pool. Trees hung low over the pool making a cool green
    oasis in the heat of the day. When I was a boy I spent many quiet hours there,
    sitting on a rock with my feet in the cool water, watching the hummingbirds flash
    past. All I could hear was the soft lapping of the water on the side of the pool and
    the breeze rustling gently through the leaves. Often after it had rained, water
    cascaded down the mountainside into the pool. I loved to sit under the waterfall
    and let it splash down over my head and into my mouth. Sometimes I went there
    with some friends from the village to fish. We made fishing lines from strings and
    used bent pins for hook. Usually the fish we caught were so tiny we threw them
    right back into the water, but once one of my friends caught something larger. We
    made a fire with twigs and grilled it. We burned our fingers pulling off the charred
    flesh, but it tasted delicious. I liked it best when I was there on my own, or with
    just one friend. The secret pool was a place to be at peace with oneself, free from
    care. I have not returned to my pool for many years now, but I can picture it as
    clearly as if I were there yesterday.

    Answer the following questions:


    1) What could the writer see when he sat beside the pool?
    2) What did the boys use to make fishing lines and hooks?
    3) How did they cook the big fish one of them caught?
    4) Where do you think the writer lives now?
    5) Explain in your own words “in my mind’s eye.”
    6) What kind of atmosphere does the writer create?
    (a) gloomy (b)lively (c)peaceful (d)frightening

    1b
    1) Which senses did the writer use to recall the scene?
    2) Give examples of what he observed with each sense, for example: Sight:
    hummingbirds flashing past

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