LO: To write a setting description. Steps to success: Consistency of tense. Look at the present tense verbs you selected in your plan. Select a verb to use. Write a sentence and include your present tense verb. CHALLENGE: Use a range of figurative language https:// www.theschoolrun.com/what-is- figurative-language WAGOLL: Through the solid, oak kitchen door lays a kitchen that looks like it has been ravaged by a hurricane swirling at one hundred miles per hour! The floor is strewn with the cracked remains of precious china plates that have been handed down through the generations of this family . As the monkeys bound around, there is a crack and a crunch as the china breaks into even tinier, sharper pieces under their hairy feet. Hanging from the ceiling, a monkey is dancing with the dusty, gold-plated lampshade, which is swinging loosely . Suddenly, a powerful rush of electrical energy shoots up from the oven (which has been accidently switched on) and the smell of gas fills the room instantly. This room feels like a black cloud of disorder and chaos has floated down into it and may decide to stay here a while longer. Past Present Future smiled was smiling had smiled smiles is smiling has smiled will smile will be smiling will have smiled Shifting tenses Pictures to support What is tense? Tense is the time described by a verb . When writing today, check that all of your verbs are in present tense . Look at the grid to the left for support.
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LO: To write a setting description.Steps to success: Consistency of tense.
Look at the present tense verbs you selected in your plan.
Select a verb to use.
Write a sentence and include your present tense verb.
CHALLENGE: Use a range of figurative language https://www.theschoolrun.com/what-is-figurative-language
WAGOLL:Through the solid, oak kitchen door lays a kitchen that looks like it has been ravaged by a hurricane swirling at one hundred miles per hour! The floor is strewn with the cracked remains of precious china plates that have been handed down through the generations of this family. As the monkeys bound around, there is a crack and a crunch as the china breaks into even tinier, sharper pieces under their hairy feet. Hanging from the ceiling, a monkey is dancing with the dusty, gold-plated lampshade, which is swinging loosely. Suddenly, a powerful rush of electrical energy shoots up from the oven (which has been accidently switched on) and the smell of gas fills the room instantly. This room feels like a black cloud of disorder and chaos has floated down into it and may decide to stay here a while longer.
Past Present Futuresmiled
was smilinghad smiled
smilesis smilinghas smiled
will smilewill be smilingwill have smiled
Shifting tenses
Pictures to support
What is tense?
Tense is the time described by a verb. When writing today, check that all of your verbs are in present tense. Look at the grid to the left for support.
Vocab mat for a setting descriptionNounMonkeys
LampshadeDoor
Cupboards
Plates
Pans
Verb
Whizzes
Squeezes
Aims
Drifts
SmashesShoots
Adjective
Ferocious Bright
Precious Cracked
Smooth FurryShrill Cool
Sour Bronzed
Shiny Metallic
Solid Old-fashioned
Figurative languageMetaphor: The room is a black cloud of chaos.
Simile:The monkey swinging like a clock.
Personification:The plate cries as it is smashed to pieces.
Onomatopoeia:Crash, crack.
Alliteration:The mad monkey’s mess.
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