Fiction: Characters and Setting 2

Fiction: Characters and Setting

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What is fiction?

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Can you identify any fiction genre?

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Can you define the following?

verb:

adjective:

adverb:

Parts of Speech

Noun: This refers to the name of a person, a place or a thing. e.g. boy, Ama, city, France, mountain, joy, happiness

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Pick out the noun

Football is an interesting game.

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Pick out the noun

The boys can book the flight quicker.

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Pick out the nouns.

Freedom is very important.

Adjectives

Adjective: This is a word that describes or modifies a noun or a pronoun. e.g. brilliant, big, smooth, rough, skinny

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Pick out the adjective

The green book is mine.

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Pick out the adjectives

The calm charity worker tried to point the anxious villagers towards a safe place.

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Pick out the adjectives

The menacing earthquake shook the ground.

Verbs

A verb is an action or doing word.

E.g. walk, jump, is, have, has, munch

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Pick out the verb

My boss will fire me if I am late.

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Pick out the verb

The menacing fox sprang out of nowhere.

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Pick out the verbs

Abena jolted in her seat when she saw the grey hound.

Adverbs

An adverb is a word that describes a verb (he sings loudly), and adjective (very tall) or another adverb (ended too quickly).

 Adverbs often end in -ly, but some (such as fast) look exactly the same as their adjective counterparts

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Pick out the adverb

The game ended too soon.

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Pick out the adverb

The boy angrily called his friend.

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Pick out the adverb

The extremely huge cow is lost.

Prepositions

A preposition is a word used to link nouns, pronouns, or phrases to other words within a sentence. They act to connect the people, objects, time and locations of a sentence. 

Prepositions are usually short words, and they are normally placed directly in front of nouns.

Example: on, before, around, behind, in , along, among, across, below, near, towards, upon, within, between, beneath, beside

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Pick out the preposition.

The fire burnt towards the house.

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Pick out the preposition:

The scary pirate hid the treasure below the huge castle.

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Pick out the preposition:

I love the green swing by the new canteen.

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What do you consider when you talk about setting?

MOOD

Discussion

What comes to your mind when you hear the word mood?

Do you feel emotions when you read? Have you ever read a book that made you cry?

Does this change your mood?

Do you sometimes feel a change or shift in mood in the same story?

Why do you think writers do this?

Read the extract on page 62 of your Hodder English Learner's Book 6

What is the mood at the beginning of the extract and what is the mood at the end of the extract?

How do you know this?

What does the writer do to create these effects?

Using adjectives to make images visual.

Writers can use powerful adjectives and verbs to make their writing more interesting and effective.

Examples: The boy jumped onto the stage

The skinny boy sprang dramatically onto the amazing stage.

skinny = adjective describing the noun boy

sprang = a powerful replacement for jump

dramatically= adverb describing the verb sprang

amazing= adjective describing the noun stage.

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Pick out the adjective from the phrase below:

listening to strange music

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Pick out the adjective from the phrase below:

peering down interesting alleyways

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Pick out the adjective from the phrase below:

a cool drink in his hands

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Pick out the adjectives from the phrase below:

a violent wind sent the dust whirling round in furious eddies.

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Pick out five verbs from the extract on page 62 of your Hodder English Learner's Book that you find effective and why?

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Before we go, describe the main street in front of your house.

Use powerful adjectives and verbs as well as adverbs to bring the scene to life.