Description

What is description?

• It draws a picture in your readers' mind

• It defines a concept

• It narrates a situation

• It provides arguments about a topic

What words are useful for writing a description?

What information can you include when describing a place? (tick all the appropriate ones)

• Place location and borders

• Its size and weather

• Facilities and population

• Legends and myths

Physically, Kate Adie looks well equipped for the rigours of life as an internatinal correspondent. She is slim and fit-looking, with short blond hair and piercing, shrewd blue eyes. There is an air of confidence and toughness about her but also a hint of that deep intelligence and sensitivity which marks her style of reporting.

Answer these questions about the description:

1. 1. What aspects about Kate are described?

2. 2. What adjectives are used to describe her physically? Write them

If you describe a festivity or celebration, what verb tense and voice are used?

• Present simple and passive voice

• Past tense and passive voice

• Present tense and active voice

• Past tense and active voice