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Descriptive Writing

October 28, 2009 |  Tagged , | Leave a Comment

 Old Boots

These boots were left in a cardboard box near a donation bin, and collected by a charity. They are now sitting on a shelf, ready for sale.

Colour: Brown
Age: 2.5 years
Size: 9
Condition: Used

old boots

Task 1

Writing from the point of view of the boots, describe your best selling features.  (6 lines)

Task 2

Describe your last owner. Include their age, occupation, sex, physical description, personality traits and how and where they used you.   (one paragraph – 8 lines)

Task 3

Why were you left at the charity bin?  (5 lines)

Task 4

What type of owner would you prefer to buy you? Explain why.   (8 lines)

Task 5

You are going to use a program called Blabberize to make your shoes talk.

Preparation for this task:

  1. You need to find an image of a pair of old boots – fairly large image. don’t use the one in the post. find your own. Download the image and save it
  2. Write a detailed paragraph describing a typical day with your owner.  (one paragraph -  12  lines)
  3. Read this paragraph and time it – you want at least 30 seconds

Where to write  it

  1. Create a new blog post to complete your writing. For each task, write a subheading.
  2. Publish your post.
  3. Give it the tags of writing, description
  4. Put it in the Category of writing.

Example of a Blabber


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