Good Day to everyone!!!Before we start our discussion,Let us first refresh our minds through some activities I’ve

ready.

Enjoy!

Let’s start with some…

1. She won the contest. Today is her red letter day.2. Its getting dark. Come on, shake a leg.3. He was all ears when his boss talked.4. A piece of meat fell on the ground and in the

wink of an eye, the hungry dog ran away with it.5. She’s so bored with her work. She’s ready to leave

it at the drop of the hat

Find the correct meaning of the following idioms. Choose your answer inside the box.

• Very busy• Quickly

• Hurry

• With great energy andenthusiasm

• On any excuse• Listen carefully

• With excellence

• Has an inconsistentviewpoint

• Lucky day • Just a few

6. We don’t understand him. He blows hot and cold on the issue.

7. You cannot disturb him, because he is all tied up.

8. Eric lost the game by hair.9. He graduated flying colors.10.The BNAHS Dancers performed up the storm.

Find the correct meaning of the following idioms. Choose your answer inside the box.

• Very busy• Quickly

• Hurry

• With great energy andenthusiasm

• On any excuse• Listen carefully

• With excellence

• Has an inconsistentviewpoint

• Lucky day • Just a few

Next…

A big black bugThat bit a big black bearMade the big black bear

Bleed blood

Let us see if you can pronounce the following tongue twister correctly. Recite it 5 times.

1.

Did Dick Pickens prickHis pinkie pickling cheap

Cling peaches in anInch of framed French

Finch photos?

2.

And last but not the least…

Find the correct meaning of the following. Write the letter of your answer in a sheet of paper.

1. Mrs. Canlas is an ITINERANT woman who will join the pilgrimage to Poland next month.

a. Professional c. travelingb. rude d. jobless

2. The LANGUID look of her face in that movie made her won the Best Actress Award.

a. sluggish c. stickyb. pitiful d. soothing

3. The huge whirlwind which GYRATED through the whole community stopped in front of their house and changed its direction abruptly.

a. destroyed c. passedb. whirled d. agitated

4. Do not get involved in MELEES.a. horrible scenes c. soap operab. deep sadness d. noisy fights

5. My teacher read the “ODE on a Grecian Urn”a. heavy debtc. surpriseb. poem d. sweet smell

6. Pres. Gloria makes herself busy visiting and awarding lot titles to HOI POLLOI

a. Hawaiian food c. common people

b. delicacy d. royalty7. I enjoyed the SMORGASBORD of Filipino dishes in

that hotel.a. costly venture c. acapellab. collision d. varied assortment

8. She couldn’t believe that she dined with the KAHUNA.

a. actress c. queenb. boss d. prince

9. Some Iraqis, despite the ongoing battle, are able to EKE out a living.

a. crawl c. manage with difficultyb. give up d. manage to learn

10.The BURGEONING of computer rentals all over the city is caused by the students.

a. sprouting c. shining brightlyb. growing d. gaining popularity

I hope you’ve learned something from our

activities.Now, we start our

main topic.

Our lesson for the day is…

A descriptive paragraph has sentences that work together to present a single, clear picture (description) of a person, a place, a thing, an event, or an idea. Description is commonly used in novels, short stories, and essays.

Descriptive paragraphs make pictures in the reader's mind. A good descriptive paragraph will make a vivid picture.

In order to write descriptively, you must first learn to see - observe the world around you and think about what you are seeing.

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A descriptive paragraph has sentences that work together to present a single, clear picture (description) of a person, a place, a thing, an event, or an idea. Description is commonly used in novels, short stories, and essays.

Descriptive paragraphs make pictures in the reader's mind. A good descriptive paragraph will make a vivid picture.

In order to write descriptively, you must first learn to see - observe the world around you and think about what you are seeing.

The purpose of descriptive writing is to make our readers see, feel, and hear what we have seen, felt, and heard. Whether we are describing a person, a place, or a thing, our aim is to reveal a subject through vivid and carefully selected details.

Each of the four paragraphs below responds, in its own way, to the guidelines in How to Write a Descriptive Paragraph. The writers have selected a belonging that holds special meaning to them, identified that belonging in a clear topic sentence, and then described the subject in detail while explaining its personal significance.

Look! Put simply, that's the watchword of this project and the motto of all good writers: pay attention to the details and show the reader what you mean. Specific details create word pictures that can make writing more interesting and easier to understand. In this project, you will practice organizing those specific details into an effective descriptive paragraph.

Guided by the steps below, you will begin by selecting one of your belongings and then drafting a list of details that describe it. Next, you will put these details into sentences and organize the sentences into a paragraph. Finally, you will revise the paragraph to make sure that it is unified and clearly organized.

1) Find and Explore a TopicBefore you can write an effective descriptive paragraph, you need to do two things: find a good topic; study the topic carefully (a strategy that we call probing)

2) Draft a Descriptive ParagraphOnce you have settled on a topic for your descriptive paragraph and collected some details, you're ready to assemble those details in a rough draft that begins with a topic sentence. You will find a common model for organizing a description at Draft a Descriptive Paragraph.

3) Revise a Descriptive ParagraphNow you will revise your descriptive paragraph, concentrating on its organization. That is, you will check to see that your sentences follow a clear and logical order, each detail related to the one that came before and leading to the one that follows

These two exercises will give you practice in revising effectively: Practice in Supporting a Topic Sentence with Specific DetailsPractice in Organizing a Descriptive Paragraph

4) Revise, Edit, and ProofreadYou're almost done. It's now time to invite someone else (a classmate, for example, or your instructor) to read your descriptive paragraph and suggest ways to improve it. Taking your reader's comments into consideration, revise the paragraph one last time, using as a guide this Revision Checklist for a Descriptive Paragraph.

You've just written a descriptive paragraph. The trick to making good paragraphs is to be a good observer. Practice observing - any time that you're not actually doing anything else, pay attention to the world around you. Waiting in line, travelling to a destination, sitting in a restaurant - all of these are great chances to observe! Good descriptive writing involves showing not telling. You must know how to write a paragraph by focusing on one item and describing it. It is the job of the reader to guess the item.

Watson and the Shark

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              Watson and the Shark is a painting by John Singleton Copley. In the foreground of the painting, one naked man is being attacked by a huge gray shark in the cold and choppy seawater. One small overloaded rowboat is near the naked man and the frightening shark. There are nine horrified men in this rowboat. They are trying to rescue the naked man. One young man takes a long spear and wants to kill the shark. Some people are reaching for his hand, and some are throwing a rope for him to catch. In the background of the painting, under the dark and cloudy sky, there are many ships stopping in the stormy harbor. The whole painting makes people feel tension and fear.

Notes: This paragraph is well written in a number of ways. Firstly, the sentence structure is correct and shows compound sentence combining. Secondly, they used a number of adjectives to add life to the description. Thirdly, the description is organized from the focal point in the front of the painting to the background, just as our eyes would follow the painting. The ideas flow smoothly from one to the other because of cohesive devices such as sentence combining, pronouns, correct use of definite and indefinite articles, repetition of key words, and prepositions that direct the reader’s attention around the image. This paragraph is an excellent example of a descriptive paragraph.

I am forty years old, rather tall and I have blue eyes and short black hair. I wear casual clothes as I teach students in a relaxed atmosphere. I enjoy my job because I get to meet and help so many different people from all over the world. During my spare time, I like playing tennis which I play at least three times a week. I also love listening to classical music and I must admit that I spend a lot of money on buying new CDs! I live in a pretty seaside town on the Italian coast. I enjoy eating great Italian food and laughing with the likable people who live here.

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I hope you’ve learned something about

descriptive paragraph.

Now, let see if you are doing good

Exercise # 1:Answer these questions about yourself on a piece of paper.

•How old are you? •Describe yourself.•What are your favorite hobbies? Why do you like them? •Where do you live? •Do you like living there? Why or why not?

Exercise #2: Now that you have the information about yourself. Fill in the gaps in to complete this descriptive paragraph about yourself.

I am _________ years old, I _________________ (your looks). I enjoy ______________. I often _____________ (describe how often you do your hobby). I live in ____________. People in ____________ are ________________ . I enjoy / don't enjoy living in ______________ because ____________.

Exercise #3:Guess the right title for this paragraph.

"I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round table, and towered high above their heads. It was brilliantly lighted by a multitude of little tapers; and everywhere sparkled and glittered with bright objects. There were rosy-cheeked dolls,

hiding behind the green leaves; and there were real watches (with movable hands, at least, and an endless capacity of being wound up) dangling from innumerable twigs; there were French-polished tables, chairs, bedsteads, wardrobes, eight-day clocks, and various other articles of domestic furniture (wonderfully made, in tin, at Wolverhampton)"...

Choose a place or experience you would like to describe. Fill up the box that describes your chosen place or experience

Check the following:

What will be your reaction?

Is it

Or

Let’s see…

And

And will I rather to say

And

1. Red letter day lucky day2. Shake a leg hurry3. All ears listen carefully4. In the wink of an eye quickly5. At the drop of the hat on any excuse6. Blows hot and cold has an

inconsistentviewpoint

7. All tied up very busy8. By hair just a few9. Flying colors with excellence10.Up the storm with great energy

and enthusiasm

1. C2. A3. B4. D5. B

6. C7. D8. B9. C10.B

Christmas Tree

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