Descriptive+texts

=Descriptive texts=


 * * Some types
 * Students' Samples
 * Useful Tools
 * Extra Materials ||

A descriptive text is a text that wants you to **//picture//** what they are describing.

A novel might want you to **//imagine//** the characters and see them in your mind. A travel book will want you to **//see//** the country it is describing.


 * Descriptive texts usually:**
 * make use of adjectives and adverbs
 * use comparisons to help picture it - something is like something
 * employ your five senses - how it feels, smells, looks, sounds and tastes


 * Some types:**
 * Description of pictures.


 * Description of personal experiences.


 * Description of a process.


 * Description of places.



STUDENTS' SAMPLES

 * (ADD YOUR OWN TEXTS) **


 * Description of pictures.


 * Description of personal experiences.


 * Description of a process.


 * Description of places.

= LUCIA BARRACHINA JORDA 3ºF =

Below I’m going to describe how my house is. I live in a buliding with seven floors and four housing in each floor. The first thing you see when you enter is the hall, which has an enormous and modern trunk. If you turn right, you see the kitchen that P although ^ is a little bit small P there’re the common household equipments of a kitchen. If instead of turning right, you go straight ^, you will arrive to the living room. Here, there’re several things: in the right, a big, square and brown table and a very modern shelve ; at the bottom, there is a big and black television and beside it P a printed bookcase; there’s also a big sofa where we sit to see the television and an old and round table where we use to eat. Going to the right, through a corridor we get to the bath ^ that is the smallest room of my house; it has a toilet, a sink, a bidet and a shower. At the end of the corridor WO are found the rooms. The biggest one is the one of my parents, with a bed and a piece of furniture with a computer. There are two other rooms( my brother’s one and mine), they are very similar so I will only describe mine. It has a bed, a table for doing my homework and also a computer; also several drawers and a wardrobe to keep my clothes. Finally I will say that most of the walls are yellow or white and that the dominant colour in decoration is the dark brown. I think that my house is small compared with others houses I have been in, although ^ is cosy and I think that ^ is the most important feature that a house must have.

= Katherine Butler 3º F =

Below I'm going to describe my squirrel.His name is Scratchy (like the squirrel from ice age ), he's a male, he's cute, small, young ,P his fur is black and brown striped, he's Korean, he has a small pointy head, and tiny ears ,P he has a long, fluffy tail, he has long sharp nails to climb up trees. In his mouth he has two sacks, one at each side of the cheek to keep food in it, then to transport and store it in its house.In winter we always see him with his cheeks full of food.His diet is based on dry fruits, sun flower seeds ,P dry corn. One of his favorite dry fruits are peanuts. He lives in a wooden house in a cage were he stores all the food. He has a big, round, metal wheel but he never uses it, only to climb up the cage ,P he has a Pringles tube to play with, but his favorite activity is runing around the cage. he also has a has a pice of wood to climb up. We put his food in a small, round, blue, clay pot. The funy thing is that he sometimes sits in it to sleep, eat or drink water. In summer P because of the heat he would eighther refresh him self with his water or lay flat like a pankake on the cage floor. Sometimes he gets an emty peenut shell and star running with it. h e's so cute !.

= David Cerdán 3º F =

Hello I am David and I am going to talk about my best friend. WO The name of my best friend is Jesus P he is 17 years old and he live in m elilla. He isn´t so tall ^ is a little smaller than my and he has blond hair and blue eyes, he usually like to play football, tennis and paddle also like me and he play with computers games too .He is on first of bachillerato and he is at the Miguel Fernandez tah is in the Real. I meet him a few years ago when I go to a travel in m adrid with a lot of people P from that day we also do a lot of things together and we have passed a lot of god and bad moments.

= Aurora De Juan Ojeda 3º F =

I`m going to talk about the optimist, the optimist is the smallest sailing dinghy used in international championship, the class optimist is known as the “IODA” (International Optimist Dinghy Association). It is one of the most popular sailing dinghies in the world, with over 130,000 boats officially registered with the class and many more built but never registered, this boat is used by children between 8 and 15 years old, the coach said that it is the most difficult class, because all the sailors go to the optimist when they are young so it is very difficult to obtain achievements outside your city or country. Only in Spain there are more than 5,000 optimists officially but only 163 can go to the Spanish cup and championship after they have made their classificatory in their city first and then in their county, P the number of people per each community is different because it is related with the number of people that practise the sport, P Barcelona has the major number, 23 in total while Aragon or Extremadura only have 2. I think that the optimist is one of the most difficult class, in here you learnt much more than ^ other classes so I think, that the last year is the better and you must hold to 15 ? .

USEFUL TOOLS
List of English Adjectives > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > || **Sound**
 * **Size**
 * 1) average
 * 2) big
 * 3) colossal
 * 4) fat
 * 5) giant
 * 6) gigantic
 * 7) great
 * 8) huge
 * 9) immense
 * 10) large
 * 11) little
 * 12) long
 * 13) mammoth
 * 14) massive
 * 15) miniature
 * 16) petite
 * 17) puny
 * 18) short
 * 19) small
 * 20) tall
 * 21) tiny || **Touch**
 * 22)  boiling
 * 23)  breezy
 * 24)  broken
 * 25)  bumpy
 * 26)  chilly
 * 27)  cold
 * 28)  cool
 * 29)  creepy
 * 30)  crooked
 * 31)  cuddly
 * 32)  curly
 * 33)  damaged
 * 34)  damp
 * 35)  dirty
 * 36)  dry
 * 37)  dusty
 * 38)  filthy
 * 39)  flaky
 * 40)  fluffy
 * 41) wet || **Shape**
 * 42)  broad
 * 43)  chubby
 * 44)  crooked
 * 45)  curved
 * 46)  deep
 * 47)  flat
 * 48)  high
 * 49)  hollow
 * 50)  low
 * 51)  narrow
 * 52)  round
 * 53)  shallow
 * 54)  skinny
 * 55)  square
 * 56)  steep
 * 57)  straight
 * 58) wide || **Time**
 * 59)  ancient
 * 60)  brief
 * 61)  early
 * 62)  fast
 * 63)  late
 * 64)  long
 * 65)  modern
 * 66)  old
 * 67)  old-fashioned
 * 68)  quick
 * 69)  rapid
 * 70)  short
 * 71)  slow
 * 72)  swift
 * 73) young ||
 * **Quantity**
 * 1)  abundant
 * 2)  empty
 * 3)  few
 * 4)  heavy
 * 5)  light
 * 6)  many
 * 7) numerous
 * 1)  cooing
 * 2)  deafening
 * 3)  faint
 * 4) harsh
 * 5)  high-pitched
 * 6)  hissing
 * 7)  hushed
 * 8)  husky
 * 9)  loud
 * 10)  melodic
 * 11)  moaning
 * 12)  mute
 * 13)  noisy
 * 14)  purring
 * 15)  quiet
 * 16)  raspy
 * 17)  resonant
 * 18)  screeching
 * 19)  shrill
 * 20)  silent
 * 21)  soft
 * 22)  squealing
 * 23)  thundering
 * 24)  voiceless
 * 25) whispering || **Taste/Touch**
 * 26)  bitter
 * 27)  delicious
 * 28)  fresh
 * 29)  juicy
 * 30)  ripe
 * 31)  rotten
 * 32)  salty
 * 33)  sour
 * 34)  spicy
 * 35)  stale
 * 36)  sticky
 * 37)  strong
 * 38)  sweet
 * 39)  tasteless
 * 40)  tasty
 * 41)  thirsty
 * 42)  fluttering
 * 43)  fuzzy
 * 44)  greasy
 * 45)  grubby
 * 46)  hard
 * 47)  hot
 * 48)  icy
 * 49) loose || **Feelings (Bad)**
 * 50)  afraid
 * 51)  angry
 * 52)  annoyed
 * 53)  anxious
 * 54)  arrogant
 * 55)  ashamed
 * 56)  awful
 * 57)  bad
 * 58)  bewildered
 * 59)  bored
 * 60)  combative
 * 61)  condemned
 * 62)  confused
 * 63)  creepy
 * 64)  cruel
 * 65)  dangerous
 * 66)  defeated
 * 67)  defiant
 * 68)  depressed
 * 69)  disgusted
 * 70)  disturbed
 * 71)  embarrassed
 * 72)  envious
 * 73)  evil
 * 74)  fierce
 * 75)  foolish
 * 76)  frantic
 * 77) frightened ||
 * **Feelings (Bad) 2**
 * 1)  grieving
 * 2)  helpless
 * 3)  homeless
 * 4)  hungry
 * 5)  hurt
 * 6)  ill
 * 7)  jealous
 * 8)  lonely
 * 9)  mysterious
 * 10)  naughty
 * 11)  nervous
 * 12)  obnoxious
 * 13)  outrageous
 * 14)  panicky
 * 15)  repulsive
 * 16)  scary
 * 17)  selfish
 * 18)  sore
 * 19)  tense
 * 20)  terrible
 * 21)  thoughtless
 * 22)  tired
 * 23)  troubled
 * 24)  upset
 * 25)  uptight
 * 26)  weary
 * 27)  wicked
 * 28) worried || **Feelings (Good)**
 * 29)  agreeable
 * 30)  amused
 * 31)  brave
 * 32)  calm
 * 33)  charming
 * 34)  cheerful
 * 35)  comfortable
 * 36)  cooperative
 * 37)  courageous
 * 38)  delightful
 * 39)  determined
 * 40)  eager
 * 41)  elated
 * 42)  enchanting
 * 43)  encouraging
 * 44)  energetic
 * 45)  enthusiastic
 * 46)  excited
 * 47)  exuberant
 * 48)  fair
 * 49)  faithful
 * 50)  fantastic
 * 51)  fine
 * 52)  friendly
 * 53)  funny
 * 54)  gentle
 * 55) glorious || **Feelings (Good) 2**
 * 56)  good
 * 57)  happy
 * 58)  healthy
 * 59)  helpful
 * 60)  hilarious
 * 61)  jolly
 * 62)  joyous
 * 63)  kind
 * 64)  lively
 * 65)  lovely
 * 66)  lucky
 * 67)  obedient
 * 68)  perfect
 * 69)  pleasant
 * 70)  proud
 * 71)  relieved
 * 72)  silly
 * 73)  smiling
 * 74)  splendid
 * 75)  successful
 * 76)  thoughtful
 * 77)  victorious
 * 78)  vivacious
 * 79)  witty
 * 80)  wonderful
 * 81)  zealous
 * 82) zany || **Condition**
 * 83)  alive
 * 84)  brainy
 * 85)  breakable
 * 86)  busy
 * 87)  careful
 * 88)  cautious
 * 89)  clever
 * 90)  concerned
 * 91)  crazy
 * 92)  curious
 * 93)  dead
 * 94)  different
 * 95)  difficult
 * 96)  doubtful
 * 97)  easy
 * 98)  famous
 * 99)  fragile
 * 100)  helpful
 * 101)  helpless
 * 102) important ||
 * **Condition 2**
 * 1)  impossible
 * 2)  innocent
 * 3)  inquisitive
 * 4)  modern
 * 5)  open
 * 6)  outstanding
 * 7)  poor
 * 8)  powerful
 * 9)  puzzled
 * 10)  real
 * 11)  rich
 * 12)  shy
 * 13)  sleepy
 * 14)  stupid
 * 15)  super
 * 16)  tame
 * 17)  uninterested
 * 18)  wandering
 * 19)  wild
 * 20) wrong || **Appearance**
 * 21)  adorable
 * 22)  alert
 * 23)  average
 * 24)  beautiful
 * 25)  blonde
 * 26)  bloody
 * 27)  blushing
 * 28)  bright
 * 29)  clean
 * 30)  clear
 * 31)  cloudy
 * 32)  colorful
 * 33)  crowded
 * 34)  cute
 * 35)  dark
 * 36)  drab
 * 37)  distinct
 * 38)  dull
 * 39)  elegant
 * 40)  fancy
 * 41) filthy || **Appearance 2**
 * 42)  glamorous
 * 43)  gleaming
 * 44)  graceful
 * 45)  grotesque
 * 46)  homely
 * 47)  light
 * 48)  misty
 * 49)  motionless
 * 50)  muddy
 * 51)  plain
 * 52)  poised
 * 53)  quaint
 * 54)  shiny
 * 55)  smoggy
 * 56)  sparkling
 * 57)  spotless
 * 58)  stormy
 * 59)  strange
 * 60)  ugly
 * 61)  unsightly
 * 62) unusual ||   ||

The order of adjectives

//silly, beautiful, horrible, difficult// || //large, tiny, enormous, little// || //ancient, new, young, old// || //square, round, flat, rectangular// || //blue, pink, reddish, grey// || //French, lunar, American, eastern, Greek// || //wooden, metal, cotton, paper// || //sleeping (as in "sleeping bag"), roasting (as in "roasting tin")// || Some examples of adjective order
 * Opinion || An **opinion** adjective explains what you think about something (other people may not agree with you). Examples:
 * Size || A **size** adjective, of course, tells you how big or small something is. Examples:
 * Age || An **age** adjective tells you how young or old something or someone is. Examples:
 * Shape || A **shape** adjective describes the shape of something. Examples:
 * Colour || A **colour** adjective, of course, describes the colour of something. Examples:
 * Origin || An **origin** adjective describes where something comes from. Examples:
 * Material || A **material** adjective describes what something is made from. Examples:
 * Purpose || A **purpose** adjective describes what something is used for. These adjectives often end with "-ing". Examples:
 * || Opinion || Size || Age || Shape || Colour || Origin || Material || Purpose ||  ||
 * a || silly ||  || young ||   ||   || English ||   ||   || man ||
 * a ||  || huge ||   || round ||   ||   || metal ||   || bowl ||
 * a ||  || small ||   ||   || red ||   ||   || sleeping || bag ||

 EXTRA MATERIALS

[|Adjectives] (ATENEX)