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Writing About Setting

The document provides instructions for writing a descriptive paragraph about a special place by having the reader imagine what they can see, hear, feel, smell, and taste in that setting. It prompts the reader to write full sentences in the present tense for each sense and then link the sentences together into a cohesive paragraph that transports the reader to that place using descriptive phrases and adjectives.

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Writing About Setting

The document provides instructions for writing a descriptive paragraph about a special place by having the reader imagine what they can see, hear, feel, smell, and taste in that setting. It prompts the reader to write full sentences in the present tense for each sense and then link the sentences together into a cohesive paragraph that transports the reader to that place using descriptive phrases and adjectives.

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Writing about setting

Think about a place that is special to you: it might be somewhere you’ve


gone on a holiday, your favourite place in your house, or somewhere you
go to have fun.

Now imagine you are in that place…

Write in full sentences & in present tense

1. What would you be able to SEE? I can see…

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2. What would you be able to HEAR? _______________________________________

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3. What would you be able to FEEL? _______________________________________

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4. What would you be able to SMELL*? _______________________________________

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5. What would you be able to TASTE*? ________________________________________

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*only if applicable to your chosen setting

Now link your sentences together to make a PARAGRAPH


Make your paragraph as interesting and
Use some of these place phrases:
creative as you can.
• Next to the…
• Beside the..
Make the reader feel like he or she is
• Above the..
REALLY there.
• Behind the….
• All around me….
Use more good adjectives to make your
• Up above….
description even better.
• Over in the corner….
• In the distance I could see / hear …..

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