WALT: Use senses

to create a setting
description.
 What do you…?
See Hear

Smell Feel

Touch/Taste
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 1. I can see an old creaking bridge bending
strongly over sparkling blue water.

 2. I can see a grey deer standing tall with its

baby at its side.

 3. I can see beautiful nature spreading

generously through the deep green forest.

 4. I can see beautifully coloured flowers

blooming elegantly in the meadow.

 5. I can see old trees swaying gently in the calm

breeze.
“All through October the days were still warm, like summer,
but at night the mercury dropped and in the morning the
sagebrush was sometimes covered with frost. Twice in one
week there were dust storms. The sky turned suddenly grey
and then a hot wind came screaming across the desert,
churning up everything in its path. From inside the barracks
the boy could not see the sun or the moon or even the next
row of barracks on the other side of the gravel path. All he
could see was dust. The wind rattled the windows and doors
and the dust seeped like smoke through the cracks in the
roof and at night he slept with a wet handkerchief over his
mouth to keep out the smell. In the morning, when he woke,
the wet handkerchief was dry and in his mouth there was
the gritty taste of chalk.”
 What is the weather like? How do you know?
What types of words has the author used? Why has he used them?
How does the setting description make you feel?

The dark grey bank of cloud began to roll in from the Atlantic. The white
horses gathered out at sea and the tide moved remorselessly in to cover
the rocks between Cherry and Boat Cove. When the clouds cut off the
warmth from the sun as evening came on and the sea turned grey, she
shivered with cold and put on her sweater and jeans. Cherry looked up
and saw the angry sea. She looked for the rocks she would have to
clamber over to reach Boat Cove again and the winding track that would
take her up to the cliff path and safety, but they were gone. Where they
should have been, the sea was already driving in against the cliff face.
She was cut off. In a confusion of wonder and fear she looked out to sea
at the heaving ocean that moved in towards her, seeing it now as a
writhing grey monster breathing its fury on the rocks with every
pounding wave.
Powerful What What is it How is it doing What does it remind
adjectives to can be doing? and it? you of?
describe the seen? where? Adverb Simile
noun. Noun Verb
Adjectives
The barn was very large. It was very old. It smelled
of hay and it smelled of manure. It smelled of the
perspiration of tired horses and the wonderful
sweet breath of patient cows. It often had a sort of
peaceful smell--as though nothing bad could
happen ever again in the world. It smelled of grain
and of harness dressing and of axle grease and of
rubber boots and of new rope. and whenever the
cat was given a fish-head to eat, the barn would
smell of fish. But mostly it smelled of hay, for there
was always hay in the great loft up overhead. And
there was always hay being pitched down to the
cows and the horses and the sheep.
What Adjectives to Where are What are they How are they What are
can be describe they? doing? doing it? they like?-
seen simile

pigs

sheep

hay