GCSE+Descriptive+Writing

=Descriptive writing - Food!=


 * Think about a meal you have had or would like to have. Quickly - without stopping! - write down the food involved, the location, the people you are with, the time of day.
 * Mind-map the food itself - ADJECTIVES and VERBS are very important here. What language can you use to communicate the experience of smelling, touching, seeing, tasting, (hearing, even...) this food?
 * Everyone describes things in a different way. What can you tell about the two characters in these extracts? How do the directors communicate this?

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//Eat Drink Man Woman// (Ang Lee)

 * What verbs would you use to describe the way the men in these extracts cook or eat? Do they tell you anything about the characters?
 * Try to write a three or four paragraph description of your meal in such a way that it tells us about the people involved in the meal.
 * Check your work for spelling, punctuation and grammar.

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How many techniques are being used in this ?


 * If you want lip-smacking good shrimp and fish dinners for a fair price, most locals agree that Barnacle Bill's is the place to go. Owner Chris Way has long been serving up seafood favorites: crab cakes, soft-shell crabs, oysters, shrimp and fish. He also experiments with offbeat dishes, evolving a recipe until he gets it right before serving it as a daily special. No doubt about it, the food is enough to bring people back, but it doesn't hurt that Way is also the creator of Dat'l Do-it Hot Sauce, made from St. Augustine's famous datil peppers. When Way first put the hot sauce out on the tables, diners became so enamored by it that they accidentally slipped the bottles into their pockets and purses. Way figured if people would steal it, they might also buy it. Today, his famous sauce is sold nationwide in grocery stores and specialty shops. ||

And that sauce is worth the wait. It is literally fiery, pirouetting on the tongue like a troupe of dancing demons. After sluicing down a couple of gallons of water, I started to appreciate the more delicate delights of Dan’s seafood. The shrimp and crab taste like they were in the sea five minutes previously; bold, briny flavours which evoke memories of hot days beside the Pacific. A pleasant twist was the wasabi (more fire!) mashed sweet potato, tiny mounds of buttery bliss to cut the lemony flavours of the seafood.





TASK: Write your own review of your lunch. Write one paragraph about where you ate it, then another about the food itself.

=DESCRIPTIVE WRITING - LOCATIONS=

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= Opening of THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA =

__Characters:__

BERNARDA, sixty years old MARIA JOSEFA, Bernarda’s mother, eighty years old ANGUSTIAS, Bernarda’s daughter, thirty-nine years old MAGDALENA, Bernarda’s daughter, thirty years old AMELIA, Bernarda’s daughter, twenty-seven years old MARTIRIO, Bernarda’s daughter, twenty-four years old ADELA, Bernarda’s daughter, twenty years old SERVANT, fifty years old PONCIA, sixty years old PRUDENCIA, fifty years old BEGGAR WOMAN with LITTLE GIRL WOMEN MOURNERS WOMAN 1 WOMAN 2 WOMAN 3 WOMAN 4 YOUNG GIRL

__Author’s note__: These three acts are intended as a photographic document.

= **ACT ONE** =

An extremely white inner room in Bernarda’s house. Solid walls. Arched doorways with jute curtains edged with tassels and ruffles. Cattail chairs. Nonrealistic landscapes of nymphs and fairy-tale kings. It is summer. A great ominous silence fills the stage. When the curtain rises, the stage is empty. The sound of tolling bells is heard. The Servant enters.

= Opening of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE =

SCENE ONE

The exterior of a two-story corner building on a street in New Orleans which is named Elysian Fields and runs between the L & N tracks and the river. The section is poor but, unlike corresponding sections in other American cities, it has a raffish charm. The houses are mostly white frame, weathered gray, with rickety outside stairs and galleries and quaintly ornamented gables. This building contains two flats, upstairs and down. Faded white stairs ascend to the entrances of both.

It is first dark of an evening early in May. The sky that shows around the dim white building is a peculiarly tender blue, almost a turquoise, which invests the scene with a kind of lyricism and gracefully attenuates the atmosphere of decay. You can almost feel the warm breath of the brown river beyond the river warehouses with their faint redolences of bananas and coffee. A corresponding air is evoked by the music of Negro entertainers at a barroom around the corner. In this part of New Orleans you are practically always just around the corner, or a few doors down the street, from a tinny piano being played with the infatuated fluency of brown fingers. This "Blue Piano" expresses the spirit of the life which goes on here.

Two women, one white and one colored, are taking the air on the steps of the building. The white woman is Eunice, who occupies the upstairs flat; the colored woman a neighbor, for New Orleans is a cosmopolitan city where there is a relatively warm and easy intermingling of races in the old part of town.

Above the music of the "Blue Piano" the voices of people on the street can be heard overlapping.

CHARACTERISATION

The Bone Structure

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