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English GCSE Help! Descriptive writing

My exam board is WJEC and for my GCSE Language grade i need to do a writing piece on descriptive writing.
My task is describe a scene at a school or college canteen.

Please could someone help me with a structure. (so what i can write about in my 6 paragraphs)

And can someone please give me a couple of examples of really good descriptive sentences (using a variety of punctuation, and different descriptive techniques ) of the school canteen.

Any help would be appreciated
thanks
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I'm re-doing my english descriptive writing task as well, having achieved a B in my first attempt. If I prepare a draft, would it be alright if your could correct/mark it?

Thanks:biggrin:
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My exam board is WJEC and for my GCSE Language grade i need to do a writing piece on descriptive writing.
My task is describe a scene at a school or college canteen.

Please could someone help me with a structure. (so what i can write about in my 6 paragraphs)

And can someone please give me a couple of examples of really good descriptive sentences (using a variety of punctuation, and different descriptive techniques ) of the school canteen.

Any help would be appreciated
thanks


I don't really have time to give some specific examples, but perhaps you could be all sophisticated and use a jungle/ animal semantic field to capture the chaos? Or go military to convey the structure of school (or maybe even a prison)? You could also think about perspective. Who are you as the describer? Are there problems school reminds you of that could be conveyed through description? (Try not to lapse into storytelling though.) Are you a teacher reminiscing about your own school days and how much things have changed? In fact, what time period are you describing?

Basically, just try to be inventive - you could even pretend it's night time for a different take on the question. Structure-wise, I personally would write as if I was walking through school, describing the things I see. Or if I was doing the comparison one with the teacher, merge the two so they almost blend together.

Original post by ergo30
I'm re-doing my english descriptive writing task as well, having achieved a B in my first attempt. If I prepare a draft, would it be alright if your could correct/mark it?

Thanks:biggrin:


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