How does Dahl use language to present places? Knowledge Writers carefully select their vocabulary to make their readers feel a certain way. Writers also choose language devices and figurative language to create reactions and emotions in their readers. Skills: Identify examples of effective language use. Use correct terminology to discuss this language. Explain the effect this language has on the reader. Understanding: Answer the short-form questions around the text. Use these to create an extended analysis of language use.

Let’s read the extract together. Now attempt to answer the short-form questions in the boxes. Let’s discuss your answers! If you don’t have an answer for one of the questions, listen carefully and make sure you note down what people are saying.

How does Dahl use language to present the garden? You’ve got five things you can talk about. Can you turn these five separate points into an extended response in your exercise books? We’ve practised this a few times now when looking at Dahl’s characters!

How can you use language to present places? Knowledge Writers carefully select their vocabulary to make their readers feel a certain way. Writers also choose language devices and figurative language to create reactions and emotions in their readers. Skills: Consider the choices Dahl made to describe the garden. Make similar choices in response to a photograph of a location. Understanding: Produce a plan for an extended description of a location.

How did Dahl write about the garden? He used lots of adjectives, lots of similes, and lots of repetition! How can you do the same when describing this location? Discuss it with a partner. Make some quick notes in your exercise book of phrases/sentences you want to include. Now write your description of the meadow shown in the photograph! Take three highlighters and find examples of where you’ve included: Adjectives Similes Repetition