1. Listen to me words
Nouns and verbs

2. Choosing the right words
Learning objectives
How to/understand and demonstrate:
Using nouns and verbs to make a story brighter, more lively and active.
Extending vocabulary and word choice (recap)
Recap on meanings of essential terminology.
Editing and recrafting skills for current and future writing

3. Exercise: Find a definition of these words that help you to understand their meaning and use
Use PC or mobile phone (see Your Dictionary: )
Noun:  
Verbs:  
Adverbs:
Adjectives:

4. Noun:    
Noun: A word that refers to a thing, person, place, substance or event. E.g. man, coal,
Proper noun: name of place or person/creature a word that refers to a person, place, thing, event, substance, or quality:
'Doctor', 'coal', and 'beauty' are all nouns

5. Verbs:
Verbs : doing words – action words: a word that describes an action, experience or condition. The verb signals an action, an occurrence, or a state of being. Whether mental, physical, or mechanical, verbs always express activity.
The words "run", "keep", and "feel" are all verbs a word or phrase that describes an action, condition, or experience:
The words "run", "keep", and "feel" are all verbs
a word or phrase that describes an action, condition, or experience:

6. Adverbs: Adjectives
Adverbs: a word or phrase that modifies the meaning of an adjective, verb, or other adverb, expressing manner, place, time, or degree (e.g. gently, here, now, very ). Some adverbs, for example sentence adverbs, can also be used to modify whole sentences
Adjectives: a word naming an attribute of a noun, such as sweet, red, or technical

7. Listen to me words
Word choice should make your story brighter but not necessarily longer: using nouns and verbs adds colour as an alternative to using too many adverbs and adjectives which can clutter.
Listen-to-me-words are the words that make a reader or listener sit up and listen.

8. The Eve of St. Agnes By John Keats
Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint:

9. Paraphrased As Mary knelt to pray, the cold moon
Coming through the stained-glass window
Made red patches on her white chest
Pink on her hands, mauve on her cross
And bright yellow on her hair

10. Journalism is a happy place between too many listen-to-me-words and not enough.
Also for story telling – remember Hemingway example from 1st term – which can afford more listen-to-me-words
Don’t just slap on adjectives and adverbs: too many of these can be like the icing on a dull cake – not only will it not makes the cake taste better, it will actually makes it worse: the contrast with the icing taste makes the cake even duller.

11. Exercise: Specificty The man ran down the road towards the house.
Man is the lowest common denominator. What other words could you use to more specific. (remember only using nouns)
Ran is also the lowest common denominator
It describes movement in the dullest way.
Think of other words to describe running/ran (remember only using verbs)
No adverbs or adjectives.

12. VERBS MEAN THINGS ARE HAPPENING – MAKES A STORY MORE LIVELY.
The student sprinted down the road towards the safety of his home.

13. There is a linguistic theory that the less often used words the more meaning it carries
Think of other words for shoes:
Think other word for food:
Think of other words for clothes
Write a sentence using the other words for shoes and then food, then clothes .

14. Think of other words for man and people that are more specific.
Do not write the word man: lawyer, Policeman, drug-dealer, politician, doctor
Equally, do not write the word people: crowd, rioters, voters, clubbers, artists, villagers…

15. Generic words
Also, especially for journalism, use generic words that make things shorter:
Consultants, house doctors and nurses at St Bartholomew’s hospital.
Teachers, TA’s and catering staff at St Edmunds…
Footballer, tennis players and golfer gathered at the ceremony…

16. Generic words Medical staff at St Bartholomew’s hospital
Teaching staff
Sportsmen and women

17. Compare and Contrast
Find a story on-line – cut and paste in Word and take out all the interesting – listen-to-me-words. –
Note the differences between the two versions of the story/article.

18. Plenary What have you learned and how did you learn it?
Write in your blogs the skills and how this will help you in any future writing.
What advice would you take from today’s lesson to pass on to another budding journalist/writer?