1. Structural features Short sentence for impact
40 minutes
2 ½ sides
Structural features
Time connectives
Shifts in tone: from descriptive to factual to emotive
Short sentence for impact
Multi-clause sentence to describe the elephants
Parenthesis to add an aside
A dash to add extra information
Repetition
A list
One sentence paragraph at the end
Write a recount of an expedition you went on with the bushmen of the Central Kalahari to hunt antelope.
Useful vocabulary
Hunting: the chasing and killing of wild animals by people or other animals, for food or as a sport.
Substinence: the act of having what you need in order to stay alive, but no more.
Extinction: the extinction of a species of animal or plant is the death of all its remaining living members.
Poachers: if someone poaches fish, animals or birds, they illegally catch them on someone else’s property
Temperate: is used to describe a climate or a place which is never extremely hot or extremely cold.
Predilection: if you have a predilection for something, you have a strong liking for it
Foolhardy: if you describe behaviour as foolhardy, you disapprove of it because it is extremely risky.
Linguistic features
Abstract nouns
Active verbs
Exclamatory sentence
Rhetorical question
Sensory language
Simile
Reminder for technical accuracy
Remember to paragraph your work.
Use full stops and capital letters throughout.
Demarcate sentences with full stops, exclamation marks or question marks.
Proof-read your work.
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