描述性英语作文写作技巧(雅思必备).ppt

,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,*,Description,Writing Techniques 5,Description,Description is the kind of writing that intends to,convey,a,mental image,of some scene,place,object or person through a,verbal account,of their appearances,actions,movements or changes.,At its simplest,description is,a word picture,of someone or something.,Description can be classified into four categories:,A person,An object,A place,A scene,How to describe a place,Describing a place is like,drawing a picture,of it.,A complete description of a place may include information about its,location,surroundings,and appearance,.,Sometimes,it is also necessary to provide,some background information,for example,its history or its political and economic position.,How did the writer make his description?,Establish a dominant impression,A usual practice in writing a description is to,begin it with a general statement,which establishes the dominant impression of the place and then organize all the details around this focus.,Arrange the details in spatial order,Usually,we describe the most striking object in the place first,and then describe the other objects in relation to it,or we may describe the place from top to bottom,left to right,near to far,east to west,centre to periphery,outside to inside,etc.,or vice versa.,Make the description vivid,Using sensory words,Animating the lifeless,Using figures of speeches,Using sensory words,Through the open window blew the air of the August afternoon.,Through the open window blew the sweet,scented,sun-warm air of the August afternoon.,The room seems dark,and small.,The dark green walls and dirty white ceiling make the room dark,and thus even smaller than it is.As you walk into the room,you are stopped short by a bed which fills half of the room.The two large windows over the bed are dimmed by heavy dark gold drapes.,There is a small metal desk opposite the bed.,Wedged in between the bookcase and the wall opposite the bed is a small gray metal desk.It has a brown wooden chair which h seems to fill the left end of the room.,Animating the lifeless,Standing up,I can feel the suns rays on my pale skin.The wind blows softly and makes my hair untidy.,Standing up,I can feel the suns ray,embrace,my pale skin.The wind blows softly and,tousles,my hair away fro my face.,Using figures of speeches,Personification,The other houses of the street,conscious of,decent lives within them,gaze at,one another with brown calm faces.,Simile,The creek in the middle of it wound back on itself,like,a snake.,After a breathless rush to the station,I found my train crammed,like,sardines.,Metaphor,Through the other window was glimpsed a distance blue sea,on which floats the island,an emerald on a blue crown,.,