Descriptive Writing AQA English Language Paper 1

This scheme of work contains everything you need to teach Descriptive Writing at KS4. This unit includes 18 lessons to build the necessary skills and 8 revision lessons and exam practice. It is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, exemplar essays, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, activities to exploit drama, novel extracts and opportunities to exploit online research. It focuses on narrative tense changes, structuring a story, linking paragraphs, grammar and original approaches. This unit has been designed for the AQA English Language GCSE but is easily adaptable to fit other exam boards.

Lesson 1: Using ‘On The Road’ to describe a desert
Lesson 2: How to describe characters with depth
Lesson 3: Describing a beach with sophisticated language
Lesson 4: Describing place in ‘Lord of the Rings’
Lesson 5: Describing a funfair with a focus on structure
Lesson 6: Writing ‘An Ode to Christmas’
Lesson 7: Changing Narration to Description
Lesson 8: Sustain, develop and contrast your paragraphs
Lesson 9: Focus on grammar
Lesson 10: Using metaphors to describe a school canteen
Lesson 11: Describing a playground with a focus on language
Lesson 12: Describing an old person with originality
Lesson 13: How to choose a question
Lesson 14: Describing a mansion with flashbacks
Lesson 15: Describing Paris through ‘Perfume’
Lesson 16: Describing a market with ‘Game of Thrones’
Lesson 17: Vocabulary Challenge
Lesson 18: Focus on punctuation