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Improving the Structure of First Language English Descriptions

About this resource

This lesson teaches students a five-paragraph structure for descriptive writing. This structure will not only help your top students to reach their full potential, challenging them to write with a circular structure, but also support weaker students to identify an area of focus for each paragraph in their writing. I have personally seen great improvements in my students’ writing by using this lesson.

What’s included?

  • PowerPoint and student worksheet
  • Inspiration stimulus video
  • Stimulus photos
  • Full-length exemplar A* description for IGCSE descriptive writing
  • Planning sheet

Accompanying video lesson and quiz

Want to flip this lesson?

Give students access to the course version for free – with a 75 minute video lesson and a review quiz to test their understanding. The video has subtitles and is locally hosted, so should be easily viewable in all countries.

Download the free resources below

PowerPoint

Worksheet