Are you ready for an English writing exercise to test your written skills?
You have to watch the video at the bottom of the page below (or some of it) of people doing amazing and varied things and describe what you see.
There are some simple examples below to show you how to do the writing task. To help you with your writing, there is an alphabet of adjectives below to give you some inspiration to fill out your answer and make it more descriptive.
WHICH PART OF THE VIDEO WILL INSPIRE YOU TO WRITE SOMETHING?
WRITE YOUR DESCRIPTION AND AN SGI TEACHER WILL MARK YOUR SENTENCE/S FOR CORRECT ENGLISH
ADJECTIVE ALPHABET
amazing, addictive, adventurous boring, beautiful, breathtaking crazy, cold, cool, cute dumb, dangerous excellent, exciting fantastic, frightening, funny, funky great, gobsmacking heart-stopping, incredible, impressive jealous, joyous killer, kaput, kind lovely, lethal mind-blowing, nice, nail-biting otherworldly, orgasmic pathetic, painful, proud quirky, quick, quiet, ridiculous, reckless, radical superb, snowy, stupid, silly time-wasting, terrific, terrifying unlucky, unbelievable, ultimate, vicious, violent, vibrant wonderful, wicked, wet x (I can’t think of any adjectives to go here that would work with the video!) young, youthful zippy, zany
English writing exercise – Describe a moment of the video
Writing Examples
1. The young skateboarder (4:17 – 4:20) does an unbelievable somersault from one skateboard at the top of some steps and lands perfectly on another board at the bottom of the stairs. It’s amazing to see his wonderful skill all in beautiful slow-motion.
2. A stupid man (2:38 – 2:40) was standing backwards on his motorbike seat and riding extremely fast down the motorway. It was very dangerous and he is lucky to be alive.
3. A massive, hungry, angry polar bear (7:57 – 8:01) is scratching at a window trying to get to the incredibly frightened person inside. If it had been me, I would have been terrified!
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