 Hello, and welcome back to another lesson. Now, of course, within this lesson, I'm going to be looking at descriptive writing, and especially five positive and five negative phrases you could use when it comes to a desert setting. So of course, you may get a descriptive writing where you find it is relevant to use a desert setting. So what I want to show you is five positive daytime phrases you can commit to memory, but equally five really powerful negative nighttime related and kind of scary setting phrases that you could use for the desert. Okay. So this is when you're writing descriptively about a desert. And remember the best way to win with descriptive writing is having these phrases as almost starters for different parts of your descriptive writing and then latching on your additional phrases to it. So let's have a look at positive daytime, really optimistic phrases that you could use when describing a desert setting. So the first phrase could be, and of course, using pathetic fallacy, the smiling sun, you've got siblings here, beamed vaults of light across the endless desert. Vaults just means rays of light. Okay. So this is really, really nice kind of opening paragraph. This is where you're establishing the setting and the weather and you're describing how the sun is kind of reflecting the sense of optimism. The smiling sun beamed vaults of light across the endless desert. The second phrase could be rising and falling like waves in the sea. The desert sand dunes. Okay. So this is describing the sand dunes as they rise and fall kind of like water in an ocean. Okay. So rising and falling like waves in the sea, the desert sand dunes, blah, blah, blah. Third phrase could be golden sand shimmered as the palm tree's emerald leaves cast a shade dot, dot, dot. These emerald leaves could cast a shade perhaps across the, you know, the golden floor, the mustard colored floor, which is also another way of describing the golden sand within this desert. The fourth phrase could be lapping gently the solitary oasis glimmered and coruscated. So this is now an oasis within the desert, right? So maybe you could include an oasis. And of course, this is a body of water inside a desert, right? And this, you know, as a result of the sun shining onto it, it glimmers and coruscates. Coruscates means like it's just another synonym for glimmering, right? As it's lapping quite gently perhaps to the breeze of wind. Now the fifth and final phrase to commit to memory would be swaying and dancing. The palm trees move together in unison. So this is describing how the palm trees are swaying and dancing together in unison. There's a sense of optimism, the sense of positiveness. Now let's look at some negative phrases if you're describing a desert setting. Firstly, stark and barren. The hopeless desert was filled with obsidian rocks. What else could it be filled with? Showing that it's barren, it's infertile. It's completely abandoned. There's nothing there. And remember obsidian simply means black, right? It's a way of describing the colour of black, okay? Again, this is creating a really negative image of this desert. A second phrase could be violent gusts of wind screeched, throwing thick clouds of sand into the air, right? So the weather, it seems really tempestuous. This is kicking up jets and throwing up sand everywhere, almost like a toddler throwing a temper tantrum. Again, this is a really negative way to describe a desert, but a really powerful way to. Third phrase could be the sun sent merciless rays of heat onto the sea of sand beneath it, okay? So you could talk about this sun throwing lots and lots of heat onto this desert. And again, remember, just because the sun shows up doesn't necessarily mean it's always positive. In this case, it's got really these harsh rays of heat, okay? The merciless, the burning whoever it hits. And again, this is pathetic fallacy, but in a negative sense across the desert. The fourth phrase you could use could be a heavy haze fell across the land of burning sand, okay? So of course, this desert could be the land of burning sand. This is a really powerful metaphor to describe this desert as almost uninhabitable. It's a really horrible place. It feels almost like you're in hell when you're there. The fifth and final phrase could be the desert's flat horizon was broken by dead bushes and thorny cacti and whatever else, right? So you've got this desert and you're looking across the horizon and there's nothing but hopelessness, okay? It's just a barren, broken horizon. It's just filled with dead cacti, just lots of dead plants everywhere, okay? Maybe dried shriveled bushes and branches, whatever, right? So that's really it when it comes to the positive and negative phrases that you can commit to memory when writing a descriptive piece based in the desert.