 Hello and welcome back. Now what I wanted to do in this lesson is to talk about descriptive writing. When it comes to descriptive writing, which is part of your English language paper one exams, this can be a particularly challenging aspect of your exams, okay? Writing descriptively, especially in response to an image, is one of the hardest aspects of the English language paper one exam because it really tests your ability to show your range of ambitious vocabulary, ambitious words, big interesting words, but equally, it tests your ability to use literary techniques, things like similes, metaphors, alliteration and so on. And that can be a massive challenge, especially if you only have to write descriptively as opposed to creatively. Remember creative writing is where you can start with your beginning, your character, setting, you know, it builds up through the story mountain and then ends in a slightly different place, right? So after you've met your villain or your obstacle, how do you change as a character within your story? However, descriptive writing is difficult because it's quite static. It doesn't move, okay? You've got the image in front of you. You have to really develop a really good piece, but nothing really much changes in descriptive writing. So firstly, what I wanted to offer you guys was a five paragraph framework in order to write a descriptive writing question. And then we're going to look at an example and more specifically, we're going to look at how to answer this descriptive writing image. Okay. I'm going to show you how you can approach a really great grade nine response for this particular question. Okay. So remember descriptive writing, you want to go for five paragraphs. You want to start off with your setting and weather paragraph where you're focusing on what's going on within the image. Okay. So when you look at this image, what's going on around it, you know, how can we tell what the setting is like, the weather and so on. Then your second paragraph is your atmosphere and mood. Okay. What's the general sentiment? Is it loud? Is it noisy? Is it silent? Okay. Then your third paragraph is where you go for your central focus. Now, a lot of people always start off with the central focus of descriptive writing, right? So for example, if I were to look at this image, there's like this table right at the centre and people would start off by describing that the most obvious thing in descriptive writing and then run out of things to say after that paragraph. But actually my suggestion is start off with your setting and weather as your first paragraph, then your atmosphere and mood as your second paragraph. Then in your third paragraph, that's where you talk about the most obvious thing within the image. Then you move on to your fourth paragraph where you talk about the general feelings within this image. You know, is there a tense atmosphere, whatever. And then your fifth and final paragraph is where within your descriptive writing image or your descriptive writing response, you can have an ever so slight change, not a massive change. Okay. So for example, if I go back to this image, it seems like this image is set in the summer. Okay. So when I go over this response, it kind of seems when I look at the image, is that it's set in the summer. However, what you don't want to do in your fifth and final paragraph is to have your change go from like summer afternoon to nighttime. You still have to have a similar image or you have to be describing a very similar image, but the only difference is there can be a never so slight change, right? So maybe the sun rays that are coming in become a little bit dimmer. Okay. Can't be too much of a contrast. So now what I wanted to do was to basically offer you an approach on how to answer this particular question. So let's get started. Now, the challenge with descriptive writing is a lot of students tend to make the error of firstly, not using enough literary techniques when it comes to describing an image like this. Secondly, not using enough ambitious vocabulary, right? So slightly harder words and harder terms in order to really vividly describe what is in the image. And finally, when it comes to descriptive writing, structure is really important. So remember, descriptive writing obviously falls under section B of the language paper one exam and unlike creative writing, it follows a very different structure. So with creative writing, you follow a story mountain structure. Okay. You start off with your beginning, where you introduce a setting and your character, then you have your buildup where they go in an adventure. Then you've got the problem that either meet an obstacle or a villain. Then of course, you've got the resolution. How do they resolve this issue? And you have your ending. Okay. So this is creative writing. The character or the person that you're writing about starts at one point, but then ends at a slightly different point, right? You can even end with a cliffhanger. However, descriptive writing is completely different in terms of how you approach it because it is very static. In other words, nothing moves, right? How you start off is how you end. Maybe the ending will be ever so slight in terms of changing, but there really isn't that much that happens. And there's a lot of pressure when it comes to writing about an image like this on your vocabulary, literary techniques, really drawing out the descriptions. In terms of descriptive writing, how to plan it is always see it in terms of five concentric circles. This is what I mean by concentric circles. What I mean is, let's say you're preaching this question, right? And you're thinking, okay, how do I write a descriptive image for this kind of question? Now, what you then begin with is look on the outer edges of this image. Okay. So let's go to this question, right? Okay. The question asks write description suggested by this picture, right? And of course, you've got to write this description. Now, if we look at what's going on on this image, the temptation and a lot of students go wrong with descriptive writing in this regard, the temptation is to go for like the most obvious thing within the image. And what's the most obvious thing within the image? I would say if I were to look at this, the first thing that I'm struck by is literally this table right at the center, you've got these stalls, you've got these baskets, these woven baskets, you've got what seems to be a shopping bag, as well as maybe like a kitchen towel. This is the most obvious thing, right? The other stuff maybe the open door, maybe the floor isn't obvious. However, that's the first error that people make with descriptive writing, they run out of things to say because they'll go for the most obvious thing. Then once you've done your first really detailed paragraph, you then have nowhere else to go. I would like to suggest take this concentric circle approach instead, start off with what's going on in your outer circle, where you begin by thinking about what's going on at the bottom here, what's going on at the top here and what does this indirectly tell us about, for example, the setting and the weather. That's paragraph number one. Okay, so looking at the outer circle here. Firstly, on the edges is an open door. On this door, I can see a reflection of light, which suggests to me that it's a summery day, maybe late summer, okay, but there's light filtering in the floor, which seems to be a linoleum floor, seems to have obviously light coming in. It gets a little bit darker here, but not too dark. It seems to be like a really nice summery day. Also, of course, this image seems to be a kitchen, right? It seems to be maybe a secluded kitchen, perhaps in an outhouse, right? Like an extra house. Maybe there's like the main cottage because it seems like it's a kitchen, maybe in the countryside. Now, what I wouldn't focus too much on is what's going on right at the centre. I'd focus on this shafts of light coming in, the linoleum floor, but equally look at the top, the ceiling. We've got these two wooden beams, right? So kind of like these two beams of wood. But equally, we've got this oat coloured ceiling, okay, so it's kind of like light brown. And we've got these two lampshades. One thing that's really interesting, and that strikes me about this lampshade, and again, it indirectly tells me about the weather, is one of these lampshades is tilting. It's leaning a little bit, which suggests maybe, okay, that there's perhaps a rush of wind that came in and caused it to tilt on its neighbour, which seems to be upright. That is my outer description, my outer circle within this image. What's going on up here, and down here. Go for what's not immediately obvious in order to warm yourself up, in order to really get into describing the image. Paragraph number two would now take you, so now this is the second inner circle. This now takes us to, in your second paragraph, atmosphere and mood. Again, we're not yet going for like the most obvious, obvious, obvious thing. Atmosphere and mood is we're going to take it one step into this image, okay, I've described what's in the ceiling, I've described the floor, I've described this open door, right, and this open door is interesting because I'm probably going to keep on eluding back to it. I might use it as a bit of a motif, a repeated idea that I keep on going back to. Anyway, now when I consider in my second paragraph, the atmosphere and mood, I will probably suggest when I look at this, is that it seems really silent, okay, like this, there's nobody in here, it's completely abandoned. It's this really pristine image, right, it looks perfect, this kitchen, it seems almost like a toy kitchen, but it's quite silent, so the atmosphere is very silent, you know, what I'd also think about is what's going on, I'm going to take one step in. Look at the walls here, there's this interesting mural on the left-hand side of the image, okay, so what this mural is telling me is it's painting a picture of somebody who's quite creative, very imaginative, who maybe painted this, right, again, as I mentioned, this kitchen appears to be maybe a little bit secluded, so the person who maybe comes here every so often, perhaps dreams of a different, you know, escaping from maybe like what is a rural setting to what's inside this mural, I can see a beach house or like a little hut here, and it's got this yellow roof, it seems like a yellow thatched roof, it's got these three little stumps maybe, like kind of little poles, holding it above the ground. We've also got some water here, right, some azure water that runs through, we've also got these tall palm trees and the sunshine just beneath, and also there's these little dots, which I'm assuming are pebbles. I'm going to go into detail on these colors, describing this in lots of detail, of course, also, all of this kind of transports me, when I look at this descriptive image, of course, remember it's always going to be static, we're not going to go into a story as to what's happening in the image, I'm just only going to describe the image in lots of detail, but equally, tie it to the silence of this kitchen, you know, how silent a bit drab maybe life might be in living somewhere like this, so maybe the person gets really bored, that's why they draw this really colorful image, and that's their way of transporting themselves to another world, okay, so my atmospheric mood paragraph, I'm going to establish it's really silent, I'm going to also look at what's maybe going on in the world, especially this mural, I think this is really, really interesting, that would be my paragraph number two. Now, within my third paragraph, okay, so now go into my third concentric circle, this is now where I'd go with the most obvious thing within the image, okay, so I've saved the most obvious thing, the central focus, to paragraph number three, I've warmed up, I've started off with describing the setting and weather indirectly, and of course talking about this kitchen, I've then moved on to my second paragraph, I'm describing the atmospheric mood, now my central focus, I'm of course now going to talk about these stalls, these mahogany colored stalls, this basket, which is like a mix of apricot and white, right, it seems upturned versus these two baskets, one of them seems cobalt blue, the other seems orange, and or we can say amber and scarlet, that downturned, we've got this, I guess, piece of wood that juts out, now here within my central focus, I'm going to go to town in terms of describing what's going on, what's the most obvious thing, these two shopping bags, or rather there's one shopping bag and also what seems to be a kitchen towel, there's stuff, there seem to be stuffed quite hastily within this table, right, so just beneath, there's stuff really hastily, I'm going to really describe what's going on here, but also maybe what I might do is travel further along the image and talk about now this busy side of the image, and more specifically, I think what's interesting is this really imposing cross, right, so I think I'm going to also describe what's going on on this side of the image, we've got this imposing cross, another thing you can do with descriptive writing is you can give some of these images their own personalities, okay, so of course without making it that the cross is going to hop off and then start doing this, kind of becoming like, you know, Belle's kitchen in Beauty and the Beast, or the Beast's kitchen in the Beauty and the Beast, rather than them having all these personalities and coming to life and then hopping around, obviously I'm going to talk about, for example, this cross has seeming quite stern, it's overlooking everything in the kitchen, it's still there, but I'm going to give it maybe a bit of a personality in order to draw out my descriptions, I'm going to also talk about these three crosses that are right next to it, okay, maybe they appear to be perhaps a sidekick, we've got this dish, this saucer that's right next to it, perhaps what I'm going to do is indirectly describe all of these other images along the shelves and so on, giving them personalities and saying perhaps under the watchful eye of this cross, all of these cups, these, you know, there's a there a mix of lime color, mustard color, all of these perhaps appear to be cowering beneath the gaze of this cross, I'm going to talk about that in my central focus, in addition of course to this image, now going even one step further in to my fourth concentric circle, so now this is paragraph number four, I will focus on what are the general mood and feelings conveyed within this image, and more specifically this cross, it's causing perhaps all the other objects to feel perhaps scared, but maybe there's other objects that seem quite defiant, in here I'm probably going to shift my focus to these pillars in the corner, the red and blue pillows, maybe they're looking defiantly back at this cross, right, so maybe there's a silent war between this cross and these pillows, again I'm not taking it into story writing territory, I'm just kind of describing the silent hostility, the cross, all these other objects including the microwave, we've got the toaster, they all kind of seem to be just static, but also that they're kind of carrying away from the gaze of the cross, however there's a silent hostility with these pillows which are seated atop this lime green sofa, they're looking back defiantly right, so I'm giving these images the own personality, now what I'll do is kind of go into lots of detail on that in my feelings paragraph before I finish, my fifth and final paragraph in my, obviously as you can see here this is the inner circle, my fifth and final paragraph could be is there ever so slight change to the image, again the change cannot be dramatic, it can't be drastic, it can't be, you know, it goes from being afternoon, summery to completely dark, that takes it into story writing territory, okay, so when you're doing creative writing of course we know that we can start at one point in the beginning where it's a daytime and then we can end at a different point at night time, this is creative writing, that's not what we're doing for this image, we're describing what's going on, however what we can do is talk about an ever so slight change, for instance this light that enters through this open door, right, so this light that's entering through this open door, does it maybe travel a little bit more across to illuminate this side, right, so illuminating this side, there seems to be kind of this glass cabinet in these shelves and so maybe does this light perhaps reflect a little bit off this glass cabinet, we've got the oven here, this obsidian oven, a black oven, does the light reach this oven as well, perhaps as I mentioned this lamp at the top is tilted because there's a bit of a breeze, so does another breeze make its way in, okay, so that would be maybe the slight change and of course also this breeze that's coming in, what does it cause the objects to do, perhaps it makes these two lampshades shudder just a little bit, okay, so there's a bit of a breeze, maybe the lampshades end up shuddering ever so slightly, okay, so just to recap guys when it comes to descriptive writing you want to keep it quite static, nothing happens, all you need to do is just make sure you use lots of literary techniques such as alliteration, sibilant, simile and so on to really bring your writing to life but of course you also need to use ambitious vocabulary to bring your writing to life, of course, start off your first descriptive paragraph, go for a five paragraph structure, okay, same for creative writing by the way guys, beginning build up problem resolution, ending five paragraph structure, however with descriptive writing start off with your setting and weather paragraph where you're thinking about what's going on on the outer edges of the image, then move on in your second paragraph to describe the atmosphere and mood of the image, then in your third paragraph move on to now the most obvious thing within this image which is a central focus, go to town describing that, then in your fourth paragraph describe the general feelings and sentiments and then your fifth and final paragraph describe this ever so slight change that occurs within this image, so now that we've basically walked through and I've talked you through how to write this or rather how to write a response to this image, what of course I'm going to do is to show you how to write a model answer for this particular image that came up, okay, so this image is a really interesting image, very colorful, we've obviously got this kind of circular style of this kitchen, it seems quite circular meaning that the shelves appear to travel a little bit circuitously around it, okay, however what I'm going to do is now go into detail as to how to really draw out some of these descriptions, right, so going into descriptive writing and how to write your model answer for this image in particular, okay, so going back to this image, I will begin with my setting and where the paragraph and of course indirectly describing the setting and the weather by describing the ceiling and what's going on on this linoleum floor, okay, remember linoleum is like kind of like a cheap material that's used, it can be quite slippery if it's mopped, freshly mopped, okay, anyway so I'm now going to begin by describing the setting and weather indirectly within this image, beginning by describing how light falls in is a great way to start any descriptive or creative narrative, okay, so I'm going to begin by describing the shafts of light that enter, I'm obviously going to write out my first setting and where the paragraph and then walk you through it afterwards, so soft shafts of light, let's have a look through the first paragraph where I indirectly describe the setting and weather and of course indirectly describe what's going on on the floor through this also this open door but equally what's happening at the top where we've got these two lampshades, one of which is leaning and of course I'm also going to now really draw out the descriptions for each part of this kitchen, okay, the floor as well as the ceiling, so let's have a look at the first setting and weather paragraph, soft shafts of light fell through the cinnamon door illuminating the smooth linoleum floor, pay attention to the fact that I've used sibilants soft and shafts, I've also used of course also sibilants here with smooth, I've described this linoleum floor but equally the door itself being cinnamon, this is a synonym for brown, okay, I'm constantly making sure that I'm using literary techniques, similes, sibilants so on but equally ambitious vocabulary rather than just saying the more basic version of that word, the scrubbed caramel floor, caramel again meaning brown was pop marked, it had spots, okay, so if you look closely at this linoleum floor it's not like a completely smooth brown, there's little tiny spots and lesions, okay, little tiny dots here that seem a little bit more brown, okay, so that's what I'm trying to say, the scrubbed caramel floor was pop marked with dark chocolate lesions that lay sullen and inept, sullen means a moody, inept means like unmoving, I'm giving them, I'm personifying these spots, beneath the lights gaze, okay, so the light is also gazing down at these spots, once more a lot of personification, hot afternoon heat crept past the door, traveling slowly across the ground, I'm now indirectly saying that it's quite warm, it slithered along leisurely, brief sentence, advancing up the mahogany shelves, it crept past the white wash walls before resting on the umber beams, umber means brown, a heavy languid air, languid means lazy, hovered in the silent kitchen, so I'm already saying that the kitchen is silent but it's also quite hot, maybe in the middle of summertime, the afternoon's barmy rays, barmy means comfortably hot, floated up to the wheat ceiling, perching atop its hazel beams, just then a rush of wind glided in through the oak door causing the mahogany lampshades to dance, the wicker lampshade by the wall leaned clumsily on its upright neighbor, so I'm basically saying this lampshade wicker because it seems kind of woven, it's leaning on its neighbor which is completely standing upright, so now I'm done with my setting and weather paragraph, I'm going to move on to writing out my atmosphere and mood, talking about how silent the kitchen is and also especially focusing on what's going on with the mural, right so let's go over the atmosphere and mood paragraph for this descriptive writing image, a heavy silence hung over the hidden kitchen, of course we've got heavy and hidden alliteration, cloistered and secluded which means far away from anything, hidden away, that's a really good, these two actually are really good terms, synonyms, ambitious vocabulary for anything that's isolated or far away, cloistered and secluded, a heavy hush hovered over the linoleum floor, falling on the porcelain walls, porcelain means white, like a thin transparent sheet, okay so here I'm using simile to describe how the silence is like a thin sheet, it's literally covering everything, the silence levitated arose above the walls mural which looked on impassively, like I didn't care so it was looking on uncaringly at the circular room, splashes of gold amber emerald turquoise and slates, now here I'm describing the mural, there's golden color hair, there's slate which means gray hair, there's amber which is like orange hair okay so I'm describing all the colors that I can see on the mural, splashes of gold amber emerald turquoise and slate covered one side of the kitchen narrating an untold stories, now here I'm describing what's going on in this mural, was it a day dream of a day spent on a deserted island rhetorical question or a fantasy of a life beyond the kitchen so the person who's looking at this is wondering hmm whoever painted this were they just fantasizing about a life away from this circular kitchen, the mural invited the willing viewer to transport themselves away to a minute beach house, minute means tiny I'm talking about this beach house hair, the top so on top so atop it's mustard roof mustard means yellow where the branches of neighboring palm trees and I'm describing what's in the image the mural, close by three towering trees we've got alliteration of tea stretched upwards, they touched the yellow sun that was an orb in the sky, the sun being an orb in the sky that's a metaphor, it illuminated the pebbles and azure river that cut across the mural hyphen ending at the open oak door so here I've described everything then moved on to the river that runs across then I'm bringing the viewer back to this open oak door okay so now that I've described that in detail I'm done with my second atmosphere move paragraph I'm going to now move on to the most obvious aspect of this image which is my central focus paragraph so again I'm going to write it out and then walk you through it afterwards so let's go over the central focus paragraph which of course is where I'm going to describe the most obvious aspect of this image okay so the most obvious aspect now this is where it goes in the third paragraph so obscured by the door the umber shelf umber means brown gazed on at a small island of stalls bags and baskets the fact that I'm describing this table as an island is a metaphor seated at the center of the circular kitchen the wooden stalls with leather covers cowered so they hid away that were scared beneath an emerald and juniper table emerald is like green juniper is dark green okay so as I mentioned I'm describing this pattern on this table it's kind of this horrible greeny dark and light green color and also there's bits of white in it as well separated by a thin timber barrier the stalls stood close to kitchen towels and empty shopping bags which were hastily stuffed under the lurid table lurid means any design that's horrible brush a little bit ugly okay so now I'm describing what's going on underneath the table before I then move on to talk about the top of the table and then link it to the wall behind it jotting out like a jetty remember a jetty is like a pear or any walkway that jots out that goes straight out into the sea so this is the sea and then some people can go on the pear which kind of jots out from the land this we can call it a jetty or walkway okay so here this table is jotting out like a jetty I'm using a simile to describe how it's poking out jotting out like a jetty the ring shaped table seems spotless save for three baskets that lay on its top okay I forgot to add that the apricot and ivory basket faced an overturned cobalt and an overturned scarlet basket so I'm describing these baskets on top of the table they lay beneath a coffee colored table that stretched back to the kitchen's wall so I'm using now this table this brown coffee colored table to link it back to what's going on on the wall hanging high above the wall or high above on the wall was a wooden cross now I'm talking about this imposing cross this cross that's really hard to imposing it's sternly seriously gazed at the kitchen's table its shelves its plates and its windows so I'm giving this cross now a certain personality a really scary personality and it's looking at every other object and again that means I'm indirectly describing all the other objects here without making it a story okay so I'm indirectly describing of course or rather directly describing the cross but I'm also describing that the shelves is you know cups all of this stuff going on in the kitchen especially along the shelves so now that I'm done with my central focus the most obvious thing within this image I'm now going to move on to my feelings paragraph describing the you know the fear that all the objects feel towards this heavy cross but equally the you know the lack of fear that these pillows right they look defiantly back at the cross and this kind of silent hostile wall where they're kind of staring each other off from where they stand okay so again I'm now going to move into my feelings paragraph and then walk you through it afterwards alright so let's go over the fourth feelings paragraph where I'm describing kind of the tension between this cross and these pillows this kind of staring match nothing happens they're just literally looking at each other we're keeping it quite static no movement but then also I'm now giving these objects a bit of their own personality to really color this description in addition to obviously some of the other objects on the wall so let's have a look at the feelings paragraph forming a ball work with three tourney crosses tourney is like light brown that hung close to the kitchen ceiling the mahogany cross cast a stern look across the shells and basically saying that this cross is kind of like together with this other cross and they seem almost like bullies right the standing side by side the emerald and yellow cups recoiled so I'm talking about the cups on the shelves the ruby brown and azure plates shrank away okay so I've referred indirectly to these colorful cups and now I'm talking about these plates both of which in terms of the personalities they're scared of this gloomy cross the metallic microbe and the gleaming toaster cowered from its severe gaze of course I'm also talking about the microbe yet across the room crimson until pillows stared back okay so now I'm referring to these pillows they're the only objects in the room that don't appear in terms of their personality to be scared of this cross okay so I'm saying all of these other objects along the shelf again indirectly describing what's going on here right but I'm giving them personalities they don't do anything they don't hop off the window or rather they don't hop off the wall start a fight with the pillows there's nothing like that okay everything stays where it is but we're trying to draw out the descriptions so going back to this yet across the room crimson until pillows stared back they were steely so these pillows are like strong they were steely defiant by the way pay attention to the fact that now I'm using short sentences to change the pace a little bit they were steely short sentences defiant one word sentence seated atop a lime sofa they stood tall like a plume of feathers on a peacock's back so I'm saying that these pillows are standing tall proud they're not afraid and I'm using the simile to describe them poison resting beneath the crosses gaze the pillows wordlessly stared back so there's this constant tension and friction between this cross that's hanging here doing nothing is just looking across at these pillows I'm not making it a story I'm just saying that there's a tension to emphasize the general feelings and sentiment within this image I'm giving these objects their own little personality flanked on one side by wooden plates now I'm talking about what's around this cross so maybe it has also other you know sidekicks and stuff like that there's a vase at the bottom here there's a plate here there obviously these three crosses I'm going to talk about that and say that you know it's got its own people next to it or its own kind of backup crew whilst the pillows even if they can see this backup crew next to the cross the pillows are not intimidated okay flanked on one side so on one side of the wooden of the dark cross flanked on one side by the wooden plate the chestnut cross was protected by ceramic vase at its base and three minute crosses above it pay attention to the fact that obviously I am using lots of adjectives a wooden plate chestnut cross which means brown and of course a ceramic vase a vase that you know is made from ceramic material they stood on guard like soldiers similar to describe how these objects around this cross kind of seem to be protecting it creating again a feeling of tension so my feelings paragraph is done now I'm going to mention the ever so slight change so this going back to this open door the light may be coming in perhaps the light just goes gradually ever so tiny ever so gradually to this other side maybe illuminates these objects here so I'm going to write my fifth and final paragraph of this descriptive writing question all right so let's go over the fifth and final paragraph why I describe the ever so slight change which is simply that just a bit more light filters in it goes in and just reflects a little bit off this side of the image but equally how maybe yet another flutter of wind comes in and then causes these two wicker lamp shades to just move and shake just a little bit okay so the slight change is an ever so slight change very very minute very very small so this is the fourth the fifth and final paragraph the silent more intensified this war between the pillows and the cross okay obviously the fact that it's a war it's not actually a war so it's a metaphor the silent more intensified as the sun's rays of lights could continue to fall in through the open door so I'm going back to this door that's been left a jar it's completely open quick before the sun's vault of light slowly stole its way through the deserted kitchen slowly stole is sibilance okay ultra sun traveling securitously traveling indirectly securitist is the most indirect route to a place traveling securitously the beams so this is the light clawed the way onto the tables and shelves sweeping through the kitchen a streak of light fell across the glass cabinet it reflected off the glass it rebounded off the obsidian oven I'm using repetition here as the afternoon heat continued its relentless entry into the kitchen referring back to how the heat just keeps on coming in just like the sun so the sunlight is coming in as is the heat as now is the breeze okay as the afternoon heat continued its relentless entry its non-stop entry into the kitchen a languid haze a lazy haze fell on the olive and pearl table so I'm referring back to this green and white tables different shades of green and I'm describing it as olive and white okay olive and pearl the heavy heat traveled through the kitchen as a gentle breeze rushed in causing the wicker lampshades to shift shudder and shake rule of three and that's really it when it comes to this descriptive question and more specifically how to answer this image related question all right so I'm now done with my slight change paragraph I've written my five paragraphs kept it very static nothing really moves nothing really shifts apart from just there's an ever so slight change where the sunlight just kind of travels a little bit and then illuminates a bit just on this side okay so I'm going to read this question one last time or rather this response one last time before I wrap up soft shafts of light felt through the cinnamon door illuminating the smooth linoleum floor the scrapped caramel floor was pop marked with dark chocolate lesions that lay sullen and inept beneath the lights gauge hot afternoon heat crept past the door traveling slowly across the ground it slithered along leisurely advancing up the mahogany shelves it crept past the white wash walls before resting on the umber beams a heavy languid air hovered in the silent kitchen the afternoon's balmy rays floated up to the wheat ceiling perching at top its hazel beams just then a rush of wind glided in through the oak door causing the mahogany lampshade to dance the wicker lampshade by the wall leaned clumsily on its upright neighbor that's my setting and weather paragraph moving on to the second atmosphere and mood paragraph a heavy silence hung over the hidden kitchen cloistered and secluded a heavy hush hovered over the linoleum floor falling on the porcelain walls like a thin transparent sheet the silence levitated above the walls mural which looked on impassively at the circular room splashes of gold amber emerald turquoise and slate covered one side of the kitchen narrating an untold story was it a daydream of a day spent on a deserted island or a fantasy of a life beyond the kitchen the mural invited the willing viewer to transport themselves away to a minute beach house atop its mustard roof or the branches of neighboring palm trees close by three towering trees stretched upwards they touched the yellow sun that was an orb in the sky it illuminated the pebbles and azure river that cut across the mural ending at the open door that's the atmosphere and mood paragraph done moving to the third central focus paragraph obscured by the door the amber shelf gazed on at a small island of stalls bags and baskets seated at the center of the circular kitchen the wooden stalls with leather covers cowered beneath an emerald and juniper table separated by thin timber barrier the stalls stood close to kitchen towels and empty shopping bags which are hastily stuffed under the lurid table jotting out like a jetty the ring shaped table seemed spotless save for three baskets that lay on its top the apricot and every basket faced an overturned cobalt and an overturned scarlet basket the lay beneath a coffee colored table that stretched back to the kitchen's wall hanging high above on the wall was a wooden cross imposing its sternly gaze at the kitchen's table its shelves its plates and its windows that's my central focus now moving on to fourth paragraph which is to do with feelings general sentiments forming a ballwork with three tourney crosses that hung close to the kitchen ceiling the mahogany crosses cast a stern look across the shelves the emerald and yellow cups recoiled the ruby brown and azure plates shrank away the metallic microwave and the gleaming toaster cowered from its severe gaze yet across the room crimson until pillow stared back they were steely defiant seated atop a lime sofa they stood tall like a plume of feathers on a peacock's back poised and resting beneath the cross gaze the pillow's wordlessly stared back flanked on one side by wooden plate the chestnut cross was protected by ceramic bars that had space and three minute crosses above it they stood on guard like soldiers that's my feeling paragraph now this is the final slight change paragraph the silent war intensified as the sun's rays of light continue to fall in through the open door creeping forward the sun's vault of light slowly stole its way through the deserted kitchen traveling securitously the beams clawed their way onto the table's end shelves sweeping through the kitchen a streak of light fell across the glass cabinet it reflected off the glass it rebounded off the obsidian oven as the afternoon heat continued its relentless entry into the kitchen a languid haze fell on the olive and pearl table the heavy heat traveled through the kitchen as the gentle breeze rushed in causing the wicker lampshades to shift shudder and shake and that really wraps up how to approach a descriptive image like this thank you so much for listening so that's really it thank you so much guys for watching i hope you found this video and this demonstration of how to answer this descriptive writing question useful however guys i'd absolutely love to know if you'd like to see more styles of these videos more kinds of these videos or if maybe you found this a little bit boring or not that useful do let me know what other suggestions you'd like to see in terms of lessons and classes as i'm really open to your suggestions thank you so 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