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Improve Descriptive Writing with Figurative Devices | EasyTeaching
New ReviewFigurative language devices and other imagery techniques make writing more interesting.In this video, we explore six key figurative language devices—metaphors, similes, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, and onomatopoeia—and break...
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Adding Descriptive Details to Deepen Meaning in Writing
This video is a lesson on how to add descriptive details to writing in order to create a more vivid picture for the reader. It explains the importance of word choice, figurative language, and sensory images, and provides examples and...
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Using Descriptive Adjectives to Enhance Your Writing
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of using descriptive adjectives in writing to make it more interesting and engaging for the readers. The teacher provides examples and exercises for the students to practice using...
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Academic Writing - Planning your Essay
Become a better writer in no time! This video teaches you to how to plan the content of your essay. This is part 1 in the series 'English Composition: Writing Basics.'
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Academic Writing - Formating and Structuring your Assignment
Become a better writer in no time! Formatting a paper is notoriously tricky. This video removes some of the complexity and will help students plan the layout of their piece more clearly. This is part 3 in the series 'English Composition:...
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Adding Absolute Phrases to Enhance Descriptive Writing
In this video, the teacher explains how writers use absolute phrases to enhance their writing by focusing the reader's attention on specific images. The teacher provides examples and guides students in adding absolute phrases to...
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Adding Modifiers to Noun Phrases for Descriptive Writing
In this video, the teacher explains the concept of noun phrases and how writers use them to make their writing more descriptive and specific. The teacher provides examples and practice exercises for adding modifiers to nouns to create...
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Using Descriptive Adverbs to Enhance Writing
In this video, the teacher explains the concept of descriptive adverbs and how they can be used to enhance writing by providing more precise details about actions. The teacher provides examples and prompts students to practice...
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Adding Details for Flow in Writing
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of adding details to create flow in a story. They provide examples and guide students through revising a draft to improve the clarity and coherence of the narrative. The goal is to help...
Visual Learning Systems
Writing in Science: Observing and Writing
The development and application of writing skills in science is the focus of this program. This video highlights some of the key ingredients of writing in the subject of science. Informative and explanatory texts focus on facts,...
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How To Write A Research Report - Research Methods
Whether you're working on an EPQ project at Secondary School, preparing for your undergraduate dissertation, or submitting work to an academic journal, you'll need to know how to write a research report. This video is a how to writing a...
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Adding Vivid Verbs to Improve Your Writing
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of using vivid verbs in writing to help readers visualize and understand the writer's message. The teacher provides examples of action verbs and linking verbs and demonstrates how to...
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Adverbs: Enhancing Actions and Descriptions in Language
Explore the function of adverbs, which describe verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs, and provide details about when, where, how, or to what extent something happens. This video demonstrates through examples how adverbs like 'happily',...
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Using description and figurative language to enhance narrative writing
Pupil outcome: I can use descriptive writing to enhance my narrative writing. Key learning points: - Narratives that try to tell too much story are often unsuccessful - Instead,you can use an emotion-led narrative, which will help keep...
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Revising key strategies to write effective descriptions
Pupil outcome: I can revise and apply skills for effective descriptive writing. Key learning points: - Use a variety of strategies to vary how you start sentences. - You can create sophisticated semantic fields based on abstract nouns. -...
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English Essentials - Destroying Drama - Essential Techniques for Analysing Drama (Stage 5, Years/Grades 9-10)
In this second lesson, we’ll dominate the essential techniques in theatrical drama. Our main focus will be on how playwrights create characterisation, use staging and the conventions of genre. The lesson includes quick revision of basic...
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English Essentials - Destroying Drama - Finer Details of Dramatic Analysis (Stage 4, Years/Grades 7-8)
This second lesson uncovers the finer details of theatrical dramas. We’ll explore the world of characterisation, focussing on how playwrights build their characters. We’ll also examine how playwrights use scene descriptions and stage...
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English Essentials - Destroying Drama – Finer Points of Dramatic Analysis (Stage 6, Years/Grades 11-12)
In this lesson, we’ll arm you with some more advanced knowledge about drama. Grab your notes as we guide you the ways playwrights build characterisation, use staging devices and the conventions of genre. Not to worry, we’ll revise...
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English Essentials - Destroying Drama - 'Big Picture' Questions in Drama (Stage 5, Years/Grades 9-10)
Welcome back to Destroying Drama! In this first lesson, we’ll delve into some of the ‘big picture’ aspects of theatrical drama. Get ready to explore the anatomy of a playscript and how information is conveyed in this exciting medium....
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English Essentials - Destroying Drama - 'Big Picture' Questions to ask in Dramatic Analysis (Stage 4, Years/Grades 7-8)
Join us in our first lesson on Destroying Drama. We’ll explore the world of plays and playwrights, starting with information flow – how do we figure out what’s going on in a play? We’ll also break down a common play structure with the...
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English Essentials - Destroying Drama - 'Big Picture' Questions in Drama (Stage 6, Years/Grades 11-12)
Join us for an advanced lesson on Destroying Drama! We’ll examine the world of plays and playwrights, starting with key aspects of information flow. How do you analyse dialogue and what is the purpose of dramatic irony? We’ll also break...
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Using Descriptive Language to Paint a Picture in Writing
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of using descriptive language in writing to help readers visualize and engage with the text. They provide examples of weak linking verbs and encourage students to revise sentences by...
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Using Description to Develop a Story
In this video, the teacher discusses the importance of using description in storytelling to make the story more vivid and engaging. They provide examples of how to add description to different parts of a story and guide the viewers...
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Creating Vivid Images: Using Concrete Details in Writing
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of using concrete details in writing to help readers visualize a text. They provide examples and guide the viewers through an exercise to identify and rewrite sentences with abstract...