when you are feeling anxious or excited about what may happen

a writing technique for showing a character’s feelings with description of their actions and expressions

the comparison of two or more elements that are strikingly different

Writing the build-up of 'The Iron Man' (part two)

English

'The Jabberwocky: Narrative Writing' - In this unit, pupils learn how to use speech first with inverted commas. In ‘The Jabberwocky’, pupils will learn how to use speech first within complex sentences.

In 'The BFG', pupils learnt to use complex sentences for setting and character descriptions. In this unit, pupils will vary the position of the subordinate clause in a complex sentence.

In this unit, pupils write their own complete narrative version of 'The Iron Man', based on their understanding and exploration of the original text by Ted Hughes from the accompanying reading unit. Pupils write the full narrative arc from opening to build-up, climax and resolution.

'The Iron Man': narrative writing

showing a character’s feelings by describing their actions/expressions

Match the keywords to the correct definitions.

Which of these linguistic features should you include in a narrative build-up?

a sentence made of just one main clause with just one idea

a sentence formed of two main clauses and a coordinating conjunction

a sentence formed of a main clause and an adverbial subordinate clause

Which coordinating conjunction do we use to join two ideas when the two ideas contrast each other?

What type of sentence is the following? 'As they spotted pieces of chewed metal lying about, they knew it had to be the Iron Man.'

to describe the main action and take the suspense to its highest point

to introduce the protagonist and set the scene

The next day, the farmers find all of their machinery missing.

The farmers are furious and hatch a plan to trap the Iron Man.

The farmers dig a huge hole and wait, but the Iron Man never comes.

One day, Hogarth finally spotted the Iron Man again.

Hogarth lured the Iron Man into the hole with clinking metal.

The farmers buried the Iron Man and they were overjoyed.

Hogarth's feelings suddenly began to shift to sorrow and guilt.

Put the following events in the correct order to show the chronology of events in part two of the build-up.

language that explicitly tells the reader how a character feels

language that conveys a character's feelings through their actions/expressions

a sentence about one idea that makes complete sense

a sentence formed of two main clauses and a joining word

a sentence formed of at least one main clause and a subordinate clause

Match each sentence type to the correct definition.

Match each type of fronted adverbial to the correct example.

Which of the following coordinating conjunctions is used to show contrast?

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