Writing Exercise: Describing a Setting
By Jonathan Leung, Isaac Kwok and Adelaide Au
As a writing exercise on describing setting, students were asked to think in visuals like a camera and write different parts of the image section by section to help move a reader’s eye across a space. We asked students to write a scene description of this picture of a dilapidated house, starting from the window and slowly entering the room and stopping at the wall. These were the results…
Despite that it was a sunny day, it was dark inside the shop. Little rays of sunlight shone into it. Further into the shop, you can see that it was partly demolished. Bits from the wall had fallen off and had broken into little chips. A half-broken chair was left beside a wall, which was covered with dents. The ground was soggy as if a flash flood had taken place there earlier.
Jonathan Leung P6A
There is an old house with a door which has a broken window on it. Bricks fell down from the ceiling. Part of the walls fell down. The house looks like it would collapse anytime. Outside the window of the door, there seems to be a windmill or tower. Broken chairs and boards were there on the floor. Leaves are blowing from the windows and doors. There is a little room like a work room. Mud is everywhere in the house. There are dents in the wall that made it seem like an old jail.
Isaac Kwok P5G
The room was dark as if someone covered it with black curtains. Compared to outside where there were rays of sun shining onto the ground. Pushing into the door, water sank into my feet. A desk and pieces of broken tiles floated on the water. Bricks and rusty pots were lying on the table in the right-hand side and in the left-hand side, an old office is seen. Walking a bit more into the room, more tiles have fallen down from the ceiling and more stones lie against the stone walls. A sofa on the left had broken edges and was covered with dents and a big hole.
Adelaide Au P6H