You might just find your dream travel partner in just 3 minutes!

Speed Dating Game

Have you ever heard of Speed Dating?Do you think you can judge somebody’s character in 3

minutes?Do you agree with the saying, ‘First impressions count’?

Speed Dating Game – to find your ideal travel partner

• You are going to play a speed dating game.• Compile your speed dating travel chart – add in one question

of your own • You will be spending three minutes chatting to each person in

the group asking your questions and answering theirs. You should aim to get their ideas down.

• At the end look over your sheet and decide who would make your ideal travel partner and why.

Name Ideal companion or travel nightmare?

QUESTION 1 Best place you have ever been on holiday. Why?

QUESTION 2 Worst place you have ever been on holiday – or place you don’t want to go to. Why?

QUESTION 3 Weather - sun and heat or cool and pleasant? Tropical or Arctic? Why?

QUESTION 4 Adventure, doing things holiday, sightseeing or lazing around sun tanning? Why?

QUESTION 5 Dream holiday if money was no object…..Why?

QUESTION 6 Your own travel question…..

Leave space here to fill in 6 people’s answers You should use a full side of A4

Speed Dating Chart

Where would your dream holiday destination be?Choose write about a place your would love to go on holiday to

Or write about a place that you have been to on holiday and have enjoyed.

What are the key

features

of Travel writing? What

language

features

might you

expect?

What word choices would you expect?

What information might you expect?

Travel writing style Covers out of the ordinary subject

matter, not just what is in the brochures

Uses humour to engage the readerIs personal, perhaps using first person

narrationHas a strong sense of the writer’s

personalityUses personal experiences and

anecdotes (stories from experience)Can use bathos (over exaggeration for

comic effect)Can use a noun phrase to describe (an

adjective in front of a noun, for example beautiful beach)

Is vivid: create clear pictures in the reader’s head

Has a bright, lively and fun toneCan be colloquial (written in a chatty

style, like the writer is having a conversation with the reader for example “tacky” or “roaring trade”)

Can use metaphors and similes to describe

Uses facts about the place being described

Lists adjectives in threes for added impact

Uses sarcasm to add impact if describing a place the writer didn’t like!

Rio What do you know about Rio

the place? (not the film!)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am6joTQ1fQg

• Travel video Rio

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlXlbAfxnHk&feature=related

• Rio

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bmmpeW13jE&feature=related

Plenary – your learning

• Write 5 golden rules for successful travel writing using knowledge from today’s lesson

Noun Phrases

Noun Phrases

Big black dog gate the at the

the big

black

dog

at

the

gate

Headword(the most important word)

Premodifier (words before the headword)

Postmodifier (words afterthe headword)

Improving your sentences is not really that difficult

How to expand nouns using pre and post modifiers

• Bed• Comfy bed• Extremely comfy bed• The extremely comfy bed• The extremely comfy bed in my bedroom

Make up your own in pairs

• Cat• Horse• Dress• Girl

Now make up a similar sentence about this picture:

Use pre and post modifications.

Post modification could be a prepositional phrase: in…. on….. by…..

next to…..

Or it could be a subordinate clause: which… that…….

This is the only Grade I listed pier in Britain. The West Pier has been closed to the public since

1975 because of fears it might fall down. The West Pier was

designed by Eugenius Birch and was completed in 1866 as a

promenading pier.

Now imagine you are writing an entry for the West Pier in a travel book. Persuade people it is worth visiting.

Are these sentences different to your first ones?

– Foxhunting is a traditional sport

• Fox hunting is a bloodthirsty pastimeFOR

AGAINST

AGAINST

Foxhunting is…… aan

socialillegal

pastimeactivitysport

For Sale!Write a sentence advertising this for sale.

A rusty old van that could be used for spare parts.

Now write another sentence advertising one of these dogs for sale.

Remember to say which dog in the picture.

Today's lesson was about NOUN PHRASES – your learning is important the challenge now is remembering the skill and using it….

How will you remember the skill and how will you use it?

Three people everyone talks Step 1 One person talks for two minutes about the topic

Starter

Write negative adjectives to describe the hotel accommodation

• The hotel was horrible.

Writer’s challenge • Can you change the

sentence to add detail and description – remember your noun phrases

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XyXZL9nRvo

Task You are going to do a role play. You will imagine that you are either a

customer with a complaint while you are on holiday or you are the manager. Read the questions below to help you to think about what you are going to

say, behave and feel during the role play.

Imagine you are the customer: How has this problem ruined your

holiday? How do you feel about this problem? What do you want the manager to do

about this problem?

Imagine you are the manager: What are you going to say about the

customers about their problem? Is this problem the fault of the

holiday company? What solutions can you offer?

• An effective complaint……

To the Manager of Sunny Days, I’m writing to tell you how your holiday company is ripping off its customers. I

went to Spain last month with Sunny Days and I had a terrible time. There was building work outside my apartment and this kept me awake all night, every night. How would you like to be kept awake by constant drilling noises and workmen shouting?

The rooms were also dirty, so much so that I would not expect my dog to stay in

there for a fortnight! I complained to the holiday rep but he was worse than useless.

I want all of my money back plus £500 compensation or I will tell everyone not to

book a holiday with you. I will make it my mission to ruin your business. You have been warned. Mr B TaylorA very, very dissatisfied customer

Structure your letter of complaint. Paragraph 1Introduce yourself and tell the manager

where you went on holiday, when you went on holiday and, briefly, what the problem was.

Paragraph 2 & Paragraph 3 Write about the problem in more detail.

Give evidence and write about how this ruined your holiday in detail.

Paragraph 4Write about how you want the manager to

solve the problem (for example, money back, compensation, a free holiday, an assurance that this will not happen to anyone again)

•

Before you write your letter, think about the following: WordFormal Language. Avoid slang words.Use key words. Make a list of the key words that you

need. SentenceMake sure that your sentences are linked together.

What linking words could you use?Use a variety of simple, compound and complex

sentences. Text Link your paragraphs together. What linking words

could you use?Make sure that you have evidence to support your

opinions.Make sure that you use a range of persuasive

techniques.Tone of the letter. Be polite and firm. Do not be

aggressive.

Today’s Lesson ObjectiveTo analyse the deliberate

“subliminal” messages used in a constructed text.

First Impressions

• Luxury hotel• independently-minded• perfect opportunity• cultural and scenic attractions• magnificent deep-water• splendid bays• rich pool of cultural institutions• myriad of colourful street festivals.• What kind of text is it?• Who is this aimed at?

GAP

• Genre• Audience• Purpose

What sort of text would you expect to see on this page?

Group Writing:

• Luxury hotel• independently-minded• perfect opportunity• cultural and scenic attractions• magnificent deep-water• splendid bays• rich pool of cultural institutions• myriad of colourful street festivals.• What kind of text is it?

Before I show you this, look carefully at your own – what type of writing have you used?What techniques have you employed?

Highlight the techniques being used.

• How similar is your own writing to the writing that is used in this brochure?

• Explain your response in your book: • This writing was written before I saw the

whole brochure page. I found that my writing was different because...

• I found it was similar because....

Today’s Lesson ObjectiveTo analyse the deliberate

“subliminal” messages used in a constructed text.

To deduce and infer information

You are going to see a variety of words.

Think about:

1) What each word tells you about this

text?

2) What type of text might it be?

Connotations and

Predictions

Dawn

Granite

Bridge

Lake

Temple

Ceremony

Colin Thubron: Shadow of the Silk Road

In the dawn the land is empty. A causeway stretches across the lake on a bridge of silvery granite, and beyond it, pale on its reflection, a temple shines. The light falls pure and still. The

noises of the town have faded away, and the silence intensifies the void—the artificial lake, the temple, the bridge—like the shapes for a

ceremony which has been forgotten.

What can we infer about China?List the impressions you

get about China, the girl and the traveller and explain how you inferred them.

Example: – I get the impression that the girl is embarrassed when she sees the

traveller from the phrase “laughs through her fingers”

Do you think this is a good description?

What atmosphere is being created?

What might come next?

Can you tell if this is fiction or non-

fiction?

Examples

Travel Writing

• To understand how language devices are used to create humour.

Can you match these to the correct answer?

Pun Showing contempt by using irony

Sarcasm Putting together two things you wouldn’t expect

Irony A play on words

Juxtapositision A writer’s attitude to his subject and audience, shown by his choice of words

Tone Using words to mean something different to their literal meaning

Click to edit Master text stylesSecond level

Third levelFourth level

Fifth level

Which puns make these jokes funny and why?

Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly; but when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once and for all that you can't have your kayak and heat it.

The other day I sent my girlfriend a huge pile of snow. I rang her up, I said "Did you get my drift?".

So I said to this train driver "I want to go to Paris". He said “Eurostar?” I said, "I've been on telly but I'm no Dean Martin".

Why is this ironic?

“They were having a festival of litter…Citizens had taken time off from their busy activities to add crisp packets, empty cigarette packets and carrier-bags to the otherwise bland and neglected landscape. They…brought colour and texture to the pavements and gutters.”

It is the home of the largest living thing on Earth, the Great Barrier Reef, and of the most famous and striking monolith, Ayers Rock (or Uluru, to use its now official, more respectful, Aboriginal name). It has more things that will kill you than anywhere else. Of the world’s ten most poisonous snakes, all are Australian. Five of its creatures – the funnel web spider, box jellyfish, blue-ringed octopus, paralysis tick and stonefish – are the most lethal of their type in the world. This is a country where even the fluffiest of caterpillars can lay you out with a toxic nip, where seashells will not just sting you but actually sometimes go for you. Pick up an innocuous coneshell from a Queensland beach, as innocent tourists are all too wont to do, and you will discover that the little fellow inside is not just astoundingly swift and testy, but also exceedingly venomous. If you are not stung or pronged to death in some unexpected manner, you may be fatally chomped by sharks or crocodiles, or carried helplessly out to sea by irresistible currents, or left to stagger to an unhappy death in the baking outback. It’s a tough place.

“And I’m pulling on the cord, and pulling and pulling, and the engine is just going putt, putt, pffft. And all the while the crocodile’s coming. Finally, miraculously, the engine catches and we’re able to move off. Only we’re pointing in the wrong direction. Anyway, after much messing around and crashing into banks and a little affectionate discussion of how we’re all going to die in a minute and it’s all my fault, we get turned round. Only to get out of there we have to go towards where the crocodile is.”

Bill Bryson Exracts

1. Find and copy out an example of irony. What effect does it have on the reader?

2. Find and copy out an example of juxtaposition. What effect does it have on the reader?

3. How is Bryson’s travel writing different from the others we have looked at?

4. How does Bryson STRUCTURE his writing to make it funny?