Descriptive Paragraphs.
Descriptive paragraphs describe how a person looks and acts like. It gives the reader an accurate idea of the subject of the paragraph. Read this example descriptive paragraph; notice how descriptive paragraphs are settled by putting together all the sentences about the same thing.
As I was growing up in the 60’s, television was the only entertainment my family knew of the electronic sort. The 7 o’clock nightly news was such an important part of our family that my dad knocked a wall down and built a huge cabinet in its place just to accommodate our 19-inch black and white. No one was allowed to talk or make a sound when the television was on; all eyes were glued to the moving and flickering image. The box commanded absolute respect. In the daytime, “the television needs its rest” my mother would say. There is no doubt that TV was as central to our lives as it was to the lives of all our friends during that period. (Adapted from an essay by Angeline Chan).
Activities
Activity 1.
Answer these questions about yourself on a piece of paper.
• What does your family do for entertainment?
• What specific event do you enjoy the most as a family?
• How does this activity take place? How often?
• How does it make you feel?
• How do the other members of your family behave?
Activity 2
Now that you have the information about your family’s entertainment, fill in the gaps in to complete this descriptive paragraph about this topic.