This lesson aims to improve descriptive writing skills by using sound effects like onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia are words that imitate sounds, such as purr, roar, and moo. Examples are provided of onomatopoeic words that could describe various scenarios involving breaking glass, vacuuming, fishing, cooking sausages, chalk on a board, a fire, a boiling kettle, a cat drinking milk, eating crisps, hitting a tennis ball, walking through mud, and a rocket taking off. The lesson also introduces alliteration, which is the repetition of initial sounds in words near each other, and provides examples like "the sun shines softly." Students will work in groups to write

1. Lesson 8
Objective: To improve our descriptive writing by
using sound effects. (AF1,AF2,AF7)

2. STARTER

3. ONOMATOPOEIA: DEFINITION
• When words used to describe a noise
sound like the noise they are
describing.
• Here are a few example:
• Purr
• Roar
• Moo
• Drip

4. TIP
• Onomatopoeia is a very long and difficult word to spell.
• The easiest way to remember how to spell onomatopoeia is
to sing the song:
ON-O, MAT-O, P-O, E-I-A

5. Can you think of onomatopoeic words that would describe the following…
1. Someone walking on broken glass.
2. A vacuum-cleaner sucking up the
dirt.
3. A fisherman throwing out his rod.
4. Sausages cooking in a pan.
5. Chalk on a blackboard.
6. A fire burning briskly.
7. A kettle boiling.
8. A thirsty cat drinking milk.
9. Someone eating crisps with their
mouth open.
10.Hitting a tennis ball.
11.Someone walking through thick mud.
12.A rocket taking off.
Copy out the sentences
and write your
onomatopoeic answer
next to them.

6. 1.Someone walking on broken glass
2.A vacuum-cleaner sucking up the dirt
3.A fisherman throwing out his rod.
4.Sausages cooking in a pan.
5.Chalk on a blackboard.
6.A fire burning briskly.
7.A kettle boiling.
8.A thirsty cat drinking milk.
9.Someone eating crisps with their mouth
open.
10.Hitting a tennis ball.
11.Someone walking through thick mud.
12.A rocket taking off.
When I choose you to
feedback, try and act out
or make the noise of the
effect you are describing.

7. Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound (not letter) at the beginning of
words which are close to each other in a sentence, line of poetry or headline.
ALLITERATION: DEFINITION

10. Copy down these examples and underline the alliteration
(sounds-not the whole word)
1. The sun shines softly in the summer sky.
2. The moon dances in the dark sky.
3. The stars twist and twinkle in the night
sky.

11. GroupTask
Each group will be shown a picture of
something you could use sound effects
to describe.
Using your whiteboard and working with
your group, you have five minutes to
write me a paragraph to describe your
picture.
It must contain:
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration
It could contain: senses, similes,
metaphor, adjectives or any other
descriptive technique you have learned
in this unit.

12. Group 1:The city

13. Group 2:The fairground

14. Group 3:The dolphin show

15. Group 4:The boxing match

16. Group 5: Bonfire night

18. Finally
• One person from each group is to
become an envoy.
• They should go to another table’s
board.
• They should then (with no help
from the people on the table)
underline and label the
onomatopoeia, alliteration and any
other techniques they spot.
• They should then explain to the
group whose board they are
marking:
• which techniques they spotted;
• what the effect of each technique
was.