English Powerpoint

1. Signalman
Setting &
Atmosphere
LO: To understand how setting and
atmosphere can be created through text.
Keywords:
Setting
Atmosphere- The tone or mood of a place,
situation or creative work.
- The place where events
occur

2. Homework: You have to choose a picture (original/on the internet)
to create your own scary setting. You need to decide on at least
four adjectives to describe your picture and explain why they are
appropriate for a scary, gothic setting.
Crumbling
Rancid
Rusting
Rotting
Diseased
These words would be appropriate for a scary setting because they bring the
door to life and make it seem alive which is unnatural.

3. Starter Challenge!
Use 12 words to continue this quote. Imagine you are
the Signalman walking through the tunnel. You have
1 minute.
“…gloomy red light, and the gloomier entrance to a
black tunnel…”
Remember your
adjectives and verbs!
“I could
smell…”
“I trembled at
the…”

4. Sound Tunnel
Each of you has been given a
word/phrase.
Think of how you will say this word:
Pace, volume, pitch…
Try to capture a Gothic atmosphere!

5. • Highlight words and phrases in the extracts
below, which suggest a strange ghostly
setting.
• Once finished, stick this into your book and
write a few sentences explaining how and
why this ghostly setting was created.
Setting and Atmosphere
in The Signalman

6. …Over to you!
• Now that you are familiar with the language and
some language features used within The
Signalman, you must write a piece of creative
writing to describe the tunnel just after the
first train crash has occurred.
• You can write it from the perspective of The
Signalman OR one of the injured passengers.
• You can use the dictionaries and thesauruses, to
use some appropriately horrific and interesting
adjectives for your setting.