Thursday, 8 December 2016

Narrative - Video Vocab

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Use at least 10 ambitious vocabulary to describe: sound, sight, touch and movement (in the comments section). Number your answers. Include your name at the end.


31 comments:

  1. 1. Tenuous light.
    2. Movements from the surroundings are spontaneous.
    3. Macabre.
    4. Meticulous movements from the priests.
    5. Severe wind.
    6. Guttural voice when the girl is possessed.
    7. Sepulchral voices from the priests.
    8. Sombre place.
    9. Lugubrious faces.
    10. Tetric.

    Maria.

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    1. Well done - excellent choice of vocabulary. No.2 spontaneity is usually associated with actions by humans/animals, rather than the environment.
      NOW: Can you remember and apply these words in your work?

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  2. 1. Seeping drift
    2. Eclipsed lighting
    3. Flinging paged
    4. Whirling disc
    5. Jilting light
    6. Frantic convulse
    7. Shudder
    8. Trembling voice
    9. Juddering table
    10. Howling gust

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    1. pages? convulsions?. Proofread your work. Well done.

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  3. 1. Frightening
    2. Everyone looking miserable
    3. Nagging the girl
    4. Flickering lights
    5. Drastic gust
    6. Vicious
    7. Croaking voice of girl when dominated by priest
    8. Gyrate compact
    9. Quaking furniture
    10. Rapid flipping of pages


    Navpreet kaur

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    1. A good try.
      NOW: Find synonyms for the following words - frightening, nagging, "everyone looking miserable", quaking.

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  4. 1.demon is enmity
    2. girl acts feral
    3. building is shaking because of the evil presence of the demon
    4.demon is fractious
    5.the priest is impertinent to the demon
    6. the demon is impudent
    7. the priest is incisive
    8. the demon is seen as infamy
    9. the priest is insular
    10.the demon caused lurid to the humans
    Abdallah Osman

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    1. Good try. I would like you to explain the following numbers: 4, 7-10. You can do a better job for no.3. Do this again, please.

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  5. 1.Whistling wind
    2.demonic voice
    3.creaking table
    4.flicking pages
    5.aggressive shouting
    6.Dark lighting
    7.flickering lights
    8.spontaneous movements around
    9.creaking of wood
    10.Disk spinning out of control

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    1. Good try.
      NOW: Could you do nos.4-7 again? Use your imagination (and a dictionary/thesaurus).

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  6. 1.Eerie
    2.Persuasive
    3.demonic presence
    4.miserable atmosphere
    5.Exorsism
    6.Dark
    7.Loud

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    1. Good try.
      NOW: find synonyms for miserable, dark and loud, spelling for 5 is wrong, finish it off.

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  7. 1.loud
    2.hectic
    3.unilluminated
    4.unpleasant
    5.lifeless
    6.anxious
    7.frightining
    8.intimating
    9.belittleing
    10.threatened

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    1. Good job Miran.
      NOW: find a better word for loud (this is meant to be about ambitious vocab); correct the spellings of 7,8&9.

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  8. 1. demonic behaviour
    2. possessed
    3. shaking table
    4. aggressive questioning
    5. flickering lights
    6.
    7.
    5.smahing lamp
    6.creaking wood
    7.gust
    8.speaking in tongs
    9.
    10.

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    1. You have a lot of cliches here. Try this again - be more imaginative - do all ten and get the spelling of 8 ("tongs") right.

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  9. Yousaf-

    1. Distinctive Sound
    2. Gushing Winds
    3. Boisterous
    4. Sharp Face
    5. Savage Cyclone
    6. Excessively Anxoius
    7. Ambiguous
    8.Loss of Composure
    9. Provoking
    10. Abhorrent Feeling

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    1. Good work Yousaf.
      NOW: What would the distinctive sound be? Correct the spelling of "anxoius"

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  10. 1.Steely
    2.sepulchral
    3.flurry of wind
    4.glint of light
    5.grimy
    6.spine chilling
    7.gloomy sight
    8.creaking of the table
    9.Blinking light

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    1. Good work Jay.
      NOW: What is the meaning of "sepulchural" in your terms? (not a web/dictionary definition). Write a sentence for me (not from the web, but your own mind) with the word sepulchural in it.

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  11. 1. terror
    2. dark
    3. whistling wind
    4.loud
    5. disconcert
    6. anxious
    7. dull atmosphere
    8. discomfort
    9. fearful

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    1. Good try. You didn't quite manage to get all ten. The task required you to use ambitious vocab - dark, loud and dull don't cut it.
      NOW: do 2,4,7 again and add a 10th one.

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  12. 1. tense atmosphere
    2. insidious presence
    3. vengeance
    4. sinister agenda
    5. ominous thoughts
    6. merciless expression
    7. illogical events
    8. supernatural
    9. exasperation
    10. hesitation
    CLINTON SIBANDA


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    1. Excellent work, Clinton! Remember these words when it comes to writing your horror story (if and where applicable).

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  13. 1. Frightening
    2. Everyone looking miserable
    3. Nagging the girl
    4.unpleasant
    5.lifeless
    6.anxious
    7.frightining
    8.Loss of Composure
    9. Provoking
    10. Abhorrent Feeling

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    1. Neel - this seems to be a repetition of what others have already put; there are spelling mistakes and some are just not ambitious. I expect better from you.
      NOW: Do this again. READ the task and use your own words, you're good at this.

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  14. Severe wind/ howling
    Flickering lights
    Creaking
    Dark and gloomy
    Anxious voice
    Hesitation
    Frightening
    Gushing winds/sounds
    Trembling
    Unpleasant

    Sanya jussab

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  15. Narrative homework (horror)
    1) Screechy.
    2) Whispering
    3) Cold breeze from windows
    4) Shadows
    5) Frightening
    6) Scratched walls
    7) Creaky floor boards
    8) Provoking
    9) See door handles opening
    10) Abhorrent feeling

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  16. 1.Terrifying
    2.Miserable Atmosphere
    3.Vicious
    4.Anxious
    5.Trembling in fear
    6.Dark
    7.Shivering in fear
    8.Threatening
    9.Demonic Presence
    10.Lifeless

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  17. Frightening
    Dark
    Creeking
    Provoking
    Whispers
    Anxious
    Lifeless
    Hesitant
    Tension
    Discomfort

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  18. 1)Glass smashing
    2)Two faced
    3)Squeak of fear
    4)Flickering lights
    5)Gloomy atmosphere
    6)Threateningly creaky voice
    7)Repetitively freaky sound
    8)Loaded with emotion
    9)Untrusted silence
    10)Rough, dodgy location

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