Full Example Description

OK so let’s look at what we have altogether OK.

There is a small lonely stone cottage with a thatched roof beside a lake in the countryside.

It has a little square window at the front and beside that a single wooden door with a narrow dirt path that leads away toward the nearby village.

Maybe there’s a village nearby.

Standing beside the cottage is a small scraggly tree and in the distance there’s a bigger one behind a row of hedges bigger what one means a tree because we just mentioned trees.

So if we say one we know it’s a tree a bigger one a bigger one behind a row of hedges an old potato farmer lives here with his dog Linus.

It’s my imagination.

It’s a peaceful place again.

That’s the atmosphere.

It’s a peaceful place.

They sometimes go for walks along the lake in the evening when the weather is warm the sun setting over the water reminds the old man of strolls strolls means slow casual walks strolls he used to take with his wife before she passed away.

This is a very sad story I imagine.

What’s wrong with me.

Why did I have to put that sad thing at the end.

Oh my goodness.

I have a real problem.

So you can see how it all fits together.

Before I mention my imagination I make sure to say the important details.

Then when I get into my imagination the sad story of this lonely man and his dog Linus lived by the lake.

We like to reminisce and remember the old times sad story is first based on that description.

But you’re now there with me in your mind right.

Because we’ve been through the description you have a clear picture first.

Then you’re able to feel something when I actually describe what the man does.

The potato farmer that I invented that I imagine.

So that’s the basic idea of describing things clearly.

Again you can use it for lots of different situations.

Not only describing houses they can use it for many different things you can use it to describe your dreams.

You can use it to describe ideas you can use it to describe what you’re looking at out the window what you want somebody to buy at the supermarket.

Description is one of the things at the very foundation of being able to express yourself in English clearly.

Now your assignment to practice is to do the same thing.

What I’d like you to do is find a picture of a house and then try to describe it in vivid very clear detail.

Make sure that you use several adjectives and make sure that you choose a main noun especially for the first sentence.

Then after you do that and you’ve made a couple of clear sentences to describe what people can see to get a feeling for the place then imagine a story and add some interesting description in your story that is based on based on your basic description.

OK so try this practice it you can do it for a couple of different things if you want to try a picture of a person or if you want to try maybe something you just imagine that’s fine but make sure that you actually are doing something as a way to get comfortable with description because it’s again really really important.