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- Oct 21, 2019
Creative Writing With IGCSE English Prompts
I had ran dry of writing ideas and needed a decent prompt to get me started. But all the ‘prompt generators’ didn’t seem to inspire me. Then I thought about the IGCSE English narrative/descriptive writing prompts and had the idea to utilise them. Then I spotted this golden prompt:
Describe the scene and atmosphere when you visit a theme park, fairground or carnival.
This was the result:
The entrance to the carnival should have been enough to keep any wandering souls away. The pillars that once supported the colourful billboard crumbled down — perhaps during a lightning storm or from old age. Remaining white patches on the fences show that this carnival had once been a place well cared for. The clouds began to mourn the death of vibrant colours. For a while, the gentle raindrops seemed to play a joyful melody on the rusty iron bars, but soon the soothing drumming turned into aggressive thrashes.
The grass, already a dull yellow, now had mud plastered onto them as it drove them into non-existence. They lied limp under the rain, much like the carnival itself. A woeful gust of wind pried its way through the circus tent, opening the flaps to the ethereal hangout for outcasts. Before it could cry out, the wind dispersed and its remnants, intertwined with the droplets, shattered onto the ground.
If there had been any other creature lurking in the tent, they would go unseen; all colour was muted. However, like a wound on a beast’s skin, a jagged gash bore light into the tent. The shy beam of light shined down, forming a spotlight. For a while, the tent seemed to grow lively as the shadows took their places and applauded as the forgotten remnants of the show played out. From a faded memory, a tune started to soak the tent with bliss. Whiffs of heavenly caramel swirled through with smells of fiery passion and euphoria. Melodic laughter and radiant chimes gave flavour to the atmosphere. But just like dust settling on windowsills, the show of the past came to an end. Darkness seeped in, and with it, took away the life of the carnival once again.
All was golden. All was good. But all was for naught.
I enjoyed writing about this prompt — though it turned out to be a little short — and will probably revisit the IGCSE writing prompts.
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Tuesday, june 7, 2016, descriptive writing, 29 comments:.
really good, recommended this.
Thanks Rabia!
Your blog is really, really helpful!!!!!
Thanks, glad you liked it!
A good website for childrens
“Childrens”
Teachers are giving SA from this website and students can copy them
I think it's up to teachers to recognize when students are plagiarizing work and up to students to be honest and realize that copying answers isn't going to help them on the final exam, when they won't know what question will be asked. I don't think it's fair to take down resources that are helping the majority just because a minority may be using them dishonestly.
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One thing I would say is that it is in the wrong tense to the question
You're right - in hindsight, I should have written it in present tense. Thanks for pointing this out!
do you have a website for english ib as well?
Unfortunately not - I have taken English Lang & Lit SL, though, so if you need help with that feel free to email me!
I really need help with literature if you could help me. my teacher is very ‘stupid’ and I have 3 months till my final igcse exams. i dont even know how to properloy frame an answer and how many quotes/points i need to present
Hi Het, feel free email me if you need help! I can talk about this in greater detail.
We dont use 'I' in descriptive writings - its an observation.
Helpfully blog
Do you give advice on other type of writing
Very good! I'm sooo impressed, at least now I know, what my teacher was actually expecting from me, and that I gave her serious bullshit!
Very impressive. But for your descriptive essay, shouldn't be not include the narrator performing any actions that adds to any form of plotline?
Amazing blog 👍👌
The mood and imagery was excellent! I felt, even I was in a theme park. Great stuff!
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i dont think i would ever be able to write something like this
This was really helpful thanks a lot
really nice
How do you write so good? Please give some tips
Can you help me in English IGCSE
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I had ran dry of writing ideas and needed a decent prompt to get me started. But all the ‘prompt generators’ didn’t seem to inspire me. Then I thought about the IGCSE English narrative/descriptive writing prompts and had the idea to utilise them. Then I spotted this golden prompt:Describe the scene and atmosphere when you visit a theme park, fairground or carnival.This was the result:The ...
Descriptive Writing. Descriptive writing in IGCSE is often considered the more demanding of the two options during the exam (narrative and descriptive), as rather than simply rambling on, it requires a relatively strong vocabulary to describe the relevant mood, creative and original syntheses of images, and fluency.
This is specifically first-language English, and the international course syllabus is number 0500. If you're studying this course, you're going to have to write a creative composition in Paper 3 Section 2. You have a choice of four questions: two are narrative and the other two are descriptive. There will be a question or a scenario for each.