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Emulating how Verne uses sentences in ‘Journey to the Centre of the Earth’

I can emulate Verne's use of declarative, interrogative and exclamative sentences when writing descriptively.

New
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Year 10
AQA

Emulating how Verne uses sentences in ‘Journey to the Centre of the Earth’

I can emulate Verne's use of declarative, interrogative and exclamative sentences when writing descriptively.

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. To write a description that shows rising tension you might open with an emotionally charged declarative sentence.
  2. You might follow that with consecutive interrogative sentences that use personal pronouns.
  3. You might then end on a repeated exclamatory fragment that finishes on an emotionally charged word.

Common misconception

You should use exclamative sentences all the way through your writing to show tension.

It can be more effective to begin with declarative sentences and progress to exclamative sentences to show the rising tension.

Keywords

  • Declarative - a sentence that makes a statement, provides a fact, offers an explanation or conveys information

  • Interrogative - a sentence that asks a question and ends with a question mark

  • Exclamative - a statement that expresses strong emotion and typically ends with an exclamation mark

  • Imperative - a sentence that gives a direct command or instruction

  • Climax - the most intense, exciting or important point of something; the culmination

This lesson focuses on a description of a desert - you might wish to show pupils a video of a desert so that they can really comprehend the vast nothingness and how it might feel to be there.
Teacher tip

Equipment

There is an extract from Verne's 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth' in the additional materials.

Content guidance

  • Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Supervision

Adult supervision required

Licence

This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).

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6 Questions

Q1.
Verne's 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth' is an example of what genre?
horror
romance
Correct answer: science fiction
gothic
crime
Q2.
The words 'I' and 'my' are pronouns.
Correct Answer: personal
Q3.
An exclamative is a sentence which ...
asks a question.
Correct answer: conveys strong emotion.
conveys a fact or piece of information.
gives a direct command.
Q4.
Match the example sentence with the sentence type.
Correct Answer:How did we get here?,Interrogative

Interrogative

Correct Answer:Take cover now.,Imperative

Imperative

Correct Answer:It's behind you!,Exclamative

Exclamative

Correct Answer:The lamps were broken.,Declarative

Declarative

Q5.
What might you associate with a desert?
Correct answer: emptiness
humidity
Correct answer: lack of water
Q6.
Which of the following is a synonym for 'dry'?
Correct answer: dessicated
Correct answer: withered
drenched
water-logged

6 Questions

Q1.
'A sentence that makes a statement, provides a fact, offers an explanation, or conveys information' is the definition of a sentence.
Correct Answer: declarative
Q2.
Which sentence type ends in a question mark?
imperative
Correct answer: interrogative
exclamative
declarative
Q3.
Which of the following does Verne not use to convey the rising tension and Axel's helplessness in 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth'?
declarative
interrogative
exclamative
Correct answer: imperative
Q4.
Match the sentence with the sentence type.
Correct Answer:declarative,"No words in any human language can depict my utter despair."

"No words in any human language can depict my utter despair."

Correct Answer:interrogative,"...how had I lost the course of the flowing stream?"

"...how had I lost the course of the flowing stream?"

Correct Answer:exclamative,"It was indeed a position to drive the sanest man to madness!"

"It was indeed a position to drive the sanest man to madness!"

Q5.
'The most intense, exciting or important point of something; the culmination' is the definition of which word beginning with 'c'?
Correct Answer: climax, the climax
Q6.
Starting with the first, put the sentence types in the same order Verne has structured his sentence types to show rising tension in 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth'.
1 - declarative
2 - interrogative
3 - exclamative

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