Exploring Grandma's Features in "George's Marvellous Medicine
Delve into the detailed descriptions of Grandma from "George's Marvellous Medicine." Explore her features such as teeth, eyes, mouth, personality, skin, and nose through expanded noun phrases. Get ready to create vivid sentences describing Grandma using the unique characteristics identified.
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Georges Marvellous Medicine
Grandma Last week we looked closely at Grandma in Chapter 1. Today we are going to continue to think about Grandma. We are going to use all of the work we did last week to write a description of Grandma. Before we begin I d like you to listen once more to Chapter 1 of George s Marvellous Medicine. (Listen to Chapter 1 now)
Grandma Can you remember some of the features of Grandma that we thought about? mouth skin eyes personality nose teeth
Grandma We created some expanded noun phrases Teeth pale, brown teeth rotten, wonky teeth rotten, horrible, brown teeth pale, brown, rotten teeth moldy, crooked, brown teeth bent, rotten teeth
Grandma We created some expanded noun phrases Eyes bright, wicked, little eyes wide, unblinking eyes wide, glaring, googly eyes wicked, staring, small eyes bright, glaring, googly eyes
Grandma We created some expanded noun phrases Mouth / Smile puckered up mouth like a dogs bottom thin, wrinkled, old mouth thin, icy, long smile sly, wicked, icy smile
Grandma We created some expanded noun phrases Personality a miserable old grouch a mean, wicked, evil grandma a horrible, moaning, mean lady a bossy, complaining, old lady
Grandma We created some expanded noun phrases skin soft, thin, wrinkled skin pink, thin, old skin, pink like a beautiful rose pale pink, wrinkled, thin skin, wrinkled like a tomato. Old, tired, wrinkled skin, wrinkled like an rotten apple
Grandma We created some expanded noun phrases nose long, pointy crooked nose pointy, bent nose, bent like a boomerang a long, curved nose, curved like a ball
Grandma See if you can remember some of your expanded noun phrases from last week. Pause the presentation and tell your grown up. Now we will use some of these expanded noun phrases to write a description of Grandma in full sentences.
Grandma Now we will use some of these expanded noun phrases to write a description of Grandma in full sentences. I will show you a couple of examples .
Grandma Carefully read this first example. What do you think? Grandma is a miserable old grouch who is always moaning. She has pale brown teeth and large, wicked eyes. Her pale pink lips are puckered like a dogs bottom! She spends all day long sitting in her armchair gazing out of the window.
Grandma Listen carefully to this example. What do you think? Grandma is a very old, miserable grouch who NEVER stops moaning and complaining. She really is disgusting! Her small mouth is filled with sharp, pale brown teeth, sharp like needles. She has large, wicked, eyes that stare and glare angrily across the room, searching for poor George. Her thin, pale pink lips are wrinkled, puckered and creased like a dogs bottom! Her long, pale pink nose is very large and bends like a boomerang! She really is a horrible, vile old lady who loves to eat slimy slugs, creepy caterpillars and wiggly worms. Grandma spends all day long sitting in her comfortable armchair gazing out of the window thinking evil thoughts and plotting her next tricks to play on George.
Your Task Use your expanded noun phrases and all the details you know about Grandma to write a detailed description. Try to include as many details, expanded noun phrases and features as you can. I look forward to reading your descriptions later today!
