Class 5-8 learnt about word power for today's lesson. So, what is word power?
It is actually choosing certain words, and by fitting these words into a normal sentence, you can "modify" the sentence to make it more positively or negatively.
For example, "The magician vanished."
We could change it to "The powerful magician vanished completely" to become a more positive sentence.
Or
We could change it to "The evil-looking sorcerer vanished without a trace." to become a more negative sentence.
As you have seen from the example above, you noticed that I have changed the word magician into sorcerer. The meaning is somewhat the same and when we can change some of the words in a sentence to another word, yet retaining its meaning.,it is also known as synonyms.
Synonyms are different words, but they retain the same meaning. Some examples of synonyms are, 'beautiful', 'gorgeous', which both mean the same thing, "pretty".
Here's a video clip from sesame street, teaching you what synonyms are.
Pupils should be able to use this "word power" to make their composition or an exposition text more interesting from now on. I hope. =|
Mr Xie.
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Mr Xie, can very simple describing words such as 'happy' not like a better word 'elated' make our composition better as in a 'happy boy' rather than a 'a boy'? :o
ReplyDeleteGood question. If you are able to use the word 'elated' to describe the boy, then, by all means use it! What I'm trying to say here is that when writing compositions, some things need to be described in more details.
ReplyDeleteWriting compositions is not just adding adjectives to the noun, there is much more to it.
The example that I taught is just for you to realise the importance of word power.
Hope I answered your question :)