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An Article Reviewing An Event

The document provides guidance on writing a review of an event by including certain elements: [1] An engaging title, [2] An introduction that interests readers with questions or facts, [3] A descriptive account using various adjectives and modifiers to convey what was seen, heard, smelled, and tasted, [4] Personal opinions and suggestions, and [5] A recommendation for readers. It then shares a winning festival review article as an example that utilizes these elements well through its title, introduction drawing readers in, detailed descriptions of the music, food and atmosphere through the senses, personal views, and final encouragement for others to attend next year.

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An Article Reviewing An Event

The document provides guidance on writing a review of an event by including certain elements: [1] An engaging title, [2] An introduction that interests readers with questions or facts, [3] A descriptive account using various adjectives and modifiers to convey what was seen, heard, smelled, and tasted, [4] Personal opinions and suggestions, and [5] A recommendation for readers. It then shares a winning festival review article as an example that utilizes these elements well through its title, introduction drawing readers in, detailed descriptions of the music, food and atmosphere through the senses, personal views, and final encouragement for others to attend next year.

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An article reviewing an event

 Begin with an interesting, funny or unusual title to attract the reader's attention.
 Hold the reader's attention with an introduction which asks a question or gives interesting facts.
 Describe the event using a variety of adjectives and modifiers.
 Make your descriptions interesting by describing what you saw, heard, smelled and tasted.
 Include personal opinions and suggestions.
 Finish with a recommendation for the reader
 

1      an introduction which holds the reader's attention ✔


3 language which describes what the writer saw, heard, smelled and tasted ✔
4 a variety of adjectives and modifiers ✔
5 personal opinions ✔
6 suggestions and recommendations ✔

Read the winning article and decide which is the most interesting and appropriate title.
1     Brilliant bands + fabulous food = unforgettable experience

2     Queuing, not singing, in the rain!

3     Smells, Smiles, and Sounds at Sunny Silverfest

4     What I did and didn't enjoy about Silverfest

5     What a load of rubbish!

Winner of this year's festival review competition 

My friends and I, and the other lucky festivalgoers at this year's Silverfest festival, drank 25,000 bottles of water,
created nearly two tonnes of rubbish and raised £20,000 for charity. We did this while listening to some of the
most talented bands around and enjoying delicious food from all over the world. What an amazing experience!

We arrived early, but as we queued to get in, we could already hear the music and smell the food. The sun was
shining on the colourful tents and a DJ had already begun to entertain the crowd. This year, the music was
excellent; from the beats of The Chemical Brothers to the punk rock of Vampire Weekend. I'll never forget the
sight and sound of 10,000 happy people with their arms in the air.

As all festivalgoers know, dancing makes you extremely hungry, especially when the air is filled with the fabulous
smells of Thai, Indian, Mexican and many other world cuisines. To be honest, I was expecting terrible festival
food, but I was wrong – it was absolutely delicious.

The only thing I'd suggest changing next year is the number of rubbish bins. There should be twice as many – by
the end of the day there was litter everywhere.

If you are looking for a really friendly festival with fantastic bands and tasty food (and if you don't mind a bit of
rubbish!), then try Silverfest next year. You won't be disappointed.

Copy the table in the LANGUAGE FOCUS and complete it with some of the adjectives you found in the article.

LANGUAGE FOCUS Modifiers with base and extreme adjectives


You use different adverbs to modify base or extreme adjectives. Base adjectives are gradable e.g. very bad is
worse than quite bad. Extreme adjectives are non-gradable e.g. impossible means impossible – you can't be 'more'
impossible or 'less' impossible.

BASE ADJECTIVES EXTREME ADJECTIVES

1 bad terrible

2 difficult impossible

3 __________ devastated

4 funny hilarious

5 good __________ , __________, __________ , __________

6 __________ ecstatic

7 __________ starving

8 interesting fascinating

9 __________ brilliant

10 __________ delicious

Base adjectives Modifiers: extreme Modifiers:

very, rather, really, quite, extremely completely, absolutely, definitely, totally,


utterly

Note: really can also be used

Which phrases in the LANGUAGE FOCUS would you replace with the underlined phrases to make the
descriptions more interesting?

1 This year's Charity Fun Day was very good / absolutely fantastic and we raised lots of money.

2 The birds were singing and the weather was really good / .

3 There were some extremely bad / singers in the competition – that was the best bit!

4 The exhibition of old photographs was rather interesting / .

5 I'd recommend the rather tasty / homemade ice cream.

6 If you're looking for a very good / day out, come to next year's Charity Fun Day.

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