Descriptions

The person stranger woman man girl boy teacher adult visitor guest passenger driver father mother brother sister daughter son had light dark swarthy pale wrinkled weathered weather-beaten leathery smooth hairy rough pock-marked lined soft peach-soft well-scrubbed skin and long short cropped untidy greasy bleached uncombed neat beautiful silken golden black brown blond straw-coloured mousy dishevelled shoulder-length tangled red ginger plaited dirty unkempt hair. He She was dressed in a flowing long short patterned gypsy scruffy clean dirty patched torn well-laundered   robe pair of trousers pair of pants pair of shorts skirt dress pair of jeans and a pink ragged soiled new checked thick woollen silk striped flowery ripped .

The building house cottage barn farmhouse bungalow hall hotel station was old new cold warm isolated tumbledown well-kept tidy and empty spacious crumbling inviting cramped neglected dilapidated clean .     

Streets
You probably have you characters walking along streets. Do you describe the streets?
A street can be quiet deserted bustling busy noisy cobbled wide narrow charming uninviting litter-strewn dilapidated run-down seedy squalid .     

Forests
If you have never included a forest in one of your stories you are very unusual. The way that you describe a forest is very important to your readers. Here are four different descriptions of the same forest:

Choose a forest description: wet forest cold forest warm forest creepy forest

Now it's your turn. Can you write a description of a really terrifying forest?

verb: talked ran slept thought jumped swam began ate walked entered stared glared pushed adverb: carefully slowly hesitantly quickly crazily soundly excitedly rapidly angrily hungrily gently      

Finally, see if you can match the following actions with their descriptions:

The lion sped roared billowed struck flashed slammed so loudly that that sparks flew in every direction. the windows shook in their frames. and hid the sky. all we saw was a blur. the room was lit up for a brief moment. we jumped out of our skins.

As the lightning sped roared billowed struck flashed slammed that sparks flew in every direction. the windows shook in their frames. and hid the sky. that all we saw was a blur. the room was lit up for a brief moment. we jumped out of our skins.

The car sped roared billowed struck flashed slammed through the tunnel so fast that sparks flew in every direction. the windows shook in their frames. and hid the sky. that all we saw was a blur. the room was lit up for a brief moment. we jumped out of our skins.

The warrior's sword sped roared billowed struck flashed slammed the rock with such force that sparks flew in every direction. the windows shook in their frames. and hid the sky. that all we saw was a blur. the room was lit up for a brief moment. we jumped out of our skins.

When the door sped roared billowed struck flashed slammed that sparks flew in every direction. the windows shook in their frames. and hid the sky. that all we saw was a blur. the room was lit up for a brief moment. we jumped out of our skins.

The smoke sped roared billowed struck flashed slammed upwards that sparks flew in every direction. the windows shook in their frames. and hid the sky. that all we saw was a blur. the room was lit up for a brief moment. we jumped out of our skins.