Transcript Year 9 Common Homework Resource 3 - School

Short Writing Task
COOKING UP TROUBLE
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Imagine that a well-known
person has just opened a new
food technology room in your
school.
You had to look after the
visitor while other Year 9
pupils demonstrated their
cooking skills.
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The Head of Your House sends you a
note:
You did a good job looking after the visitor –
particularly when the pizzas were burnt …
We need an entertaining article about the visit
for the school Website. I’m sure parents
will enjoy reading about it.
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Write an article about the visit, for
parents to read.
20 marks including 4 marks for spelling
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Check List
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Purpose
Audience
Structure
Sentences
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Shopping List
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Heading – title - pun
First/third person
Paragraphs Variety of sentences
Humour
Simile metaphor onomatopoeia adverbs
adjectives
Puntuation ,.;!
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RECIPE FOR DISASTER
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Take one celebrity chef. Mix with twenty Year
9 blanched students. Add a pinch of nerves.
Leave for twenty minutes. Serve with humour.
Yesterday I had the dubious honour of being
Nigella Lawson’s P.A. (I had made an excellent
sandwich last week in cookery). This meant
that I was at her side as she opened the new
state of the art cookery room in the
Technology block.
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Miss Lawson was warm and friendly taking
time to talk to all the students at great
length, which was unfortunate as one of the
students failed to notice that her pizza was
turning into a blackened frisbee!
However, that was nothing to what followed
as another student, with a flourish of his
hand like a magician conjuring a rabbit;
tipped out his pineapple upsidedown cake to
reveal a dish more Cordon bleagh than bleu.
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Happily there were some successes and
Miss Lawson was impressed. “We all
make mistakes and the measure of a
good cook is if that person learns from
them.”
Enthusing about the facilities, Miss
Lawson was keen to try her hand and
skilfully created fresh pasta using the
electric pasta maker.
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She also stressed the importance
of learning to cook as we would all
have to look after ourselves and
need to know how to make a
healthy, appetising and nutritious
meal.
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Furthermore, she said that cooking
was creative and fun and we
should not lose sight of those two
points. From the laughter we
shared on the day I think Ashfried
School – oops Ashfield School will
certainly never forget her visit.
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Go back and find the metaphor
Pun
Simile
Verb sentence start
Adverb sentence
Connective sentence start
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