Exploding a Moment – Form 6 English

This work complimented our topic on Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book”.Girls used a range of costumes, instruments and props to create a jungle scene. They enjoyed acting as animals, drinking from a pool of water, climbing and clawing, snarling and catching their prey. This experience helped girls to generate exciting vocabulary in order to describe a jungle setting. We used the term “exploding a moment” because it encouraged the girls to picture each aspect of the scene using their senses and by noticing small details.

I can hear the delicate wings of tropical birds gracefully fluttering around me! Karina

I glide my finger along moist leaves from the tropical bushes. Ellen

Multi-coloured wings fluttered as cheeky monkeys shrieked. Melanie

Rotting vegetation on the ground below me crept gradually up into the humid air. Eleanor

As I could hear elephants stomping, the waterfall crashed down on the rushing river! Isabel

My delicate fingertips glided swiftly across the emerald-green stream.

Safia

As the vines slowly started to strangle the trees, I listened to the kites’ tuneful birdsong ring out up above in the lush canopy. While my moist fingertips explored the dew-dropped tropical bushes, I felt bucketfuls of sweat trickle down my face, arms and legs. My body was weak and tired, begging me for water. I stumbled clumsily through the jungle, the stink of rotting vegetation on the ground below me creeping up gradually into the air, filling my nostrils; it made me wonder why I came here in the first place. Everything around me was so wild and chaotic; back home, all was calm and orderly. “How will I survive here?” I whispered to myself.

Maryam

The explorer could see eyes staring at him through the thick jungle foliage. Then he stepped into an ancient crumbling temple. The silence was deafening. It was overflowing with gold and silver. The man had a terrible feeling that he was being watched from all angles. Gliding flawlessly through the bright sky, a group of kites circled above in the lush canopy. The brave explorer noticed a large waterfall and stroked his dry fingertips along the mossy rocks where the water tumbled down. He instantly lifted his fingers to his mouth and drank the sweet nectar.

Lily