Using the Senses - Lesson 4: Your Experiences - PowerPoint

The 'Using the Senses - Lesson 4: Your Experiences' is a PowerPoint presentation from an English Teaching Resources collection, designed to encourage students to draw upon their personal experiences and describe them using sensory language. The lesson aims to get students to discuss everyday experiences and think of words and phrases that vividly describe their own memories. The primary objective is to engage students in writing about themselves by utilising all five senses: sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste.

Students are prompted to reflect on special memories or places they have visited, such as a family holiday, a school trip, or a sporting event, and imagine being there again. They are guided to remember and note down what they could see, hear, feel, smell, and taste during that experience. An example is provided with a description of a walk along the seafront at Blackpool, detailing the sights, sounds, smells, sensations, and tastes associated with the location. After the example, students are given the task of thinking of their own place and using words and phrases to describe the sensory experiences. The activity concludes with students writing down their descriptions in a table, followed by sharing their words and phrases with the rest of the group, thereby practising their descriptive language skills and public speaking.