Your students can discover how descriptive language can create a setting and influence the atmosphere with this fun activity.

An image of a house is provided. Your students need to write two contrasting descriptions of the setting. In one version, it is a cosy house; in the other, it is haunted.

Three differentiated versions of the worksheet are available. The first includes the type of house prompts and a helpful word bank. The second version includes the prompts but not the word bank. The third version does not include the prompts or a word bank. This provides the opportunity for your students to decide on the two types of houses that they would like to describe.