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BORINC	INTERESTING
Generalizing	Being specific
a large \egetable	a three-quarter-pound sw eet potato
an old ship	the Marie C.elcstc i the Titanic
opinions	lacts, obsen ations. cjuotations
A^ro ‘picture’	Descriptiue details
a glass of winę	a long-stemmed glass of aromatic. golden Muscatel
Duli, unobseruant vocabulanj	Precise words
look	gazę, glance, stare, glare, peep
ask	beg, implore, reąuest. demand. imite
Repetition	Variation
car. . . car . . . car . . . car. . .	car . . . Ford . . . \ehicle . . . car . . .
as well... as well ... as well . . .	as well . . . also . . . What is morę,. . .
Being predictable	Surprising the reader
‘There are five reasons \vhv I like . . .'	starting with something striking*
stating the obrious; ‘reeeived‘ opinions	original thinking and obsen ation
‘The fifth reason I like it is. . .’	sa\ing something for the end*
Alicays talking about yourself	Always thinking about lyour readers, and how to interest them
* the openings and elosings of magazine articles	are practised on pages 124-127.

Descriptive ianguage

c Read the following passage. What is wrong with it?

We went down the rough track towards the jungle until we reached the river that went across the road.We parked inthe shade of some rubbertrees and got out. We went across the river, which 5 fortunately was not too deep, and then, as we werein no hurry, wentthrough the rice fields on the other side towards the forest. The path that wentthrough the trees was entirely overgrown, so we went along it with considerable difficulty. It 10 was nearly mid-aftemoon when wefinallywent out of the thick undergrowth and went to the bottom of the mountain. Although we were all by now feeling exhausted, we went up the steep slope and went to the rendezvous point just as the is sun was going down.

D Rewrite the passage, trying to include the following verbs. You may also need to make a number of other smali changes, for example, to prepositions.

arrive clamber cut drive emerge lead reach wadę walk hack one s way