Describing My New Computer – Planning and First Draft
1 🎯 The Plan
Franco needs to produce a fluent, descriptive passage on his new computer. This is what he should think about:
– Emotional tone: enthusiasm and satisfaction with the purchase
– Key features to highlight: performance, design, and user experience
– Structure: move from physical description to performance features
– Personal impact: how it improves daily tasks and productivity
Key Terms
- enthusiasm
- strong excitement about something
- features
- special characteristics or qualities of something
- user experience
- how easy and pleasant something is to use
2 ✨ Grouped Descriptive Language
Appearance, Size and Shape:
– sleek [a sleek silver casing]
– compact [a compact design that fits perfectly]
– space-saving [a space-saving monitor stand]
– well-designed [a well-designed keyboard layout]
Technical Features:
– high-performance [a high-performance graphics card]
– state-of-the-art [state-of-the-art technology]
– energy-efficient [an energy-efficient processor]
– cutting-edge [cutting-edge features]
User Experience:
– user-friendly [a user-friendly interface]
– responsive [a responsive touchpad]
– reliable [a reliable system]
– powerful [powerful processing capabilities]
Key Terms
- sleek
- smooth, elegant and modern in design
- compact
- small and space-efficient
- space-saving
- designed to use minimal space
- well-designed
- thoughtfully created for good function
- high-performance
- working very effectively and quickly
- state-of-the-art
- using the latest and most advanced technology
- energy-efficient
- using power wisely without waste
- cutting-edge
- the most advanced and newest available
- user-friendly
- easy to use and understand
- responsive
- reacting quickly to commands
- reliable
- working well and consistently
- powerful
- having great capability and strength
3 🔗 Relative Clauses to Include
– ‘which fits perfectly on my desk’ – describes the compact size
– ‘that makes multitasking effortless’ – highlights processing power
– ‘which impressed me from day one’ – expresses personal satisfaction
– ‘whose design catches everyone’s attention’ – describes aesthetic appeal
Key Terms
- multitasking
- doing several tasks at the same time
- aesthetic
- related to beauty or appearance
4 📝 Rough Draft
I got a new computer last week and its really amazing. The computer which I bought from the electronics store has 16GB RAM and a really good processor that makes it super fast. The screen is nice and big and the keyboard feels good when I type. It has windows 11 which is the newest operating system and lots of storage space for my files and stuff. The design is modern and nice looking and it doesn’t make much noise when its running. I really like how quick it starts up and how I can do lots of things at the same time without it getting slow. The price was quite expensive but I think it was worth it because its so good.
Key Terms
- processor
- the main chip that controls computer operations
- operating system
- the main software that runs a computer