Fronted adverbials: marshmallow frog

Writing Ideas

• Writing for Hot Homes estate agents, create an advert that will help a marshmallow frog sell his desert home.
• The marshmallow frog spends all day buried under the sand to stay out of the heat and only comes out at night. Imagine that you are a marshmallow frog. You have to reach your destination in time and be back home, in the sand, before sunrise. Write a short diary entry describing what it’s like when you are trying to do this.
• Imagine that you were the first person to discover a marshmallow frog in the Namib Desert. You spend some time observing this creature before naming it. Write about what you observed, what it eats, where it lives and why you chose the name ‘marshmallow frog’.