Direct speech: giraffe
Whiteboard Challenges
Challenge 1
Replace the action “as he wiped away the fingerprints on the camera’s lens” with a suitable alternative.
Challenge 2
Start or end the second sentence by telling the reader what Martyn Colbeck was doing as he said the words, “It reminded me of a chimney falling to the ground.”
Challenge 3
See if you can include some of the descriptive words from the Word Wall to write your own scintillating sentence about Martyn and his crew filming the giraffe fight. Your sentence must include both direct speech and the actions of the speaker.
Whiteboard Challenges
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1) “A fight this ferocious is extremely rare,” whispered the cameraman as he wiped away the fingerprints on the camera’s lens.
2) “It reminded me of a chimney falling to the ground.”
Word Wall
rivals
adversaries
Namib Desert
full-blooded fight
ferocious
rippled flesh
victorious
defeated
exiled
slow-motion
hammer blow