Please listen to Chapter one of ‘The Iron Man’. I have also attached chapter one of the book below.
Chapter 1 – The Iron Man – THE IRON MAN Ted Hughes c1
Character description – The Iron Man
Below is an extract from Chapter One with a few adjectives to describe the iron man (in bold).
Your task: complete a character description of ‘The Iron Man’.
- First brain storm the character by using the image and key words from the chapter – (USE THE WORD MAT BELOW TO HELP YOU)
- Then put into full sentences – I have given you some sentence openers to help you.
Taller than a house, the Iron Man stood at the top of the cliff, on the very brink, in the darkness.
The wind sang through his iron fingers. His great iron head, shaped like a dustbin but as big as a bedroom, slowly turned to the right, slowly turned to the left. His iron ears turned, this way, that way. He was hearing the sea. His eyes, like headlamps, glowed white, then red, then infra-red, searching the sea. Never before had the Iron Man seen the sea.
CHARACTER DESCRIPTION WORD MAT
SENTENECE OPENERS:
- The iron man is ….
- He is….
- The character has …
- From the text, ….
- The ….. iron man
CHEEKY CHALLENGE: Similes.
