The Best of Team GB at Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games’
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Writing: Term 6 Week 6 – Getting Physical Animation: ‘The Best of Team GB at Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games’ Key learning point: Figurative language There are many types of figurative language however, in KS2, there are 5 that we often use and discuss: Simile: to compare a person or object with something else using ‘like’ or ‘as’. For example: ‘The snow glistened in the sun like a thousand diamonds.’ Metaphor: to say something is/was something else. For example: ‘The snow was a billowing, white ocean.’ (It isn’t really an ocean). Personification: to give an object a quality that we would usually associate with a person or animal. For example: ‘The bone-crushing cold sank its teeth into his bones.’ Alliteration: two or more words in a sentence that start with the same letter for effect. For example: ‘The white, whirling wall of snowflakes surrounded them.’ Onomatopoeia: a word that is written as it sounds. For example: ‘When the thick snow slid from a branch, it fell with a muted thump to the ground.’ They are often seen in descriptions and poems and help to give the reader a clearer image of the setting or character. Writing: To write a biography Description: 1) Find an Olympic competitor, who competed at the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014, to research. See some ideas below. Lizzy Yarnold (Skeleton), David Murdoch, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow, Tom Brewster (Curling team), Jenny Jones (Snowboarding), Eve Muirhead, Anna Sloan, Vicki Adams, Claire Hamilton, Lauren Gray (Curling team), John Jackson, Bruce Tasker, Stuart Benson, Joel Fearon (Bobsleigh team) 2) Using a safe search engine, such as Swiggle, research all about the different parts of the athlete’s life from their childhood to their Olympic career. Tip: it is a good idea to use at least 3 different websites to check facts as some websites are not very reliable. 3) Collect all the information you have gathered and fact checked. 4) In your own words, write out the information using headings and sub- headings. Tip: remember that biographies are mainly about facts so too much figurative language would not be appropriate however, you can add in a few to make it a more exciting read (see the blue words and phrases in the model below to get an idea). 5) Add in some pictures. Here is an example: The Biography of Jenny Jones Jenny Jones (born 3 July 1980) is a British professional snowboarder who became the first Briton to win an Olympic medal in a snow event after winning bronze in slopestyle at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Early life Jenny Jones was born in Downend, Bristol. She attended The Ridings High School, a large secondary school located in the village of Winterbourne in South Gloucestershire. Having smashed competitive athletics (400m, long jump, cross country) and gymnastics at school, she learnt to ski on the dry ski slope in Churchill, Somerset, after they offered free skiing lessons at the age of 17. Career After leaving college, Jenny spent a season working as a chalet maid in Tignes, France, beginning a cycle of snowboarding in the winter and surfing in the summer in Devon and Cornwall, which she funded via part-time jobs including the desperately dull inspection of cardboard in a factory and teaching fencing to children. Jenny won the ‘X Games’ USA Gold in 2009 and 2010, and the ‘X Games’ Europe Gold in 2010. In August 2013, Jones scored her first podium finish in a round of the ‘FIS Snowboard World Cup’, winning a silver in slopestyle in New Zealand. On 9 February 2014, with superb skill and a mask of determination, she finished third and won a bronze medal in the women's slopestyle event at the 2014 ‘Winter Olympics' in Sochi. Post-Olympic life Jenny now presents ‘Jenny Jones' Extreme’, a monthly radio series for BBC Radio 5 Live showcasing extreme sports. As well as coaching for the second series of Channel 4's celebrity winter sports competition, ‘The Jump.’ A truly inspirational lady. .