How can you make your readers see, hear, smell, taste or feel your words? You can use sensory words or five senses to enrich your ideas. Look at the words below.

Suggested answers

Before the festival:
What do people do/eat?
  • Plant trees and flowers
  • Put up spring couplets on the walls and buy some flowers
  • Sight
  • Smell

With sensory words

Before the festival:
What do people do/eat?
  • Plant the (pastel green) trees and (colourful) flowers
  • Put up spring couplets on the walls and buy some (fragrant) flowers
During the festival:
What do people do/eat?
  • Have a reunion dinner with vegetables
  • Visit relatives without gifts
  • Give adults pink packets with written good wishes placed inside
  • Serve sugared food placed in small red packets in candy boxes
  • Taste
  • Sight
  • Touch

With sensory words

During the festival:
What do people do/eat?
  • Have a reunion dinner with (fresh) vegetables
  • Visit relatives without gifts
  • Give adults (heart-shaped) pink packets with written good wishes placed inside
  • Serve sugared food placed in small red packets in (silky) candy boxes

Part D

Read how sensory words help enrich ideas.

Before the festival:
What do people do/eat?
  • Plant trees and flowers
  • Put up spring couplets on the walls and buy some flowers

With sensory words

Before the festival:
What do people do/eat?
  • Plant the (pastel green) trees and (colourful) flowers
  • Put up spring couplets on the walls and buy some (fragrant) flowers
During the festival:
What do people do/eat?
  • Have a reunion dinner with vegetables
  • Visit relatives without gifts
  • Give adults pink packets with written good wishes placed inside
  • Serve sugared food placed in small red packets in candy boxes

With sensory words

During the festival:
What do people do/eat?
  • Have a reunion dinner with (fresh) vegetables
  • Visit relatives without gifts
  • Give adults (heart-shaped) pink packets with written good wishes placed inside
  • Serve sugared food placed in small red packets in (silky) candy boxes