Character Development

• English
• Further Education (Key Stage 5)

Character Development

Paper 1 (Fiction)

Lesson Aims

1. Practise inferring qualities of characters based on images and video.
   
2. Infer qualities of characters from description, verbs and language techniques.
   
3. Write a character description using description, verbs and language techniques.

Lesson Aims

01:19

What do his clothes and shoes tell you about this character?

02:22

How would you describe the way he walks?

03:31

What do his actions tell you about him?

Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

1. Read the extract
2. Choose a character and answer the first question
3. Find one piece of evidence in the text to justify your opinion (it could be just one word!)

Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

‘Then she lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theater curtain.’

What does this simile suggest about this character?
Discuss in pairs and choose one person to add an answer.

‘That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air.’

What does this metaphor suggest?
Discuss in pairs and choose one person to add an answer.

Choose your character!

Choose your character!

1. Write a short description of a 

nervous person.

2. Write a short description of a successful person. 

3. Write a short description of a suspicious person. 

Extension: Write an interaction between a nervous person and a successful person.

Don't use the words nervous, successful or suspicious. Show me how they feel using their appearance and actions!