Descriptive Paragraph
Objective : To describe a person, place or thing in such a way that a picture is
formed in the reader's mind.
To illustrate something in a way that your reader can see, feel, or hear whatever it
is you're talking about. A descriptive essay allows a reader to understand the
essay's subject using illustrative language.
• Descriptive Paragraph is an art of describing a person a place or any event this is
a number of sentences groups together and relating to one topic or a group of
related sentences that develop a single point
• The paragraph should be started with the topic given and moved serially in an
organised way till the end. Towards the end of your writing summarise your
opinion about the topic .
• Word limit as prescribed has to be followed strictly in order to make your writing
perfect in every sense.
• Focus on the topic and highlight the key points in that in a logical order .
• Each paragraph must deal with one topic or idea that is every sentence in the
paragraph must be closely connected with the main topic of the paragraph .
• There should be logical sequence of thought or development of the subject.
Events must be related in the order of their occurrence.
• In order to avoid monotomy the paragraph should not always be of the same
sentence construction
Narrate an incident from your own experience when you expected to do very well,
but for some reason were unable to do so. Explain what happened and why it
happened. What lesson did you learn from it?
Each one of us has some or the other qualities in ourselves which differentiate us
from other people. The vital need is to search it out of our soul and when we have
sought it, excelled in it, and the need of the hour then is to be humble and not be
over-confident. When we excel in a particular field, all have high expectations
from us to perform well. There the humbleness and sincerity of our
mind comes into play.
I too possess a talent and this is how I became aware of it. One day, I went to play
badminton and I was astonished to find that the traditional and basic shots came
naturally to me. I thought that this was an extraordinary trait gifted to me. I started
to pursue my career as a badminton player. I worked hard for two years until I
became the champion at the district level. I had stepped into the professional panel
of this game. I thought that I was the best in the district and this thought convinced
me to decrease the length of my practice sessions and my mind was on the seventh
heaven. I stopped paying attention to senior players or the coach's advice.
Days passed, it was time now for the state level tournament. After winning
districts, I had lost my humble attitude and was full of over-confidence. I thought
that I would conquer the state level forgetting that there were many other district
level players like me. To my utter surprise, I was knocked out in the first round by
a player whom I had defeated at the district level. It was an extremely shocking
and traumatic moment for me.
I had let down my parents and my coach and I felt ashamed to show my face to
them. My coach came searching for me and I feared that he would lash out at me
for losing such an important match, but rather he was calm and affectionate. In a
matter of five minutes, he taught me the greatest lesson of my life- hard work and
humbleness.
He explained he had been noticing my change of attitude which was the cause of
my downfall. He also pointed to my over-confident behaviour and advised that one
should always be rooted to the earth, no matter whatever height of success one
reaches. Moreover one should always be humble and respectful at all times even to
our opponents. From then on, I vowed to follow my guide's advice all my life.
My coach wanted to teach this lesson in a practical way, therefore didn't point my
shortcomings earlier. Though I suffered a big defeat, but it is never too late to pick
up the shreds and weave a bed of roses for yourself.