Descriptive Composition:
You are a regular traveller in your school bus. Describe what you see on your way home
from school each afternoon. Give details of the familiar sights and sounds you
experience each day.
✏️ Composition Guiding Questions:
1. What time does your school bus usually leave the school in the
afternoon?
2. Where do you usually sit in the bus and why?
3. Who are your regular companions on the bus? Do you talk, play, or
stay quiet?
4. What are the first few things you see after the bus leaves the school
gate?
5. Do you pass through any markets, fields, parks, or busy roads?
Describe them.
6. What kinds of people do you see on the roads every day? (e.g.,
vendors, cyclists, children, office-goers)
7. What sounds do you hear while the bus moves? (e.g., traffic,
schoolchildren chatting, vendors shouting)
8. Are there any familiar landmarks you always notice? Describe one or
two.
9. Do you see any animals or birds regularly on your way?
10. How does the journey make you feel? (tired, excited, relaxed?)
Why?
11.Do you enjoy this daily ride? Give reasons.
12. How long does the journey usually take? What do you do during
that time?
13. Do you have any special memories or incidents that happened
during these rides?
14. What is the last thing you see or do before getting off the bus?
List of sensory words and phrases that can be used in the composition :
👀 Sights (What You See)
● Crowded streets
● Children playing in parks
● Fruit vendors with colourful carts
● Green fields with grazing cows
● Buses honking in traffic
● Shiny cars and dusty scooters
● People crossing roads
● Trees swaying in the wind
● Small tea stalls with steaming kettles
● Laundry hanging from balconies
● Street dogs lazing in the sun
● Cyclists weaving through traffic
● Bright signboards and billboards
● Schoolchildren walking with heavy bags
● Shops lined with snacks and cold drinks
👂 Sounds (What You Hear)
● Horns blaring
● Birds chirping
● Children laughing and chatting
● Bells of bicycles ringing
● Vendors shouting their prices
● Dogs barking
● Engines roaring
● Music playing from a tea shop
● Footsteps rushing across the pavement
● Whistles of traffic police
● School bus engine humming
● Leaves rustling in the breeze
● Loudspeakers announcing a sale
👃 Smells (What You Smell)
● Freshly baked bread from a bakery
● Spicy aroma from roadside food stalls
● Fragrance of flowers from a garden
● The smell of petrol and smoke in traffic
● Wet earth after watering plants
● Incense sticks burning at a roadside shrine
● Sweet scent of ripe fruits
● Freshly cut grass near the playground
👅 Tastes (Optional – if food is mentioned)
● Sweet and tangy taste of tamarind candies
● Spicy flavour of roadside chaats
● Creamy cold ice cream on hot days
● Salty taste of chips shared with friends
● Sourness of a lime soda