WRITING : a story
Your SB pg 42 & 43
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1 Do you like reading short stories? Why?
2 Do you prefer fiction or stories about real events? Why?
3 Read the model story and match the information below to the correct paragraph.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwXISLdLuCogeVR0OFRzRE5CRms/view?usp=sharing
3.1 What paragraph presents the sequence of events  to develop the plot?
3.2 What paragraph introduces the story and gives background information?
3.3 What paragraph says what happened at the end and how people felt?
4 Find four things that went wrong for the writer.
5 What changed things?
6 Complete the sentences. Use adjectives from the model story.
6.1 In the beginning, Maxine felt .....
6.2 Then she was ............
6.3 Later she was.....
6.4 In the end, she was......
7 We often use PAST TENSES when we write a story. We use PAST CONTINUOUS for background information, and PAST SIMPLE and PAST PERFECT to talk about events in the story.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwXISLdLuCogeVR0OFRzRE5CRms/view?usp=sharing
7.1 Find an example of PAST CONTINUOUS in paragraph 1.
7.2 Find an example of PAST SIMPLE in paragraph 1.
7.3 Find an example of PAST PERFECT in paragraph 1.
8 You are going to write a short story. Your story must begin with the sentence ' Rob was looking forward to his first day at the new school, but in the beginning, things didn't go as he'd planned'.
Your story must include: AN ALARM CLOCK & A NEW FRIEND
8.1 Who is the story about?
8.2 Where should you use the sentence given?
8.3 What two things must appear in the story?
9 Here you are good and bad things. Choose an adjective from below to describe Rob's feelings in the following situations and write a sentence for each situation.
Adjectives: miserable / shocked / worried / unhappy / upset / angry / disappointed / embarrassed
alarm clock / not ring - UPSET
Rob was upset when his alarm clock didn't ring and he woke up late.
9.1 not have time / for breakfast
9.2 make / new friend during break
9.3 get wet / on the way to school
9.4 bring / wrong book to class
9.5 know / the answer to the teacher's questions
9.6 other students / whisper
9.7 learn / something interesting
9.8 miss / the bus
9.9 walk / with a new friend to the bus
10 What good things could have happened to change things for Rob?
11 How did he feel?
12 Use ideas from exercise 9 and the words given to write five sentences.
PROUD : When the teacher asked him a question and he knew the answer, Rob felt proud.
12.1 THRILLED
12.2 HAPPY
12.3 GLAD
12.4 RELIEVED
12.5 EXCITED
13 Read the task in exercise 8  again and write your story. (+/- 125 words)
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