Exercise 1: Ordering events in a story

 

Write the opening of a short story.   Task: Write a story about a time you got really scared when travelling.   Ideas: Think about the following questions to get you started. Who / why / what / where / when? How are you going to start your story?   Plan: Decide which ideas you are going to use and match them to these paragraphs.  Paragraph 1:Try to write an interesting opening sentence that makes the reader want to know more. You can start with a quote from a character or describe the weather or the location. Paragraph 2: Develop the story, describing the events in the order that they happened. Include background details, using the past continuous and past perfect. Paragraph 3: Bring your story to an end. Say what happened and how you reacted.   Check: Check the following points. Does the story start in an interesting way? Is there a variety of adjectives and adverbs? Is the story divided into logical paragraphs? Does the sequence of events make sense? Have you used a variety of narrative tenses? Have you used enough adjectives and adverbs to bring the story to life? Have you checked spelling, grammar and punctuation?    Write your task in another program (e.g. Word).  Save the file to your computer.  Upload your file.  If you want to add a note to your teacher, write it in the Comments box.  Select Submit to Dropbox to send your work to your teacher.