Your English club is running a short story competition.
Choose one of the titles below and
write your story (250 words):
1 A blind date.
2 The wedding.
3 Time goes by.
4 Under my bed
SHORT STORY
REMEMBER- Narrative story needs paragraphing:
THE EVENT: write 2 or 3 paragraphs to describe the WHAT HAPPENED
AFTER THE EVENT: try to solve the conflict in this paragraph and describe feelings of characters after the solution of the conflict.
- Try to keep the chronological order of events. It will help you avoid overlapping of sequencing.
- Short sentences create suspense, which makes your story more interesting. Do not make the plot of your story too complicated.
- You can incorporate short dialogues into your story.
- Use the variety of narrative tenses:
- Past Simple:
- to describe simple facts and states
She opened her eyes, yawned, and slowly got up.
- to describe events that follow each other
She left the building, went to the shop where she realised she did not have enough money and returned home.
- to describe simple facts and states
- Past Continuous:
- to set the scene
The wind was blowing, dark clouds were gathering over his head and he was getting cold.
- (used with Past Simple) to show that the continuity of one action is interrupted by another action
Tom was watching the news when a strange noise came from the basement.
- to set the scene
- Past Perfect/ Continuous:
- 'past in the past'- to indicate that something happened earlier than the action described
She stared at him trying to remember where she had seen that face before.
- to indicate that what happened earlier was a longer activity
She was dirty and sweaty as she had been playing volleyball all day.
- 'past in the past'- to indicate that something happened earlier than the action described
Useful expressions:
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