Writing a story:


Topic: a story from your childhood, with your friend, with class to teacher, naschvály

Second option: the starting sentence: It was nearly midnight when the doorbell rang


 1. setting a scene:

describe the situation, the weather, conditions, age, feelings, what you were doing

 use: past tenses, past continuous
 2. write about how the person got into the complicated situation

start with suddenly, one day, etc.

use direct speech with correct punctuation

use past perfect
 3. talk about what happened next, give details of what the person did, his reaction (events have
to follow one after the other)

use mainly past simple
 4. Ending – evaluation of the event, what have you learnt?, what was the result of that, what were
the reactions



Use conjunctions – although, some time later, two hours later