Monday, August 10th (10/8)

Vocabulary (expressions with name): Student’s book, page 35, activities 9 and 10.
Game: kahoot (unit 3) + quizlet (vocabulary)
Practice: Read the story ‘A small mistake’ and place the words: title, exposition, action, resolution. Identify story elements, plots diagram, narrative tenses, time sequencers, linkers, adjectives and adverbs.

Practice: Read about how to write a past story from a given sentence and complete the online exercises.

Writing practice:

“It was midnight when the phone rang.”
“We had been driving for hours when we saw the sign for a small hotel and decided to stop.”
“It was getting dark and I was completely lost.”
“Tim felt angry as he got off the train.”
“As Victoria entered the room, she couldn’t believe her eyes!”

Plan your story (Characters? Place? Time? Main conflict? Topic? What is it about?)
Remember to use TIME EMPRESSIONS to define the order of the events in your story.
Remember to use CONNECTORS to make your story more fluent.
Remember to use ADJECTIVES (to describe nouns) and ADVERBS (to describe verbs)
Remember to use expressions to create SUSPENSE when getting into the climax!
If you include DIALOGUE, remember to use “…”
Be careful with the use of NARRATIVE TENSES!
Remember to divide your story into paragraphs!

Have you included a title?
Have you started your story with the sentence given in the instructions?
Have you got a WHO? WHAT? WHERE? WHEN? And HOW?
Has your story got a conflict? And a resolution?
Have you used time expressions, e.g. before, during, after, when, while, until, first, then, next, immediately, as soon as, finally, in the end, etc?
Have you used a variety of narrative tenses: past simple for events, past continuous to describe the background, and past perfect simple or continuous for things that happened before something else?
Have you used adjectives and adverbs to describe the scene, people, etc?
Have you divided your story into paragraphs?
Have you included dialogue?
Have you written 100-120 words?