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Stories: Useful Phrases (Writing Stories)

The document provides guidance for writing stories, including: 1) Plan your story and revise it to correct mistakes, organizing ideas into paragraphs. Do not change any given words. 2) Read given words carefully and choose whether to start or finish with them depending on context. 3) Use past continuous for background information, past perfect before main events, and simple past for main events. 4) Include direct speech and a variety of grammar and vocabulary while maintaining a formal tone. It suggests useful time phrases, phrases for dramatic effect, and ways to conclude stories. Feedback was provided requesting more details on endings, narrative tenses, and including a sample story.

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Stories: Useful Phrases (Writing Stories)

The document provides guidance for writing stories, including: 1) Plan your story and revise it to correct mistakes, organizing ideas into paragraphs. Do not change any given words. 2) Read given words carefully and choose whether to start or finish with them depending on context. 3) Use past continuous for background information, past perfect before main events, and simple past for main events. 4) Include direct speech and a variety of grammar and vocabulary while maintaining a formal tone. It suggests useful time phrases, phrases for dramatic effect, and ways to conclude stories. Feedback was provided requesting more details on endings, narrative tenses, and including a sample story.

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STORIES

PLAN your story.


REVISE your story to correct mistakes.
Organize your ideas and use different paragraphs.
Don't change the words you are given at all.
Read the words you are given carefully. Sometimes you can choose whether to start or finish with the
words. At other times you have no choice.
Use past continuous for background information. For example It was raining heavily as we left the
house.
Use past perfect before the main events of the story. but Anne had kindly lent me her umbrella.
Use simple past for the main events. There wasn't a single person on the street.
Try to include some direct speech (Dialogues)
You can use contraction (haven't, couldn't etc). But a story should not be as informal as an email to a friend,
for example.
Use a very good range of grammar (ie a variety of different grammatical constructions)
Use a very good range of vocabulary (including some phrasal verbs and idiomatic expressions)

Useful phrases (Writing stories)


Time phrases:
It all began
Later that day
A little later
Finally
In the end
Eventually
Phrases for dramatic effect:
Suddenly
All of a sudden
Without warning
Out of the blue
Just at that moment
Quite unexpectedly
Direct speech:
.., said // shouted // screamed // whispered // announced // thought // cried // promised Fred
Concluding stories:
When it was all over
Looking back now
In the end
After all that had happened

I think you should provide more information, its quite vague.


For example, what about the end of the story? What kind of ending should be more attractive for a reader?
Explain narrative tenses carefully too. Each tense has a purpose when writing, you may use them
depending on what you want to express.
A sample would be useful. And, similarities with another piece of writing????

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