A.

THINK ABOUT A CATCHY TITLE ,

i.e. A time when I was in a dangerous/exciting/
frightening situation.
B. Plan FOUR BIG BASIC ideas very carefully:
-clear beginning
-who is in the story?
-what happens in the middle?
-how it ends: suitable ending
C. CHECK SPELLING, PUNCTUATION

INTRODUCTION : Have I ever told you about a

CATCHY time in which a dog nearly attacked me?
BEGINNING: 1. THE BACKGROUND : I was playing in the street
question with some friends, it was the end of a lovely warm
spring evening and it was getting dark. We were
having fun as we were playing hide and seek.
ADJECTIVES 2. THE PROBLEM Suddenly, there came this wicked
ferocious dog running at full speed towards us. In
DIRECT fact, I know you should never run when an angry
LINKERS
SPEECH animal intends to attack you, but, … we all ran as
fast as we could. Fortunately, my friends managed
to climb up a tree, but I… LINKERS
ADJECTIVES
3. HOW YOU FELT was absolutely terrified, my
life was in danger, I didn’t know what to do. I was
young and was alone too, there was no escape,
I’ve never been more scared... ADJECTIVES
TENSE 4. THE ENDING When the horrible dog was about to
COMBINATION: bite me, we heard the loud sound of his owner’s
simple past-
whistle, and the dog, carelessly, turned round ignoring
past continuous-past
perfect me and went away as fast as if he had seen a ghost!

evarm
 Now, you can write the following story,
keeping the rules we’ve seen above.

______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________

evarm