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STUDY AND WRITING SKILLS
8.4
WRITING SKILLS
A NARRATIVE
8
Work in small groups.
1
Tell your partners what you did last weekend.
2
Tell your partners about a frightening experience
you had.
9
a
Prediction
Read this story. How do you think it
will end?
9
b
8.10
Dictation
Listen to the end of the story.
Write down the words you hear. You will hear each
phrase twice, with the punctuation.
9
c
8.11
Listen to the end of the story one final time.
Then turn to Audio script 8.11 on page 158 to check.
9
d
Discuss with a partner.
1
Did you like this story? Why?/Why not?
2
Do you like scary stories in gener
a
l? Why?/Why not?
3
Wh
a
t kind of stories do you like?
10
Match these headings with paragraphs 1–4 of the
story. (This includes the ending on page 134.)
a
later events
b
final events/conclusion
c
background information
d
first events
11
a
Time expressions
Underline all the time
expressions in the text (e.g.
soon
,
later
).
11
b
Choose the best word or phrase to complete
each sentence.
1
I was lying on the sand with my eyes closed.
Soon / After some time / Suddenly
something
jumped on top of me.
2
I had so many sleepless nights that
in the end /
next / then
I went to the doctor.
3
We saw a lake in the distance.
At that moment /
Soon / Suddenly
we were standing next to the water.
4
I phoned her several times last night.
At first / Before
long / Finally
, around 11 p.m., she answered.
12
a
You can use adjectives to make a description
more interesting. Underline all the adjectives in the
text in Exercise 9a, including the ending on page 134.
12
b
Add these adjectives to the sentences below.
(More than one answer is sometimes possible.)
beautiful bright different difficult frightened
1
At night, you could see the lights of the aeroplanes
several kilometres away.
2
Twenty men and women made the journey.
3
The children ran away from the dogs.
4
Last summer, I stayed in a town in the mountains.
13
Write a story about one of these topics:
•
a scary story
•
a strange dream
•
the worst night of your life.
Use the paragraph structure in Exercise 10 and some
of the time expressions you underlined in Exercise 11a.
Make your description interesting by using adjectives.
14
Show your work to another student. Ask them
to check it, and to add three adjectives and/or time
expressions in suitable places.
One day last January, my friends and
I decided to go camping in the desert.
Perhaps I should explain: most of my
country is desert, with only a few wild
goats as residents – and too hot for
camping in the summer.
We drove about 30 kilometres from the
capital, Manama – where we live – to
the Sakhir Desert. There, we set up our
camp. At first, it was difficult to put up
the tents, but we finally managed to do
it. After that, we had a light lunch, and
then relaxed until dinner.
After dinner, we sat outside in the bright
moonlight, and talked about many
different things. In the end, we started
to talk about scary things that had
happened to us. One of my friends was
in the middle of telling us a very scary
story when suddenly we saw something
moving in the distance. We couldn’t see
clearly what it was – but it was coming
slowly towards us! We were really
frightened! ‘What should we do next?’
we thought.
