Проба пера или сочиним рассказ

Сычева Марина Васильевна

МАОУ СШ №1 г.Михайловска Свердловской области,

учитель английского языка

Тема : «Проба пера »

2022г

Тип работы: материал к уроку или внеурочной деятельности для 8-11 классов

Цель: обучить написанию рассказа

Задачи:

1.активизировать лексику

2.формировать умения и навыки письменной речи

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Learn to write a story

PLAN:

• Introduction:

Set the scene: (who –– when - where – what)

• Main Body: (2-3 paragraphs)

Describe how the story started and developed (what happened?)

• Conclusion:

Describe what happened at the end of the story (refer to moods, consequences, people`s reactions, feelings, comments)

TECHNIQUES:

Beginning You can start a story

• By describing weather, surroundings, people, etc. involving your senses (sight, hearing, smell touch, taste);

• By using Direct Speech;

• With a question;

• With a dramatic sentence creating mystery or suspense;

• By referring to your feelings or mood.

Ending You can finish a story by:

• Using Direct Speech;

• Referring to people`s feelings/moods;

• Describing people`s reactions to the event developed in the main body

• Creating mystery or suspense ( unexpected ending)

ANALYSIS

GRAMMAR:

Make sure you use the appropriate tenses. The most useful tenses when writing a story are:

• The Past Simple, to describe completed actions that took place one after the other in the past ( e.g. He got up, opened the door and left.)

• The Past Continuous, to describe the background scenes to the story or a lengthy action that was in progress when a shorter or sudden one interrupted it. (e.g. It was raining heavily./ They were walking in the woods when they heard a noise.)

• The Past Perfect (Past Perfect Continuous) , to describe a past event that was completed before another past event or situation. ( e.g. Suddenly, they heard a loud noise. The door had slammed shut.)

LINKING WORDS/PHRASES

Use linking words/ phrases to join your ideas and make your story flow.

Useful language!

Create the atmosphere you want and make your story interesting by using some of the following expressions/phrases:

End your story in such a way that the reader will be impressed.

Activity Complete the blanks using the linking words/phrases in the box and the appropriate tense of the verbs.

Text

It was a hot Friday evening. Diana _______________________ (just/finish) work and she _______________(walk) to her car, which was parked in front of the old opera house.

________(1)she _______________(unlock) the car door, to her surprise, she ________(see) bright lights coming from the windows of the opera house. _______(2)she ________(hear) clapping and cheering. She _________(think) that was strange because the opera house __________________(close) for years. Perhaps the owners had opened it again.

_______(3) the weekend she kept thinking about the opera house.

__________________(4), before she _______(go) to work on Monday morning, she __________(decide) to take a look inside the opera house through a window. She _____________(shock). The building was empty! Here was nothing in there – just rubbish everywhere.

__________(5), at work, she was reading a section of the newspaper titled “One Hundred Years Ago”. She couldn`t believe her eyes! The story was about the same opera house. Exactly one hundred years __________(6), a fire _________(break) out on the opening night and ____________(kill) nearly everyone.

Diana ________(put) down the newspaper. She couldn`t explain what she __________(see) and ______(hear), but she _________ (decide) never to go near that place again.