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Organising a story
• Most stories have a beginning, middle and end.
• The beginning of a story introduces and describes the people,
place and time of a story.
• The middle section of a story usually describes the action or the
things that happen to the people or in the place in a story.
• The middle section of a story can have several paragraphs so
the writer can describe more action. This is where the writer
sometimes includes something surprising or unexpected.
• The end of a story explains the action or events in a story or it
can leave the reader with a question or mystery.

Use the words to complete the sentences.
Suddenly... / In the end... / Meanwhile... / Once upon a time... / At first... / It all started.
1 there was a beautiful princess named Louise,
2 a few years ago, on the first day of Summer.
3 , she thought she was still asleep.
4 , there was a bang!
5 ., the others were still looking for a way out.
6 nobody won the prize.

В Read the writing task below and answer the
questions about it in your notebooks.

Your English teacher has asked you to write a
story. Your story must have this title:
A true mystery (100 words)

1 Has the teacher given the first line of the story?
2 What does your story need to be about?

С Read the paragraphs of the example
story and put them in the correct order.
Molly looked at the cat and Molly was walking home
1 read the name on its collar. from school one day. It was
2 Yes, it was Toby! The cat a bright sunny day and
that belonged to her when Molly, a tall clever girl from
3 she was six years old. Her Manchester, was relaxed
4 old phone number was on and she was thinking about
the collar. the weekend.
Read the example story again
and write T (True) or F (False).

The girl ... Suddenly, Molly started to Before Molly turned into
run. She was scared. Toby her street, a cat suddenly^
1 is scared of cats.
can't be here! No, because appeared in front of her. It|
hasn't written about a mystery. [
Toby is dead. He died 10 was a beautiful black cat.
knew that Toby was dead. years ago.
Toby was ten when he died.

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