Story time for English students - part two

Last month, Felicity's Upper-intermediate English class studied different kinds of stories. They looked at everything from traditional fairytales to sagas. (Sagas are usually stories from the 12th to 14th Century about the adventures of a hero or a family in northern Europe).

Looking at different stories is a good way to practise grammar and see how different types of language is used - especially adjectives.

Once the students had looked at a variety of stories, it was time to write their own. Felicity gave them a selection of pictures, places, types of transport and famous people to choose from. These would then have to fit into the story.

Here is Sam and Sarah's story:

The Unfortunate Incident

It was three o’clock in the morning when the phone rang. It was Meg Ryan’s manager, who organizes everything for her. He wanted to tell her that she had to leave Paris immediately and fly to London.

Unfortunately, he had forgotten to tell her about the fact that the Oscars would be held there the next day. He had been so busy arranging other events that the Oscars had completely slipped his mind.

She felt extremely angry with him because he hadn’t given her enough notice, so she didn’t have a designer dress. “What am I going to do?” she thought. She decided to see if there were any dresses in the duty-free shops at the airport. Unfortunately by the time she got to the airport the flight was about to leave so she didn’t have enough time to look for a dress. She decided to buy dress from London.

The next flight to London wasn’t until the next day but she had to leave that day, so she called her manager to ask him what she should do. He asked her to take the Eurostar, she rushed to the train station and caught the train by the skin of her teeth.

She felt very uncomfortable while she was on the Eurostar because there were a lot of people who wanted to talk to her and take a picture with her or get her autograph.

When she arrived in London, it was eight o’clock in the morning so she was really tired. The Oscars were in Trafalgar Square and she had to stay in a hotel near there. When she got to the hotel she was so exhausted that she turned off her phone and decided to have a quick nap. She slept like a baby. After all that, she missed the Oscars. She was devastated because she won an award for her latest film.