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How to tell a story in English

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This lesson will help you: - Learn the best ways to start a story in English. - Understand how to set a goal for your English story. - Add tension and make your story more interesting. - Learn useful ways to end your story in English.  - Put everything together so you can tell a great story in English. 1-As you watch the video, write your own story on a Google Doc, and paste the link in the comment section: 2- Read the following guide on how to write a short story, and then write a similar guide for YOUR story. 3- Complete this diagram using information from YOUR OWN story.
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Short Stories

 Let`s read what N.A. Turner tells us about this on her blog: What is a Short Story? Seems like a logical question, right? But I think we should first form a solid foundation. To get us on the same page and use the same definitions throughout this series. First off, what is a story? What are the first things that come to mind for you? I think of  conflict , characters put into a situation where something changes and in which they need to grow, it should be interesting and invoke emotion with a reader. A story consists of stages, plot, settings and an interesting mix of characters. Most of all, a story and its characters must be interesting in my opinion. According to the dictionary, a story is  “an account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment”  or  “an account of past events in someone’s life or in the development of something” . Now, that that’s settled, what makes a short story? Again, seems a bit of a dull question, right? But there a...
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How to write an Article

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  Five Things You Need to Know about Writing Articles Read the complete article here. Feature Article Rubric  Click HERE to access the rubric Text Features: Reading that Makes Sense Text features   are the elements of books, newspapers, and magazines that enhance a reader's experience by pointing out important information and making the text simpler to understand : table of contents, index, glossary, titles, headings/subheadings, text (bold, color, italics), bullets, asterisks, pictures, illustrations, captions, side bars, diagrams, maps, tables, and time lines. As adult readers, we know the importance of using text features in order to help us understand the main body of text.    Headings help us to make predictions while reading, and then easily find information after reading.    Captions explicitly tell us what we are looking at in a photograph or picture that aligns to the text.    An index helps us to find the exact page that contains in...
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