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NARRATIVE ESSAY
Institut Torre Roja
Created on March 20, 2024
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Narrative essay
In a narrative you describe a past event or tell a stroy.
Example: Write about an exciting experience that you've had.
GET IDEAS
- Think of an event or story to write about (true or not).
- Make notes to answer these questions:
- What happened?
- Where did it happen?
- How did people feel?
- When did it happen?
- Who did it happen to?
- What happened afterwards?
Example: Write about an exciting experience that you've had.
PLAN
- Put your ideas in order.
- Organize the ideas into paragraphs:
- PARAGRAPH 1: introduction to the story.
- PARAGRAPH 2-3: main events (before/during/after)
- FINAL PARAGRAPH: how the experience affected you
Example: Write about an exciting experience that you've had.
WRITE
useful language
Adverbs to comment on events
Describing feelings
- Amazingly...
- Luckily...
- Sadly...
- Incredinly...
- Fortunately...
- Unfortunately...
- I was / felt (terrified, delighted...)
- It was a terrible shock/wonderful surprise.
- I've never been/felt so... before/in my whole life.
- ...was so (adjective) that...
Time expressions
Other narrative sequencers
- I (past simple) while/when/as I (past continuous)
- for/since/just/ever/never/already/yet (with past perfect or present perfect)
- Lat year/yesterday/a few days ago (with past simple)
- Before I (past simple), I (past perfect)
- Afet/because/by the time/when I (past perfect), I (past simple)
- Suddenly.../just then.../at the moment...
- At first/First/In the beginning/First of all...
- Next.../then.../after that.../later...
- Eventually.../finally.../in the end...
Reflectinc on events
- It was the (adjective) day of my life!
- It was a day/time I'll never forget.
- I'll remember this day/time forever.