You have decided to enter a story competition about Oktapodi film. Write your story (120-150 words) and give your own ending to the adventure of the two octopuses. Don't forget to give a catchy title for your readers.
Use your mind maps with all the information you want to include and bear in mind the assessment criteria for your writing icluded in the rubric.
Here are some key words to include in your story: true love, acquarium, escape, cold storage box, crazy race, delivery truck, tentacles, clothesline, reunited, seagull.
Remember all those useful tips from the previous lessons:
1. Give specific information about when, where, how, who, what and why.
2. Think of an interesting beginning; it will make the reader want to read on.
3. Use time words (first, next, then, before, as soon as, after that, later, finally) to help the reader follow the order of events in your story.
4. Make good use of tenses. We mainly use past tenses in stories.
5. Describe feelings.
6. Use interesting vocabulary (‘wonderful’ news instead of ‘good’ news, ‘horrible’ accident instead of ‘bad’ accident, etc.)
7. Use dialogue, action and detailed description to make your story sound real and your characters come alive.
8. Pay attention to punctuation. Use exclamation marks (!), ellipses (…), etc.