1. Entry Level English: Creating Narratives Horror Romance Science Fiction Action/Adventure Crime/Detective Castle Laboratory Dark woods The Moon Restaurant Desert Sewers Jungle Big city Housing estate Match the most appropriate setting to the type of story. Explain your choices.

2. On a cliff stood a house. The curtains that hung at the windows were and. The front door was. birds circled overhead making cawing noises as they flew through the sky. Entry Level English: Creating Narratives Click twice on each drop down menu and choose the word that helps best describe the setting for this story. Explain what each word you have chosen adds to the description of the setting. How does it make the place sound?

3. Put the words that describe this beach in the pyramid with the best at the top. Explain your choices. peaceful shining jewel paradise quiet lonely boring full of life warm tropical Entry Level English: Creating Narratives

4. Horror Romance Entry Level English: Creating Narratives Sort the characters into the appropriate type of story.Sort the characters into the appropriate type of story. What would they do? What would happen to them?

5. Action Science Fiction Entry Level English: Creating Narratives Sort the characters into the appropriate type of story. What would they do? What would happen to them?

6. Describing the way a character speaks, acts and moves can show a lot about them. Put two words that mean the same as the one in the first column in the positive and negative columns. Entry Level English: Creating Narratives Positive Negative Eat Walk Run Talk devour stomphunthiss racenibblewhisperstroll

7. His face turned to face hers. He pp towards her. “So, my dear, what brings you to my castle?” he and pulled his ssss cape around him. As she moved to answer, his mouth turned into a. He moped to the chair across from her and at her. he into the chair and spoke. Entry Level English: Creating Narratives Click twice on each drop down menu and choose the word that helps best describe the setting for this story. Explain what each word you have chosen adds to the description of the setting. How does it make the place sound?

8. Entry Level English: Creating Narratives Cinderella Wicked Stepmother Seven Dwarves Little Red Riding Hood Big Bad Wolf Said she was only staying for a week! Did nothing but eat and drink, and took over our house that we’d worked hard for. Good riddance. See, the thing with little pigs and grandmothers is that they taste so good! We’ve all got to eat and it’s what I do; eat things that taste good! Don’t tell me you’ve never enjoyed a burger! It was horrible, walking in and seeing my defenceless granny’s leg sticking out of that evil wolf’s mouth! I’ll hunt down every wolf I see. I told her she couldn’t go to the ball because she is too young to go dancing with boys. Then she ran off without telling anyone where she was going. I was worried sick. I was always being told what to do and bossed around. My stepmother treated me like a slave so I decided to follow my heart. Match the point of view with the correct character. How do different characters see the same events differently?

9. Sort the words below into first person or third person, to show whether a story is written from the point of view of ‘I’ or ‘he/she’. First person – ‘I’ Plural ourtheir mine theymymyself her herself me his himselfhimwethem us ourselves Singular Third person – He/She Entry Level English: Creating Narratives

10. Put these sentences in the order they would happen in a story. “I’m going to get you, boy!” Ravi turned and saw a wrinkled old man cackling. But tonight was different. Throwing himself through the front door, Ravi thought, “Safe at last!” Suddenly, there was a swish in the air above Ravi’s head as something was swung at him. He heard a tip tap noise, like a walking stick, behind him. With his heart pounding, Ravi raced towards his house. It was a cold, dark, winter’s evening and Ravi was late from school. BEGINNING Entry Level English: Creating Narratives END