A Look at the advertisement below, If you write this short story, how do you link the three words together? WRITING A short story competition

ADVERTISEMENT Great Short Story Competition! Are you under fourteen years old? Do you want to win a free trip to Disneyland? You only need to write a short story containing these three words:

dinosaur Disneyland cartoon Write your story now and post it to PO Box before 30 April. The first prize is a free trip to Disneyland!

B On the next page is one of the stories in the competition. Look at the pictures and complete the sentences of each picture, using the words in brackets to help you.

Dudley went to Disneyland Picture 1: One day, Sammy (1) went for a walk (go, a walk) in the hills. Picture 2: In a cave, he _____________ (find, stone). It was _________ _________(shape, of, egg). Picture 3: He ___________ (take, it, home), and (5) _____________ _____(put, it, by, his window). found a stone of an egg in the shape took it home window put it by his

One morning, Sammy ________________ __________ (hear, noise, from, stone) and ___________________ (hole, appear, in, it). A small animal ________________ _________ (climb out, and, look at) Sammy. It _____________ (be, dinosaur). Sammy ______________________ (give, it, name, 'Dudley'). the stone heard a noise from a hole appeared in it looked at climbed out and was a dinosaur gave it the name ‘Dudley’

Picture 4: Dudley __________________ (be, always, hungry). He ate and ate and grew and grew. Soon he _____________ (become, bigger) than Sammy. Picture 5: A man ____________________ _______ (from, Disneyland, read about) Sammy and Dudley in the newspaper. was always hungry became bigger about from Disneyland read

Picture 6: He phoned Sammy and said, 'Hello, Sammy. I am ____________________________ ___________ (cartoon, producer, Disneyland). Come with Dudley and meet our visitors. I’ll _______________________ (pay, you, a million dollars).’ Sammy said, 'I agree.' Disneyland a cartoon producer from pay you a million dollars

Picture 7: A week later, Sammy ________________ (receive, money). received the money

C The last picture is a question mark. What did Sammy do with the money? Write an ending for the story, using your imagination and the information in B.

Picture 8: ________________________________ ________________________________ _______________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ _______.

Possible answers: Sammy thought he would be happy because he was rich now. That night, he had a dream. He saw a famous thinker from ancient Greece. He said to Sammy, ‘The way to be happy is to own as few things as possible. Now you should know what to do with the money.’

The next day, Sammy gave the money to the poor and sent Dudley to the National Museum.