Short story: plot plus grammar

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 3

Shirak		Markus	Bink	Mirthe	Chenoa
Noortje	Lauren	Thijmen	Siar		Jayden
Kalle	Mats	Mart	Berkay	Mohammed
Meryam	Asude	Patricia	Charlotte	Rianne	Emily
	Yas-lynn	Hoda	Aya	Talin	Britt

Seating chart  2B

Teacher 

Today

• Tips how to write a successful story
• Grammar recap  

Cooking up a short story!

Goal

Today you'll learn about the main ingredients of a story and a way to structure a story using the plot diagram.

By the end of this lesson you will be able to write your own short story using the three main ingredients and structuring it with a plot diagram.

02:11

What is 'Exposition'?

1. The beginning of the story
2. When the story is at it's most exciting
3. When the main problem has been solved

02:11

When the story is at it's most exciting and the battle between the protagonist and antagonist is decided

1. Rising action
2. Climax
3. Falling action

02:11

"And they lived happily ever after."

1. Falling action
2. Resolution
3. Exposition

02:11

What is the right order?

1. Denouement, raising action, exposition, climax, falling action
2. exposition, raising action, climax, falling action, denouement
3. Exposition, climax, falling action, raising action, denouement

Harry Potter

You have all probably watched Harry Potter. If you haven't, you should! 

😉

On the next slide the plot of the first movie - The Philosopher's stone - has been divided in text fragment.

Drag and drop the plot phase to the correct text fragment. 

INTRODUCTION

RAISING ACTION

CLIMAX

FALLING ACTION 

RAISING ACTION

RESOLUTION

Writing a story

He walked into the forest carrying the suitcase

He walked slowly into the cold, dark forest and realised that the old, leather suitcase was remarkably heavy

Use direct speech

"Oh no!'', he screamed.  

"Don't move", he whispered

delicious

disastrous

exhausted

heartbroken

marvellous

sad

bad

nice

good

tired

Shirak		Markus	Bink	Mirthe	Chenoa
Noortje	Lauren	Thijmen	Siar		Jayden
Kalle	Mats	Mart	Berkay	Mohammed
Talin	Asude	Patricia	Charlotte	Rianne	Emily
	Yas-lynn	Hoda	Aya	Meryam	Britt

Seating chart  2B

Teacher 

Today

• Grammar recap  
• F listening 
• Slim Stampen / write a story

Quantifiers

Much / many / (a) little / (a) few

	countable / plural	uncountable / singuar
large amount	many	much
small amount	few	little
small amount	(a) few	(a) little

much / many / a lot of / little / a little / few / a few

much / many / a lot of = veel

a little = een beetje

a few = een paar

little / few = weinig 

Now 

Do ex 29 t/m 31 

Look at the next slide, what activity would you like to do and why?

Do ex 40

Prepare your laptop

Veel

Weinig

een paar, een beetje

A few

Few

A little 

Little

Many 

Much

Veel + Telbaar

Veel + NIET Telbaar

weinig + Telbaar

weinig + NIET Telbaar

een paar 

+ Telbaar

een paar 

+ NIET Telbaar

Little

Many

Few

Much

a Few

a Little

Now 

Slim stampen grammar 7

Vocab A,B,C,D

Now 

Slim Stampen 

Voc A,B,C,D,F

Grammar 7