Task. Look at the pictures below. Choose one of them to write a story. Use linking words and connectors in sentences to make some coherent paragraphs.
Write a short story about a particular situation. You should include your ideas while writing it. You can get 1 point out of 6 for each criterion (content, organization, vocabulary, grammar and punctuation), and then calculate a mean to give a total mark out of 6. All fractional marks should be rounded up to the closest whole mark.
You will be given 20 minutes for this task. The limit of words is 150-200.
The structure of a story: Paragraph 1: when and where the story happened.
Paragraph 2: events in the order they happened.
Paragraph 3: what happened in the end- character’s feelings
1.Romanian Avalanche
In 2003, a British politics student named Ken Jones took a holiday from his
studies and traveled to Romania, where he wanted to scale Moldoveanu Peak.
He almost made it to the summit when the earth shook and a pair of avalanches dumped tons of snow on top of him, trapping him helpless on the mountain. He managed to walk ten miles through the freezing cold over the next three days to a remote Transylvanian village, where a local doctor saved his leg and his life.
2.Indonesian Tsunami
The massive tsunami that was in Indonesia on the day after Christmas in 2004 still stands as one of the most devastating natural disasters in recorded history. In all of the chaos as waves up to 100 feet high covered the Indian Ocean coastline, some interesting stories came to light. One story was about a small boy named Martunis, who was washed away while playing soccer in Indonesia and spent the next 18 days floating in the ocean. He was finally rescued and taken to a hospital.
