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Write a Narrative about a Risk

B_ Read the narrative in exercise A again. Underline more examples of subject + verb
combinations such as those in the box. Then work with a partner and compare
your answers.

2 BEFORE YOU WRITE. Work in a group of three or four students. Use the information about
the writer of the narrative in exercise 1 as an example. Then tell your group about a risk that
you have taken. What were the results of your actions? Complete the chart with notes about
people in your group.

Name Risky Action Result
Lucy rode her bike over a tree broke her arm

WRITING FOCUS Past Perfect Review
Notice how the past perfect is used in the narrative in exercise 1A.

Writers use the past perfect to describe the sequence of actions or events in the
past. The past perfect shows that one action or event happened before another
past action or event in the story.
We came to a big tree that had fallen over a stream.

My | yv
T
tree fell came to tree now
..., and felt a sharp pain unlike any I'd ever experienced. (before in het life)

pain experienced before

v
felt sharp pain now

3 WRITE about a risk that either you or a classmate once took. Write three or four paragraphs.
Use your notes from exercise 2 and the narrative in exercise 1A to help you.

4 SELF ASSESS. Read your narrative again. Underline the subjects and verbs in your
sentences. Then use the checklist to assess your work.

OOOO I used articles correctly. [5.3, 5.4]
Tused count and non-count nouns with the correct quantity expressions. [5.1, 5.2]

I used proper subject-verb agreement with count and non-count subjects. [5.5, 5.6]
I used the past perfect to describe actions or events that happened before other actions or
events in the past. [WRITING FOCUS]

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