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Unit 5
Storytelling Reading; Train to
5 Check/clarify: rhetorical
question.
Do the first question in open
class. Ask students to look back
at the article to find the answers
to questions 2 and 3. Encourage
students to work in pairs or
small groups. Check answers in
open class.
Suggested answers: 1 A direct
(rhetorical) question to the reader.
2 Six times. 3 To introduce a topic,
create a personal connection with the
reader and encourage the reader to
think.
6 During feedback, if you haven’t
yet related this concept back to
L1, ask: Do you use rhetorical
questions in your language?
1 B 2 A
7 Put students in pairs for this
exercise. Then discuss as a class.
8 You may like to give some
examples of your own and
perhaps even tell them a story
from your childhood.
Homework
Ask students to choose three types
of book and write sentences saying
why they like / don’t like each type.
This can be shared in the next lesson.
Activity idea Extension
Ask students to work in pairs and to
agree on the overall ideas of each
paragraph of the article. Check their
ideas in open class. Then ask them to
write a rhetorical question for each
paragraph. While monitoring, note
down some good examples and the
students who came up with them.
Call on these students to share their
ideas during feedback.
Activity idea Mixed ability
Exercise 5 is a challenging activity,
so consider introducing the concept
of rhetorical questions to weaker
students by giving an example in L1,
before asking them to find examples
in the article and discuss why they
are used.
Communication
Using appropriate language and register for context
Uses language for effect (e.g. exaggerations or cleft sentences).
; Speaking
SO YOU WANT TO STORYTELLING UNIT 5
WRITE A NOVEL,
WRITE A NOVEL,
DO YOU?
DO YOU?
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What’s stopping you? Time? Ideas? Self-belief? Characters. They’re important! Before you start writing,
get to know the people whose stories you will be telling.
Well, let me help you. Time: find half an hour to
write every day. You’ll be surprised to see how Ask yourself questions about them. Get inside their heads
quickly the pages start filling up. Ideas: write down and answer your questions. Don’t spend too much time
describing what they look like. What’s important is what
loads and then choose the best. You only need one
main idea. Start writing and the rest will soon come. they’re like inside. Who are they? What motivates them?
Why are they doing those things? And they shouldn’t be
Self-belief: what can I say? You can do it. I know you perfect. They’re humans (presumably). They need to make
can. Remember, your novel, which will be fun to
write, doesn’t need to be 600 pages long. mistakes from time to time, and as they try to deal with the
You could start with a short one. conflict in their life, they should develop and change.
What else do you need to know? Here are a few Finally, you might want to think about your own writing
rules I always follow that might help you: style – the words you are going to use to write your
I always like to start with the plot. That’s because story. You don’t need to use long complex sentences or
words that will leave your readers confused (but some
I like a novel with a good story. And a good story
comes from conflict. Many of the best novels start variety in words is good!). You can keep your style simple.
Think about the people who might want to read your
in a good place where the main character is happy story. Think about how to keep
with their life. Then something goes wrong and as
the situation gets worse, our hero is thrown into them interested. But be yourself.
conflict. The plot is then driven by how they can Write the words that come most
make things better. But in their struggle to right naturally. These will always be your
these wrongs the character should learn something best words. So there you have
it: plot, theme, characters and
about themselves. style. Follow these golden rules
The theme, which is basically the message that
the story is trying to get across, is also important. and you’ll never go wrong.
This is something you should never tell your Of course, though, don’t
reader directly. No one likes to be told what’s right forget – rules are often there
or what’s wrong. The best thing to do is to let to be broken.
your reader work out the message on their own.
That way your novel will make them feel clever and
they’ll want to read your next one!
Thinking about different writing styles
Writers use different techniques to bring their texts alive.
7 Some of the paragraphs don’t contain
5 Answer the questions. any rhetorical questions. Think of a
1 What technique does the writer use in the title of the article?
2 How many times does he use this technique in the article? rhetorical question that you could add
to the final paragraph.
3 Why do you think he does this?
6 Choose the correct option. SPEAKING
1 When people ask a rhetorical question, they … 8 Work in pairs. Discuss these questions.
A expect an answer. 1 What kind of stories do you enjoy
B don’t really expect an answer.
most? Give an example.
2 They ask a rhetorical question to … 2 What kind of story would you like to
A introduce a subject they want to talk about. write most?
B find out what you’re thinking.
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