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A Sound Story - creative writing

booklet February 05, 2018
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Task description & scene summary

Task description:
Listen to the sounds and imagine a story. After listening write down the story by using past tenses, adverbs and adjectives.
Scene summary:
There is a sound of footsteps in the rain. There is a scream, gunshots and a siren wail...make up a story.
Video source: A Sound Story - ESL writing
Video length: 1 minute 13 seconds
Video genre: Miscellaneous
Lesson type: Grammar practice
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Tags:
  • writing story
  • crime story writing
  • ESL writing practice
Vocabulary:
Grammar:
Communicative function: how to describe things or people in English
Copyright license: iSLCollective Copyright License
First published: 2018-02-05, 17:33:37 (GMT+1)
About the author

KIERAN DONAGHY ABOUT ISLCOLLECTIVE VIDEO QUIZZES:

"iSLCollective Interactive Video Quizzes are highly engaging and motivating multimodal texts for English language students to learn vocabulary and improve their listening skills. They are the perfect complement to the creative and innovative lesson plans on Film English."

Kieran Donaghy,
Creator of FilmEnglish.com, a site with hundreds of high quality, free ESL/EFL lesson plans created around short films

Video quiz questions (printable)

1) Listen to the sounds and imagine a story. After listening, write the story. Use past simple, past continuous and a lot of adjectives and adverbs.

Answer the question using your own words

2) Are you ready? Put your ideas on the paper.

Answer the question using your own words

About the author

KIERAN DONAGHY ABOUT ISLCOLLECTIVE VIDEO QUIZZES:

"iSLCollective Interactive Video Quizzes are highly engaging and motivating multimodal texts for English language students to learn vocabulary and improve their listening skills. They are the perfect complement to the creative and innovative lesson plans on Film English."

Kieran Donaghy,
Creator of FilmEnglish.com, a site with hundreds of high quality, free ESL/EFL lesson plans created around short films

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Virgoletta
2018-02-06 16:20:03
Thanks for this, I like the simple, old-fashioned writing on the board! This, I think, will be very flexible.
tantana
2018-04-16 13:23:30
Thanks a lot!
Maca1972
2018-12-19 18:25:42
Great!
gnoma86
2019-01-31 12:34:30
Thank you!! Really involving for my always-tired students. I'm going to use it soon.