Entry Level English: Creating Narratives
Match the most appropriate setting to the type of story. Explain your
choices.
Restaurant
Horror
Desert
Sewers
Romance
Housing estate
Jungle
Science Fiction
Big city
Castle
Action/Adventure
Laboratory
Dark woods
Crime/Detective
The Moon
Entry Level English: Creating Narratives
Click twice on each drop down menu and choose the word that helps
best describe the setting for this story.
Explain what each word you have chosen adds to the description of
the setting. How does it make the place sound?
On a
cliff stood a
house.
The curtains that hung at the windows
were
and
. The
front door was
.
birds
circled overhead making
cawing noises as they flew through
the
sky.
Entry Level English: Creating Narratives
Put the
words that
describe this
beach in the
pyramid with
the best at
the top.
Explain your
choices.
peaceful
jewel
shining
paradise
quiet
lonely
boring
full of life
warm
tropical
Entry Level English: Creating Narratives
Sort the characters into the appropriate type of story.
What would they do? What would happen to them?
Horror
Romance
Entry Level English: Creating Narratives
Sort the characters into the appropriate type of story.
What would they do? What would happen to them?
Action
Science Fiction
Entry Level English: Creating Narratives
Describing the way a character speaks, acts and moves
can show a lot about them. Put two words that mean the
same as the one in the first column in the positive and
negative columns.
Positive
Negative
Eat
Walk
Run
Talk
devour
stomp
hunt
hiss
race
nibble
whisper
stroll
Entry Level English: Creating Narratives
Click twice on each drop down menu and choose the word that helps
best describe the setting for this story.
Explain what each word you have chosen adds to the description of
the setting. How does it make the place sound?
His
face turned to face hers. He
pp
towards her. “So, my dear, what brings
you to my castle?” he
and pulled his
ssss
cape around him. As she moved to
answer, his mouth turned into a
. He
moped
to the chair across from her and
at her.
he
into the chair and
spoke
.
Entry Level English: Creating Narratives
Match the point of view with the correct character. How do different
characters see the same events differently?
Cinderella
Said she was only staying for a week! Did
nothing but eat and drink, and took over our
house that we’d worked hard for. Good riddance.
Wicked Stepmother
It was horrible, walking in and seeing my
defenceless granny’s leg sticking out of that evil
wolf’s mouth! I’ll hunt down every wolf I see.
Seven Dwarves
I told her she couldn’t go to the ball because she
is too young to go dancing with boys. Then she
ran off without telling anyone where she was
going. I was worried sick.
Little Red Riding Hood
See, the thing with little pigs and grandmothers is
that they taste so good! We’ve all got to eat and
it’s what I do; eat things that taste good! Don’t tell
me you’ve never enjoyed a burger!
Big Bad Wolf
I was always being told what to do and bossed
around. My stepmother treated me like a slave so
I decided to follow my heart.
Entry Level English: Creating Narratives
Sort the words below into first person or third person, to show whether a
story is written from the point of view of ‘I’ or ‘he/she’.
First person – ‘I’
us
Plural
Singular
his
Third person – He/She
me
we
her
them
mine
himself
him
ourselves
my
myself
our
their
they
herself
Entry Level English: Creating Narratives
Put these sentences in the order they would happen in a
story.
BEGINNING
Ravi turned and saw a wrinkled
old man cackling.
But tonight was different.
Suddenly, there was a swish in
the air above Ravi’s head as
something was swung at him.
He heard a tip tap noise, like a
walking stick, behind him.
“I’m going to get you, boy!”
With his heart pounding, Ravi
raced towards his house.
Throwing himself through the front
END door, Ravi thought, “Safe at last!”
It was a cold, dark, winter’s
evening and Ravi was late from
school.