Telling A Story: Reading and Writing Portfolio 11
Telling A Story: Reading and Writing Portfolio 11
Telling A Story: Reading and Writing Portfolio 11
Reading a story
Writing verb forms in narratives;
Telling a story getting ideas; a narrative
Review Past Simple; Past Continuous;
1 Read the first part of the story and put pictures A–F in order. crime
“There’s going to be a robbery near the River Thames,” the man said robbery.
quietly. “The thieves are going to use a boat to escape.”
Carr rang his boss and told him about the strange phone call. The
police immediately started an investigation*. They called it ‘Operation HELP WITH WRITING
Magician’. For the next few weeks, they watched many different Verb forms in narratives
places near the River Thames, including banks and also, of course, the
3 a Match these verb forms to
Millennium Dome.
sentences a–c from the story.
A few weeks later, Carr knew that the Dome was connected with the
bc
robbery. He also knew the names of the suspects. But what were the 1 Past Simple
thieves planning to do? The police put cameras inside the Dome and a
started fi lming all the visitors. 2 Past Continuous
On 1st September, three of the suspects were seen in the Dome. They 3 Past Simple passive bc
were looking at the diamond exhibition in the Money Zone and they
were especially interested in the Millennium diamonds – a collection a But what were the thieves planning
worth over £200 million.
to do?
For the next month, Carr and his officers watched six suspects
carefully. The men were testing a JCB digger* and a boat. But Carr still b On 1st September, three of the
didn’t know the time of the robbery. On 6th November, Carr decided to suspects were seen in the Dome.
change the real diamonds for fake* ones.
At 3.00 am on 7th November, Carr arrived at the Dome and spoke to the c The police immediately started an
200 police officers who were waiting inside. investigation.
Six hours later, the Dome was open. It was unusually busy for that time b Read the story again. Which are
in the morning – Carr and his officers weren’t wearing uniforms. They the two most common verb forms
were dressed as tourists, cleaners and other workers.
in the story? Past simple and
*investigation = when the police try to discover the facts about a crime Past Continuous
*JCB digger = a large machine used to move earth
*fake = not real c Underline three examples of the
most common verb forms in the story.
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4 Read the end of the story. Fill in the gaps with the correct 6 Match the first lines of stories 1–3 to
form of the verbs in brackets. questions a–c.
It was a warm day in the middle of summer, when Detective What did she do next?
Inspector Sam Carr’s phone rang. I called his relatives .
a man.
1 Who was on the phone?
2 What did he tell Carr? about a robbery near the River Thames.
he rang his boss.
3 What did Carr do next?
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