1. Planning a story with the headings ‘beginning’, ‘middle’ and ‘ending’
Primary Longman Elect
2B Chapter 4
Planning a story with the headings ‘beginning’, ‘middle’ and ‘ending’

2. ? A story has 3 sections: beginning, middle and ending.
Look at these pictures and write a story.
Which picture shows the beginning? 1 2 3 4
Beginning
brush
go to
School notice
Dear parents,
21st March is a school holiday … ?
school holiday

3. ? Which picture shows the middle? 1 2 3 4 Beginning Middle brush go to
School notice
Dear parents,
21st March is a school holiday …
Middle ?
school holiday

4. ? This means you can write your own ending.
Which picture shows the ending? 1 2 3 4
Beginning
Middle
brush
go to
School notice
Dear parents,
21st March is a school holiday …
Middle
Ending ?
school holiday

5. ? You can ask questions about the story.
What can you write about in each section? 1 2 3 4
Beginning
Middle
brush
go to
School notice
Dear parents,
21st March is a school holiday …
Middle
Ending ?
school holiday

6. Here are some questions about the beginning.
Can you think of the answers to these questions?
Beginning
Questions
When is it?
Friday
Who is in the story?
Tom
What does he do? What time is it?
gets up at 7:30 a.m., washes his face, brushes his teeth, has breakfast
brush

7. Do the same thing for the middle.
Questions
What does he do next?
goes to school with his mum
go to
What happens next?
School notice
Dear parents,
21st March is a school holiday …
they cannot get into the school
What does his mum say?
‘Oh! Today is a school holiday!’
school holiday

8. ? Now use your answers to write the story.
What is the problem in the story?
Can you think of a solution to the problem?
Now, think of an ending for the story.
Tom and his mum cannot get into the school.
Ending
Questions
What do they do / say?
Tom says, ‘Mum, we can go and visit Grandma.’ ?
What do they do next?
visit Grandma, have a good time
How do they feel?
happy

9. Put your answers into sentences.
Questions
Answers
Beginning
When is it?
Who is in the story?
What does he do? What time is it?
Friday
Tom
gets up at 7:30 a.m., washes his face, brushes his teeth, has breakfast
Today is Friday.
Tom gets up at 7:30 a.m. He washes his face, brushes his teeth and has breakfast.
Put your answers into sentences.

10. Put dialogues in quotation marks.
Questions
Answers
Middle
What does he do next?
What happens next?
What does his mum say?
goes to school with his mum
they cannot get into the school
‘Oh! Today is a school holiday!’
Then he goes to school with his mum.
When they arrive, they cannot get into the school.
Mum says, ‘Oh! Today is a school holiday!’
Put dialogues in quotation marks.

11. Put dialogues in quotation marks.
Questions
Answers
Ending
What do they do / say?
What do they do next?
How do they feel?
Tom says, ‘Mum, we can go and visit Grandma.’
visit Grandma, have a good time
happy
Tom says, ‘Mum, we can go and visit Grandma.’
They visit Grandma and have a good time.
They are happy.
Put dialogues in quotation marks.

12. Now put the sentences into paragraphs.
Today is Friday. Tom gets up at 7:30 a.m. He washes his face, brushes his teeth and has breakfast. Then he goes to school with his mum.
Today is Friday.
Tom gets up at 7:30 a.m. He washes his face, brushes his teeth and has breakfast.
Then he goes to school with his mum.
When they arrive, they cannot get into the school. Mum says, ‘Oh! Today is a school holiday!’ Tom says, ‘Mum, we can go and visit Grandma.’ They visit Grandma and have a good time. They are happy.
When they arrive, they cannot get into the school.
Mum says, ‘Oh! Today is a school holiday!’
Tom says, ‘Mum, we can go and visit Grandma.’
They visit Grandma and have a good time.
They are happy.
Now put the sentences into paragraphs.

13. The End