ACCESS Students made up stories

when we reviewed Past Simple Tense I asked my students to make up a story. I divided into 2 teams. They both have the same topic.  The focus also was they should use regular and irregular adverbs. here are their stories. I liked it very much.

  Noises in the night  Group 1

June 1^st  2019

Authors:

  There lived a man in a very big house. He had no family and he was all alone in the house.  He was a teacher in private schools.  He always came home early after work and watched movies until midnight then he went to his bed. One day he woke up late and went to school late. The principal of the school did not like it and scolded him,. He was very upset and it was the unhappiest day of his life. After work, he walked to the nearest fast-food restaurant and had his supper there. He felt very tired and sleepy and went home. Suddenly he saw a stray dog and it chased him. He was very frightened and run very quickly. He lost his dream because of fear, he entered his house and put on his pajamas and went to watch TV. He watched a horror movie. Moreover, it scared him more, turned off the TV, and went upstairs to his bedroom.  Firstly, he went to the kitchen and drank a glass of water and then switched off the light in the kitchen and went to bed. He had lots of fear and slept with them. A nightmare woke him up. He got up and was thinking about his nightmare. Suddenly he heard some noises from the downstairs. He looked carefully from the upstairs, He went quietly downstairs, he heard some noises in the kitchen, its door was open, and the light was on. He went quietly with fears and in his thoughts was all about the ghost. He thought to see a ghost. However, when he reached the kitchen, fortunately, he saw a cat who broke the glass. He breathed deeply with relief, switched off the lights, and went to his bed.

 Noises in the night

Group 2

Authors:

  This is a story about a Flex Student Umar. He was from Tajikistan and went to the USA. In Tajikistan, he had lived with his family in a small house.  Fortunately, he became a finalist of the FLEX program and went to the USA.  His host family welcomed him very warmly and opened the door of their house to him. He came to his host family’s house and was very amazed. It was a very big house. And his host parents showed him his room. He had his own room. But he had a fear to sleep alone. In his Tajik home, he shared a room with his brother. But in the US everyone had their own room. He thought he could overcome this fear. Every night he had dreams about ghosts. One night he watched a ghost movie with his family and he was scared. The movie was about Halloween. After the movie, we wanted very much to go to bed but he could not sleep. He woke up at night and suddenly heard some noises from downstairs and came out from his room and sat down upstairs and saw the door of a kitchen was open and heard someone’s steps. Then suddenly he saw a white sheet appeared with a ghost face, It looked at him. Umar was scared to death and yelled with fear. But it was his host brother’s Halloween costume. He made this costume for Halloween party.   At that moment Umar was very angry and wanted to go to his home.