Hello!
How are you? Today you will be working on your 6th writing assignment - your strange, interesting, unique, or funny stories to your partners. But as some extra support for all of you, here's a little practice for you about narrative paragraph writing (語り物節の書き).
I saw from my homework check that some of you still have trouble putting parts of a story in the right order. So here is some practice for you if you need it.
First, I will help you by giving you the background information at the beginning.
Activity
Background information
Let me tell you about a time I flew to Hong Kong on a business trip.
Now - which order should these next parts go in? Which parts are they? Which parts are the beginning of the story, the middle, and the end? They are all mixed up. Decide with your partner what the right order should be, and number the order (2 - beginning of story; 3, 4, & 5 - middle of story; 6 - end of story).
Please remember that there are three (3) parts to the middle of the story!
Please remember that there are three (3) parts to the middle of the story!
So when the flight attendant came to take my dinner tray away, I immediately got out of my seat and went to check the noise from the bathroom. No-one seemed to notice the noise, but I could hear it.
Before dinner was served by the flight attendant, I heard a strange sound coming from the bathroom behind me. I didn't think anything of it while I was eating because it stopped, but it started again after I finished.
Suddenly a beautiful woman came and put her arm behind her head. She looked at me and said, "you know you can't get him out." After she said that I turned to see the door with the man, but he had stopped. When I saw this I turned to where she had stood, but she was gone.
After I noticed this, I felt someone shaking my shoulder and hearing "wake up, sir. Wake up, sir." I had been asleep and had been dreaming. I was so glad! But then I looked up to see the flight attendant. She was the same woman who had been in my dream!
I pushed it open and inside was a man's hands up against another, clear door, but with a strong green light behind him. He was beating the door with his hands trying to get out, but he couldn't open it.
When I got to the door, I could hear that it sounded like a man crying and screaming to get out. I saw a green light coming through the bottom of the door.
Good luck! Have fun with this!
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