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AEE 2243: 3 Ways to Open a Story in English
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Some better ways to kick off a story
✓:once upon a time(It wouldn't often be used in day-to-day story telling, otherwise seen in Story Books)
✗: once a time.
1. a blink ago/ a blink back/ a while ago/ two years ago(giving a time marker)
Ex: A fewmonths back, we took a trip of Panama. We were super excited to see…
2. When I was + age/+ place
3. in blink/ in a year/ in a month/ in a place
Role play:
When I was living in Paris, I used to get a crab(不确定是不是这个拼写) almost every day. One day though, I dropped it in…all over my white shirt.
Oh, well. I don't have the stuff like that. A while back, I opened a yogurt in staffroom. When I was in school at work, it splattered everywhere.
✓:once upon a time(It wouldn't often be used in day-to-day story telling, otherwise seen in Story Books)
✗: once a time.
1. a blink ago/ a blink back/ a while ago/ two years ago(giving a time marker)
Ex: A fewmonths back, we took a trip of Panama. We were super excited to see…
2. When I was + age/+ place
3. in blink/ in a year/ in a month/ in a place
Role play:
When I was living in Paris, I used to get a crab(不确定是不是这个拼写) almost every day. One day though, I dropped it in…all over my white shirt.
Oh, well. I don't have the stuff like that. A while back, I opened a yogurt in staffroom. When I was in school at work, it splattered everywhere.
like a story book, not real current daily life story
2. ( time marker ) ago
a while back / ago , a month ago , a few months back such like it .
3. when i was ...
4. in ( blank )
in a year / place , in1994, in my last gap year
Relate your own life to the big event that happend .
when i was living in Paris , i use to get a .. almost everyday .
A while back, i open the yoga ...