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PET Writing Guide: Email & Story Structure

The document is a writing guide for the PET exam, focusing on how to structure an email and a story. It outlines the necessary components of a story, including the title, beginning, action, and resolution, and provides tips on expressions and phrases to enhance storytelling. Students are advised to write a story of about 100 words within a 45-minute timeframe, using all provided notes.

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PET Writing Guide: Email & Story Structure

The document is a writing guide for the PET exam, focusing on how to structure an email and a story. It outlines the necessary components of a story, including the title, beginning, action, and resolution, and provides tips on expressions and phrases to enhance storytelling. Students are advised to write a story of about 100 words within a 45-minute timeframe, using all provided notes.

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Writing Guide
Part 1- Email
Part 1- How to structure an email
Part 2- Story
• In part 2 of the writing exam, you can choose to write a story.
• The email has notes which indicate what your answer must contain. You must use all the notes.
• The question may include the title of the story, or the first or last sentence of the story. You must follow
these instructions.
• Write about 100 words.
• Include a title
• You have 45 minutes for the entire writing exam. Use half that time to write the story

Read the exam question on the left.

Then read the story that an exam


student wrote.
How to structure a story

A story can be divided into the following parts:

Title
The title should either summarise the whole story (without spoilers!) or have something to do with the main theme.

Beginning:
This is where the characters and setting are established.
It introduces the next part (the action or problem of the story.)

Action
In this part, the characters deal with conflict and do things to solve it.

Resolution
This is where the conflict is resolved and the story concludes with an ending, normally without any loose ends.

Expressions to use in
your story

How to begin a story Creating suspense People’s feelings


When you start a story, if the first • Suddenly • Enthusiastic
sentence isn’t given to you, you • All of a sudden • Nervous
can use phrases like these: • Without warning • Optimistic
• It all began… • Just at that moment • Puzzled
• When I first… • Unexpectedly • Relieved
• At the beginning… • Determined
• It was a hot/cold summer/
winter day. Alternatives to Adverbs
The verb “say”
Time phrases • Fortunately
• Shout • Luckily
• After that Whisper • Thankfully
•
A little later • Unfortunately
• • Exclaim
____ minutes later • Sadly
• • Ask
Later (that morning/ • Unexpectedly
• • Suggest
afternoon/day/night…) Warn
•
• As soon as Interesting
• Offer
• Just then
• Promise
• Finally • Fascinating
• In the end • Captivating

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