Cách viết short Story FCE

                                 Viết short Story (How to write a short story)
         
           Thông thường có hai khó khăn mà người thi FCE gặp phải đó là:
                 + Không biết quyết định để viết về cái gì.
                 + Khó để viết một Story trong giới hạn số từ cho phép.

  Sau đây là một số hướng dẫn giúp bạn viết một Story tốt.

        1. Thế nào là một bài viết Story tốt:

• A short story should just be written around between 120 and 180 words.
• A story needs paragraphing
• Contain the varieties of tenses, structures.
• Rich vocabulary, good grammar, detail and idiomatic expressions.

       2. Mẹo để viết một Story tốt

• Use three different tenses:

       - Past Simple: Sử dụng thì quá khứ để

                  + Describe simple facts and states. Example: She opened his book and began to read.

                  + Describe events that follow each other.  He left the building, went to the supermarket where he realized that he did not have enough money and returned home.

      - Past Continuous:

                  + To set the scene. 

                  + To show that the continuity of one action is interrupt by another action.

      - Past Perfect

                 + To indicate that something happened earlier than the action describe

                  + To indicate that what happened earlier was a long activity.

• Useful expressions

        - Background and atmosphere

          + It was raining with flashes of lighting outside...

          + The house was quite and I sat all alone...

          + It all began in a day when I had...

          + We were very and had been travelling all day...

        - Contrasting time and event

          + After....

           + As soon as I....

           + By the time..., At the same time..., While I was...,they were..

           + Meanwhile....

            + suddenly, out of  the sudden, slowly, step by step, gradually...

            + A second later....

        - The climax/ending

           + Just then....

           + In the end....

           + Eventually, finally...

           + That was the last time I'd ever....

• You can also use reported speech or quote some words from characters to make it more vivid. 

      Good luck guys!

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