tory

Beginning a story Giving background What comes next is

information/description expected

- Speaking of…
- Did I ever tell you
about… - We were <verb> ing
- I’ll always remember when... As you might expect…
the time… - The sun was shining, Of course,…
- I must tell you about… the birds were singing…
- I remember + verb-
ing…

What comes next is What comes next is What comes next

unexpected another bad thing is action, not
description

- Strangely enough… - Just to make matters

- Next thing we knew… worse… - Anyway,… /So
-Then suddenly… - As if it wasn’t bad anyway…
enough already…

The story is coming to This is how the

an end storyteller feels about
the action in the story.

- In the end…
- That was it, really. - It was awful!
-So there we are. - I was terrified!
- Eventually… - It was brilliant!