During my last holiday, I made a lot of handcrafts.

At that time, I was crazy about art and

creativity. Many ideas had come to my mind three months before. All of the ideas were written on
my note book so I could read them again. Also, I searched other ideas from internet. Yap, I
googled it. I watched tutorial videos and read many art blogs.
My parents helped me to prepare the materials. They also gave me money to buy things I
needed. On the first day, I painted on some rocks. People call it rock art. It was so fun. My
siblings joined me on the third day. Then, my siblings and I made paper crafts from used
newspapers and magazines. Papers were rolled, shaped and glued together to create
decorative designs. Many beautiful crafts were created.

The last activity was sewing. My mother is a tailor so I learn how to sew from her. My mother
helped me too. Sewing used clothes and towels was very fun. We produced many useful things.
Finally, I really enjoyed my last holiday.

Story 2

One day my uncle told me about his childhood. When he was ten years old, he liked to climb a
mango tree. He usually climbed the tree with some friends. Then they picked some mangoes
without permission. Yap, they liked to steal mangoes. They frequently ate mangoes on the tree.
They had prepared a fruit peeler and a plastic bag for the garbage. What a good preparation!
They didn’t want to throw the garbage everywhere. They kept the environment clean. That’s a
good point. But stealing fruits is a bad point.
My uncle said it was so fun. Sometimes they were caught by the owners. They had ever met
both kind and unkind owners. A kind owner was never angry to them. She/he let them pick
some mangoes. “Don’t eat too many mangoes or you will get a stomachache” a kind owner
advised one day. Meanwhile an unkind owner punished them to clean a pool and back yard.

There was one owner who was really angry to them. Then he came to the kids’ parents and
asked for much money for the mangoes they had eaten. Their parents couldn’t afford it. The
owner gave them some weeks to pay or he would call the police. Then he and his friends tried
to earn money to help their parents. After school he worked at a car wash.

My uncle learnt that earning money was not easy. But it wasn’t impossible. After three weeks, he
could gave the money to the mango-tree owner. Magically, the owner turned into a nice guy and
asked my uncle to keep the money. He gave the money to his parents. Finally he never stole the
mangoes anymore but still liked to climb a mango tree.

Story 3

This is an example of Simple Past Tense paragraph about my friend named Jacko. Once Jacko
told me about his experience. He and his friends went to a lake in December 2015. They wanted
to spend some days in a villa near the lake. They had discussed about this plan from July the
same year.
Before going to the lake, Jacko’s mother didn’t allow him to go. The weather wasn’t good at
that time. Besides, his father was sick. His father kept calling his son’s name when he was
sleeping. Jacko’s mother asked him many times to cancel it. Jacko quarrelled with his mother
at night and left home.
Next morning, Jacko got many messages from his mother. He didn’t reply those messages. He
also rejected his mother’s telephone calls. Jacko went to the lake with his friends. He really
enjoyed activities and his time with friends. It was so fun.

On the last day, it rained so heavely. When they were ready to leave, one of his friends named
Obi was not in the villa. They looked for Obi everywhere in the villa, but he wasn’t there. Then,
one local boy said that a dead boy was found on the lake. They checked it and it was Obi, Jacko’s
best friend. He felt so sad and regretted all of it.