Writing skills practice: A short story – writing practice

Look at the exam question and write the short story.

Exam question

Your teacher has asked you to write a short story with the title ‘The surprise’.

Think about:
 the beginning: who are the characters? What situation are they in?
 the middle: what problem or difficulty do they have?
 the ending: how is the problem or difficulty resolved?

Made by Aracely Sanchez

The surprise

A normal family lived in a home, made up of dad, mom and a daughter; Everything was very beautiful,

but the girl did not like that when she came home from school she was alone she felt sad ... her name

was Laura, so one day she told her parents that she wanted to have company so she would not be

alone so the parents gave her They motivated saying that if he raises his grades they will give him a

surprise and when he succeeds they gave him two cats so he could have a nice company. Days passed

and it turned out a problem that the neighbor's dog always barked at the kittens and she was afraid that

they would do something to her kittens. Then Laura wanted to do something bad to the neighbor's dog,

so Laura's father Mario approached and told him to always do the right thing and never hurt anyone,

even the animals, but the girl got frustrated and went to her room crying because if he did nothing they

would hurt his kittens. Raquel approached who Laura's mother was and made her understand that she

could fix the situation without hurting the kittens, she told her to feed the dog so they would be friends

so she began to feed her and little by little the dog He began to love Laura to the point that every

afternoon she played with her kittens and the dog. The end.