Writing Exercise

Let's write a complete story about ‘At the zoo” based on the pictures given. Use simple past tense and
rephrase the questions to write the story.

1. What is the story about?

2. Last weekend, did Joe and his parents visit a zoo?
3. How were they feeling for the day?
4. Upon arrival, did they decide to go to the monkey area first?
5. What sign did they see on an information board?
6. Why was it important to not feed the monkeys?
7. Did Joe’s dad decide to take photographs of the monkeys? Why?

1. While his dad was busy taking photographs of the monkeys, what did his
mum do?
2. Suddenly, did Joe get an idea out of boredom?
3. What was the idea?
4. Did he have a banana on hand and hand it to the monkeys through the
gap of the cage?
5. Did he get to slip his hand into the cage as the gap was quite big?

1. Out of surprise, what happened next?

2. Did his parents finally realize what was happening?
3. Did Joe shout loudly? Why?
4. How did his parents feel?
5. Did the monkeys refuse to let go of his hands and grab on to it tight?
6. Was Joe in pain?
7. Was he going to be injured if the monkeys continued to grab his hand?

1. Therefore, did his parents immediately run to call for help?

2. A minute after that, were there two zookeepers who ran to give him help?
3. Finally, did they manage to chase the monkeys away?
4. Was Joe finally able to release his hand out of the cage?
5. How did he feel?
6. In conclusion, did he learn his lesson on that day?

Let’s change these words into their past form!

Words Past form Words Past form

visit feel

decide refuse

see run

get run

slip manage

realzie learn

carry advise