ESCUELA

SUPERIOR
POLITECNÍCA DE
CHIMBORAZO
NAMES:
JEAN CARLOS MONTESDEOCA
ELIZABETH NARVÁEZ
JAIRO CRESPO
 PARTS OF A STORY
In general, a story can be divided into the
following parts :
• Title: The title should summarize the entire story (no spoilers!) Or,
at least, be related to the main theme.
• Presentation: This is the beginning of the story, where the
characters and the place of the action are introduced. It is basically
the introduction to the next part, the knot, and the plot of the story.
• Knot: In this part the characters deal with the main action and look
for ways to resolve the plot.
• End: This is where the action resolves and the story ends with an
ending, usually with no loose ends.
PA RT S O F A S T O RY

EXAMPLE
:
 PARTS OF A STORY
you can clearly see all the parts of a very
well defined story . As with letters and emails,
a story has to be visually appealing . For this
reason I always recommend this:

• Write the title in capital letters .

• Leave a very clear space between
paragraphs .
 EXPRESSIONS TO USE IN YOUR
S TO RY
In this section we are going to focus on the
different expressions that you can use in a
story . Although the vocabulary of the story
will vary completely by topic, there are a
number of expressions you can use very
frequently and which you can easily
memorize in advance. Let's go there:
 EXPRESSIONS TO USE IN YOUR
S TO RY

Expressions to start a
story
When you start a story, and you have not been given the
first sentence, you can use one of the following expressions:

It all began… (Todo empezó…)

When I first… (La primera vez que yo…)
At the beginning… (Al principio…)
It was a hot summer / cold winter day. (Era un cálido/frío
día de verano/invierno.)
 EXPRESSIONS TO USE IN YOUR
S TO RY

Expressions to start a
story
However, we have to be clear about
the following: these are just a few
examples of expressions you can
use , and there is no right or wrong
way to start a story.
 Time expressions

One of the big differences between writing a letter, an essay, or an

article, and writing a story is the need to pay close attention to the
timeline on which the story unfolds. And to define the order of the
events of the story we must use expressions or phrases of time that help
us to order the events. Let's see some examples:
 TIME EXPRESSIONS

•Then (Entonces)
•After that (Después de eso)
•Not long aftewards (Poco después)
•As soon as (En cuanto)
•While (Mientras)
•Meanwhile (Mientras tanto)
•As (Mientras)
•Some time later (Algo después)
•A little later (Poco después)
•____ minutes later (___ minutos más tarde)
•a moment later (un momento más tarde)
•Later (that morning/afternoon/day/night…) (Más tarde esa misma mañana/ese mismo
día, etc.)
•Just then (Justo entonces)