The Elements of a Story

Short Story Element	What Is It?	Example
Plot	Is the way how is told a story, like the sequence of the story chapter by chapter…	There was a boy who played with an apple tree, then the boy grew and he almost did not play with the tree, but the tree gave him lot of thing to made him happy, finally the tree was old too but the boy came back and rest on it…
Theme	Is the main idea of the story, as a moral of the story or what story talks about …	Love is blind; the tree always gave to the boy all What it had after all…
Conflict	Is like the trouble of the principal character and how he tries to solve it…	When the boy grew he didn´t play with the apple tree and the tree was sad because it wanted they played together…
Characters	Are the people who appear at the story …	The boy, the apple tree, the boy´s wife and children…
Setting	Is when the acts take place in every part of the story …	In a forest the place when the tree is all the time
Point of view	Is how is told the story. It refers to the storyteller, his point of view and how he discloses it…	Omniscient limited because the story teller talks about a boy and a tree and how they felt through the story…

Passive voice and conditionals

1.    The passive voice tense is used because …

·      The passive voice is a type of sentence. So a passive voice sentence puts the object or receiver of the action to the subject position

2.    When do we use the passive voice?

·      The person who did the action is unknown.

·      It is not important who did the action.

·      It is obvious who did the action.

·      Someone is trying to hide who did it.

3.    The structure to use the passive voice in the

PRESENT TENSE is object + to be (present) + past participle + (by + subject) ** if needed.

PAST TENSE is object + to be (past) + past participle + (by + subject) ** if needed.

PRESENT PROGRESSIVE is object + to be (present) + being + past participle + (by + subject) ** if needed.

1.    Which tenses are used in the first conditional? Write an example about it.

·         PRESENT SIMPLE , FUTURE WILL

    IF clause                 result clause

EXAMPLE: If it rains, I will wear a coat.

2.    What is the characteristic of the first conditional?

·         First conditional is a real or probable conditional, because there are things that can happen.

3.    Which tenses are used in the second conditional? Write an example about it.

·         SIMPLE PAST, WOULD-COULD-MIGHT…

     IF clause                  result clause

EXAMPLE: if I had lots of money, I´d buy a car.

4.   The pronoun I comes with the verb to be in the second conditional in which form.

·         In second conditional, the pronoun I is used with the verb to be in the form of the first person in plural, so you don´t use I was, you have to use I were.

EXAMPLE: if I were taller, I´d be more handsome.

5.    Which tenses are used in the third conditional?

·         PAST PERFECT, WOULD + PRESENT PERFECT

                           IF clause                       result clause

EXAMPLE: If I had known about the test, I´d have studied much more.

"learning about my english level"

Number of question I got right 85 from 90 Grade in percentage 95%
Question you got wrong	Language item	My mistake / Correction	Reflection
12	simple Present	I am looking forward the summer holidays. I am looking Forward to the summer holidays.	When I use forward, I always have to use (to) after this.
20	Simple past	They were so hard questions that I had no chance. They were Such hard questions that I had no chance.	I thought so was correct in every adjectives, but Such is the correct adverb to hard.
54	Simple present	He's a friend of them. He´s a friend of theirs.	I really didn´t understand why is theirs and not them, because the preposition of confuse me.
64	Simple present	I prefer drink beer than wine. I would rather drink beer that wine.	I didn´t know how to use would rather because I’ve never seen it.
82	Simple present	Hubert is an uncle of Kim. Hubert is an uncle of Kim’s.	The same mistake that in question 54, I didn´t understand why Kim’s if the sentence has a preposition (of)