Task 3. Write a news article about positive or negative incident. You should use your own ideas and creativity. This news article has to be in the Past Simple and
Past Continuous. Follow the plan and structure. These questions help your to organize
your article.
1. Where, when and why did the incident happen?
2. What caused the incident?
3. What were conditions like?
4. How did people react? What were people doing?
5. What happened in the end?
6. What did people say?
Paragraph 1: Introduction
This was the happiest moment…
This was the dramatic scene…
Paragraph 2: The positive or negative incident
It happened when….
Paragraph 3: Conditions
At first…, then…, next…, after that…
The best way to help was…
Paragraph 4: Conclusion and reaction
2. I (went) to bed at ten o'clock yesterday.
3. My brother ( washes) his face every morning.
4. Yesterday he ( washed) his face at a quarter past seven.
5. I (do not have) history lessons every day.
6. We (did not rest) yesterday.
7. My brother (did not drink) coffee yesterday.
8. My mother always ( takes) a bus to get to work, but yesterday she (did not take) a bus. Yesterday she ( walked) to her office.
9. Do you ( talk) to the members of your family every day? - Yes, I do. But yesterday I (did noto talk) to them: I (was) very busy yesterday.
10. Did you ( come) home at six o'clock yesterday? - - No, I didn't. Yesterday I ( came) home from school at half past eight. I (was) very tired. I (had) dinner with my family. After dinner I (was) very thirsty. I (drank) two cups of tea. Then I ( rested).
11. Does your sister ( go) to school every day? - - Yes, she does.