DescriptiveWriting-

a short story

prepared by Hsiao-yun Chen

What happened?

Who?

Where?

When?

Why?

Q: What is the story about?

Step 1. Who was/were there? Name the people in the story.

Step 2. What did they do? (What happened?)

Step 3. Where did it happen?

Step 4. When did it happen?

Step 5. Why did it happen?

Step 6. How did it happen?

Write a short story

Action-Verb. (Describe what they did.)

meetfall in love

propose to

be engaged

to

marry have a baby

go for a drive divorce

war breaks

out

join the army

fight against shoot

kill die tellpay

tribute to

Stonehenge

Stonehenge

Tower Bridge

Tower Bridge

Palace of Hoolyroodhouse

Big Ben

London Eye

Buckingham Palace

Place-Noun

Stonehenge London Eye castle/church

TowerBridge

Buckingham Palace

graveyard

Big Ben Palace of Hoolyroodhouse

Iraq

When-Time Order

when as soon as soon after

after ...later ...ago

before eventually then

PeopleAction(past tense)

Where When

Rose and Jack met each other in Stonehenge three years ago

fell in love then...at first sight

got married one year later

had a baby soon after

war broke out Irapbefore the baby was

born

joined the army then

diebattleground/

battlefieldeventually

pay tribute to graveyard when she grew up

Attraction are a Hungarian shadow theatre group from Budapest, Hungary. They rose to fame during a performance at the Hungarian Olympic Oath Ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics, in which they did a rendition of many of the traditional sports within the five rings of the Olympic games logo. Less than a year later, they won the seventh series of Britain's Got Talent on 8 June 2013, beating joint favourite Jack Carroll.

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Attraction (shadow theatre group)

For their Britain's Got Talent auditions, they acted out a story of a couple who meet under a bridge, fall in love, marry, and have a child. The father goes off to war, shortly after their baby is born, and dies tragically. The piece ends with an image of the mother and daughter standing beside his tombstone. Judge Amanda Holden fought back tears and called the performance 'moving' and they received a loud standing ovation from the audience and judges.

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Britain‘s Got Talent Auditions (2013)

For their semi-final performance, Attraction depicted a mother giving birth to her son, the son going off to college, getting married, and eventually the mother dies in her son's arms. At the end, the son's wife reveals that she is pregnant. The story was based on Szűcs' life story, who dedicated the performance to his late mother. They got high praise from the judges, with Holden stating that she even saw Simon Cowell shed a tear. They got first place on the 5th semi final vote sending them straight to the finals.

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Semi-final performance

In the final Attraction performed a tribute to Britain, the highlight being when a lion was formed with their bodies. Once again they received a standing ovation and again Holden shed a tear. They were announced the winners and became the first foreign act to win Britain's Got Talent and the third group act to win (with the first two being Diversity and Spelbound).

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Final performance