Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

4 Call on groups to read out their answers.
Box 91
Personal recounts: combined sentences
Combined sentences
Personal recount answers
1 Quickly we ran downstairs and
Earthquake
into the street.
We were inside when suddenly we
2 Then, last night, the water in the
saw all the books falling onto the floor.
river flowed into the town.
Quickly we ran downstairs and into the
3 There we saw cracks in the
street.
ground everywhere.
There we saw cracks in the ground
4 It was raining for days and days
everywhere.
and the river was getting higher
Flood
and higher.
It was raining for days and days and
5 We were inside when suddenly
the river was getting higher and
we saw all the books falling
higher.
onto the floor.
Then, last night, the water in the river
6 A boat came and took us
flowed into the town.
to safety.
A boat came and took us to safety.
© Cambridge University Press 2007
Follow-up
• When the children have sorted the sentences into two groups
(earthquakes and floods), ask them to organise the sentences into the
correct order to form two personal recounts.
• For other personal recounts, see Activities 1.10, 2.13, 2.15.
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