8 Improving your style Writing stories also means that you have to take great care when composing your sentences and paragraphs. Vocabulary When you write a story, you should use other words than the simplest verbs like go and see. This is very important to make your story more interesting. a) Fill in the gaps (1–3) using the best verbs of movement in the correct form. Before you start, check all the verbs you don’t know with a dictionary. pace stroll crawl hurry rush climb The suspect and his girlfriend 1 along the river hand in hand when they got caught. A video shows that the thief 2 on the floor of a restaurant. The burglar 3 the tree, gripped the branch and jumped on the balcony. b) Fill in the gaps (4–7) using the best verbs of perception in the correct form. peer glance stare at look at gaze peep I left the house at 9:00 a.m. and 4 the empty garage. My car was nowhere to be seen. The robber 5 in my direction, but when I 6 him quickly, he turned his head around. 7 nervously through the grimy glass, I could see him talking to an unknown person. c) Build sentences using the verbs which were not used in tasks 1a and b. Sentence structure Look at the two texts (A and B) below and describe the differences. • Which of the texts is more dramatic? • Which text gives you a better insight into what was happening? • Which passages would be more appropriate in a story, which would be more suitable for a newspaper report? 1 2 Text A After the rain the race continued. The cars were going at high speed again. The first driver saw that he was going too fast. He suddenly slowed down. Then he was hit from behind and crashed into the barrier. … Text B When the rain had stopped, the race continued. The cars were going at high speed again. But the first driver suddenly slowed down because he saw that he was going too fast. As soon as his car lost speed, he was hit from behind and crashed into the barrier. … 108 Crime and suspense Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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