Writing: A Short Story
A short story is the B1 creative-writing genre that introduces narrative structure. The format covers a situation (character and setting), a complication (something happens that changes things), a development (rising tension), and a resolution (with character growth or insight). Learners build narrative-structure fluency at the B1 level.
This worksheet builds B1 writing fluency with short-story format.
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What’s inside:
- A model short story with annotated narrative structure
- Vocabulary box with narrative and emotional terms
- Story-planning template: situation, complication, resolution, character growth
- Sentence-variation task: mix sentence lengths for narrative pacing
- Original-writing task: write your own 300-word short story
- Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes
Common challenges: Narrative-tense consistency at B1 — Past Simple as backbone, Past Continuous for background, Past Perfect for earlier events. Showing not telling — character emotion through action and detail. Story arc: avoiding endings that fizzle out without resolution.
For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR B1, in intermediate classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. Maps onto Cambridge B1 Preliminary (PET) Writing Part 2. Part of the Creative & Descriptive collection — the natural next step is A Narrative Essay, which extends short-story writing into the reflective B2 form.
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