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flanks (n.): flancos
Building stage crowd (n.): multitud
jostled (v.):
empujado

8. Read the story below and number in the left column the paragraphs according
to what happened first, second and last.

The Appointment in Samarra session 4
(as retold by W. Somerset Maugham, 1933)

She looked at me and made a threatening gesture. Now, lend me your horse, and I will
ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there, Death will
not find me. The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug
his spurs in its flanks and, as fast as the horse could gallop, he went.

Then, the merchant went down to the market place and he saw me standing in the crowd
and he came to me and said: Why did you make a threating gesture to my servant when
you saw him this morning? That was not a threatening gesture, I said, it was only a start of
surprise. I was astonished to see him in Bagdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight
in Samarra. Patterns of textual arrangement

There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and,
in a little while, the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now
when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned
I saw it was Death that jostled me.

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astonished
• Discuss how you were able to organize the story.
spurs
TRACK 52 • Listen to Track 52 and use it as an example. threatening
Glossary on
page 182
9. Exchange opinions about the parts you think structure a story. Look at
the example.

• Think about when we meet the characters, what obstacles they must overcome, and
if they succeed or not. Look at the example.
Yes,
but first there's a
I remember that part in which the author
introduces the characters
stories have a part where a
conflict is presented. and describes the
stage.

10. Reread the story you selected in Activity 7.

• Identify the three parts of the structure: exposition, conflict, and resolution.

• Copy the next chart in your notebook and decide who is going to work on each
section. Look at the example.
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