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Continue Activity 13 below

• Use the chart to determine the main characters in the story,
which characters serve a supporting role, and which
are incidental.
• Defend your answers and opinions in order to reach
an agreement.
TRACK 54 • Listen to the track and use it as an example.

14. Reread the story you selected and do the following. Keep in
mind that you need them for your comic strip.

• Determine the main, secondary and incidental characters.
• Locate the parts of the story in which the narrator speaks and
determine which character acts on it.
Example:

Remember

Adjectives are
words that
describe or
modify other
words, making
your writing and
speaking much
more specific,
and a whole lot
more interesting.
15. Scan the story you selected and highlight the words and Words like young,
expressions that describe the characters. black, and afraid
are descriptive,
and they are
• Locate the parts of the story in which the author talks about session 7
all examples
the characters' attitudes, behaviors or personality traits, as well of adjectives.
as information about their appearance. Look at the example. Because adjectives
are used to
Example: identify or quantify
individual people
and unique
appearance attitudes things, they are
usually positioned
before the noun
Very early one morning, a young woman, dressed in black, came or pronoun that
to see us. She looked tired and unhappy, and her face was very they modify. Some Adjectives. Speech register
sentences contain
white. 'I'm afraid! Afraid of death, Mr Holmes!' she cried. 'Please multiple adjectives.
help me! I'm not thirty yet and look at my grey hair! I'm so afraid!'
{...} 'I have been very lonely without my sister, but a month ago a
dear friend asked me to marry him.

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