Analyzing texts

These sentences can be useful for analysing texts. You only need to substitute the words. Have a look at Feelings and Phrases for Talks for further information.

The text

• The story is about two teenagers.
• The action takes place in London.
• The text is divided into 5 parts.

The characters

• The main characters are Peter and Mary.
• I think Peter is brave because he rescues Mary.
• In line 27 he says ...
• In my opinion Mandy shouldn't have gone out alone.
• The characters in the story change.
• At first Peter is helpless.
• Later he becomes brave.

Summarizing the text

• The main point is that Peter likes Mandy.
• The difficult thing is that Mandy doesn't see this.
• The turning point in the story is when Mandy falls off the tree.
• On the one hand Mandy likes Peter, on the other hand she doesn't like his friends.
• That's why ...

My opinion

• I think that the story is nice.
• My point of view is that ...
• My first impression was ...
• I like/don't like the story/poem/song.
• I thought that the story would end like that.
• The ending of the story didn't surprise me.
• I think that this only happens in films.
• I must admit that ...
• The message of the story is ...

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