Once upon a time... in Lyautey

As a teacher, it's always a pleasure to see pupils being able to communique by themselves. The aim of this following activity was to write detective stories in simple past, a lesson we had studied in class. This lesson dealt with a detective story and consequently, the pupils had to write one à la manière de...

The children gathered in groups of three to five and decided by themselves on the characters, settings, exposition, conflict, climax and resolution of their stories. Then, they wrote their stories which were corrected, of course, but only on the grammatical issues that had not already been studied in class.

The following task was to learn and train to tell these stories in front of the class. They trained very seriously and the result was tremendous! 

It has been a real pleasure for me to make the pupils of this class work on that task... I'm just looking forward to doing something else with them!

Enjoy these five stories...

PA

Hello my name is Juliette, I am a detective. Today it’s Monday 3^rd of March in 2205.We are going to tell you about Lola’s story.

It was in 2203 on Pluton.Lola lived at 12, Banana Street with her family.

Gertrude and James lived in the woods. James was a doctor and he worked for Gertrude (the old woman).James made a potion for Gertrude to kill Lola’s family because they had kill Gertrude family.

On a special week-end, Lola’s family was camping in the woods.

In the morning, they jogged in the woods.

Suddenly, they fell in Gertrude’s trap. The oldwomam injected the potion to Lola’s parents and Lola was on the jail of the laboratory because the crazy woman wanted to kill her later. The parents are dead L .

Then, Gertrude went to the jail to speak to Lola, Gertrude said “hello Lola”. Lola said “where are my parents?”So Gertrude said “they are dead”.

Lola cried. After a moment, Gertrude went to the laboratory with jammers to get the potion. In the night, Gertrude injected the potion in Lola’s arm. In the morning Lola woke up with a special power: this was a bad potion.

Lola phoned me, and I came to help her. With her power Lola opened the door of the jail. Gertrude didn’t know Lola has this power. Gertrude thought she was dead. Lola arrived in Gertrude’s bedroom where she was sleeping and with her power, she killed her.

James became nice, and he adopted Lola because she no longer had a family and she kept her power.

IT’S A HAPPY END!

Rime B., Coline F., Esther H., Valentine T.                                                                                                        

Cardiff City 1998

During that summer Jennifer lost her daughter ,LIZA SMITH, because some children had killed her by drowning her. Jennifer decided to take her revenge

Five years ago, jennifer SMITH was a police officer.There were lots of kidnappings for children. Peter Wasley wanted Jennifer SMITH's help for the investigation. Jennifer said « yes ». One day, Peter and his daughter, Tara, went in the police station. Jennifer was very interested in the little girl, she asked Peter if he wanted to come to her home with Tara for a dinner.

Peter accepted and after some days he went to Jennifer's home one evening. But Tara wasn't there because she was sick. Jennifer was sad. But she cooked a big dinner so they went to the table and they have their dinner. Jennifer went to the toilets. Peter saw a booknote on the table, he opened and read it. He found the pictures of the kidnaped children. Lots of pictures were crossed in red as blood ink. Peter hid the booknote, Jennifer said « I need a beer ». Peter went to take a beer in the garage and he saw a dead children, so he called his partner because Jennifer was the murderer.

The policeman said « You are under arrest ».

Today, 20 years after, Jennifer is free. I'm scared.... very scared.

By Selma D., Anthéa D. – Ines E. M. –– Lucie L.-M.

 Yesterday morning, the weather was very cold; it would be a bad day. The police of Chicago called the famous detective Orassio Hunt because they found a female corpse who had died four days before on a strange crime scene. The victim was found in an abandoned car, she was tall and slim, she had red hair and green eyes. Near her there was a bouquet of white roses. Orassio decided to investigate in this crime with his assistant Kate Benson and he promised to find the murderer.

In the past, Orassio had investigated in a same type crime: The victim was also found in an abandoned car, she also had red hair and near her there was also a white roses’ bouquet. So, Orassio thought that it was a serial killer. The time went on, there were many other victims and Orassio and Kate had just fingerprints which were not in the database. For being sure that the police wouldn’t forget anything, Kate called them in the afternoon.

But during the crime scene investigation  they found a ribbon with a florist’s name written on it. So they went to the florist and they asked the list of the persons who had bought a bouquet of white roses during the last two months. Luckily, there were just two persons and one of them was a child. So they went to Brad Parker’s home (the second buyer).

They found him and arrested him. The fingerprints matched and after sixteen hours of questioning the presumed guilty guy confessed that he was the murderer. He was imprisoned in the most sever jail. Judge Paddington sentence him for life imprisonment. Orassio and Kate were congratulated because they had resolved a series of crimes.

By Sophia B., Ito E. M., Salma L., Yzza M.

     One evening last year in London, in a shopping centre, a director and the woman who worked in the shop suddenly heard a sound outside and the director went to see what happened.

After the director came back to the shop, he didn't find the jewels and the woman, so he thought that she was a thief and he called the police.

After one hour, the police arrived at the shop and interviewed the director. He told what had happened. With the information on the woman (adress,number...) the police found the woman. They interviewed her and she went to prison because they thought it was her. She escaped from the prison.

Finally  she escaped from the jail she interviewed to find the person respousible for the robber. She went to the shop and she found clues thanks to the camera and she went to the police station to say it wasn't her. The police saw the camera and found the robber. The woman was saved and she worked in the shop again. 

By Ylene A. Sarah B. Samya Z.

My name is John Carton, I’m 65 years old, I’m a former member of the CIA I have lived in Washington for 60 years, and now I’m going tell you a story.

On Sunday, November 1^st 1963, in Washington, President Kennedy lived in peace with his family in the White House. And one day, a terrorist organization, “The BlackSun” posted an advertisement video about him saying they wanted to kill hi. Worried the President called my assistant James Adams and me.

On Thursday, November 10^th 1963, my assistant and I left to 22^nd Street, it was the neighborhood in Miami where we had localized the wireless of the terrorist. It was really incredible because we saw dead people on the floor. My friend and I understood that the terrorist was in Washington. James and I were really scared and we left for Washington.

On Tuesday, November 19^th 1963, in the BlackSun GQ the boss of the organization prepared his sniper; he was prepared to kill President Kennedy.

On Friday, November 22^nd 1963, in the White House, Red Tiger the terrorist organization’s boss was infiltrated with the employer and he arrived in the office of Kennedy and he sniped him Kennedy was hurt and he couldn’t get up but I arrived on time and I killed Red Tiger. President Kennedy could go to the hospital where he was saved.

By Ghali B., Yassine B., Yanis L., Jeremy M., Augustin W.