Write a story about a very special holiday.

Words you may use:

• Taikoo Shing
• spaghetti bolognese
• White House
• South Pole
• penguins
• Haiti
• earthquake

Famous Life-amended

Ben was born in a poor family, there were many people living in his house. His aunt did not like him, so she always hit him. Ben had a younger brother, Ken, and his father loved Ken more than Ben. Ben thought it was unfair and studied very hard. He thought, “If I work hard, my father will love me more!” Although his family was poor, it could send Ben and Ken to school. Ben worked very hard at school. So he had very good results and he was famous at school. But someone hated him and wanted to make fun of him.

One day, Ben was on his way to school and suddenly a boy poured a bottle of water on his head. Ben was very sad and cried. The boy slipped away. When Ben arrived at school, he told the teacher about it. The boy came from a rich family and he was called Jason. Jason’s father is the principal. Jason hated Ben very much and always made fun of him. Although Ben worked very hard, he could not study happily at school.

Ben always went to a book shop to read the fashion magazines. He wanted to be a famous designer. He wanted to make his dream come true, so he always went to boutiques and studied the clothes. Ben was very happy when he graduated from primary school, because Jason could not make fun of him.

When Ben was eighteen years old, he got 10 As in the HKCEE. He went to France to study art. He met a famous designer and his name is Raymond. Raymond always designed interesting clothes. He worked for fifty actresses in the world. Raymond was Ben’s idol. After Ben had graduated from university, he became Raymond’s assistant.

Ben always helped Raymond a lot, so Raymond liked him very much. Other assistants thought he was just trying to please Raymond, and they always avoided him. Ben was very sad and quitted. Ben used his salary to set up a fashion company. There were many actresses inviting him to design clothes and he became famous in the USA.

When Ben was twenty-four years old, he was very famous in the world, and many celebrities asked him to design clothes. Ben’s designs appeared in many fashion magazines. He received more than sixty design awards and had twenty-two fashion labels.

Hong Kong's 1st Mail Robbery-amended

There were three postmen going to work. Suddenly, two men appeared and blinded two of the postmen with chemical spray and grabbed two mailbags containing 1,100 letters. When the two men ran away, a policeman helped them and called 999. The three postmen went to the police station after leaving the hospital.

After two days, the three postmen got a letter. It wrote, “If you report to the police, we will kill you!” The postmen were very scared, because they told the police about the robbers’ clothes. Now the police was finding them. The postmen were scared that the robbers would come back for revenge, so they found the famous private detective, Alex, for help.

Alex said, “I will help you!” When the postmen left the Alex’s office, they saw many men who looked like gangsters. When the gangsters tried to hit the postmen, four police cars arrived. The gangsters escaped. The postmen were very scared and thought, “Who called the police?” Alex appeared and said, “Me!”

The postmen were very surprised and asked, “Why did you know?” Alex said, “Because I found that there aren’t many people shopping here in Mongkok today. I thought there must be something wrong. It was the gangsters, so I called the police to save you.” Then Alex asked about what the robbers looked like, and the postmen answered, “They were wearing green clothes and were not very tall.”

Alex went to the New Territories and thought, “If the robbers are gangsters, it will not be easy to find them.” So he investigated the gangsters. There were seven gangs in the New Territories. When the two investigators came back, they said, “The robbers came from Yuen Long.” Alex went to his office and searched for the gangs on the Internet. The gang put some drugs in four envelopes and sold them. If the police knew about the drugs, it would arrest the gangsters.

Alex went to the police station and told the police everything. Then, the police arrested the Yuen Long gang. Alex became famous after this case. But the gang did not disappear, and Alex was very scared. He worked hard on his other cases.

1. don’t mix up: FORM and FROM

2. don’t mix up: THE and THEY

3. don’t forget the singulars and plurals

4. don’t forget the close quotation mark (”)