Imaginative Essay — Learn Before the Exercise
What to include
Use a relevant title, engaging opening, setting, characters, one central imaginative idea, sensory details, logical sequence, turning point, resolution and a reflective conclusion.
Question 35
Complete the checklist based on the sample ‘My Life as EcoFlash’.
How to answer: Use the sample essay itself as evidence.
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The sample contains the textbook features: title, engaging introduction, setting/context, character, central idea, creative language, turning point/resolution and reflective conclusion .

Question 36
Write an imaginative essay on either of the two textbook prompts.
How to answer: Choose one prompt and develop beginning → experience → turning point → learning → conclusion.
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Sample for Prompt 2:

The Book That Opened a Door in Time

At the back of the library I found a dusty book with no title. When I opened it, the page flashed and the shelves vanished. I was standing in a busy town from another century.

I watched people work without modern machines, listened to unfamiliar expressions and realised how many everyday comforts I usually ignored. Before the book returned me, I wrote one sentence on its last page: progress should make us grateful, not careless.

Back in the library, only a minute had passed—but I looked at the present very differently.

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