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Situational Writing: An Eyewitness Report

Area of Language Focus Learning Objectives

▪ Recognise question requirements for an Eyewitness Report using PACT.
Writing & Representing ▪ Plan coherent and well-thought out paragraphs using PACO.
▪ Accurately and vividly describe characters.

You are advised to write between 200 and 300 words for this section.

You should look at the printout of a webpage on the next page, study the information carefully and
plan your answer before beginning to write.

Your Discipline Master chanced upon the webpage and came to know of a fight that happened in your
school recently. As the prefect patrolling the area where the fight took place, your Discipline Master
Has asked you to write an eyewitness report about the details of the incident.

In your eyewitness report, you must include the following details:

• what you saw when you were patrolling

• who were involved in the fight
• what happened during the fight
• what you did
• who came to help

Write your report in clear, accurate English using a formal and objective tone to provide your
Discipline Master with a full picture of the incident. Use your own words as far as possible.

You may include any other relevant details which will assist your Discipline Master in his
investigation.

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An Eyewitness Report - Planning Paragraphs and Generating Ideas

Planning our essays is crucial. If we have not planned what we want to write, we run the huge risk of
spending way more time we had intended on writing the entire essay! This is because we are taking
unnecessary pauses. We can write our essays more efficiently and effectively by taking 5 to 10
minutes to plan and generate ideas before we start writing. This way, we can kill two birds with one
stone by saving time and improving our flow of writing!

Let’s use the P-A-C-O Planning Framework to plan our letter:

P-A-C-O Notes/ Ideas in Point Form

Purpose: WHY am I
I am writing this eyewitness report to provide an accurate account of a school
writing this essay?
fight that happened recently

Audience: WHO am I
The Discipline Master of my school
writing this essay to?

Context: WHAT is
the given situation?

PACO Paragraph Focus Notes/ Ideas in Point Form

Paragraph 1 Introduction:
● Greet the Discipline Master
● I am Hannah Ho, a Secondary Two Prefect
Organisation: HOW
from Class 2 Integrity
do I structure my
● There had been a school fight in Sunflower
writing?
Secondary School recently
● I want to give you an accurate depiction of
what occurred on the day of the fight

Paragraph 2 • I was standing by the school lift at

_________________________ on
______________ during my recess duty
• I spotted ____________________near the
______________ at ___________.
• The shorter boy was bawling his eyes out
• The taller boy was holding the shorter one by
his collar while hurling profanities at him

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P-A-C-O Paragraph Focus Notes/ Ideas in Point Form

Paragraph 3 • Upon closer examination, I managed to

identify the two students as
______________________________.
• Their names were _________ and
__________.
• However, they refused to tell me their names
and classes as they were afraid of getting
into trouble
• I found out that Samuel accidentally
shattered the screen of Raymond’s brand
new _________ while playing
____________________.
• __________, Raymond chased Samuel
down the corridor and demanded that he pay
for the mobile phone screen repair
• When Samuel declined, Raymond boiled
with rage and slapped him across the face,
causing Samuel to let out a loud cry

Paragraph 4 • I broke the fight up by instructing the two

boys to ______________
• A group of boys from my class walked past
us after 15 minutes and separated the two
boys
• I shared that violence and anger will not
solve any problems. Instead,
______________________________ the
issue

Paragraph 5 • Unfortunately, I was not able to get their

surnames and classes
Conclusion • As a result, I would like
__________________ in identifying the two
students based on their given description
• I feel that _______________ could be offered
to resolve the issue between them
• Furthermore, it is important for us to keep
_______________________________to ensure
__________________________for our students

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