Once upon a time

Last year at Christmas, I had several Korean students. One of them was Oliver, a very sweet kid of about 10. One day we studied past tenses and story writing and I gave the students the homework assignment to write a story starting "Once upon a time..." Oliver wrote the best homework paper ever and I have kept it to this day, and now I want to share it with you. I have tried to keep it somewhat the same but changed bits of the grammar to aid in understanding. Enjoy!

Once upon a time, there was a monster honter “TopCat”lived in big house. He was not very big, but strong and used sword well. Every day, he found a monster and made it death. He's house was all computer system. And his own car was all computer system too. All of the monsters lived in monster castle. It was very dangerous, because many monsters kill anything when they saw any creature, so no one wanted to go inside that castle. TopCat try to kill the monster's boss, but he used magic so TopCat couldn't catch him.

One day, TopCat made a new sword. He could do magic when he used that sword. He went by his car and went to the monster's castle, suddenly,the car was boomed (crushed). The hammer monster with hammer hit the car with his hammer. So TopCat made a tornado that look like dragon with his sword and shot the hammer monster. Then that monster flied away. Then, all of the monsters ran to TopCat!!! TopCat made a fire shield and shoot tornadoes to the monsters. All the monsters are died. The boss of the monster made a wave that looked like monster and the water monster ran to TopCat. TopCat shoot ice to them. Then the monster became ice. He shoot the dragon tornado with fire to the boss. Then the boss was dead and gone with wind. TopCat went to home. Then, nobody knew this about TopCat. But some people knew about it. Five children in the language academy learn English from him. And I'm one of them.