Presentation

This blog has been designed for you to identify, understand and put into practice the most commonly used narrative tenses in the English language. 

Narrative tenses are verb tenses that are used to talk about the past. They are often found in stories and descriptions of past events, such as personal anecdotes.

Introduction to Past Simple, Past Continuous and Past Perfect

Hello dear students,

You are invited to visit the following links to see the grammar structure of the narrative tenses,
so please begin with the Past Simple.....

Once you had enough practice on past simple, now look at the following  link to se the grammar structure of Past Continuous, which is also called Past Progressive.

Now, you are ready to get introduced to Past Perfect, so go to the  following link to see the grammar structure.

Finally, look at the following video to increase your knowledge about the use of Narrative Sentences

Telling stories

Narrative tenses are usually found in descriptions of past events, such as stories, and personal anecdotes.

In this section you will find an example of  a story, and tips how to write one, so in the end you can create your own.

Step 1:
Read and listen the following story.

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/writing/upper-intermediate-b2-writing/story

Step 2:

Read some tips on how to write a story.
http://cort.as/-7tMM 

Step 3:
You have to write a twitter short fiction story in 140 characters or less.
Here is the hashtag you have to go to: #twittershortfictionstory

Play this kahoot to test how much you've learned about Narrative Tenses