Storytelling

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LESSON SET OVERVIEW

With this lesson set, your students will:

  • revise past tenses (Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect),
  • learn phrases useful when telling stories, 
  • read short stories, 
  • create stories using past tenses. 

The set was created to provide revision and practice of three past tenses. In the first lesson, students work with the tenses while reading and creating stories. In the second lesson they learn phrases useful for telling stories and use the grammar and the phrases to create more stories.

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Lesson 1

Revise and practise past tenses with your students
narrative tenses
Standard Lesson 60 min Premium Plan

Narrative tenses – using Past Simple/Continuous/Perfect for storytelling

Grammar

Students revise the meaning, use and form of Past Simple, Past Continuous and Past Perfect. They also practise the tenses while reading and creating short stories.

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Lesson 2

Help your students hone their storytelling skills
telling stories in English
Standard Lesson 60 min Premium Plan

Be a better storyteller

Grammar

Students learn phrases, adverbs and time markers useful when telling stories. They also read stories and create their own. One of the stories they create is based on a video. Students use past tenses throughout the lesson.

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  1. speakconfidently

    What a great idea to combine these 2 lessons!

    1. Justa

      Happy to hear that! We hope they help your students to understand and practise narrative tenses 🙂

  2. joseph.jones

    Great

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