Narrative tenses
Grammar · B2 · 12 printable sheets, each with an answer key.
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- Sheet 1 · 30 minNarrative tenses: the job interview that went wrongA disastrous morning before a job interview told in narrative tenses, with word order practice and an open cloze.Free
- Sheet 2 · 35 minNarrative tenses: a breakthrough in the labThe story of a scientific discovery in narrative tenses, with sentence matching, key-word transformations and a news story to write.Premium
- Sheet 3 · 30 minGrammar explained: narrative tensesFour past tenses working together to tell a story.Premium
- Sheet 4 · 30 minGrammar explained: narrative tenses – past perfect simple or continuous?Had written or had been writing? Results versus longer activities.Premium
- Sheet 5 · 20 minNarrative tenses: past simple and past continuousA power cut in snowy Sapporo: set the scene with the past continuous and move the story on with the past simple.Premium
- Sheet 6 · 20 minNarrative tenses: the past perfect for earlier eventsToo late again: use the past perfect to show which past event happened first.Premium
- Sheet 7 · 20 minNarrative tenses: the past perfect continuousRed eyes, muddy boots and wet streets: explain past situations with had been + -ing.Premium
- Sheet 8 · 20 minNarrative tenses: past perfect simple or continuous?Lost in the Andes fog: compare completed actions and repeated counts with ongoing activities before a past moment.Premium
- Sheet 9 · 20 minNarrative tenses: time linkers (when, as, by the time)Link events in a story with as soon as, by the time, while, until and hardly ... when.Premium
- Sheet 10 · 20 minNarrative tenses: was going to and was about toPlans that changed and moments just before something happened: the future in the past.Premium
- Sheet 11 · 20 minNarrative tenses: spot and correct the mistakesFind and fix common mistakes with narrative tenses, then build correct sentences.Premium
- Sheet 12 · 20 minNarrative tenses: story-writing challengeA suitcase mix-up in Johannesburg: analyze a model story, then plan your own using all the narrative tenses.Premium