If you feel like practising narrative tenses a bit more, click on the links below:
Do you still need more practice? Click here, here and here and complete the activities proposed.
Click here to check your answers
Remember
that what really matters when writing or telling a story is to make it
clear the order in which the different events, situations, ... happened.
That's why the use of time expressions is essential:
Talking about a period of time in the past
My mother started work as a nurse in the 1960s.
In those days she lived in London.
Back then nurses were badly paid.
At that time, nurses lived in special accommodation.
Talking about a single event in the past
At one time she lost her door key and had to stay in a hotel.
On one occasion she nursed the son of a famous politician.
Sequencing events in the past
There are many ways to sequence events in the past. Here are some of the more common ones.
After (in the middle of a sentence)
Afterwards / After that / After a while (at the beginning of a sentence)
Then / Before (in the middle or at the beginning of a sentence)
Before that / Previously / Until then (At the beginning of a sentence)
By the time (in the middle of a sentence followed by a past perfect tense)
By then / by that time (at the beginning of a sentence)
I went shopping after I finished work.
I worked all day in the office. Afterwards / After that, I went shopping.
I went shopping. After a while, I got bored.
I worked before I went shopping.
I went shopping at 6pm. Before that / Previously / Until then I had worked all day in the office.
I worked all day, then I went shopping.
I was desperate to go shopping by the time I had finished work.
I worked until 6pm. By then / By that time, I was glad for the opportunity to go shopping.
Other expressions to refer to the next event in a story
Later on
Before long
At that moment / Suddenly
Meanwhile
At the same time
Simultaneously (a more formal way of saying meanwhile / at the same time)
I worked and then went shopping. Later on I met some friends for pizza.
I waited for a while in the restaurant. Before long, the waiter came up and asked me…
At that moment / Suddenly, I heard the door slam.
Meanwhile / At the same time / Simultaneously my phone started to ring.
Now, try these online activities:
TIME SEQUENCERS
Finally, click here to practice a bit more "used to" and "would" for habits or repeated actions in the past
Hope it helps!
This is a powerpoint presentation which includes some basic information for you to revise the "Passive Voice":
Click here to check your answers to the activities I told you to complete on pag.67 and pag.173 in your book.
If you need more practice, click here.
You can also download this document to revise and practise the use of the Impersonal Passive:
"It is said that..../ He's said to...."
Last day we also had time to speak about conditional sentences. This time we focused on third and mixed conditional sentences:
For further practice, click on the links below:
Click on the links below to practise "mixed conditional sentences":
MIXED CONDITIONALS 1
MIXED CONDITIONALS 2
Hello everybody,
Today we kept talking about POLITICS, and also revised the main strutures and uses of Zero, First and Second Conditional sentences:
Should you feel like practising a bit more, click on the links below:
Next week, we'll look at Third And Mixed conditional sentences, so I would like you to complete activities 12 (on page 39) and Exercise 1 and 2 (on pages 170-171).
Yesterday we started the lesson with our language assistant, Sandra, revising adjectives and phrases to describe a person's personality.
When she left, we played this board game:
Most of the adjectives and phrases in the board game appear in this powerpoint, the one we used last year to learn about PERSONALIY:
For a list of POSITIVE adjectives click here
For a list of NEGATIVE adjectives click here
Try these online quizzes:
QUIZ 1
QUIZ 2
QUIZ 3 (this is a link to many different vocabulary quizzes)
