TELL TIME MONSTERS Classroom activities to teach narrative tenses Are you looking for new grammar games for the classroom? Multiple winner of the TeachingEnglish blog award Mike Astbury shares some resources to download, print, and use in your class. What are narrative tenses? Narrative tenses are verb tenses that are used to talk about the past. You can often find them in stories, textbooks, spoken accounts and in descriptions of past events. The following are examples of narrative tenses: Past simple: 'We left for the airport on an exceptionally sunny day.' Past continuous: 'The sun was shining and it was really hot by midday.' Past perfect: 'It had been sunny on and off for the previous fortnight.' Past perfect continuous: 'We had been waiting at the airport for what seemed like an eternity.' Activities to practise narrative tenses The following games are designed to help students practise narrative tenses and don’t require teacher supervision. The games use 16 cards, which tell a short story when combined together. A. B. These are card templates. C. D.
3: Directions Useful English Ex. 3: Directions Choose the most appropriate answer. 1. Excuse me! 2. Could you tell me how to get to the History Museum, please? 3. Can you tell me where the bank is , please? 4. Would you mind giving me some directions, please? 5. I am looking for the new children's library. 6. Walk two blocks and turn left at the traffic light . 7. Go past the flower shop, the drugstore, and the supermarket. 8. The library will be on your left. 9. Could you tell me where I can buy some souvenirs, please? 10. There are several souvenir shops on Apple Street, about three blocks from here . Your result: 00% correct.
SixPix #12 ESL Listening Game about Giving Directions (1) OK, here is how to get to my house from the train station. Go out of the train station and turn left. Go about half a block and you will see a pub. At that intersection, turn right and go down that street for about three and a half blocks. Go past the post office, and you'll go past a river, and past a hospital and the first road past the hospital, you want to turn right. Go down that block two houses and you'll see my house on the right. (2) OK, if I'm not home, then just go to my friends house, so I might be busy at work, so in that case, from my house turn right down the street and go past the gas station and keep going straight until you get to a bookstore. (3) OK, if my friend's not home then just go an wait for me at Miki's Tavern.
Present Simple Verbs (Letitia Bradley a4esl.org Present Simple Verbs Click the answer button to see the answer. She ___ four languages.a. speakb. speaksJane is a teacher. She ___ French.a. teachb. teachesWhen the kettle ___, will you make some tea? Copyright (C) 1997 by Letitia BradleyThis quiz is part of the HTML-Only Self-Study Quizzes which is part of Activities for ESL Students, a project by The Internet TESL Journal.
Using past tenses correctly for storytelling in English Giving directions A Go straight on. Then take the first left on to Green Street. Walk past the library and it’s the building next to the library on the left. B Go straight on. Go past the traffic lights. You will see a shop on the right. C Go straight on. D Go straight on. A Go straight on. B Go straight on. C Go straight on. D Go straight on.
36 Chinese Habits: Help You Know More About Chinese People - Let's Chinese China is a brand-new world for a foreigner, especially for those from western countries. I’m sure lots of people are very curious about the real Chinese lifestyle. Today I’m going to present to you the most common 36 Chinese habits to help know more about Chinese people. Some of them might be seemed strange and some of them are worth to learn. 1. No shoes in the house Wooden floors are being widely used in most Chinese homes because they are used to be barefoot in the house. spending lots of times on sweeping the floors. 2. Western people are always willing to say good morning to each other for kindness. If people really have eyes contact with each other, at most, they will just smile a bit and that’s it. 3. I know lots of western people think showering in the morning is a good way to make them feel more energetic and kill the sleepy feeling. 4. Morning exercise has also been very popular for a long time in China. 5. Soybean milk is a common drink in China for a very long time. 6. 7. 8.