4th Year: Narrative tenses

Hello people!
 
 
Here is revision on narrative tenses (past simple, past continuous, and past perfect)

 
First, you may want to revise the uses of each tense. Go over your notes, and check the following website:

http://www.eltbase.com/notes.php?id=201

About Narrative Tenses
When we are telling the story in the past we can use a variety of narrative tenses.
We use the past simple to talk about the main events of the story: The audience watched the live broadcast in horror.
We use the past continuous to describe other events and actions that were in progress at the time of events: A woman was lying on a surgical table.
We use the past perfect to show that a past action took place before another past action: Frida had finished school and was travelling home when her bus crashed.

                was travelling
               |-------------->|
---------------X---------------X---------------X------>
< ---past      ^               ^               now
       finished school     crashed

 
 And here is some practice!!

1) Narrative tenses in a news story http://www.eltbase.com/quiz/201_01.htm
 
2) Narrative tenses in an anecdote/story
http://www.eltbase.com/quiz/201_02.htm
http://www.ice.urv.es/eoiact/level3/narrativetenses1.htm