Revision 2nd term - grammar

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.

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What Are Narrative Tenses?

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.'

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Multiple Choice

We use narrative tenses...

• To tell stories or narrate past events

• To tells stories or narrate present events

• To tells stories or narrate future events

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"Last night, I went to a Hospital"

• Past Simple

• Past Continuous

• Past Perfect

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"I had fallen from a tree, and my arm was broken."

• Past Simple

• Past Continuous

• Past Perfect

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"The weather was awful, actually it was raining really hard"

• Past Simple

• Past Continuous

• Past Perfect

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We use it to talk about consecutive actions or situations in the past.

• Simple Past

• Past Continuous

• Past Perfect simple

• Past Perfect continuous

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We use it to describe a longer continuous past action or situation that was in progress when another action happened, or to describe an action or situation that was not complete at a past time.

• Simple Past

• Past Continuous

• Past Perfect simple

• Past Perfect continuous

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What is the purpose of using the Past Perfect Tense?

• To describe an action that happened before another action in the past

• To show the sequence of events in the past

• To form the auxiliary verb 'had'

• To indicate the completion of an action

Open Ended

Write a sentence using the Past Perfect Tense (affirmative, negative,or interrogative)

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Blue was my favorite color when I was a kid.

• past simple

• past continuous

• past perfect

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We were stretching when the coach called us back.

• past simple

• past continous

• past perfect

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Jane had gone to the doctor before going to school.

• past simple

• past continuous

• past perfect

Multiple Choice

Which tense is used to tell a story in chronological order?

• Past simple

• Past perfect

Multiple Select

Read the text and decide which color(s) : the past simple tense

• green text

• yellow text

• red text

• blue text

• pink text

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Read the text and decide

which color(s): the past continuous tense

• green text

• yellow text

• red text

• blue text

• pink text

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Read the text and decide

which color(s): the past perfect tense

• green text

• yellow text

• red text

• blue text

• pink text

PAST TIME EXPRESSIONS

• yesterday.

• ago

• last

• for ten years.

• on her birthday.

• before/after breakfast.

• in 2020.

• when/ while/during

Multiple Choice

My family and I visited a museum ...... weekend.

• ago

• last

• yesterday

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Anis travelled to Australia a few months ........

• ago

• last

• yesterday

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My brother had left ________ I arrived home. I couldn't tell him about my day.

• after

• last

• yesterday

• before

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I was sleeping _________ she left. I didn't talk to her.

• when

• while

• during

• yesterday

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She was doing her homework ____________ her mom was cooking dinner.

• when

• while

• during

• yesterday

Imperatives

Enjoy your trip!
Don't be late.
Please, open the window.
Go to your room!
Open the books.
Go straight on then turn left.
Be careful!
Drink water regularly!
Don't sleep in the classroom.

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct form of an imperative

• No give up.

• Don´t give up.

• You shouldn't give up.

Multiple Choice

_____ eat or drink in the classroom

• Not

• They don't

• Don't

Multiple Select

Choose the imperative sentences:

• Clean your room

• You go to the doctor

• Don't go to work today

• She has to study for the exam

Multiple Choice

Go to your bedroom! You're grounded!

• order

• advice

• warning

• instruction

Multiple Choice

Get those tomatos for me, please.

• order

• advice

• request

• instruction

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Drink some water. It's hot today.

• request

• advice

• warning

• instruction

Multiple Choice

Watch out! There is glass on the floor.

• warning

• advice

• request

• instruction