B1 LESSON 5 NARRATIVE TENSES

 TIEMPOS PASADOS PARA NARRAR EVENTOS

Narrative tenses are used to talk about past events and to tell stories

Narrative tenses are four tenses that we often use for talking about past events.

The most common of these is the past simple.

 

The other three tenses, the past continuous, the past perfect simple and the past perfect continuous, can help us to say what we want more efficiently.

 

It is useful to look at these tenses together in the context of the function narrating - relating past events.

Narrative tenses are common in written stories, especially when they describe action

READ THIS EXAMPLE

    Bond opened the door very slowly, looked carefully around the room and walked in. The window was open and the curtains were blowing in the wind. Clearly someone had left in a hurry.

Past simple
opened, looked, walked, was

Past continuous

were blowing

Past perfect

had left

COMPLETAMOS CON LOS DISTINTOS PASADOS LAS SIGUIENTES NARRATIVAS

A spooky experience

Incident on a plane

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