Name : ananda maulida

Nim : 180107135

Class : TBI 4D

Essay writing lesson

A. Grammar focus
Question :
1. When can we use simple, continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous?
2. Please rewrite the examples of each of the past tense given in the video!
B. Writing : narrative essay
Question :
1. What can learn from the video about writing a personal narrative essay?
C. Writing concept
Question :
1. What is a narrative essay ?
2. List a number of most frequently used transitions when writing a narrative essay!
3. Please write the examples of pithfalls ( see page 127).

Answer :

A. grammar focus
1. first is past simple tense, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect
continuous, we can use These tenses to describe events that happened in the past
and for telling stories.
Past simple, we use the past simple tense foe events and action that started and
finished in the past.
Past continuous, we use the past continuous tense to describe the background of
the story or to talk about things that started before the story started.
Past perfect, we use the past perfect to signal that the second things the story
talks about actually happened first.
Past perfect continuous, we use the past perfect continuous to describe something
that has happened over a long period of time.
2. Past simple, example : I had a terrible day last Monday! It all started when I woke
up late.
 Past continuous, example : it all started when I woke up late. I opened the
curtains. It was raining and the traffic was moving very slowly.
Past perfect, example : when I looked at my phone, I realized I had slept through
the alarm!
Past perfect continuous, example : when I looked at my phone, I realized I had
slept through the alarm. I had been sleeping like a long!.

B. Writing : narrative essay

1. How to organize your essay you will need to choose a title then you only just start
with an introduction paragraph you will tell your story with the beginning a
middle and an end finally you will write a conclution paragraph

C. Writing concept
1. Narrative essay is the story that we are telling use the chronological order,
meaning the events are told in the order that they happened.
2. Transition word used in narration are generally time markers:
- Afterward
- At last
- At the same time
- At this point
- By this time
- Eventually
- Finally
- First, second, third.
- In the end
- Meanwhile
- Next
- Soon after
- Subsequently
- Then
- To begin with
3. Examples of pitfalls :
- Avoid stringing together a series of events without dramatizing any of
them or showing their significance. For examples, no one wants to read a
mere series of “this happened and then this happened and then we did this”
- Avoid a list. Make sure the events are logically connected appropriate
transitions to help the reader follow the sequence of events. For example, the
following list isn’t particularly interesting: “we arrived at my grandmother’s.
we put our bags away.We spend the afternoon cooking thanksgiving dinner”.
If you link the events together with transitions, the sequence makes more
sense for the reader: “we arrived at my grandmother’s around 1 pm. After
putting our bags away, we spent most of the afternoon preparing all the
family’s favorite thanksgiving dishes”.