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Narrative tenses and
story writing activity
Written by Keith Taylor
Last updated on 28 January, 2022

This is a downloadable ESL activity

to practise using narrative tenses to
write a story in English.

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baby fish trees Saturday spider

aboxof
gun bread Europe Australia
matches

keys yellowugly beach sand

water coffeebathroomdesk shoes

doctor teacherbalconyspaghetti TV

washing
milk motorbike cigarettebank
machine

cat windowswimming
l
newspapersuitcase
poo

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Here’s some more info about the activity:

Language Narrative tenses

point

To practise writing a story

Aim

Students use random words to

Activity
write a story.

Organisation Pair work or group work

Make one copy of the activity.

Preparation
Cut up the words.

1. Put students into pairs or

groups.
2. Groups pick Vve words at
random.
3. Groups write a story
containing the Vve words and
What do I
using narrative tenses.
do?
4. Optional: Give students the
Vrst and/or last sentence of
the story, e.g. “It was a cold,
stormy night…” or “It was love
at Vrst sight…”

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Keith is the co-founder of Eslbase. He has been a

teacher and teacher trainer for over 20 years, in
Indonesia, Australia, Morocco, Spain, Italy,
Poland, France and now in the UK.

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