Advanced Narrative Tenses - Grammar Question Practice
Practise advanced narrative tenses through personal questions and paired speaking at B2 level. Includes a model exchange, follow-up support and a communicative task; answers are open-ended.
What’s in the worksheet?
- Model exchange
- Topic-based partner questions
- Follow-up support
- Communicative pair practice
Build a coherent past narrative with events, background and earlier causes.
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A simple way to teach it
Before the lesson
Use the single learner page in pairs. Personal or invented responses can vary; there is no fixed answer key.
- Trace the wrong-train story: answering a message, not checking and rushing before boarding.
- Answer the connected story questions about background, earlier causes, duration, reactions and the ending.
- Create a two-person mix-up with different points of view; retell what each person knew and had done before explaining the misunderstanding.
Support and extension
Help learners choose tense by time and narrative purpose. Do not require past perfect for every earlier event or treat when and while as automatic tense switches.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
