Advanced Narrative Tenses - Grammar Question Writing
Practise advanced narrative tenses at B2 level by completing questions, writing personal answers and putting words in order. Includes a model, partner practice and a separate key with sample answers and guidance on alternatives.
What’s in the worksheet?
- Model and grammar reminder
- Question completion and personal answers
- Word-order practice
- Answer key with sample responses and teacher guidance
Write a connected story using four past forms for different timeline roles.
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Page 2 of 2 · Answer key · A4 printable PDF
A simple way to teach it
Before the lesson
Give learners page 1 and retain the page 2 key for checking. The personal responses are examples, not answers learners must copy.
- Identify the talk in progress, frozen screen and earlier saved slides in the example.
- Complete A using its background, earlier-result, earlier-activity and main-event cues; answer all four about one real or invented failed plan.
- Reorder B's speaking, earlier arrival events and travelling-duration questions to extend the partner's story.
Support and extension
Use a short timeline to check what preceded the problem. Later actions normally move the story forward in past simple; do not turn every action into past perfect. The interview story in the key is a model only.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
