Life Stories - Narrative Tenses

Short overview of the lesson: 

• Discuss life experiences and important moments to engage students in speaking.
• Encourage personalisation through a “two truths and a lie” activity.
• Develop storytelling skills by reconstructing J.K. Rowling’s story from visual prompts.
• Read and analyse a model text, focusing on narrative tenses in context.
• Clarify and practise past simple, past continuous, past perfect simple, and past perfect continuous.
• Reinforce understanding through guided grammar tasks and controlled practice.
• Use prompts to create personalised sentences with narrative tenses.
• Engage in fluency practice by sharing real-life stories in pairs or groups.
• Watch a video and retell a story.
• Practise grammar through multiple-choice exercises and sentence completion.
• Develop writing skills by producing a short narrative about an important life decision.