exercice on past simple vs past continuous tenses. It contains the beginnings of three different stories. Students have to describe which parts give the background and which the main events.

1. SCARY STORIES
Past tenses

2. Can you put together these sentences to make the beginnings of three different stories?

3. Which parts of the story give the
background, and which give the
main events?
Can you
imagine what
happened
next?

4. Work in groups. Choose one of these pictures,
and write the beginning of a scary story.
Think about these questions:
• What time was it?
• What was the weather like?
• Where were the people?
• What were they doing?
• What did they see/hear/feel?
• What happened?
• How did they react?
• What happened next?