This document provides guidance on using verb tenses to tell new and old stories in English. For a new story, the introduction should use the third column (present perfect) and details can be questions using the first column with "did" or answers using the first column with "didn't" for negatives and the second column for positives. For an old story, the introduction uses the second column, questions use the first column with "did", and negatives use the first column with "didn't". Examples are provided to illustrate these structures.