1. Narrative tenses

2. Let’s tell
a story
Make sentences for the pictures in
the right tense…

3. PAST SIMPLE
• We use the past simple for finished
consecutive actions in the past.

4. PAST SIMPLE
• Romeo met Juliet at a party…

5. PAST SIMPLE
• They fell in love…

6. PAST SIMPLE
• They had to fight for their love…

7. PAST SIMPLE
• Romeo tought Juliet was dead…

8. PAST SIMPLE
• He killed himself…

9. PAST SIMPLE
• They died for love…

10. PAST CONTINUOUS
• We use the past continuous to describe a
longer action in progress in the past. This is
often an action which was in progress when
another action happened. It is often used to
set a scene.

11. PAST CONTINUOUS
• When Romeo met Juliet…
… people were dancing and singing.

12. PAST PERFECT
• We use the past perfect to talk about an
action which happened before the specific
time in the past when the main events of the
story happened.

13. PAST PERFECT
• e.g. Romeo met Juliet and thought she was
dead.
BEFORE THIS
• Before Romeo met Juliet…
she had taken drugs to simulate her death.