Stop thief!

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Teachit Author
Stop thief!
Main Subject
Category
Grammar: Past tenses
Resource type
Complete lesson
Skills
Speaking

Starting with a picture story and building up to oral storytelling from prompts, students practise distinctions between the past simple and past continuous tenses.

An extract from the resource:

Exercise 1

Complete the captions for the story with suitable verbs in the past simple tense. 

  1. It was pouring with rain one day and Penny was bored.  She ................................... to bake some cakes but  ................................... that her cupboard was empty, so she  ................................... to go to the store.
  2. She ................................... into her car and  ................................... to the store.
  3. She ................................... the car and  ................................... into the store, but she  ................................... to lock the car door.
  4. As she was waiting to pay for her groceries, she ................................... out of the window.  Someone was trying to steal her car!

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03/11/2019

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18/07/2019

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Cool resource. Always like a blank cartoon to get their creative juices flowing cartoon

06/05/2014

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I haven´t used it yet but I intend to make it useful for teaching narrative. I´m always looking for something guided like this because there are some students who find it difficult and have no ideas how to write a narrative. Thank you very much.

06/05/2014