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Quick conversation
• Share your work with a partner. Read aloud the sentences you selected. Discuss how the verb tenses are used in a narrative. Record notes from your discussion.
ACTIVITY 2.5
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I found the present tense verbs by looking for .
I noticed that the past tense was used mainly in .
Write a short narrative
After analyzing verb tenses in narratives, you have enough information to practice writing your own narrative. Write a short narrative in which you describe meeting someone new. Before writing, read the model short narrative provided. Notice how all three tenses are used. Try structuring your narrative in the same way.
The future tense verbs were made by .
ModEl: SHort NarrativE
When I jumped into the back seat, I saw a girl with huge dark eyes and long black hair sitting next to the door on the other side. She was a year older, and I didn’t know her.
I wondered if she would be friendly. She smiled and told me her name. She asked if she could sit next to me. I said she could and by the end of the trip we were best friends.
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