lots of narrative tense sentences. Next, divide the story into sentences/paragraphs and write them on many different cards. The number of cards you use depends on how many are in your class.
Once you have the story written down on the cards, mix the cards up and give one card to each student. Next, ask students to walk around the class and work with their classmates to piece together the story in the correct order. If you have a particularly large class, you can have students complete the activity in teams.
3. Narrative Tense Exercise
In order to master narrative tenses, students need lots and lots of practice. A great way to practice is with narrative tense exercises. It is quite simple to make your own narrative tense exercise. Just create ten or so sentences with blank spaces and ask students to choose the correct narrative tense form.
Here is a fun narrative tense quiz to get you started. There are ten sentences written in either the past simple, past continuous, past perfect, or the past perfect continuous tense. You must read the sentences and then choose the correct past tense form to fill in the blank. For more exercises like this, check out our English grammar exercises and our interactive English quizzes.
Thanks for reading. Before you go, be sure to check out these related resources on narrative tenses that you might find useful:
Past Simple Exercises
How To Teach The Past Simple
Past Continuous Exercises