29. Mystery Story / Narrative Tenses

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Luke Thompson

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🗓️ 19 September 2009

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This podcast is about narrative tenses (past simple, past continous, past perfect - see details below). We use these tenses to sequence stories about the past. To master the use of these tenses you have to deal with their form, their use and their pronunciation - both for listening and speaking. Use this podcast to help you deal with all of those things, and then start using narrative tenses fluently whenever you describe something. Make your descriptions more detailed and colourful! A full transcript, pronunciation drills, grammar notes and advice are all available for this episode. Click here http://teacherluke.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/mystery-story-narrative-tenses/

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0:00.0	You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, visit teacher Luke.
0:07.0	Podomatic.com.
0:10.0	Hello everyone. Welcome to the podcast. This is Luke. Hello and this episode is
0:17.0	about narrative tenses. So I'm going to read you a short mystery story which
0:22.2	I've written and then I'm going to talk a bit
0:24.9	about the verb tenses we use to tell a story or to describe a narrative. So I'll give
0:32.0	you some examples and explanations of those tenses. We'll look at how you can use
0:36.8	different tenses to describe events in the past. I'll also give you some pronunciation practice at the end.
0:45.0	Okay, first of all I'd just like to say hello to a couple of people.
0:48.0	Valerio, hello, thanks a lot for the emails and the very positive comments that you made.
0:54.0	Hello to Nikita or Nick in Russia.
0:58.0	Thanks also for your message.
1:00.0	Very nice to hear from you.
1:01.0	Hi to Paula if you're out there. I hope you're still listening
1:05.7	You know and on CD because you're doing it old school with the CDs. So I hope that's still working out for you.
1:15.0	Also hello to An India who's at Assam University in India.
1:20.0	I'm looking forward to meeting you when you're here in October and I'd very much like to visit
1:26.3	Assam University at some point. So it's going to be very interesting to talk to you when you're
1:31.5	here. Right, so let's move on with the podcast.
1:35.4	Okay, so, narrative tenses. Now we often talk about things that happened in the past, don't we?
1:49.2	You know, it could be, for example, if we describe what we did at the weekend in a conversation or maybe if you're talking about a holiday that you had
1:59.3	It could be if you're just telling an anecdote you, describing a funny story that happened to you or something like that, or even just sharing a memory of something.
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