Storytelling using Verb Tenses

What you’ll learn

Storytelling Using Verb Tenses teaches you how to use English tenses naturally while telling engaging stories. Through interactive exercises and real-life scenarios, you'll master past, present, and future tenses, understand aspect and sequencing, and learn how to bring your stories to life with vivid language. By the end of the course, you'll feel confident narrating experiences, describing events, and structuring clear, compelling stories—without overthinking grammar!

Welcome to the course

1. How to Take This Course
2. Story Time - Theresa's Day

Chapter 1: Dimensions of an Action

1. Time of An Action and Time References
2. Stages of an Action - Part 1
3. Stages of an Action - Part 2

Chapter 2: How to Form Sentences

1. Important Information on Actions
2. Word Order in English Sentences - Part 1
3. The Curious Case of Future Simple
4. Word Order in English Sentences - Part 2

Chapter 3: When should you use each tense?

1. Simple Tenses
2. Continuous Tenses
3. Perfect Simple Tenses
4. Perfect Continuous Tenses
5. Sentence Showcase
6. Surprise Lesson: Speculating or Guessing

Chapter 4: Creating and combining sentences

1. Introduction to Sentence Types
2. Combination Showcase
3. Common First Mistakes

Chapter 5: Storytelling skills

1. Describing the World
2. Telling stories expressively
3. Key Components of a Story
4. STAR Method for Storytelling
5. Writing style and formality levels

Chapter 6: Final Steps

1. Storytelling showcase

About the Author

Leonardo Oliveira is a TESOL-certified English teacher with a BA in Social Communication. He has worked in the best schools in Brazil and Canada and has created a space to foster his own global community of language learners. His mission is to help non-native speakers acquire English proficiency through online courses and live events. Let's make speaking English our second nature!

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