Narrative Essays
A narrative essay tells a series of events that create a story.
Here are some guidelines for writing a narrative essay:
Paragraph 1: Setting the scene
Introduction (people, place and time)
Paragraph 2: What happened in the story
The...
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Narrative Essays
A narrative essay tells a series of events that create a story.
Here are some guidelines for writing a narrative essay:
Paragraph 1: Setting the scene
Introduction (people, place and time)
Paragraph 2: What happened in the story
The characters’ feelings
Paragraph 3: Conclusion: how the story ended, consequences of the story and what
relevance it had for the characters.
Useful expressions
Verbal tenses
• Past simple
• Past continuous
• Past perfect
Connectors of sequence and time expressions
After a while / afterwards / later / next
Again
… ago
As soon as
At first / at last
At that time
Before / after …
By (the time)
By the end of …
During
Earlier
Eventually / finally / at last / in the end
First of all
For the next ten minutes / days …
In the beginning
In the past
Just then …
Last year /
summer/month/week/yesterday
Lately
Meanwhile
Now
On that day / on the following days
One week ago
Presently
Recently
Secondly
Shortly later
Simultaneously
Since
So far
Soon
Subsequen
Less
