Past, present and future weekends storytelling

Live Wire 2 Unit 9 

Take turns continuing a story starting with the words “Brian had a strange weekend” and the words on the cards below in sentences like “He usually… but last weekend… Then….”. Use as many of the cards as you can.

 Useful phrases for storytelling

Then/ After that

Later

Suddenly

To his surprise

 Listen to a similar story and tick off the verbs below which are used.

Listen again and write the past form of the verbs below which are used to talk about the past.

Tell a similar story about Brian’s plans for next weekend, thinking about bad things that happened last weekend that he doesn’t want to do again.

 Useful language for talking about next weekend

On Saturday (morning)

On Sunday (afternoon)

In the morning

Then/ Next/ After that

Later

want to

plan to

might

will probably 

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 Words to use in the stories/ Cards to cut up

speak

 

 

break

 

buy

 

 

draw

 

catch

 

 

chat

 

 

clean

 

 

cut

 

 

kick

 

come

 

 

relax

 

 

enjoy

 

 

drink

 

 

ask

 

drive

 

 

eat

 

 

sing

 

 

lie

 

walk

 

get up

 

 

go

 

 

hang

 

 

have

 

 

see

 

write

 

 

hurt

 

 

listen to

 

wear

 

 

help

 

listen

 

 

make

 

 

meet

 

 

watch

 

 

swim

 

sleep

 

pay

 

 

play

 

 

wash

 

 

feel

 

put

 

 

read

 

 

ride

 

 

look

 

dance

 

put on

 

 

run

 

 

rush/ hurry

 

 

shop

 

 

skate(board)

 

close/ shut

 

 

sit

 

 

smell

 

 

spill

 

 

try

 

stand

 

 

stay

 

 

steal

 

 

go …ing

 

 

ski

 

jump

 

 

say/ tell

 

 

tidy

 

 

trip

 

 

take

 

wake

 

 

cook

 

 

call

 

mix

 

travel

 

lock

 

 

spend

 

 

study

 

brush

 

wait

 

fly

 

surf

 

 

visit

 

 

do

 

understand

 

open

 

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PDF for easy saving and printing: past present and future weekends storytelling Live Wire 2 Unit 9

Related pages

Live Wire 2 page

Tense review page

Talking about your week and weekend page