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    The old lady lives alone and enjoys doing jigsaw puzzles. One stormy night, she runs out of puzzles to do. She hears a noise at the door and finds a mysterious new puzzle has been delivered. She completes the puzzle only to realize with horror that it is a picture of the very room she is sitting in. Her hands tremble as she places the final pieces, completing the unsettling picture.

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    Narrative Tenses

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    The old lady lives alone and enjoys doing jigsaw puzzles. One stormy night, she runs out of puzzles to do. She hears a noise at the door and finds a mysterious new puzzle has been delivered. She completes the puzzle only to realize with horror that it is a picture of the very room she is sitting in. Her hands tremble as she places the final pieces, completing the unsettling picture.

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    Narrative tenses in English. Exercise to complete and do a writing

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    The old lady lives alone and enjoys doing jigsaw puzzles. One stormy night, she runs out of puzzles to do. She hears a noise at the door and finds a mysterious new puzzle has been delivered. She completes the puzzle only to realize with horror that it is a picture of the very room she is sitting in. Her hands tremble as she places the final pieces, completing the unsettling picture.

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    Narrative Tenses

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    Maite Ferblan
    The old lady lives alone and enjoys doing jigsaw puzzles. One stormy night, she runs out of puzzles to do. She hears a noise at the door and finds a mysterious new puzzle has been delivered. She completes the puzzle only to realize with horror that it is a picture of the very room she is sitting in. Her hands tremble as she places the final pieces, completing the unsettling picture.

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    Complete the text with the correct narrative tense -

    Past simple, past continuous or past perfect.

    PART 1
    There was an old lady who lived on her own in a very foggy part of Dartmoor in England. She
    ______________(live) alone for fifteen years, ever since her husband ______________ (die) in
    a mysterious car accident. This old lady had a passion for jigsaw puzzles and lived in a very
    secluded spot. Every night she________________(sit) at her dining room table and worked on
    her current jigsaw puzzle until it was finished, then she would start a new one.

    However, there ________________(be) a night, a windy, stormy winter night when she ran out
    of jigsaw puzzles. She was extremely upset as she had nothing else to do (this was in the days
    before TV). She _________________(think) of going up to bed earlier than usual when she
    _________________(hear) a noise, as if something _________________(fall) onto her front
    door mat.

    How does the story go on? Talk to your partner and make predictions!

    PART 2
    Intrigued, the old lady _____________________ (go) to the door to find that a rectangular parcel
    ____________________(leave) there and now _________________ (lie), invitingly, on the mat.
    She picked it up, carried it to her dining table and opened it to reveal a new jigsaw puzzle! It had
    no picture of what it made up on the front but the old lady _________________ (not care). She
    was just so happy to have another puzzle to do that she didn’t even care to check who
    _________________(send) it.

    How does the story go on? Talk to your partner and make predictions!

    PART 3
    It took her about an hour to complete it, but as she began the get the entire picture she
    _____________(realise) to her horror that the picture being made up was that of the very room in
    which she now______________(sit) . It was clear that the woman at the table in the picture with
    her back to the window was a picture of her!!! Her fingers trembled when she_______________
    (take) the last four pieces of the puzzle and put them in the right place. The picture was now
    complete …..

    How does the story end? Make predictions!

    Adapted from http://urbanlegendsonline.com


    Key

    Part 1
    had lived
    had died
    sat
    came
    was thinking
    heard
    had fallen

    part 2
    went
    had been left
    lay
    didn't care
    had sent

    part 3
    had realised
    was sitting
    took

    Adapted from http://urbanlegendsonline.com

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