How to Tell a Story in English - Using Past Tense
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- Опубликовано: 19 июл 2024
- In this lesson, you can learn how to tell a story in English.
Stories are powerful. When you meet someone new, go to a job interview or take a speaking exam like IELTS, you need to tell stories, whether you realise that’s what you’re doing or not. Don't forget to write your story in the comments and we will give you feedback! The best way to practice speaking is to speak! We have teachers available to talk to you 24/7: bit.ly/ooe-teachers.
Becoming a better storyteller will make you a more convincing speaker. People are attracted to good stories-it’s a fundamental part of being human. Learning how to tell better stories in English can help you become a more effective English speaker, and a better communicator generally.
See the full version of this lesson with the stories here: www.oxfordonlineenglish.com/t... .
Contents:
1. Setting the Scene: How to Start Your Story 1:46
2. Set a Goal in Your Story 4:48
3. Adding Tension to Your Story 7:39
4. How to Finish Your Story 11:21
This lesson will help you:
- Learn the best ways to start a story in English.
- Understand how to set a goal for your English story.
- Add tension and make your story more interesting.
- Learn useful ways to end your story in English.
- Put everything together so you can tell a great story in English.
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Thank you so much all of you for your all good lessons. It improved me more to write a story... May you all make such a nice and helpful video to improve our writing and speaking english, writing stories and composition and about hobbies, etc. next time and everyday. Gina your speaking voice was really very nice... I liked it.
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At university, I have a group of best friends. We usually party together on special occasions. Last month was Mai's birthday, she is one of my friends. So we had a barbecue in Mai's garden. It was an awesome afternoon. We met at 2 PM. Then, we assigned each other to do the preparations for the party such as: decorating, buying food and cooking, etc. As a result, the food was really delicious. But I was most interested in gift-giving. Everyone prepared lovely gifts for Mai and hope she would be surprised. I also gave her a wool scaft that I knitted myself. I spent two months making it. Suddenly, I found out I brought the wrong bag which held my gift. I confused about this mistake. Then, I told Mai this matter and went back home to get the gift. Fortunately, my house is not too far from Mai's. So I quickly went back to the party. I think, here is an experience of carefulness.
Hope you fixing my mistakes!
Nice, Thao! You wrote an excellent paragraph. Nice job! Here are a few suggestions for you:
1) '...delicious, but I was most interested in gift-giving,' not, '...delicious. But I was most interested in gift-giving.'
2) '...lovely gifts for Mai and hoped she would...' not, 'hope.'
3) '...a wool scarf,' not, 'scaft.'
Hope this helps you!
This is not just how to tell a story in English, but in all languages. I wish I could see this earlier. Very helpful content, which makes me confident next time I tell someone my experience. BTW, Gina is really charming, other guys are also gentlemen. I am starting to like England.
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So glad you enjoy them, Cristina!
Thank you so much for this amazing lesson. Now, I know all the things that a good story needs.
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I appreciate your teaching method because it's understandable. I was conducting the storytelling from beneficiaries. Now, I understand that structure and goal are very important when conducting storytelling. Many thanks to all of you.
The great three teachers who's in the one place and time brilliant
All of you are very perfect . The lesson is very useful . Thank you so much .
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Hi there, I really appreciate your effort and time. From now on I'll start to writing my own story . What a wonderful youtub teachers you are !!! Best regards !
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I noticed that Gina has an American-English accent whereas others have British English accent. Such helpful videos! Keep up with the good work!
Glad you enjoyed the lesson, Adem! Thanks for watching.
Thank all three teachers, teaching me the structure of the story and helping me build my own story. Here's below my practice and hope I could get some advice to correct it. Million thanks!
Four years ago, in a warm winter, I traveled to the beautiful beach island, Fu Guo Island, in Vietnam with my friend. I had a chance to go because my friend invited me and he said he hadn’t taken a long break for years in order to make money.
Therefore, he let me prepare a traveling plan, and make sure we could catch the plane.
It was the first time I organized everything. To be honest, I was nervous.
However, once I thought of the beautiful beach in front of me, I was so excited to work on it and thought it was perfect for everything without double-check. As we arrived at the airport, reaching the desk to check in, the most embarrassing thing happened. I booked the wrong date of tickets. The departure date was for tomorrow! It was made me hot, and I was in a devil of a hole. My friend didn’t blame me on the scene, but he might facepalm and thought I was not a careful person.
After an awkwardly long silence, I rebooked departure online tickets. I bear the ticket loss and apologized to him.
Finally, we arrived at the beautiful island by domestic plane from Ho Chi Ming city. We enjoyed the yummy seafood, snorkeling trip, night fishing, etc.
Actually, after returning, he was once angry with me because of the mistake of tickets. It was an unpleasant quarrel. However, I still felt grateful to him because he didn’t blame me and ruin the atmosphere during the trip.
Thanks for sharing your story! Here are a few suggestions for you:
1) '...plan, and made sure we could...' not, 'make.'
2) 'It was the first time I had organized everything,' not, 'It was the first time I organized everything.'
3) '...without double-checking,' not, 'double-check.'
Hope this helps you!
Wow wonderful ,under your instructions of storytelling ,I made a story easily , really you guys gave amazing tips. I appreciate your teaching method that is simple and slowly.
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Creative thinking solved my team's problem. In the last morning Wednesday, my team was preparing the elecial equiment for the presentations in class. It is only a few minutes left before we started. "Oops!". Suddenly, we fell in panic stress. But just a few minutes later, I have an idea to deal this situation. That was using the White board market to draw the idea on the board. This can help us to present the presentation clealier. We had some trouble when we started. We gotter used it later. At the end, we also finished presenting our project. Though, it didn't look so good, at least we had a great experience. With my unusual creative thinking, we went through it successully and saved the problem of my team today.
Nice story, Thanh. Here are some corrections for you:
1) 'Last Wednesday morning...' not, 'In the last morning Wednesday...'
2) 'electrical equipment,' not, 'elecial'.
3) 'There were only a few minutes until we had to start,' not, 'It is only a few minutes left before we started'.
Hope this helps you!
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I really enjoyed your video. nice information. I understood from this video how to tell stories in past tense. thank you .
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I was in São Paulo in 2015. It was a crazy time in my life. I get off my job in my hometown and i went to there to try make a life as an artist. I did some classes of painting, i tried new methods and i searched for a way to become a professional artist. It's not so easy like i imagined. I spend almost all my money at these days, and i didn't sell any painting. Today i look back with a good feeling. Lots of the knowledge about art that i learned at these times, i use now. I moved to another place and here i teach painting and sell some art that help me with my expenses.
Thanks for sharing your answer, Petros! Here are a few suggestions for you:
1) If you stop working for a particular employer, you want to say: 'I quit my job in my hometown,' or, 'I left my job...' or, if it was your employer's decision, you could say: 'I was fired from my job'.
2) '...there to try to make a life,' not, '... there to try make a life'.
3) 'It was not so easy...I spent almost all...' not, 'It's not so easy...I spend almost all...'.
Hope this is useful for you!
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Thanks for the video. You three, presenters, are bloody brilliant!
That's my story - the best possible way to thank you for your hard work!
I've recently had an interesting experience that happened to me.
I was driving to Kiev in my truck,carrying lots of goods to a shop. In the city, one traffic warden stopped me. Because having a number plate coming from a different city isn't really a reason for stopping a driver, he started finding one.
Within a few minutes later, he inspected my driving licence, made sure I had a first
aid kit and a fire extinguisher. He asked me for a MOT test as well as for a paper from hospital where 'hasn't drunk alcohol and hasn't got any in the blood' sign had to be. Having found nothing suspicious, he went again to the rear of the last trailer of the truck of mine. I must admit that it was snowing heavily, so that it turned out that the number plate there was covered with snow. Seeing this, he took a camera out of his pocket and took a photo of it. There were a smile on his face at last. Yeah, he did find a misdemeanor that could be noticed on the other number plates on all the roads in Kiev that afternoon as well! He went again to his police car and I followed him, clearing the snow up. 'why have you got an unreadable plate?ha?' he asked. 'I beg your pardon, sir. What do you mean by unreadable? Everything is readable' I replied. 'ahah! I know you've cleared up the mess,but I've already taken a photo!' he said, showing me a picture.
'that's not my car. I can't see any numbers or letters there! ' I said seriously , laughing inside. ' what do you mean - it's not your? Look. Here they are, all the numbers and letters.. ' said the warden in a strange voice. ' well then, if they are there and, as you've just said, you can read them, you can identified the vehicle by that number plate on your photo,can't you? ' I said, celebrating my victory without him noticing this. ' here you are' he said, mumbling to himself something impossible for me to understand.
The topic of the story could be rather complicated, I'm sorry for this. It's because of the different behaviours of traffic wardens, here in Ukraine and there, in the UK. Anyway, for everybody who speaks Russian, here you are, the original :
Недавно ездил на камазе в Татарстан, в городе остановил меня тамошний гибддэшник. Так как проезд на авто с номерами чужого региона не является основанием для остановки, он начал искать причину. Несколько минут он проверял документы, аптечку, огнетушитель, требовал от меня талон техосмотра, справку от врача, что я трезвый, после чего пошел осматривать автопоезд сзади. А надо сказать, в этот день шел снег, поэтому задние номера прицепа и камаза, как оказалось, были наглухо закрыты снегом.
Увидев это, доблестный гибддэшник республики Татарстан вытащил фотоаппарат и сделал несколько фотографий. Ну нашёл ведь. Пока я шел за ним, я рукой очистил номера от снега.
- Почему у Вас номера не читаемы,- строго спросил он.
- Как,-говорю, - все читаемо.
- Это ты только, что стер снег, а у меня есть фотофиксация, - сказав это, он показывает мне фотографию.
- Это не моя машина на фотографии,- отвечаю я, - номеров то не видно.
- Как не твоя, вон на фотке видны буквы под снегом, - говорит.
- Ну раз видны, - отвечаю, - значит номера всё же читаемы?
Пробурчав что-то, вернул мне документы...
Thanks for watching and sharing this story, Alik! You used some excellent structures! Here are a few suggestions for you:
1) 'Within a few minutes,' or, 'A few minutes later,' not, 'Within a few minutes later'.
2) '...he inspected my driving license and made sure I had a...' not, '...inspected my driving licence, made sure I had a'.
3) '...paper from a hospital where the 'hasn't drunk alcohol and hasn't got any in the blood' signature had to be,' not, '...paper from hospital where 'hasn't drunk alcohol and hasn't got any in the blood' sign had to be'.
Hope this helps you, great job!
I used to go abroad many times. In each country, I also had a problem. One time, I didn’t get out a metro and must ask police to help me. Another time, I couldn’t catch the taxi to go to airport to come back home but luckily, I met a kind guy and he took me to the airport on time. I think traveling alone will make us have many experiences and we will always remember that memories.
Thanks for sharing another good answer, +mo NGUYEN. Here are a few corrections:
1) '...I didn't get out to the metro and had to ask the police to help me,' not, 'I didn’t get out a metro and must ask police to help me'.
2) '...taxi to go to the airport,' not, '...taxi to go to airport'.
3) '...always remember those memories,' not, 'that'.
Hope this helps you!
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The very valuable video, with basics of writing the story
To start, the middle, the goal, tension, end with reciprocation
Are all explained in a very attractive manner /with appreciation
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I agree that telling story is interesting if you follow a detailed plan and have a clear structure
Very helpful while writing a story.
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It was an amazing course. I was able to hear English in British language. that spoke so clearly and slowly then I could understand 75 percent and also I learn how to tell the story for my friends. on top of it all. I found a nice English training group on youtube. actually, they are the very warm group. I have decided to watch their podcast 2 time each week. after hearing putting a long comment. I hope someone would be to rewrite and correct my mistakes in the comment.
Nice answer, Reza. Here are a few corrections for you:
1) 'They spoke so clearly...' not, 'that'.
2) '...I learned how to tell a story for my friends,' not, '...I learn how to tell the story for my friends'.
3) '2 times each week,' not, '2 time each week'.
Hope this helps!
I am from punjab and now i tell u very sad real story happened with me.when i was 8 years old and went for marriage of my cousin brother which was held in resort far away from our home.i was very excited and enjoyed everything in party like dancing, eatables which were chinese,punjabi,and more.when reception party finished,my all family recommend to went back to home in same car to enjoy more.we all sat together and chat about beautiful moments of marriage then suddendly our car struck with motorcycle on which three men hired.Actually at the moment,we did not understand what happened.when we get out of car,i saw the boy about 23 years old who drove bike was dead and other two men sat behind to him was injured.then after one day,i listened two other was also dead.i never ever come out of this incident .till now when i go somewhere in car ,i feel fear of accident alot
Hi Anakh. Thanks for sharing your response. Here are a few suggestions:
1) '...and went to my cousin's brother's wedding...' not, '...and went for marriage of my cousin brother...'.
2) '...held in a resort,' not, '...held in resort'.
3) '...enjoyed everything at the party like...' not, 'in party'.
Hope this helps!
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last year I had a final exam so I was stressed out because I could not finish some chapters that I need to pass my exam. that I could not imagine. Moreover, I overslept the night before and I could not take my time getting ready. five minutes to the beginning of exam ,a friend of mine called me to announce that the exam delayed because of some problems. it was It was heart-stopping moment at the time but luckily I could pass exam owning to studying one more day.
Hi Sima, thank you for sharing. Here are a few suggestions for you:
1) '...chapters that I needed to pass my...' not, 'need'.
2) Always capitalize the first letter of a sentence: 'Last year...That I could...'.
3) Do you mean 'I overslept the morning before...'? Usually, you 'oversleep' in the morning, meaning you wake up later than usual.
Hope this helps you!
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It was really exciting video. I learned lots of ideas to tell a complete story. It's really helping me to learn about English language.
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Tow years ago in the summer,itwas very hot in Marrakech we have decided my daugther and me to spend a weekend in Rabat,so i took the initiative to book a hôtel in downtown,i obviosly focused on the price ,it was the sheapest then i was booked,after a long day in the zoo we got too tired we need a shower to be relaxed.Although returning to the hôtel the receptionist gave us the key to our room,when we returned to the room it was a disaster,neither shower nor toilet,they were in the first floor after that my daugther told me, thank you Mama you reserved never again i will do it.
Nice story, Fouzia! Here are some corrections for you:
1) '...hot in Marrakech. My daughter and I decided to...' not, '...hot in Marrakech we have decided my daugther and me to...'.
2) '...book a hotel downtown. I...' not, '...book a hôtel in downtown,i...'.
3) 'I was obviously focused on the price and it was the cheapest so...' not, 'i obviosly focused on the price ,it was the sheapest then...'.
Hope this is useful for you!
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I consider myself as one of the poorest individuals to go all the way to finishing school. I was raised by a single mum, a typical villager in the most profound and inner villages in Zambia.
There is no person in Zambia today who is poorer than I used to be who can go to school on self-sponsorship. We were in the village and our livelihood was dependent upon subsistence farming. I was very bright in school and as such, mum one day said; I did not take you to school to finish (or others may say reach grade 12) but to just learn how to write a letter in our native language. In the nutshell, she never wanted me to proceed with my education because of money woes. Being a very determined person, myself, I organised the required examination fees and paid, wrote the examinations and passed with flying colours.
Secondary education was tough, but more traumatising was senior secondary. Mum one day said, "John, you do not have a father to pay for you." When we received the acceptance letter for senior secondary, she asked, "John you are now a grown-up person, where do you think we will be able to find all these monies? I pinpointed at the blueprints and today, the rest is history because three years later, I finished my grade twelve.
Courage, determination, burning desire, unwavering Motivation will help you to achieve anything you desire in life. I am heading high in my life, what about you?
Nice, John! Thanks for sharing. You used some excellent phrases and vocabulary! Here are a few corrections for your story:
1) '...mum one day said: "I did not...' not, '...mum one day said; I did not...'.
2) 'In a nutshell...' not 'the'.
3) '...to find all of this money,' not, '...to find all these monies'.
Hope this helps you!
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This is a good information about telling a story.😊
Dear Oli ,You are the best teacher with good expressions and teaching skills.stay blessed.Have a nice day.
Thank you for your efforts...continue
You are teaching good and I am very fascinating to see your video.. tomorrow i should tell my own story ..definitely tOmorrow will do my best ...before that I was terrified to comment now I broke that
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Some excellent tips and story-telling techniques. But what was going on with Oli's audio?
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Hello. Thanks for the lesson. This is a true story. It happened many years ago, when I was a University student. I lived on the campus, and in every room of our dormitory there lived two students.
Once in the dead of night, the whole dormitory had been awakened by awful screamings and yellings.There was a deep terror and a great fear in those howls. Terrified, we gathered at the door of the dark room, where those terrible sounds were coming from.We could make out only one word: " A snake!.. A snake!.."
Nobody could understand anything. A snake? What snake? How could it be? Snake in the middle of the winter in the snowbound Saint-Petersburg? Somebody shouted : " Turn on the light!"
Well, the light was turned on, and everyone saw two scared girls, standing on their beds. And between those beds, there was a twisted rag, which the girls used for washing the floor, and left it there, obviously, in a hurry to go out.
The rag looked like a snake, and, sure enough, when their bare feet touched it in the darkness, it felt like a snake, either!
Great story, Anna! Thanks for sharing!
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It was 12 o'clock and I was sleeping in my room.I had my exams the following day, so it was essential to get a good night's sleep. Suddenly, I saw somebody hiding in the curtains and giggling quietly!
I became absolutely terrified.I've read scary stories and seen horror films for a lot of years, where ghosts, monsters and zombies lived, but I've never thought that they really exist.But, in the end, I became braver and I decided to take a look.Feeling quite scared, I opened the curtain and saw... my sister-in-law hiding there!
''You've found me!Now it's my turn to look for you.Hide!''she said, feeling joyful.I was so relieved that it was just a relative hiding, not somebody somebody from horror films!
Nice story! You used some excellent phrases. Well done.
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When I was a teenager, I was very shy by nature. I hated mixing with other boys in my village and at my school. I always loved sitting or standing alone anywhere I liked. I could never talk to girls looking at their faces. This, 60% of my shyness, somehow disappeared when I had a great fever in the summer vacation in July. To tell you the truth, I thanked God for all that transformation in me, i.e for making me a less shy person now.
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