How to Tell a Story in English - Using Past Tense
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 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!
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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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Thank you so much for this amazing lesson. Now, I know all the things that a good story needs.
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 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.
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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.
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!
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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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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!
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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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