Narrative Tenses Together — What Travel Actually Teaches You
Grammar: Past Simple
Free ESL grammar exercise on narrative tenses together themed around what travel actually teaches you. Printable worksheet from EnglishPlans.com.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 3 (intermediate) ESL grammar exercise on travel, practising past simple. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
Many Japanese travellers had already held very fixed assumptions before they left. After returning, those assumptions had shifted.
Grammar: Past Simple
- Past simple — events
- She arrived in São Paulo and felt completely lost. — the main action in a story
- Past continuous
- He was walking through the market when he heard the music. — scene or interrupted action
Sample items
- She ______ her first trip abroad before she turned twenty.
- They ______ through the old city when it started to rain heavily.
- By the time he arrived in Tokyo, he ______ a little Japanese.
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