Narrative Tenses — Your Brain on Culture Shock
Grammar: Past Simple
Free ESL grammar exercise on narrative tenses themed around your brain on culture shock. 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
Now imagine you are standing in a market in Marrakech. You were walking through the streets and everything felt electric. Then came disorientation: you had expected things to make sense, but they didn't.
Grammar: Past Simple
- Past simple — events
- She walked into the market and stopped. — completed actions in sequence
- Past continuous
- People were moving in patterns she didn't recognise. — scene in progress
Sample items
- By the time Ana ______ the market, she had already spent all her money.
- The guide was explaining the temple rules when a tourist ______ a photo.
- He felt nervous because he ______ never tried street food before.
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