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Speaking Day 6: Storytelling for Part 1 and 2

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Review the Past Continuous

Use the PAST CONTINUOUS to give the background to your story.

e.g. When this event happened…

…what were you doing?
…where were you living?
…who were you travelling with?
…what were you wearing?
…where were you sitting?
…what was the weather like? (It was raining/snowing)

Your Day 6 TASK:

Start thinking about telling a story. Plan it in advance if you want to, and write it down if it helps.

Try to talk for 2 minutes if you can, but don’t worry if not.

Talk about a time that you were late for an appointment.

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Review the Past Perfect

There is a full WEEK of lessons about the Past Perfect Simple and Continuous in the PERFECT Bootcamp (Week 2), so this is just a quick overview and practice.

PRONUNCIATION: The different spellings of the /f/ sound

Guess and Check/Listen and Repeat

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Test yourself – can you get these right?

THOUGHT θɔːt

ROUGH rʌf

PLOUGH plaʊ

THROUGH θruː

SLOUGH* slaʊ (a swamp)

THOUGH ðəʊ

LOUGH* lɒk (a lake)

THOROUGHLY ˈθʌrəli

COUGHING ˈkɒfɪŋ

HICCOUGHING ˈhɪkʌpɪŋ (hiccuping)

*slough and lough (‘loch’ in Scotland) are not common or useful words – they are just used here to make a point, so don’t worry about them.

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