41017 past simple and continuous the un fortunately story
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The Un/Fortunately Story!!
Introduction: Last Friday I was leaving home when the postman arrived and gave
me a letter.
UNFORTUNATELY, the letter was written in
a foreign language and the only thing I could
understand was the word “urgent” written at
the top.
FORTUNATELY, I remembered that one of
my neighbours was a literature teacher who
spoke 3 languages. So I went to speak to her.
UNFORTUNATELY, when I was walking
towards her front door, I saw her driving away
in her car.
FORTUNATELY, her husband was picking up
the newspaper from the mailbox and told me
she would be back in half an hour.
UNFORTUNATELY, when she came back she
told me that the language was Russian but that
she couldn’t translate the letter.
FORTUNATELY, while she was opening her
front door she remembered that one of her
colleagues at school spoke Russian.
UNFORTUNATELY, she couldn’t find the
agenda where she had her colleague’s
telephone number.
FORTUNATELY, while I was saying goodbye,
her husband came up with the agenda and she
phoned her colleague. So, in the end I
discovered I was going to inherit a big
quantity of money!!
The Un/Fortunately Story!!
Introduction: My friends and I decided to have a party last Saturday night.
UNFORTUNATELY, when we were dancing and
having fun, the lights went off and the music
stopped.
FORTUNATELY, one of our friends was an
electrician and he managed to solve the
problem.
UNFORTUNATELY, while we were trying to
solve the problem, some of our friends began
to get bored and left the party.
FORTUNATELY, when the music starter
playing again, everybody began to cheer up and
have fun.
UNFORTUNATELY, while we were dancing,
the neighbour next door came to complain
about the noise we were making.
FORTUNATELY, with a little effort we could
convince him to join us and have something to
drink.
UNFORTUNATELY, while we were convincing
him, the lights went off again and this time we
couldn’t solve the problem.
FORTUNATELY, we had some candles and
some board games. So, in the end we enjoyed
our evening laughing and playing games by
candlelight!!
Activity procedure:
This is the first part of an activity I do with my students to practise the simple past and past
continuous tenses. They love it and really have a good time creating their own stories in the
second part of the activity (See “The Un/Fortunately-Story” Part2).
This part consists of a story in the simple past which is divided into 8 parts; the 8 parts must be
cut out and shuffled (you will need to prepare as many different sets of story-parts as the
number of groups you will work with).
If you have 2 groups, the 2 stories I’ve included here will do: The groups must put the parts in
the correct order; each member of the group must memorize one sentence (or two if the groups
are smaller than 8 members) and, when they are ready, tell the story to the rest of the class.
If you have more than 2 groups, you can make it more challenging giving the same story to more
than one group. Tell them that the ones which first put the story in order and memorize it, will
be the ones who will tell it to the rest of the class.
Don’t forget to give the students the introductory sentence to their stories (you can write them
on the board, or give them to the students as the first card of their stories).
Introduction: Last Friday I was leaving
home when the postman arrived and
gave me a letter.
Introduction: My friends and I decided
to have a party last Saturday night.
If your students are strong ones, they shouldn’t have to look at the cards when telling the story.
If you think they will feel more confident with the cards on their hands, allow them to keep them
in case they forget their lines.
But usually they enjoy telling the story to their classmates after having memorized it!!
Note: I’ve prepared two model-sheets of 8 sentences each, because I usually have 16 students in
a class. But you can personalize them according to the number of your students.
Have fun!!
The Un/Fortunately Story!!
Introduction:
UNFORTUNATELY,
FORTUNATELY,
UNFORTUNATELY,
FORTUNATELY,
UNFORTUNATELY,
FORTUNATELY,
UNFORTUNATELY,
FORTUNATELY,
The Un/Fortunately Story!!
Introduction:
UNFORTUNATELY,
FORTUNATELY,
UNFORTUNATELY,
FORTUNATELY,
UNFORTUNATELY,
FORTUNATELY,
UNFORTUNATELY,
FORTUNATELY,
Activity procedure:
This is a group activity in which the students have to invent a story using the
simple past and past continuous tenses. As they have already worked with a
first part of the Un/Fortunately-Story (See “The Un/Fortunately-Story” Part
1), by now it should be clear for them what they are expected to do.
They should write a first introduction sentence to establish the situation. Then
they should continue the story till the end alternating “un/fortunately”
situations. (The pictures on the left represent only the “fortunately” &
“unfortunately” situations; they don’t have to be related to the context of the
story unless the students decide to do so on their own will.)
To make it more challenging for the students, they can cut it out into parts,
memorize one part (or two, depending on the number of students they are in
each group) and tell the story by heart to the rest of the class (as it has
already been done with the story in “The Un/Fortunately-Story” Part 1).
If your students are strong ones, they shouldn’t have to look at the cards
when telling the story. If you think they will feel more confident with the
cards on their hands, allow them to keep them in case they forget their lines.
But usually they enjoy telling the story to their classmates after having
memorized it!!
Note: I’ve prepared two model-sheets of 8 sentences each, because I usually
have 16 students in a class. But you can personalize them according to the
number of your students.
Have fun!!
