Telling what happened: guided B1 practice

What this module changes

This module focuses on Telling what happened. You begin by learning to opens narratives with background action and past habits. The final lesson asks you to passes a 9-item quiz; records a 2-minute anecdote, counts target tenses used without copying the original model.

Level: B1. There are 6 connected lessons. Complete them in order if the topic is new, or use the list to locate one specific gap.

The lesson map

What useful practice looks like

• Setting the scene: past continuous and used to: Opens narratives with background action and past habits.
• Present perfect or past simple? The border: Chooses correctly between finished-story past and life-experience perfect.
• The step before the story: past perfect: Marks earlier-past events inside a narrative.

Use true information where possible. A sentence about your own routine, work or plans is easier to remember than a sentence copied from a model.

A practical study routine

1. Read the lesson objective before the explanation.
2. Say the model aloud once, then change at least two details.
3. Complete the check without opening the answer first.
4. Record or write the mission on your own device.
5. At the checkpoint, name one error you corrected and one skill that still needs practice.

How the lessons work together

Telling what happened is a sequence, not a folder of unrelated pages. Setting the scene: past continuous and used to establishes the first usable move. Later lessons add control, choice and time pressure. Checkpoint: tell it in two minutes asks you to combine the module without copying an answer.

• Setting the scene: past continuous and used to: Opens narratives with background action and past habits
• Present perfect or past simple? The border: Chooses correctly between finished-story past and life-experience perfect
• The step before the story: past perfect: Marks earlier-past events inside a narrative
• What makes an anecdote worth hearing: Structures a story as setting, complication, resolution with suspense phrases

Keep one piece of evidence from the first lesson and improve the same piece at the checkpoint. That comparison shows more than a quiz score because it records what changed in your own language.

Transfer the skill to a new situation

After the checkpoint, change the audience or purpose. A speaking answer can become a short written message. A formal response can be rewritten for a teammate. A story can be shortened for a meeting update. Keep the main meaning while changing the delivery.

When a result is weak, return to the lesson whose outcome describes the missing skill. Do not restart the full course unless several earlier foundations are missing.

Start or continue the module

Your progress is saved on this device only.

1. 1Setting the scene: past continuous and used to19 min, Not complete
2. 2Present perfect or past simple? The border20 min, Not complete
3. 3The step before the story: past perfect18 min, Not complete
4. 4What makes an anecdote worth hearing19 min, Not complete
5. 5Say the endings: -ed and final clusters20 min, Not complete
6. 6Checkpoint: tell it in two minutes18 min, Not complete

How to know you are ready to continue

Do not judge readiness by reading speed. You are ready when you can complete the checkpoint task with a clear message, understandable language and no copied answer. A small number of errors is normal at B1; errors should not hide your meaning.

If the checkpoint is difficult, repeat the lesson whose outcome matches the problem. That is faster than restarting the whole module.