The Last Time... Narrative Tense Review and Guessing Game

The last time you… guessing game and narrative tenses review

Past Simple, Past Continuous and Past Perfect

Try to make true sentences about your partner with any of the sentences stems below. You get one point for each true sentence. Feel free to ask for more details about their experiences (or lack of experience) if you like, then switch roles and continue the game.

 

The last time you had insomnia, ___________________________________________

 

The last time you felt really satisfied, _______________________________________

 

The last time you had a conversation about religion, ___________________________

 

The last time you felt really annoyed, ______________________________________

 

The last time you stood in a long queue, ____________________________________

 

When you last felt upset, ________________________________________________

 

When you last felt fed up, ________________________________________________

 

When you last felt frustrated, _____________________________________________

 

When you last felt under pressure, ________________________________________

 

The last time you used a microwave, ______________________________________

 

The last time you had a lie in, ____________________________________________

 

The last time you felt shattered (= exhausted= very tired), ______________________

 

The last time you felt furious, _____________________________________________

 

The last time you felt absolutely freezing, ___________________________________

 

The last time you set off for somewhere before five o’clock in the morning, ___________

 

The last time someone asked you for a recommendation, _______________________

 

The last time you saw a rickshaw, _________________________________________

 

What tenses did you use in your sentences and why?

 

What are the differences between those tenses?

 

What other tenses might have been possible?

Match these possible endings to the sentences above

 

you were trying to meet a deadline

 

the person in the next room was snoring loudly all night

 

you hadn’t seen them for over a year

 

you hit the person who was irritating you

 

you had just seen a spider

 

was in a church

 

was when you had finished all your end of year exams

 

you were waiting for a bus

 

you had been drinking the night before and had a hangover

 

you were preparing dinner

 

you had just discovered something your brother or sister had broken

 

you were walking around Asakusa

 

you hadn’t slept for over 24 hours

 

your pet had died

 

Identify the tenses above and why they are used each time.

 

Could you change any of the tenses above? How would that change the meaning?