Telling Stories
Instructor: Tahani Al-Hamami
Who are your favorite heroes and
heroines from books and films?
What Will we Learn for Today?
Story (The Fire)
Key Expressions: Telling Stories
Tell us Your Story!
Time Expressions
Pronunciation
The Fire
• Who is the hero of this story?
• Who did he help and rescue?
Why did Tareq not hear the fire alarm?
Why was he not very worried at first?
How did they get to the fire escape?
Why did Khaled break a window?
Why did Mohamed change his mind
about Khaled?
Key Expressions
suddenly
in the end
straightaway
luckily
anyway
at first
to begin with
by the time
so
when
just then
while
Tell us Your Story!
• Where were you?
• What were you doing?
• What happened?
• What was your reaction?
• What happened next?
• Where did you go/Where were you taken?
• What happened in the end?
• How did you feel afterwards?
Playing Roles
Time Expressions
• yesterday
• today
• tomorrow
• last week
• this week
• next week
• now
• soon
• a long time ago
• these days
• in the past
• nowadays
• this morning
• at this time
• later this evening
Pronunciation
• Hat /æ/
• Hard /ɑː/
• Hate /eɪ/
• Arrive /ə/
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