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Narrative Tenses – Short Film Description Instructions: 

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Find the video: On YouTube, by searching for “Past Tenses – Short Film Description”. Or by clicking the link on the website where you found the activity (e.g. busyteacher.org). Watch the short film. Write sentences describing what happened in each clip. Use past tenses. Use some of the verbs from the boxes. You have to change the verbs into past forms.

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look

take

drop

'be'

Example

Two octopuses were in a tank. They looked at each other lovingly and then hugged. While they were hugging, a hand came into the tank and took the pink octopus out. The orange octopus was dropped back into the tank alone. look 2. ddKkk

see

take

put

weigh

carry

walk

'be'

The orange octopus seen the pink octopus being taken then weighed on a scale. He looked at his beloved being put into a box then being carried by human with white clothes. As the human walked away, the orange octopus still trying to figure out the situation. see 3. fffKkk

feel

kill

chop/cut

'be'

imagine

The orange octopus seen the symbol on the vehicle which the human used. He imagined his beloved being killed by knife which chopped her into pieces. The orange octopus felt terrified after imagining the horror that will happen. put 4. ddKkk

start

hold

get

climb

drive

jump

walk

As the key being put into the hole and the engine started to run, The orange octopus can’t just stay put and climbed off from the watertank. He walked away from the water tank then start to run with his 8 legs. Even though the human has drove the vehicle away , but the orange octopus has successfully jumped and Held the back of the vehicle tightly with all he got. drive 5. dddfffKkk

open

try hit

see

climb

'be'

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feel

scream

As the human drove the vehicle, he seen the orange octopus climbed up from the opened window. The human felt scared and screamed at the sight of the orange octopus. The human tried to hit the orange octopus with his hand to shook of the octopus from his vehicle. turn

fall

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brake

spin

stop

hit

The orange octopus tried to save the pink octopus by opening the box from the window. At the other hands, The human turned the vehicle to avoid a wall. As a result the orange octopus being thrown then fell to the front of the vehicle windows and pinned by the vehicle wiper, the pink octopus tried to save her beloved by pulling the vehicle brake . the vehicle spun around a few time before it stopped by itself. The two octopuses being thrown out from the vehicle and hit the side of the road. wake

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look

pull

fall

miss

try grab

see

drive

After some time The human woke up. he looked up and seen the orange octopus being pulled up the bridge by the pink octopus. He then drove the vehicle then tried to grab both of them. Fortunately the two octopuses fell into the water below the bridge after the human missed his chance. swim 8. ddKkk

bounce

watch

jump

drive

catch

The two octopus swam then jumped from pool to pool and bounced off umbrella to run away from the human. The human watched the two of them tried to run away and then drove his vehicle in attempt to get the octopuses. Even though the two octopuses tried so hard to runaway. at the end, both of them are being catched by the driving human.

drive

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hit

bounce

sit

spit

hold

the vehicle which the human drove has lost control. The human sat at the window while trying to held the two octopuses. The two octopuses were being hit a few times onto the top of the vehicle roof. As a retaliation the two of them spat black ink at the human face and bounced away from his grasp. YouTube Channel: English Through Videos

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get in

crash

hit

scream

land

The human tried to get in and regain the vehicle control. Unfortunately the vehicle crashed and hit other people house. the vehicle jumped off from the house broken window and fell into the sea while the human screamed in the vehicle. the two octopuses successfully landed onto the rope which used to dry the laundry. fly

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jump

pick up

sit

catapult

catch

The two octopuses sat at the rope while looking at each other romantically. Suddenly a seagull which flew around swoop in and picked up the orange octopus. After being jumped out of nowhere by the seagull, the pink octopus catapulted herself and flew towards the seagull to save the orange octopus which was catched by the seagull.

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