Name: 如何用英語講故事--使用過去式 (How to Tell a Story in English - Using Past Tense)
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In this lesson, you can learn how to tell a story in English.

When you meet someone new, go to a job interview or take a speaking exam like IELTS, you need

to tell stories, whether you realise that's what you're doing or not.

Becoming a better storyteller will make you a more convincing speaker.

People are attracted to good stories—it's a fundamental part of being human.

Learning how to tell better stories can help you become a more effective English speaker,

In this class, you'll learn how to build a story, step by step.

You'll see three different stories, and you'll see how you can use the same simple

If you want to read the stories before the lesson, make sure you're watching this on

our website: Oxford Online English dot com.

If you're watching on YouTube, you can find a link in the video description.

There, you can read the three stories in full.

As you go through the lesson, you'll hear our stories, but you should also be building

So, think of something funny, scary, interesting or weird that happened to you.

A clear story needs to start with some background.

Think about basic wh- questions: who, when, where, what?

Start your story with one sentence which gives some of this information.

It was summer, and I went with some friends to a beach in Crimea which you could only

I was travelling in Kyrgyzstan, and I decided to go hiking in the mountains.

At university, I shared a flat with three other guys.

Keep it simple at the beginning: who, when, where, what?

Next, add one or two more sentences to give more background details.

You need a balance here: you want to give enough background details to make your story

feel real, but you also need to get to the heart of your story quickly.

People will lose interest if you don't get to the point.

Think: if you heard this, what questions could you ask to get more details?

Answering these questions gives you details you can add after your opening sentence.

People had been going there for years, and there were benches and tables, places to camp,

It was kind of a hippy place, with everyone walking around naked and doing whatever they

Here, we're focusing on one thing—the place—because it's the most interesting

For a different story, you might focus on different details:

We were all good friends, but like lots of guys in that situation, we played a lot of pranks on each other.

In this story, the people are more important, so you would give more details about them.

Then, add 1-2 sentences giving more background details.

Focus on the most important elements in your story.

Big question: what makes a story a story?

If I tell you that I went to the shop to buy some bread, and then I came home and ate the

So, think about it: what makes a story a story?

The person or people in the story should want something.

That means the goal can't be too easy to reach.

In this section, let's look at putting a goal in your story.

Here's the question: what do the people in your story want?

If the people in your story don't want anything, then you don't have a story.

Let's do an example together: On the last day, we had to catch a train in

Pause the video if you need extra time to read.

Here we have a simple goal: we needed to catch our train.

Let's do one more: To reach Issyk-Kul lake, which was the end

of my journey, I had to cross a mountain pass, almost 4,000m high.

The goal is getting across the mountain pass to the lake.

The goal in your story can be something big or something small.

You can see in these two examples that we have something very easy and simple—catching

a train—and something bigger and more difficult—crossing a 4,000-metre mountain pass on foot.

Just add one sentence to your story, setting a goal for you or the other people in your

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