ESL Telling a Story: Fear

ESL Telling a Story: Fear is a fun ESL lesson to learn grammar, adjectives vocabulary, and phrases about how to tell a story in English using the past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous. Watch the ESL video about crime using the Past Tense and use the ESL Printable and Digital storytelling flashcards to tell a story and practice using new vocabulary and phrases. Get the ESL printable worksheets on Crime, ESL printable and digital flashcards, ESL listening and reading exercises, and gamify lessons with badges and stamps.

Warm Up Questions

1. Have you ever witnessed a crime?
2. How would you feel if you witnessed a robbery?
3. Have you ever reported anything to the police?

ESL Video on How To Tell a Story about Fear

Watch the following YouTube video:

ESL Listening Questions Telling a Story Fear

1. Where is Tony?
2. When did the robbery take place?
3. What was Tony doing when the defendant walked into the bank?
4. What had he just done?
5. How did the defendant look according to Tony?
6. What did he hand the teller?
7. Why did Tony assume what was written on the note was very bad?
8. What did the defendant do after he handed the teller the note?
9. How did the customers react?
10. What did the man do after everyone got down on the floor?
11. Describe what the robber did with the money.
12. What did the robber do after putting the money in the bag?
13. How did everyone feel after it was all over?

Vocabulary to Tell a Story about Fear

Match the words on the left with the meanings on the right.

Discussion Questions

1. Do you have any nervous habits? (For example, biting your nails)
2. What do you fear? (For example, spiders, cockroaches)
3. Would you try to defend yourself if someone tried to take your wallet or bag?

Matching 2: Vocabulary to Talk about Fear

Match the words on the left with the meanings on the right.

ESL Printable and Digital Flashcards to Tell a Story

Use the following ESL printable flashcards to talk about a crime and fear.

ESL Conversation: Retelling a Story in the Past

Lawyer: Please state your name for the record.

Tony: My name is Anthony Davis McKay.

Lawyer: Mr.McKay, I would like to ask you a few questions about the night of Saturday, June twenty-third 2014. Is that okay?

Tony: Yes, of course.

Lawyer: What were you doing when the defendant walked into the bank?

Tony: I was withdrawing money from the teller. I had just filled out the form when I noticed him from the corner of my eye.

Lawyer: And then what happened?

Tony: He looked very nervous. He was fidgeting, he was biting his nails and he looked very suspicious. Then I noticed that he handed her a hand-written note. I couldn’t really make out what it said from where I was standing but I assumed that it was something bad based on the expression on the teller’s face.

Lawyer: I see. Well, what happened next?

Tony: Suddenly he pulled out a gun and started screaming loudly. Everyone got down on the ground with their hands on the floor. We were all scared for our lives. Then he started shooting and he kept yelling, “put the money in the bag or I will shoot you.” I was too frightened to look up. I just kept praying that he didn’t shoot anyone.

Lawyer: And then what happened?

Tony: He grabbed the money that the teller stuffed in the bag, shot his gun many more times at the ceiling and ran out screaming. Everyone got up after he left. We were all exhausted from the whole ordeal. I will never forget it for the rest of my life. I am scarred forever.

Lawyer: The prosecution rests your honor.

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