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Past Progressive and Simple Past | Unscramble

Memorable Events

1 Work in groups. Cut out the strips. Mix them up.

2 Pass out the strips. Everyone should have at least one strip.

3 Begin with the sentence labeled 1. Everyone reads their sentence(s) aloud. Work

together to put the story in the correct order.

1) My most memorable event was my trip to Africa with my family last November.

We happily changed into shorts and sandals, ate some dinner, and went to sleep.

While we were driving there, he told us that the reserve is a park with over 100

different kinds of animals.

I was taking a photo of the giraffe when a zebra started running toward our truck.

Five minutes after we entered the park, we saw a giraffe and two zebras.

When we arrived on Monday night, rain was falling, but it was quite hot.

On Wednesday, we drove through the Great Rift Valley to another park for a three- day safari.

On Tuesday, our guide picked us up in a big truck.

At first, we were very frightened, but the guide said, “Don’t worry  zebras are not

very dangerous!”

After the safari ended, I was happy to return home.

He drove us to Kenya’s first nature reserve, which opened in 1946.

Before we began the safari, some lions were watching our truck.

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