This printable ESL / EFL worksheet and corresponding interactive quiz, “Sammy and the Shiny Trick – Picture Story,” helps learners practise telling a short story from pictures. Students look at the nine illustrated scenes and write what happened in each one, using the past simple and past continuous tenses to describe the events in sequence. The worksheet focuses on narration, sentence building, and describing interrupted or simultaneous past actions in a fun autumn animal story theme.

An interactive quiz complements the printable version. Students type their answers in open-ended boxes. Please note that in these open-answer task types, students’ answers are not automatically corrected or scored while playing the quiz; instead, an example solution is shown.

- Language goal: developing narrative writing and speaking through picture-based storytelling

- Grammar focus: past simple and past continuous

- Theme: an autumn animal picture story about Sammy the squirrel and a clever trick involving a shiny spoon

- Intended age group: children aged about 7–11

- CEFR level: A2 (suitable for stronger A1 learners with support)

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Sammy & The Shiny Trick - Picture Story - Past Tenses

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Let's do English ESL grammar exercises with picture. This printable ESL / EFL worksheet and corresponding interactive quiz, “Sammy and the Shiny Trick – Picture…