Running commentary

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He passes the ball to Ronaldo. Ronaldo nutmegs and round past the defender. This is very dangerous. He shoots and scores! It’s a brilliant finish and he knows it.

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  1. The competition begins!
  2. Everyone starts running.
  3. Bolt leaves everyone behind!
  4. Participants keep running.
  5. Bolt nears the finish line!
  6. Bolt crosses the goal first!
  7. Bolt does it again and wins the race.
  8. Bolt celebrates as if nothing else matters.

Sequence

Connector of sequence: to make your stories clearer for you listener.

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Example

Rose is an upper-class woman who hates her relationship with her fiance. One day, they go on a trip onboard a well-known ship. While sailing, she meets a poor man named Jack. They fall in love right after she threatens to jump off of the ship. They keep seeing each other, although Rose’s mother does not agree. In the end, the ship hits an iceberg and sinks. Jack dies. Eventually, Rose decides to tell this tragic love story to the world.

Example#2

It all starts with a racer car that wants to be the speediest in the world. For a start in the first part of the movie, he is a racing competition. But before he crossed the last lap he has suffered an accident by technical issues and the race is rated a draw so the race is reprogrammed at another town. Participants have a couple of days to be ready for the next race. On the road to this town, our protagonist got lost and arrive at a little old town, but when he had just arrived, he made a lot of trouble, and town people got him arrested, they told him, if you want to be free You must resolve all issues that you did it.

Listening exercise!

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  1. A https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xENq0Oj5YJ6Vpl1Hgcn2AuWpv2DGKeXF/view
  2. B

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YfVoiIwQl8IhcpNqLLyv0FZu42CQzyvS/view

Simple past vs. present perfect