My Strange Dream Essay (100 words, using Past Simple and Past Continuous)

Have you ever woken up in a sweat after a strange dream? Use this common occurrence to introduce the use of these two common verb tenses. The past simple and the past continuous are often used when telling stories to show that one action interrupts another. This lesson uses silly, crazy stories to make sure your students remember what they’ve learned. You’ll start by telling everyone about a strange dream you had last night (text provided), introduce the grammar of the lesson with some guided practice, and finish by having students compete to come up with the strangest dream using everything they’ve learned in the lesson.

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.