🌑 The Night the Lights Went Out

Students read an original 850-word narrative article about a fictional 47-hour blackout in Rotterdam. The story follows paramedic Eva Kuiper, restaurant owner Malik El-Haddad, and retired teacher Johanna Vos as the city copes without electricity and discovers unexpected community bonds. All four narrative tenses — past simple (main events), past continuous (background/scene), past perfect (earlier events), and past perfect continuous (duration before key events) — are woven naturally throughout the text. The interactive game presents 10 context-based sentences where students choose the correct narrative tense.