## 2a. Reflection - Past tense

## Reflecting on your own knowledge or experience

For this part you will recount your personal ideas and experiences about death and funeral procedures.

You can learn how to use the past tense by signing up for a English BloX, or looking at this website.

Write (or talk) about the times you experienced a funeral, or what you imagine it to be like if you have not.
→ At the top of the page write down which tenses are used to reflect on past evens.
→ Write down the rule(s) for the tense(s) which you are going to use
→ This reflection should be somewhere between 300 and 600 words long.

Feel free to wire about what you have seen in movies or heard from others. Refer to:

1) What happened during the funeral / gathering? Describe the procedures of the family and friends and describe what happened. (Was there a speech, did people cry, was there a procession?)

2) What was the mood during the funeral? What emotions did you see, or how did you feel yourself? Were people loud or quiet? What sort of clothes were they wearing? How did people speak to each other, and what did they say?

3) What happened to the body, and how did the whole event finish? (Burial, cremation, or something else? – did people go home directly after, or did people stay in the graveyard?)

Feel free to add any details that you observed. The more the better.