narrate
part of speech
verb (narrate, narrates, narrated, narrating)
meaning for a pupil
1) To tell a story, describing what happens in order. tree →
2) To speak the words that go with a film, TV programme or audiobook, explaining what we see. tree →
sense in the lessons
In English lessons, the narrator is the person or voice that narrates the story: first person (I, we) or third person (he, she, they). Pupils narrate events in a recount or a story. In everyday life, famous people narrate nature documentaries and audiobooks.
examples
- David Attenborough narrates many nature programmes. tree →
- The story is narrated by a talking cat. tree →
- Can you narrate what happened on the school trip, in order? tree →
- Grandpa narrated the tale of how he met Grandma. tree →
- The audiobook was narrated by a famous actor. tree →
- In this book, the events are narrated by two different children. tree →
- She narrated her own video for the science fair. tree →
- They are narrated by naked savage women to naked savage children. tree →
note
Regular verb. Related: narrator (the one who tells), narrative (the story or the telling, also an adjective). In story writing, «first-person narrator» uses «I». A trap: the narrator is not always the author; an author can invent a narrator.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «narrate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.