narrate

Everyday

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 →

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.