An exam-day scramble teaches storytelling on EnglishClass101
Alisha uses a short story about waking up late to connect past tenses with everyday expressions.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
Master English Conversation: How to Tell Stories
Things we can learn from the video
Press to jump
- 2:50The simple past describes actions that started and ended in the past, including repeated past habits.
- 6:48The past perfect places an action before another past event or condition.
- 14:40A story about waking up late for an exam demonstrates how the past tenses connect.
- 20:00"I made it" means arriving somewhere in time for something.
- 20:58Alisha explains "was about to" and examines the past perfect progressive construction "had been sitting."
- 22:04"I'd" can contract "I had," as it does in the sample story.
Waking up late for an exam makes a useful grammar problem: what happened, what had already happened, and how do you put it all in order? Alisha works through that predicament on a whiteboard in "Master English Conversation: How to Tell Stories," the most-watched of EnglishClass101's eight new uploads.
The lesson has drawn roughly 19,000 views. It starts with completed actions in the simple past, then introduces the past perfect for events that happened before another past event. By the time Alisha reaches the sample story, the grammar has a practical job. She unpacks "was about to," explains that "I made it" means arriving in time, and shows how "I had" contracts to "I'd."
Past experiences run through another new lesson, "Wish You Had Done It Differently? Say It in English." Elsewhere, Alisha's question-and-answer series takes on the distinctions between solitary, single and lonely. These are small language choices with quite different meanings, rather than another sweep through the basics.
The strongest daily momentum currently belongs to the round-the-clock Alisha stream, with the EnglishClass101 TV stream and a new flashcard-methods video also active. The flashcard lesson moves beyond memorizing isolated words to building phrases learners can say aloud.
Subscribers held steady over the week, while daily views are running below the channel's usual pace. Nearby in language education, mmmEnglish also had an unchanged subscriber count, though its daily viewing was close to normal. For EnglishClass101, the week's most-watched new lesson offers something more specific than general practice: a way to make the sequence of a story clear, even when its narrator starts the day late.
Published on Trari
Where next?
What viewers say
Excellent,thank you so much teacher Alisha
@جمال-ط1وSee it on YouTubeThanks Alisha...🙏
@osfbpromoSee it on YouTubea 👍 explanation, thanks
@hppaw8754See it on YouTube
2 more comments
Thank you so much ❤❤❤
@AsaadJamal-v8f3jSee it on YouTubeAlways the best, thanks
@PaulinMbairoSee it on YouTube
Public comments from the video's page on YouTube
The videos drawing views on Learn English with EnglishClass101.com right now
🔴 24/7 Learn English LIVE with Alisha | Non-Stop Vocab, Grammar & Pr…14,957 views · 2026-10-20
Wish You Had Done It Differently? Say It in English12,681 views · 2026-10-19
Difference between SOLITARY, SINGLE and LONELY | English Grammar for …10,419 views · 2026-10-16
3 Reasons Why You Really Can Learn & Speak English with EnglishClass1…6,365 views · 2026-10-15
Speak English 24/7 with EnglishClass101 TV 🔴 Live 24/76,188 views · 2026-10-20
5 Flashcard Tricks to Learn 1,500+ English Words Faster5,694 views
- Subscribers
- 8,730,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 261,642
- Videos published this week
- 8
- Video published
- October 15, 2026
- Video views so far
- 18,873
- Views on its first day
- 11,739
The numbers
Here is how EnglishClass101's uploads and audience moved over the past week.
💡 Test your knowledge
In Alisha's exam-day story lesson, what does "I made it" mean?
Alisha explains that "I made it" means arriving somewhere in time for something.



