Afterwards, the players use the words they wrote down to make as many past simple affirmative sentences as they can. Each word can only be used once. The players then read out their sentences, paying close attention to the -ed sound of the past simple regular verbs. The other players listen and confirm each sentence is grammatically correct and that the -ed pronunciation is appropriate.
Players score one point for each grammatically correct sentence and one point for each suitable -ed pronunciation. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins. Class Story. In this past simple speaking activity, students play a game where they work together to make a story using past simple affirmative and negative sentences.
Take three word cards and write them on the board. One student from the first team starts the story. The student must use the past simple and keep talking until one or more of the words on the board have been used. For every word used from the board, the student scores one point for their team. When the student has completed their turn, erase the words and replace them with new ones. A member from the next team then plays and continues the story. The team with the highest score at the end of the game wins.
Gone in 30 Seconds. This free past simple board game helps students to utilize their knowledge of the past simple to talk about a variety of everyday topics. When a student lands on a square, they talk about the topic on the square in the past simple tense for 30 seconds without stopping. Holiday Romance.
In this fun past simple activity, students create a story about a holiday romance by inventing answers to questions and writing them down. The grammar focus is on past simple affirmative sentences as well as past simple regular and irregular verbs.
Students answer the first question on their worksheet by inventing details and writing the answer down in the form of a past simple sentence. After that, the students fold the paper and pass it to the person on their right who answers the next question. This continues until all the questions have been completed. Students then take it in turns to read their stories to the group and the group chooses the best one. The groups then read their chosen story to the class and the class votes for the best story.
How was your weekend? This engaging past simple worksheet helps to teach students how to use the past simple to talk about what they did at the weekend. The worksheet also introduces students to basic small talk techniques such as expressing interest and keeping a conversation going. To start, students put words in the correct order to form past simple questions in a conversation about the weekend. Students then match a reply to each question. Next, the students read brief dialogues and choose the most suitable answer that indicates interest in the conversation.
The students then move on to complete a dialogue about the weekend that helps to demonstrate how to keep a conversation going. In the last exercise, students work with a partner and use the language from the worksheet and their own ideas to create a past simple conversation about what they did at the weekend. Past Simple Affirmative and Negative. This holiday-themed worksheet helps students practice past simple affirmative and negative statements as well as regular and irregular past simple verbs.
Students begin with a gap-fill exercise where they complete a text about someone's holiday using regular and irregular verbs from a box in their past simple form. Students then complete sentences with verbs from a box in their past simple affirmative or negative form as appropriate.
After that, students answer eight past simple questions about their last holiday, writing their answers in sentence form. Students then write a paragraph of their own about their best ever holiday using past simple affirmative and negative sentences. Afterwards, in pairs, students take it in turns to read their paragraph to their partner. The two students then discuss who had the best holiday and why. Past Simple Review. In this past simple revision worksheet, students revise regular and irregular past simple verbs as well as affirmative and negative past simple sentences, and Wh questions.
Repeat it if neccessary until most students have parsed the question. Have students discuss the question with their neighbours and then ask some of them to share the details with the class. Divide the board into two.
Write Usually at the top of one section and Yesterday on the top of the second. In the usually section, write some typical daily activities. Then in the yesterday section write a similar statement but eliciting the past tense form.
Usually I get up at 7 am I have a shower at 7. Yesterday I got up at 9 am I had a shower at 9. Draw a tic tac toe grid and write the infinitive of an irregular verb in each square. Teams now try to win the game by making sentences which must use the correct past form of the verb in play.
See the Tic Tac Toe post for more detailed information. On our Crosswords Page , you will find printable crosswords for a variety of grammar structures including one for past simple irregular verbs. Use the handy set of 50 Verb Cards to practise making past tense stories. Bad Vacation past tense activity PDF. Subscribe to get full access to the latest and best resources from eslflow.
There are no ads in the newsletter and you will receive entertaining, high quality, and up-to-date teaching resources regularly. And, if you subscribe, you will be supporting the eslflow website. Writing conversations with language cues is one good way of getting into the past tense.
Students have to think about a past tense context and and create a role play for this context. The language cues give them some assistance in guiding and developing their ideas. Also, there are 2 example conversations that can be used as listening exercises. Create a past tense conversation PDF.
This is another slightly more advanced ESL exercise to help students expand their knowledge of past tense verbs. This is a second exercise to help students understand, practice or review the past tense endings. Past tense endings pronunciations 2 PDF.
This exercise is a compliment to the exercise above. Of course, if you want to talk about things using the past tense, you need to be able to discuss and describe both good and bad situations. And often, in the classroom, bad situations are more interesting and fun. Game to practice places and jobs vocabulary in English.
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