Useful past tense lessons include exercises picture verb matching activities and writing sentences in the past tense. The grammar focus is on past simple affirmative sentences as well as past simple regular and irregular verbs. In this fun past simple activity, students create a story about a holiday romance by inventing answers to questions and writing them down. The simple past is in many ways easier than the present simple, with no third person s to worry about. Seven simple activities for teaching the simple past busyteacher. Divide the class into teams of three or four, and give a copy of the worksheet to each student. Past simple affirmative negative games activities esl worksheets.
We can use the past simple to talk about things we did in. Learn english online grammar, listening, reading, songs. Useful past tense lessons include exercises pictureverb matching activities and writing sentences in the past. Quality esl grammar worksheets, quizzes and games from a to z for. Games for grammar practice a resource book of grammar games. For irregular verbs, there is a special past tense form. Past tense lessons include exercises practicing the use of verbs in the past tense, pronunciation endings for the ed endings of verbs and speaking and story exercises that encourage students to write and talk about events from their lives or create imaginary scenarios. English grammar stories and exercises the simple tenses series simple past by really learn english. You can do the exercises online or download the worksheet as pdf. Students can still need intensive practice, especially to stop themselves from slipping into present tenses halfway through a story and to be able to produce irregular forms quickly and with good pronunciation. And often, in the classroom, bad situations are more interesting and fun. Fun pdf past simple affirmative and negative games, esl activities, and interactive and printable worksheets for teachers to use with a1, a2 and b1 levels.
English grammar for beginners regular verbs in past simple tense in this video you will learn how to form past simple verbs, and use them correctly. Past continuous interactive and downloadable worksheet. Also useful are past tense speaking and story exercises about vacations and other events that encourage students to write and talk about events from their lives or create imaginary scenarios. Past simple affirmative negative games activities esl. English grammar for beginners regular verbs in past. When we use the negative, we dont change the main verb. Enjoyment fun and pleasure in learning are probably the. When did you last go to a playground or somewhere fun. Students ask and answer questions using the past simple in order to move along the board and. Past simple sentences learnenglish kids british council. English esl past simple tense worksheets most downloaded. Past simple tense fully editable with key by zsuzsapszi fill in the sentences with the correct form past simple of the appropriate verb, and then match the sentences to the pictures.
Past simple interactive and downloadable worksheet. To practise the past simple tense and develop fluency. Simple past part 1 this is the first part of 2 exercises concerning the simple past of both regular and irregular verbs. Find the verbs in the past simple and write them in the boxes. A nice way of working with grammar, thanks to the simpson characters. Teach your beginner students the past simple tense be. A short grammarguide and 3 exercises to practise past simple. Thats 4,036 pages filled with thousands of practical activities and tips that you can start using today.
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