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Time expressions - past

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Past time expressions and tenses - board game
B1-B2
20-30 mins
groups: 3-4
board game
speaking cues
 
 Board game with speaking cues for statements using past tenses with time expressions: When I got up this morning.... Until I left school, I'd never.... By the time I was 12.... etc.
 
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Time linkers for narrative tenses - gap-fill cards
B1-B2
20-30 mins
groups: 3-4
 
Eighteen cards with time linkers gapped:after, before, when, while, as, as soon as, by the time, during, and meanwhile
 
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Time linkers practice
B1-B2
 
Story in strips. Students need to order strips to tell story. Focuses on link words / phrases 'as soon as, while, until' etc
 
 
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Present perfect / past simple with time expressions
B1-B2
 
Dominoes game matching sentence segments and questions with time phrases: since, ago, how long, when, recently, over the past... etc.
 
 
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Time phrases and past tenses
B1-B2
 
Dominoes game with as soon as, while, during etc.
 
 
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Time phrases - past
B1-B2
 
Cut up the time phrases and give them out to students. Tell them to lay them out on the table. Then give the pairs of clauses out one by one discussing the possible time phrases and differences in meaning as you go
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
Time phrases quiz 01
Mulitple-choice quiz with feedback. 'When', 'while', 'as', 'before', 'after', 'during', 'as soon as', 'by the time'
 
 

 

 
 
 
Time linkers exercise 01
Matching setence segments with 'while', 'as soon as', 'by the time', 'until' and 'during'
 
 

 

 
 
 
Inside Out Student's Book Upper Intermediate book cover 
Inside Out Student's Book Upper Intermediate
Unit 3 Money  Page 33 
A day in my very wealthy life Gap fill using : as soon as, while, by the time, then, when, as, during, until, after, just as.
 
 
New Cutting Edge Pre-Intermediate students' book book cover 
New Cutting Edge Pre-Intermediate students' book
Module 2 Important firsts  Page 18 
ago, last year, yesterday morning etc
 
Module 14 Money, money, money  Page 127 
 
 
New Cutting Edge Upper Intermediate students' book book cover 
New Cutting Edge Upper Intermediate students' book
Module 1 Past and present  Page 9   Past and present time phrases
Gap fill exercise
 
Module 1 Past and present  Pages 16 - 17  practise
Extra practise exercises for this unit
 
 
New Inside Out Student's Book Upper Intermediate book cover 
New Inside Out Student's Book Upper Intermediate
Unit 3 Gold  Page 33   A day in my life
Gap fill - time expressions. Writing: cues for writing a fantasy piece: A day in my life as a... etc.
 
 
Reward Intermediate Resource Pack book cover 
Reward Intermediate Resource Pack
3 One thing leads to another  Page 3 
Before / after -ing
 
8 When in Rome  Page 8 
Story ordering activity. When, as, while, as soon as.
 
 
The Great Train Robbery
 
<i>Black Mirror</i>
 
Escape from the canyon