past simple
Worksheets: past simple
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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.
B1-B2
20-30 min
groups: 3-4
Twenty-four cards with answers, some with errors in the form or use of the past simple or past continuous, or in choice of time expressions.
B1-B2
20 mins
Board and dice game with 22 squares, each containing a question that must be completed with the past simple or present perfect. Includes all the main uses of the present perfect simple: unfinished action/state up until now / unfinished time period / past action with present relevance.
B1-B2
Pairwork past simple questions
B1-B2
Ss match segments of past simple questions and then match again to grammar labels ('past simple subject question' etc)
B1-B2
1 hour
groups: pairs / whole class
gap fill
question writing
Split bank robbery story with gaps (pair work) leading to alibis game (whole class).
(7 sheets including instructions sheet and answers.)
