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Past Simple and Wh Questions

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Past Simple and Wh QuestionsA useful worksheet to work and learn the use of simple past and wh questions. An easy way to learn grammar with your students and differenciate the use of regular and irregular verbs and of course the use and purpose of Wh questions. Enjoy working and ...

Describing Famous People (adjectives, present, past simple)

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Describing Famous People (adjectives, present, past simple)This worksheet is designed for elementary students of English. It can be even used as a review of past simple, present simple and adjectives. The first famous person is Ayrton Senna and there are some questions as a guideline for teachers. Although the ...

Simple Past Song Worksheet: Set Fire to the Rain by Adele

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Simple Past Song Worksheet: Set Fire to the Rain by AdeleThis activity you can easily introduce or review simple past with regular and irregular verbs.The song is divided into 3 exercises.exercise one the students are supposed to complete the song with the past form of the verb given in parentheses;exercise ...

Rowan Atkinson's Biography

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Rowan Atkinson's BiographyMr. Bean's real identity is revealed. This worksheet contains Rowan Atkinson's biography as well as reading comprehension questions and the key. This worksheet was designed for Mexican ELL's in the beginning level. It was designed to practice the Past ...

John Was Playing Basketball When I Saw Him

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John Was Playing Basketball When I Saw HimThis is a 2-page worksheet contrasting the past simple and the past continuous.There are simple explanations at the top of the page followed by 2 different activities in which students are asked to look at the picture and write sentences using the verb ...

Song Worksheet: Long Live by Taylor Swift

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Song Worksheet: Long Live by Taylor SwiftListening Activity - there are different kinds of exercises ( fill in the gap, order the verses, unscrable the words or sentences) to practice listening in a funny way. I hope you enjoy!

Song Worksheet: Back To December by Taylor Swift

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Song Worksheet: Back To December by Taylor SwiftIt is a simple worksheet to revise past simple tense. The first exercise uses the words that appear in the lyrics of the song.It is suitable for teenagers as well as adults, to learn or just for fun, to consolidate and I would not recommend it as a pre ...

Past Perfect: Somebody That I Used To Know

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Past Perfect: Somebody That I Used To KnowI personally love this song, so I'd wanted to bring it to my classroom in a creative way. We've been studying the past perfect, and the story told in this song is perfect to relate past and present events using a timeline. The worksheet has three secti ...

Present & Past: Simple & Continuous

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Present & Past: Simple & ContinuousIn this worksheet there are 2 exercises to revise the present & the past both in the simple and continuous form. In 1, the students have to fill in the gaps with the correct simple or continuous present and in 2, they practise the past simple or co ...

Simple Past Tense Review

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Simple Past Tense ReviewTwo fun exercises with the songs Killing Me Softly and Fernando. With the first song, Ss do an error correction type of practice, correcting the verbs in past tense (all written with ed). With the next one, Ss read the lyrics and answer an open questio ...

Present and Past Simple plus Common Irregular Verbs

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Present and Past Simple plus Common Irregular VerbsThis worksheet explains how to form the present and past simple with some common verbs.There is also a very useful list of some of the most common irregular verbs in past simple and past perfect (past participle) format which I compiled as I could not ...

Song Worksheet: American Pie by Madonna

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Song Worksheet: American Pie by MadonnaThis cover Madonna recorded in 2000 is great to practice the simple past, practice vocabulary, teach expressions and to "open" the students' ears as they have fun trying to sing with the Queen Of Pop.

Irregular Verbs Word Search

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Irregular Verbs Word SearchAn easy and entertaining activity for students to practice Past Simple irregular verbs (pre-intermediate level). Students have to find the irregular verbs in the wordsearch. This activity can be done in pairs or small groups. I hope it will be useful f ...

Describing Professor Anderson's Daily Routine

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Describing Professor Anderson's Daily RoutineThis is a simple worksheet about the movie "The Journey to the Center of the Earth", with Brendan Fraser. Unfortunately, I couldn't find that on Youtube. In this activity, students watch the first part of the movie which shows a sequence of Professor A ...

Storytelling: "Monkey Puzzle" Animals

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Storytelling: This worksheet contains a story and a set of pictures that can be used in order to teach or revise the names of certain animals and also the parts of their bodies. There are also two lesson plans suggesting how the story can be applied. The lessons are ...

Present Perfect x Simple Past: Mary & Max Animation 1

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Present Perfect x Simple Past: Mary & Max Animation 1Even though this activity was designed for adults, it actually can be assigned to all ages. It consists of differences of using either the present perfect or the past simple based on the Australian animation Mary & Max. As the character writes a le ...

Song Worksheet: Set Fire to the Rain by Adele

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Song Worksheet: Set Fire to the Rain by AdeleThis is a song worksheet designed to check some close sounds distinction as well as some irregular verbs past forms. I enjoyed listening to the song and so did my students who loved doing the various listening activities in the worksheet as well. Enjoy it!

Simple Past Classroom Poster

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Simple Past Classroom PosterThis is a colourful classroom poster which can also be used as a study sheet on past simple regular verbs.Recommended for elementary students the file is available in both colour and black and white version.

How Long... It Take.... (you/him/her/...) to ...?

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How Long... It Take.... (you/him/her/...) to ...?This worksheet is useful to practice How long ...(duration of activities and tenses ...) It's an exercise with questions about duration of daily activities. You can develop a conversation about it and include or ask the students to make their own que ...

A Short Test on Simple Past Tense

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A Short Test on Simple Past TenseHere is a short test on past simple tense of the verb TO BE, regular and irregular verbs. You can use it after you had lessons during which you had explained the rules concerning the past simple tense. You can use it when practicing this tense as well.
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