This lesson plan is based on the task-based learning approach. The students are required to do the tasks individual, pair, and group. The language focus is the past simple tense under the routine activities theme. Students are required to complete the ...
This lesson plan is based on the task-based learning approach. The students are required to do the tasks individual, pair, and group. The language focus is the past simple tense under the routine activities theme. Students are required to complete the ...
As students have a problem about listening skill and they are sleepy after lunch time, I found that listening to music is a helpful activity to cope with those problems. Last Christmas is a cool song with clear English lyrics. It's not too slow, nor to ...
Not just for listening to the song, one of my favourite songs, but also for speaking time, we can start by showing some photographs of people, one person in each photograph, and we can use that question on a poster, 'I wonder what lonely people do' and ...
![Song Worksheet: Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen [Past Simple and Continuous]](http://busyteacher.org/uploads/posts/2012-11/thumbs/1352032538_carly-rae-jepsen-call-me-maybe-past-simple-and.png)
Thankful as I am for this great website, I'd like to share this simple worksheet for practicing Past Simple and Continuous. It is a popular song which I find adequate for teenagers between 13-16 years old. They can review past forms of regular and irre ...
It is part of a project named Positive Piece of News Project.Love, dedication, building confidence in loss, past tense and environmentally friendly activities. It is about getting involved.It is a powerpoint presentation to prompt discussion with ...
The worksheet consists of 14 pictures and 14 small texts. The students have to choose verbs from the list to fill in the gaps with the correct form of the simple past or continuous. The key to the exercise is included. Thanks Phillip Martin for clipart ...
![Song Worksheet: Set Fire to the Rain [Past Simple Verbs]](http://busyteacher.org/uploads/posts/2012-11/thumbs/1352145204_set-fire-to-the-rain-0.png)
In this activity students are first supposed to look for the past simple form of certain given verbs in the lyrics of Adele's song. Following this, students undersand that some of the verbs they've found are regular in their past form, while some other ...
![Song Worksheet: I Will Survive [Past Simple Verbs]](http://busyteacher.org/uploads/posts/2012-11/thumbs/1352145287_i-will-survive-0.png)
In this activity students are first supposed to look for the past simple form of certain given verbs in the lyrics of Gloria Gaynor's song. Following this, students undersand that some of the verbs they've found are regular in their past form, while so ...
This worksheet helps students differentiate between the simple past and past continuous tenses in use and form. Students can differentiate between the use of 'when' that is followed by a short action in the past and 'while' that is followed a long acti ...
In this activity, students watch and listen to Obama's victory speech in the 2012 election. In the first phase, while listening to Obama's speech, they have to complete the transcript with the missing words. Then they are expected to find in the text s ...
Students work in groups and try to gather each person's biography. Then I suggest they write it fully changing some words, adding some linkwords to make the text more readable. Then we can ask pupils to talk about these people or ask each other questio ...
I looked up for simple exercises with 'was' and 'were' for my younger learners and I couldn't find any. So I did it myself. I hope your younger students will also enjoy matching the different nouns with was and were. They can colour them with two diffe ...
![Simple Past Worksheet [Regular Verbs]](http://busyteacher.org/uploads/posts/2012-11/thumbs/1352543934_simple-past-0.png)
This worksheet is about the Past Simple of the Regular verbs. We can find an exercise where the students have to write the verb in the correct column according to the orthographical rules. Also the students can practise the affirmative, negative and in ...
This worksheet is to help students understand the spelling rules for regular verbs -ed endings. There are two exercises for them to do after they have read and understood the rules in the box. Using the verbs on the worksheet eliciting them f ...
Students can practice past simple and irregular and regular verbs. They are given a list of verbs in the Present Simple form and have to fill in the past simple of the verbs as well as write the German meanings. Hope you find it useful and your studen ...
In this worksheet you can find a short comparison between Past Simple and Past Continuous tenses: their uses, structures, examples, particles and some links to practise them on-line.If you like this worksheet, I would like to invite you to visit my blo ...
![Past Continuous Tense [Fact sheet]](http://busyteacher.org/uploads/posts/2012-11/thumbs/1352845034_continuous-past-tense-fact-sheet-0.png)
This is a simple to read and understand fact sheet about the basic structure of a Past-Continuous sentence/s. Indispensable in any TEFL/ESL classroom. Teachers may hand it out at the end of the Past-Continuous-Lesson so students have the lesson core wr ...
![A Pizza [Past Simple Reading]](http://busyteacher.org/uploads/posts/2012-11/thumbs/1352897343_a-pizza-0.png)
A reading comprehension, followed by different activities. It can be used with children at an elementary level to review verbs in the simple past, to test reading comprehension, and to practice writing a short composition. It is a different way to review.
![The Robbery [Past Continuous & Past Simple]](http://busyteacher.org/uploads/posts/2012-11/thumbs/1352906329_robbery.png)
Hi :) I tried to prepare a worksheet which can be used while teaching Past Simple and Past Continuous. The students are given a short story about a robbery at a bank. After reading and examining the story, they are asked to create a similar scenario wh ...
I'm a big fan of Harry Potter and I just remembered this scene from the movie. Students have to complete the handout by writing the correct verb as they listen to and watch the movie. You can always play it two to three times. Enjoy!