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Past Simple Regular Verbs

This lesson is FULL of visual aids and clear examples of when and how to use and form the Past Simple for irregular verbs. The lesson contains a link to a fun, animated video. This is the perfect tool...

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Regular Past Tense Pronunciation Worksheet

This worksheet invites students to pronounce regular past tense endings appropriately. Likewise, students may write the past form of the verbs included with a different color ink to visualize possible...

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Present Simple vs. Present Continuous Worksheet

Both the present simple and the continuous tenses are some of the most fundamental aspects of grammar. We use and hear these tenses every day, so it's important to understand the differences between...

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Carpool Karaoke with Adele Worksheet

James Corden and Adele sing her songs and talk about her in his carpool. Very funny to watch and as most young people know who she is, this can be a great and fun exercise to practice listening...

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Holiday Survey

This is a holiday survey of 8 questions useful when you would like to engage all of the students in a group to report on their holidays. This is also a tool to ask and answer questions in Past Simple...

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Past Simple: Practice

Students have to fill in the gaps of a short story about a road trip with verbs in the past simple (affirmative or negative). As a follow-up, you can ask students to share travel experiences with...

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Practise Active and Passive Voice. History of Central Europe

The worksheet focuses on the Passive and Active voice used to create past narrative. The tasks are based on the video that lists the historical events and major changes in Central Europe in 20th...

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Conversation "About Me" Worksheet

  Conversation lesson "all about me" inspires students to talk about themselves and practice WH words. This worksheet is suitable for a conversation class.

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Past Simple Of Regular Verbs PowerPoint

Grammar spelling rules and pronunciation for past simple of regular verbs. Here you will find a complete class (PowerPoint) on past simple of regular verbs. Starting with spelling rules, going on to...

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A Funny Christmas Story

This is a vocabulary gap-fill worksheet to help young learners retell a short animation film about Three Little Pigs and Santa. I hope your students will enjoy this activity as much as mine did.  

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Cat Left Home Alone Video Worksheet

This worksheet is useful when working with younger children. It's visual. No words. The idea is to captivate student's interest and work on vocabulary and comprehension activities after watching. It's...

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Past Simple Practice

Practice Simple Past tense with this easy-to-use worksheet. This worksheet was designed for Portuguese native speakers and might contain Portuguese words for further explanation/instructions. Students...

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Thunder & the Past Continuous

Song: Thunder, by Imagine Dragons. Lyrics with gaps to fill with the past simple and the past continuous, mostly the second verb tense. Other questions included about the song's vocabulary and the...

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Everyday Activities Worksheet

A super fun and engaging lesson plan with an animated video for students to watch. After watching the video, students complete the questions, grammar and vocabulary activities. A powerful resource for...

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Travel Flashcards - Add Your Own Labels

Beautifully illustrated flashcards for teaching travel English. This travel-themed set will brighten up the classroom, increase retention and provide an awesome visual learning aid. The flashcards are...

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Fortnite Presentation - Vocabulary Practice

This is a PowerPoint presentation on Fortnite I made for my young students. They love playing this game, and I designed a presentation with info about the game as well as a vocabulary practice. The...

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Past Simple or Present Perfect Revision Exercise

This is a worksheet to revise the use of these two tenses: past simple and present perfect. There are six different tasks. Positive sentences, negative sentences and questions. The last exercise is a...

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Tic Tac Toe (To Practice Any Tense)

This is a great activity that you can use as a warmer, as a review activity or even as a filler. It can be used in ANY level to practice any tense for affirmative, negative or questions. It's a...

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Primary 4 English: Was/Were there...?

Instructions: 1. Student receive a set of pictures and must draw items on the left picture using the instructions given by the teacher. 2. Students take turns asking one another "Was there a bear on...

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Past Simple 1

  This is a worksheet (8 pages) to practise / review the past simple tense. There are ten exercises: was/were - affirmative, negative and questions – regular and irregular, write sentences, put the...

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Jack Escapes from the Royal Palace

  Explore Past Simple (Regular and Irregular) verbs by watching this video. Follow the story and answer the questions. It’s a fun quiz and ideal for virtual classes. 

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A Crazy Trip: Past Tense Storytelling

  A fun lesson to practice the past simple, past continuous, and past perfect. Watch the animated video, answer the questions, and use the illustrated flashcards to retell the story and tell your own...

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Learning about Clothes & Colour

  Suitable all ages and complete adult beginners, this resource helps improve the vocabulary. It includes describing different colours and clothing, has proper nouns, revision activities and a word...

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Reading: A Hot Day

This booklet for complete adult beginners is also suitable for all ages. Written in past and past continuous tenses it shows preference language such as ‘either’ or ‘decided’, etc. It includes both...

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Mnemonic Rhyming Groups

  Learning can be fun with mnemonics. In this resource irregular verbs are sorted into rhyming groups that make it easier to memorize them in a short period of time. Actually some groups can be...

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About Myself Mind Map

  This mind map provides a speaking activity and can be used as a guideline for new students to introduce themselves. It can also be used for questions and answers, to check vocabulary and...

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CLIL Music – CLEMENTINE

While listening to the lyrics of the traditional song about Clementine, students can practice reading comprehension, learn new vocabulary, including related synonyms, and sing a song while they learn.

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Test: Past Simple

  Based on file 7 of the English File Elementary Fourth Edition, this test covers grammar (Past Simple (to be, regular and irregular verbs), vocabulary (word formation and expressions with go, get,...

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Simple past questions & answers with pictures

  This activity helps students practice asking and answering questions based on pictures about past actions. They will also have to correct information by making negative and affirmative sentences....

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Past Simple or Past Continuous 1

  This worksheet teaches the difference between the past simple and the past continuous. It contains three exercises: Rewrite the verb, Put the verbs in brackets in the Past Simple or Past Continuous...

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Passive Voice – Present Simple & Past Simple Worksheet

  This short worksheet includes information on the rules for using the Passive Voice. There are two exercises to practise the Present Simple & the Past Simple Passive forms. One activity is a gap...

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Past Tense "To Be" Thomas Edison

  This very short worksheet contains sentences about Thomas Edison. Fill in the blanks with the correct past tense forms of "to be," was or were. Students do not need knowledge of Thomas Edison to...

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Celebrities from the past: Using Verbs

  This worksheet contains 6 cards with celebrities from the past. Students can research and fill in the personal information of each celebrity include complete sentences using the past form of the...

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Where Are You Now? by Honor Society Song Worksheet

  This worksheet contains a simple song about friendship and is used to enhance listening skills and develop the vocabulary, including verbs and making it easy to identify certain verb tenses.

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A Past Simple Gap Fill And Listening Lesson Plan

  This resource covers Past Simple, Passive Voice, Regular/Irregular Verbs, Gender equality, and Questions in the Past Simple tenses. It's a listening activity that helps practice the Past Simple...

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Thunder By Imagine Dragons Fill In The Blank Worksheet

  This listening comprehension activity is a fill-in-the-blank assignment. Students listen to and watch the video then answer the questions using the words from the word bank. It includes a few...

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Hoarding

  This upper-intermediate worksheet covers the subject of hoarding. Students go through and discuss the questions carefully. Then they watch the video on YouTube through the provided link. This...

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True Friends

  In this worksheet, students go through the vocabulary preparation, watch a video about two octopus friends, recall Past Simple verbs, then complete the summary of the story. If your students have...

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Song Worksheet: Sam Smith, Fire on Fire

  This short worksheet is for elementary and pre-intermediate students to help them recognize the present and past simple tenses. It includes words that might sound alike or can be confusing. It...

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Harry Potter Past Simple Fill in the Blanks

This simple fill-in-the-blank exercise is perfect for students to practice the Past Simple tense. It is an extract from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling. Students fill in the...

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Grammar Review B2 and C1 Levels

This PowerPoint presentation helps students review the time tenses. It includes some warm-up examples (teachers should prepare their own explanations), and three grammar exercises (with answers) that...

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Song: Memories by Maroon 5 – Level A2

  This song by Maroon 5 helps to practice verbs in the past tense and listening comprehension. It is suitable for A2-level students. After listening to the song and completing the activities, students...

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Past Simple Tense: How Kamala Harris Went From Prosecutor to Vice...

  This grammar practice and listening worksheet focuses on the use of the Past Simple tense. The video helps students to check their answers. They observe the use of the tense and practise it in a...

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That's All Folks...

  This worksheet is a revision lesson for Pre-Intermediate level 12-14-year-olds of personality adjectives, past simple vs past continuous and used to, in the context of popular cartoons. It contains...

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Present Simple animated YouTube video - Accompanying Background

  This background is designed to be used in conjunction with an animated YouTube video. Young learners can watch and 'do' their first lesson, then have fun colouring and finally creating their own...

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Song worksheet: Rain on me by Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande

  This listening activity based on the popular song "Rain on Me" by Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande can be used as a warmup for a lesson with students that have already studied the Simple Past tense. Its...

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Good Ones - Charli XCX Song Worksheet

  This song worksheet features "Good Ones" by Charli XCX. Students choose the correct tense of the words that are in bold, then complete the sentences with the missing words found in the word bank....

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Bad Habits

  This fun and engaging intermediate video-based lesson on Bad Habits features visual aids for brainstorming vocabulary and phrases and talking about bad habits. It includes activities such as warm-up...

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Future In The Past: What People In The Past Thought

  This PowerPoint shows pictures made by people in the early 1950s and 1940s portraying how they thought the future might be. It's good to practice "They thought that we would be able to fly one day."...

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Simple Past Tense Quiz - Grammar - Verb

  This grammar practice worksheet focuses on the use of the Simple Past tense. It's all about simple past tense, quiz, question, practice, grammar, verb, multiple choice, etc. Students observe the use...

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