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Pronunciation - Regular Verbs - Past Endings

Activity to practice the pronunciation of the regular verbs in the past. Students are supposed to separate the verbs in the past according to the past -ed pronunciation. Teachers are supposed to...

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Past Simple and Continuous - Revision

I used this worksheet as a test. It tests the knowledge of past simple, irregular verbs, past continuous, and in the last exercise the students have to decide which of the two tenses should be used....

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Movie Worksheet: Wacky Inventions (the Flintstones)

This worksheet can be used either like vocabulary expansion + comparing life in the past with present after watching a cartoon or to practice conditionals. Here’s what I did: 1) Ss read the list of...

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Biographies of Famous People (Past Simple)

The worksheet includes four biographies of famous people (Thomas Edison, Ada Lovelace, Elvis Presley, Leonardo da Vinci) with gaps to fill in correct past simple forms. My suggestion is to divide ss...

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Birthday Questions to Role Play

This activity could be designed for one- to one class, if using for groups, you need to change its rule. Here is the rule for one-to-one class.One asks and one answers in order to complete the blank....

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Irregular Verbs-Mnemonic Rhyming Groups

Irregular verbs: a reference list (colored edited version ). Learning can be fun with mnemonics. When we were kids, rhyming songs and phrases were some of the gimmicks used to make us remember...

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Find Someone Who (Past Regular and Irregular)

Student's role in this activity is to find someone who filled the information in the spots, by practicing the regular and irregular forms of the verbs in simple past. It is useful to wrap up the simple...

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Find Someone Who (Was/Were)

Student's role in this activity is to find someone who filled the information in the spots, by practicing the past forms of be. It can also be used as a warmer or a filler. I like it best to be done as...

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Song Worksheet: I Remember You by Skid Row

This is a nice Skid Row song. You can practice the past tense and listening with the students. This song contains some verbs in the past tense, and it's pretty good to pratice how the verbs change. 

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Past Simple of the Verb to Be (Communication Activity)

It's a communicative activity about the simple past of the verb to be. Students will ask each other about the famous character they have. Once they're done, they'll change sides and do the same thing....

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Song Worksheet: Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus

This song is great for teenagers and it is meant to practice the simple past tense by different activities such as filling in the blank, putting sentences in the right order and writing the past tense...

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The Yeti!

It is a very fun reading. You can do it in class as a warm up for other endagered animals or folk tales.It is very useful also to evaluate reading comprehension. I used it with my third graders as well...

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Past holidays (Simple Past)

Powerpoint to practice past simple. Students must find the questions and answers about past holidays. Oral activity with  pronunciation, the Ipa font will be useful to have the English phonetics....

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Past Forms Short Test

It's a short test for intermediate students checking some past forms of some irregular verbs. It's made for those who have no time to prepare it. Students can write their name at the top of the page....

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Murder Mystery

It's a simplified version of "Cluedo" board game to practise past simple and past continuous. The teacher sets the scene of the murder case and divides the students in groups. One group takes the role...

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Battleships Questions Game (Do/Make/Take/Get Expressions)

This game works exactly the same as the other Battleships Questions Game - except that instead of practising 'Do you have/Have you got' question and answers, the students are practising present and...

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Song Worksheet:Summer Nights (from Grease)

This worksheet was designed to practice simple past and to have fun. There are pre-teaching exercises, such as vocabulary revision and introducing new vocabulary and revision of past forms. There is...

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Revising Past Simple Elementary Worksheet

This is a worksheet for revising the past simple tense at elementary level.There are 4 different exercises in which students are asked to write  past simple of the verbs given, change the sentences...

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Sentence Transformation

This worksheet is for students who want to practice and revise tenses. It contains exercises related to past and present tenses and will help students enhance their knowledge of  the simple, perfect,...

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Movie Worksheet: Vincent

Have you ever seen any Tim Burton films, such as Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow or Alice in Wonderland? Vincent is the first creation of the praised film-director. It is the story of a 7 year old...

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