Uncle John's Halloween Story
This is a short Halloween story for revising the past simple tense at elementary level. Students are asked to fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. The answer key is included.
View ArticleMovie Worksheet: Pirates of Silicon Valley
This film is based on the early business life of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. I watched this movie in class with special focus on I.T. In this activity they have different sentences about Jobs and Gates....
View ArticlePelmanism Verbs Simple and Past
Pelmanism for reinforcing the present and past forms of some common verb forms. Useful warmer, or cool down. I have used it as a 'test' to see how well the students at elementary level have learnt the...
View ArticlePresent-Past Verb Dominoes
Warmer, revision or cool down to revise the present simple with past simple forms of some verbs. Best used as a group activity. Can be modified to make larger - and the cell size can also be made...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: The Man Who Sold the World by Nirvana(Past Simple for Teens)
This is a worksheet for teens to practise past simple tense with a song. Elementary students will practise spelling of regular and irregular verbs by looking for action verbs in a word search puzzle;...
View ArticleGone, Gone, Gone
Fill in the blanks worksheet with present and past simple exercises. Tasks: 1) Circle the correct verb tense in the information about the song. 2) Rewrite the sentences in the tense required. 3) Give...
View ArticleMost Common Verb Tenses Chart
This table provides explanations on the usage of the most common verb tenses in English. It also includes examples and the time expressions for each tense. You will find present simple, present...
View ArticleWas-Were Flashcards
A complete set of flashcards for the verb "to be" in past simple. There are two parts in this set. 1 is the English form and the 2 one is the Greek translation. The set can be used for beginner or...
View ArticleMovie Worksheet: Trailer (Past Continuous versus Past Simple)
These worksheets (A & B - version) introduce the formation and use of past continuous. Past continuous is often used together with past simple (which can be confusing to students), so the...
View ArticleZodiacal Astrology
This is a brief introduction to zodiacal astrology, with its history mainly. I also put in the sky map for the 12 constellations ; students can link the dots to recreate them and try to figure out the...
View ArticleChinese Zodiac
This worksheet introduces the Chinese "Zodiac". Sts find out about the original buddhist legend, the 12 signs (a great way to review or discover animals), which one is theirs (not everything is up to...
View ArticleRegular Verbs and Their Pronunciation
Having problems with the pronunciation of regular verbs in the past or past participle form? There are three ways to pronounce the final -ed of regular verbs in the Simple Past tense: /ɪd/, /t/ and...
View ArticleSimple Past and Past Participle Regular and Irregular Verbs
13 conjugation exercises from the beginning to pre-intermediate levels. An easily editable .doc file. You can use the tables as they are or insert verbs you are teaching or check your students'...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: I Knew You Were Trouble (Simple Past)
In this song students are asked to fill in the lyrics of Taylor Swift called "I knew you were trouble". The lyrics has the first letter of the verb that students have to complete, it gives students the...
View ArticleSimple Past Activities
This is a worksheet with some activities for students to practise the simple past tense. In the first page, students have to find verbs and make sentences in the past. In the second page, they have to...
View ArticlePresent Simple, Present Continuous, Past Simple, Past Continuous
This is a worksheet I have created for students to revise present simple, present continuous, past simple and past continuous. This is accomplished with the completion of these exercises: multiple...
View ArticlePast Simple: Irregular Verbs
This is a pretty simple worksheet for teaching or revising past simple of the irregular verbs at elementary level. Students are asked to look at the pictures given and write past simple of the...
View ArticleUpper Intermediate Level Tense Revision
This worksheet has different types of exercises such as a cloze text, finding mistakes, actives or passives as well as an answer key in the end. It covers all tenses and students have spend time on it...
View ArticleLogic Puzzle
A logic puzzle where students use the clues given to solve the puzzle. The first one has been done for the students. It can be quite challenging at some point and can generate a lot of classroom...
View ArticleTenses Review
Two exercises to review the use of present simple and the other the past simple tense. Students have to fill in the gaps using present simple using verbs from a given box. With past simple ss just...
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