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The Old Colonel
Easy and understandable text talking about experiences. It is about the present perfect simple and past simple structures. This text contains comprehension activities and grammar activities in which...
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Question Words
A simple reading task with direct questions starting with the standard question words. Contains graphics to help with comprehension. Also has possible new words (eg: ricotta) which could be deleted if...
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The Past Simple Tense
This handout is focusing on the use of the simple past tense. Simple sentences are provided, each one supported with a relevant picture, where elementary learners are required to use the right verb in...
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Gap-fill Reading
The worksheet is a simple children's story for young learners to practice the past simple, past continuous and past perfect simple tense. It is illustrated and each illustration shows a word that...
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Simple Past and Past Continuous Test
Simple past and past continuous test: a test to revise these two verbal tenses. There are three questions. The first question is to complete the blank spaces with the past continuous of the verbs in...
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Unscramble Sentences 5
Unscramble sentences 5: fifteen sentences to revise the simple past tense with regular verbs. Students have to write these sentences into their correct order. The first sentences are easier but then...
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When Did You Last Do Something?
The worksheet has been designed in order to assist pre-intermediate students while practicing through illustrations the question form of the past simple tense by creating their own questions about...
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Find Someone Who (after the Summer)
This is a variation on classic mingle "Find someone who..". I used it at the first lesson after the summer break. I like this lively activity much more than just teacher-student type of interview....
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Irregular Verbs
111 irregular verbs in different versions: there are colour and black and white versions and a version with the Spanish translations for Spanish speakers and another one without the translations so...
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The First Chocolate
This is a speaking activity which helps students to revise formation of questions using past simple. They need to get information from each other to acknowledge the discovery of the first chocolate...
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Simple Past: Verb to Be III
This is a pretty easy worksheet for revising the simple past of the verb to be at elementary level. There are 5 different activities in which students are asked to fill in the blank spaces with was or...
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Irregular Verbs Poem
Learning irregular verbs one by one with their translation can often be frustating and rather boring. I suggest to use this poem to learn and understand irregular verbs in context. Students could learn...
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Bullying and Cyber Bullying: The Tragic Case of Amanda Todd
This worksheet was created to make my students think of bullying and Cyber bullying, and how it affects our society. It was also created to help them with the pronunciation of the ed ending of regular...
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Song Worksheet: Paradise by Coldplay (Simple Past)
With this activity you can practice regular and irregular verbs. Before using this hand out I suggest you to play a song guessing game, where ss coulg get engaged with the activity, so when they listen...
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Song Worksheet: Goodbye My Lover (Past Tenses)
Finding exercise about past tenses is a difficult task so, I create this exercise where ss will be able to practice grammar rules, listening and reading. In the first exercise ss match the tenses with...
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Simple Past: Have / Have Got
This is a pretty easy worksheet for teaching or revising the simple past of the verb have.There are 2 different activities in which students are asked to change the sentences into the past and fill in...
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On This Day - Calendar Activity
This is meant as a one-off vocabulary and past tenses practice lesson. The calendar is filled with on-this-day facts with one item blacked out. In groups the students put the removed words back, using...
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Video Worksheet: Bear Grylls [TV series "Escape From Hell"]
This worksheet is based on the Bear Grylls` TV series "Escape From Hell". The worksheet follows the first (on some websites it is marked as second) episode "Snow"in order of narration. It is about 3...
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Song Worksheet: Ironic
The purpose of this song is to practise past simple and to enjoy listening to it by doing easy matching and filling exercises based on pictures. It is mainly targeted to an elementary level but it can...
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Charades - Past Continuous
This game helps demonstrate and practice the difference between the past simple and past continuous tenses. Split your class into two teams. Explain what the word charades means – using only motions...
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