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Past Simple vs Past Continuous Quiz
A handy way to gauge how much your students know already about the differences between the two tenses. I normally use this after having asked a few questions using a combination of past simple and past...
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Gap-fill Story with Vocabulary and Verb Tenses
In this worksheet learners are asked to fill in a story about Tom, with illustrations to facilitate them write the words needed and also to put the verbs in brackets in the the right past tense. It can...
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Past Simple and Past Continuous (Arranging Sentences)
There are 2 parts. The first part is fill-in-the-gap and the other is arranging sentences into meaningful paragraphs. The arranging paragraph is a little advanced because it has more than 6 sentences...
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Movie Worksheet: Animals Can Be Jerks (Kingston Crown)
Teaching material : YouTube. Objectives: to stimulate students to practice listening and speaking from some amusing VDO like Yahoo or YouTube. Instructions : 1) The teacher provides the worksheet for...
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Guy Fawkes Biography - Simple Past Revision
This sheet includes a short biography of Guy Fawkes followed by simple past exercises: find the past or present of the given verb, underline the date/time expressions, make notes about his life, write...
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Kidnapped - Lesson Plan
Full lesson plan for intermediate level, but could be used for advanced levels as well. Lesson is orientated around the ability to give excuses (imaginitive ones!).Poetry - past tense - compound nouns...
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Movie Worksheet: Rio 2 (15 mins)
This worksheet is based on Rio 2. It contains three activities for you to work with your students before, while, and after watching the first 15 minutes of Rio 2. It helps you to check the students'...
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Grammar & Vocabulary Worksheet: I Had Fun Yesterday (Daily Routines & Past...
A funny poem to practice the topic "Daily routines" and past simple. The students are to read the poem and match the pictures with the verse or just learn the poem by heart. This worksheet will be very...
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Song Worksheet: Yesterday by The Beatles (Past Simple)
Here's a simple worksheet for teaching or revising the simple past at pre-intermediate level. It is a song by the Beatles, a very famous British band from the 60’s. Students are asked to complete the...
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Present Simple and Past Simple
This PowerPoint contains one story in two different tenses. First, the grammar focuses on present simple. Second, the grammar focuses on past simple. Each one follows with some CCQs to check the...
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Song Worksheet: Hotel California by Eagles
This worksheet provides revision of the past simple tense. It is based on lyrics of famous Eagle's song Hotel California. First students create past simple of some verbs (irregular and regular), than...
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Past Simple and Past Perfect Worksheet
This is a worksheet for teaching the past simple and present perfect tense. There are two different activities in which students are asked to write the two sentences as one using when and past perfect...
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Past Continuous in Pictures
Display these slides on LCD projector. This was specifically developed for intermediate learners. However, can also be used by advanced students. Have students study each slide and then allow them to...
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Past Simple in Pictures
Studying simple past can be interesting if this is aided with images. One way is to show them slides like these ones. These slides feature verbs in photos. Have your students use past simple while...
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Recording Mistakes
I use this activity to make students read and pay attention to what they're reading. They can play read and mime (in which for each blank, the teacher shows the word to one student and s/he has to mime...
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Tell Me about Yourself Board Game
A good fun worksheet to be used as a warm-up activity, get-to-know-each-other activity or an enjoyable way to practice habitual actions and likes and dislikes using both present and past tenses. It was...
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Past Simple - Regular Verbs and Professions
Students have to complete the table with regular verbs in past simple. Using the same verbs they have to write them in the negative and interrogative. Using the dictionary, students have to write...
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There Was & There Were Elementary Worksheet
This simple exercise helps elementary students to practice forms of construction ''there is/are'' and ''there was/were''. Students compare two pictures showing St.Petersburg now and then - hundred...
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Past Simple, Game
This is a game for reviewing past simple, irregular verbs. Cut the cards and write number 1-16 on the other side of each card. Label them on the board, so the students can see the numbers. Put the...
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Past Simple vs. Past Perfect Worksheet
This is a worksheet for teaching or revising the differences between the past simple and the past perfect tense. There is a simple activity in which students are asked to complete the sentences with...
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