Verb Tenses
Verb tenses are tools that English speakers use to express time in their language. You may find that many English tenses do not have direct translations in your language. That is not a problem. By...
View ArticleBattleships - Past Simple Questions
It is played the same as a regular Battleships game in pairs. Students mark their fleet (I laminate my worksheets for students to use erasable markers) and use either different design or different...
View ArticlePast Perfect Powerpoint
This powerpoint provides complete explanation and examples of the sentence structures. It also provides pictures and differences between past simple and past perfect so students are able to...
View ArticlePast Simple vs Past Continuous Powerpoint
This powerpoint slide is excellent for teachers to explain the difference between simple past and past continuous (progressive). The slides are detailed with interesting animations, pictures, sounds,...
View ArticleAnne of Green Gables (Story Book)
This worksheet is appropriate for improving students' listening skills. It's suitable for elementary students. This is based on the story book called "Anne of Green Gables". Hope you find it useful...
View ArticleAction Verb
Prepare a list of main texts you want to practice. For example if you want to practice making sentences using the simple past tense, choose a number of verbs as your main text, e.g., read, eat, go,...
View ArticleTest- Grade 8
This is a test for grade 8. The answer key is included. Here you can find questions about some grammar like simple past and the past continuous tense. Also there are some questions about suggestions...
View ArticleTruth or Dare
This speaking game is for students to freely talk about their lives and experiences. It is based on a game students usually play with an empty bottle. They have to sit in a circle and turn a bottle....
View ArticleAmerican Cinema, Reading Comprehension
A reading comprehension about the 'golden age' of Hollywood and the cinema of the past. There's a true-false exercise and some open questions mainly for the simple past tense. It can be used to test...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: Fairytale of New York by Christy Moore
The song is a cover of the Christmas classic by the Pogues, performed by Christy Moore on the Jools Holland show. The song begins and ends with a short anecdote giving some background to how the...
View ArticleVolcano Game, Past Simple and Directions
This ppt is a good game for your students to review past simple and directions. Divide your class into 2 teams. Students are going to choose letters by chance. Each question has got a point and if it...
View ArticleVolcano Game, Backpack 4
This ppt includes a game and it is based on Backpack 4, units 4, 5 and 6. It contains the following topics: extinct/ endangered animals, life in the past, and health and illnesses. Divide your class...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: Galway Girl by Ed Sheeran
Listening to songs is a nice way to improve listening skills and pronunciation plus you can learn about cultural backgrounds. This is a song worksheet based on "Galway Girl" by Ed Sheeran. Students...
View ArticleMovie Wprksheet: Short Film+ Description Activity ( Past)
This worksheet is designed to be used with a YouTube video. It helps learners practise the use of past tenses to describe what happened in a short film. Play the video using this link:...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: Creep by Radiohead
It uses the song "Creep" by the British band Radiohead to work on present simple, present progressive and past simple tenses. This is the uncut version so if your students are sensitive to bad...
View ArticleWhat Did You Do on Your Last Vacation?
It's an amazing worksheet about what ss did on their last vacation. You'll find here a wordsearch, questions about what people did last weekend, also activities such as reading comprehension in the...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: September by JP Cooper
Listening activity for beginners, this is useful to study was/were and verbs in simple past, by the way the song is great! Icludes filling gaps and ordering sentences activities as well. Works well...
View ArticleThe King and the Past Simple
This is a worksheet that I put together for my adult A1 class but I think it would also work well for an A2 class or any other for some good old music culture, for that matter. It contains a biography...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: We Don't Talk Anymore
This song is an easily understandable duet. The worksheet is divided into five activities, mostly requiring simple past and gerund; The 1st and 2nd exercises are to fill in the blanks, the 3rd is to...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: Viva Forever by Spice Girls ( Past Simple)
It is designed for listening practice particularly while teaching the past simple tense. The song used to be very famous performed by Spice Girls, so the class might enjoy it very much. You just have...
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