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Movie Worksheet: Past Simple Photo Story

This is a fun video activity to practise using the past simple tense. Watch the video from the link below. The video tells a story using photographs. Students should watch the video and then try to...

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Movie Worksheet: Mr. Bean at the Hospital (Mixed Past Tenses)

This fun video activity is to practise using mixed past tenses, including past simple, past continuous, and past perfect. The video shows Mr. Bean at the hospital. Learners must combine two sentences...

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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...

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Battleships - 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...

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Past 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...

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Past 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,...

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Anne 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...

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Action 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,...

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Test- 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...

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Truth 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....

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American 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...

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Song 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...

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Volcano 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...

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Volcano 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...

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Song 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...

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Movie 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:...

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Song 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...

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What 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...

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Song 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...

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The 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...

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