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Updated 8 June 2022
Teaching Past Simple articles
How to teach Past Simple – LINK UPDATED
The four Past Simple blocks games in the 14th section of this article
Photocopiable Past Simple classroom activities
Good and taboo Past Simple questions
How many did…? trivia quiz irregular Past Simple practice
Irregular Past Simple dice game
Past Simple Make Me Say Yes personalised speaking game
Past Simple business monologues
Past Simple small talk questions
Simple Past sentence completion guessing games
Regular Simple Past pronunciation and storytelling
Irregular Simple Past pronunciation and storytelling
Guess the past time game (with lots of useful time expressions)
How was your weekend? roleplays
How was your weekend brainstorming
Your weekend formal and informal questions
Common verbs in Business English simple past pronunciation
Helping people Past Simple bluffing game
Technical/ Medical Regular Simple Past pronunciation
Past Simple poems
Lost (linking and past tense pron poem, on Hancock McDonald ELT)
Past Simple songs
Nightmare Hotel (past tense pron song/ rhyme, on Hancock McDonald ELT)
Bang Bang My Baby Shot Me Down by Nancy Sinatra/ Cher (with lots of irregular Past Simple and some negatives – link to the lyrics)
Past Simple stories
Fortunately by Remy Charlip (with nice short sentences, so easy to focus on the verbs)
Related pages
How questions page (including lots of “How was…?”)
Present Perfect and Past Simple page (for contrasting the two tenses)
Past tenses main page (including activities for all three narrative tenses)
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