Updated 12 March 2017
Articles on teaching Past Simple
15 Simple Past games – LINK UPDATED
Photocopiable Past Simple classroom activities
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)
Common verbs in Business English simple past pronunciation
Technical/ Medical Regular Simple Past pronunciation
Past Simple songs
Bang Bang My Baby Shot Me Down by Nancy Sinatra/ Cher (with lots of irregular Past Simple and some negatives – link to the lyrics) – LINK FIXED
Past Simple stories
Fortunately by Remy Charlip (with nice short sentences, so easy to focus on the verbs)
Related pages
Present Perfect and Past Simple page (for contrasting the two tenses)
Past tenses main page (including activities for all three narrative tenses)
Excellent website and resources. Thank you to Alex Case and colleagues.
Amazing sources, thank you very much!!