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SPEAKING CARDS: SOMEONE SAW YOU.......
Speaking cards: SOMEONE SAW YOU.....!Use PAST SIMPLE and PAST CONTINUOUS to explain some strange situations. There are 16 speaking cards - students have to explain the situation presented on the card. (2 pages- 16 cards)
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Type: activity-card

 


 
Romeo and Juliet - PART II
After students have read the story "Romeo and Juliet - PART I" (http://www.eslprint ables.com/printable. asp?id=201024#thetop ), they have a vocabulary exercise (match words with pictures), they have to complete some sentences with the appropriate connectors, find the infinitive forms of some regular and irregular verbs used in the text in a wordse...
Level: elementary
Age: 11-14
Type: worksheet

 


 
VERBS - REGULAR or IRREGULAR?
I needed a warm-up for a lesson on PAST SIMPLE and so it is! It�s useful as a quick revision of verbs; later on I�ll add a ws dealing with irregulars only as a follow up to this one; I hope you�ll like it as much as I do. ENJOY! btw - all pics are taken from disney website> SOMETHING HAPPENED TO THIS WS AND NUMBERS GOT CRAZY HERE. I DOWNLOADED IT ...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet

 


 
Past simple tense
This worksheet contains four exercises to practice past simple tense. Have a nice day :-)
Level: elementary
Age: 12-14
Type: worksheet

 


 
SIMPLE PAST STORY GAP FILL (PART 12)
THE TIRED STUDENT. FUNNY STORY. TWO PAGES WORKSHEET ON SIMPLE PAST TENSE. READ THE TEXT AND FILL IN THE VERBS IN THE PAST SIMPLE TENSES. THEN ANSWER THE QUESTIONS.
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet

 


 
PAST SIMPLE EXERCISES PART 1
ENJOY IT!
Level: elementary
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet

 


 
multiple choice about simple past tense
multiple choice about simple past tense
Level: elementary
Age: 11-12
Type: worksheet

 


 
PAST TENSE
This is series 2 of What Did You Do Yesterday. This activity contains, speaking, reading and grammar activities. In activity one student asks the questions and one student answers the questions. On the other pages are gap filled exercises, choosing the correct verb and questions to be answered about two different stories.
Level: elementary
Age: 9-17
Type: activity-card

 


 
What did they do yesterday?
This worksheet contains 20 images and 20 sentences. The pupils have to fill in the right form of the verbs (Past Simple) and match the sentences to the pictures.
Level: elementary
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet

 


 
Grammar from A to Z Past Simple Irregular verbs (5-25)
This is a new series meant for students to check or to revise how much of grammar "remained in their heads" after summer vacation :) I will upload other parts in due course.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: worksheet

 


 
Was , wasn�t, were, weren�t :BE in the past
And to accompany the first worksheet , a small practice of BE in the past in sentences, hope you will like it, many thanks to Mada for the top hit template and thanks for your comments, hugs , Sylvie!:)
Level: elementary
Age: 10-16
Type: worksheet

 


 
The Giant
A small text in the past simple using the verb to be (was/were) followed by comprehension.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: reading

 


 
Reading Comprehension - Twelve Dancing Princesses
Two paged worsheet - This is an easy way to check your students reading comprehension with simple exercises. Enjoy!
Level: elementary
Age: 9-12
Type: worksheet

 


 
Friday the 13th
It�s a reading with the past simple and the past continuous exercises.
Level: elementary
Age: 10-14
Type: worksheet

 


 
IRREGULAR VERB QUIZE 1
Select the correct verb for each sentence. Use each verb only once. Use only the past tense form of the verb.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-17
Type: worksheet

 

 


Was were presentation
This is a PPT to introduce the Past simple to be.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-10
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


past simple
it�s mainly a presentation of past simple form and use
Level: elementary
Age: 9-11
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


past simple question
This Power Point shows the way of forming Past Simple Tense
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


Jobs
It�s a kind of guessing game. Students try to find the relevant job by looking at some of the clues in the slides not the whole picture.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-9
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


Guilty pets
I wanted my students to use the simple past in a fun ans easy way. So I showed them these pictures of guilty pets. I wanted them to guess what they did. Then they had to take pictures of their own pets with a sign saying what they did too... we had a lot of fun!
Level: elementary
Age: 11-14
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


past simple pronunciation
past simple
Level: elementary
Age: 12-15
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


Talking about the past ft. the verb to be
Ok. I have created this presentation to reactivate the use of the verb to be in the past. My Spanish speaker students often find it confusing because they use it interchangeably with the past of the verb to go, which in Spanish are, Yo fui (I was) Yo fui (I went), the same. So, lots of pictures and simple questions to make them use I was/ I wasn�t ...
Level: elementary
Age: 18-100
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


Past Tense PPT Elementary school 5th Grade lesson 16
This is a PPT presentation revising the simple past tense as covered in the Korean elementary school text book lesson 16.
Level: elementary
Age: 9-11
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


Past Tense
This is just the basic for the Past Tense.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-12
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


Past simple regular verbs (grammar guide + examples)
Past simple regular verbs (grammar guide + examples) What do you usually do at weekends? Do you do any of these things?
Level: elementary
Age: 14-17
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


PAST SIMPLE PRACTICE
This presentation practises the past simple in an elementary level
Level: elementary
Age: 8-14
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


Can you guess who these famous people were?
Can you guess who these famous people were? Biography of Princess Diana, Mother Teresa of Calcuta, Michael Jackson,Patrick Swayze.
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


how was your vacation?(part 1-2)
Asking about their vacation, How was your vacation? It was.... (emotions)
Level: elementary
Age: 8-12
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


past time phrases
This presents some phrases used in simple past.
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


Madame Tussauds
Revision of simple past of "to be" verb, ordinal numbers and some reading of the authentic material about Madame Tussauds.
Level: elementary
Age: 10-12
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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