game to practice simple past

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game to practice simple past

Yams

game to practice simple past

Hello!!!!!!!! how are you?

I was trying to look for a very fun game to practice the simple past with my younger students. Tomorrow we are celebrating students ï¿½ day here in Argentina, we don ï¿½t have classes so at school we have to prepare some activities with our students to celebrate their day on Wednesday. that ï¿½s why I need a fuuuuuuun game, so in that way, they ï¿½re learning and playing.
I ï¿½m clueless, could you help me?

thanks!!!!

20 Sep 2010

olaola

try this:

http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=400369#thetop

or this:

You could play a memory game. Perhaps you know the game ï¿½I went to the market and I bought... ï¿½
So, to practise past simple you can easily use a variation - it might help your Ss remember the past verb forms as well as help them become more fluent and learn some fixed phrases. Tell them to use their immagination :)

You begin by saying, for example: Last summer I went to the seaside (or I went to Scotland - anything will do here).
Student 1 says: Last summer I went to the seaside. I swam every day.
Student 2 says: Last summer I went to the seaside, I swam every day and I visited 10 haunted castles. And so on...

20 Sep 2010

dawnmain

MIME: divide students into two teams, students mime a card for their team.

easy version: show a verb flash card. I count down from ten as they mime and according to when the team gets the past verb they get the corresponding points.

hard version:
write sentences on cards, eg Yesterday I went to the beach. Yestersay I ate an enormous pizza. Ss mime the whole sentence. Give them 2 minutes for example.

great fun!

20 Sep 2010

Yams

great ideas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you soooooooooooo much!!!!!!!!

20 Sep 2010

...Alena...

Hello!

I played a funny cartoon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjNmZE-aKJU for my younger students and asked them to name all the actions as the cartoon was played. We had lots of fun, really.ï¿½

20 Sep 2010

khaluf

Great cooperation, thanks all

20 Sep 2010