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Students will be able to form and use the Past Simple tense in affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences.

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By the end of the lesson, students will be able to identify regular and irregular verbs in the Past Simple tense.

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Why do we use the Past Simple tense, and how does it help us describe past events?

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Introduce the concept of the Past Simple tense with examples. Explain the formation of regular and irregular verbs.

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Past Simple Tense in English - Regular and Irregular Verbs Grammar lesson

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Students work in pairs to create sentences using regular and irregular verbs in the Past Simple tense. Use Padlet to share their sentences.

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In this intriguing past simple activity, students complete statements with past simple regular and irregular verbs and then guess which statements are historical facts and which are myths. In groups (Student A, B and C), students complete ten statements with regular and irregular verbs in their past simple form. Next, students form new teams of three, comprising of Student A, B and C. The students' task is to read the statements together, discuss them, and decide which are historical facts and which are myths. When everyone has finished, teams give their answer for each statement in turn, justifying their response when possible. Teams score one point for each correct guess. The team with the highest score at the end of the game wins.

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Past Simple Affirmative Negative ESL Games, Worksheets and ActivitiesElementary (A1-A2)Pre-intermediate (A2)Intermediate (B1)Upper-intermediate (B2) Alicia's DayESL Past Simple Affirmative and Negative Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Matching, Categorizing, Gap-fill, Rewriting Sentences - Elementary (A1-A2) - 35 minutesThis insightful past simple worksheet helps students to learn and practice regular and irregular verbs in past simple affirmative and negative sentences.

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Provide a worksheet with sentences to be completed in the Past Simple tense. Discuss the answers as a class.

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5,666 Past simple English ESL worksheets pdf & doc

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A selection of English ESL past simple printables

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Students write a short paragraph about their last weekend using the Past Simple tense.

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80 Past simple tense, Creative writing prompt, Writing Pract...

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A selection of English ESL past simple tense printables with creative writing prompt, writing practice

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Advanced students can write a short story using both regular and irregular verbs in the Past Simple tense.

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141 Simple past story English ESL worksheets pdf & doc

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A selection of English ESL simple past story printables

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Observe students during guided practice and check their understanding through class discussion.

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7 Activities for Teaching the Simple Past for the ESL Classroom

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The simple past is one of the most important tenses in the English language. As it describes past actions, it’s quite an easy tense to teach using a variety of fun and interactive activities.

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Conduct a short quiz on forming the Past Simple tense, identifying regular and irregular verbs, and using them in sentences.

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Online quiz to test your understanding of the Past Simple tense in English. This is a free multiple-choice quiz that you can do online or print out. For ESL learners.

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Students reflect on what they learned by answering: 'What is one thing you understand well about the Past Simple tense, and what is one thing you want to practice more?'

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Each student writes one sentence using the Past Simple tense and submits it before leaving class.

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To get the most out of the exit ticket process, questions should:

Be short

Where possible be open ended.

Linked to the learning intentions (and success criteria) of the lesson.

Focus on skill(s) or concept(s) being taught.

Allow students to demonstrate understanding.

Challenge students to synthesise what they have learned.

Not be surface level questions (i.e. factual).

Not be yes/or no answer.

Prompt reflection.

Use clean specific language that is not vague or ambiguous.

Avoid passive and negative wording will enforce "I can't" attitudes with no actionable way forward.

When starting to use exit tickets it is a good idea to use structured questions to support students in becoming familiar with the process. These can then be adjusted over time to be more open-ended in nature.

Exit tickets can use a variety of question types, for example, some questions might involve a rating scale, another might be more open-ended asking students to write their specific concerns or ideas or reflection. Another might ask a student to respond to a specific questions or prompt. It is a good idea, therefore, to model the exit tickets to your class and show them how to complete the different types of questions that might be asked.

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35 Exit Tickets Ideas & Examples | Ziplet

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To get the most out of the exit ticket process, questions should: Be short Where possible be open ended. Linked to the learning intentions (and success criteria) of the lesson. Focus on skill(s) or concept(s) being taught. Allow students to demonstrate understanding. Challenge students to synthesise what they have learned.

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Complete a worksheet with sentences to convert into the Past Simple tense.

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Past simple: worksheets pdf, printable exercises, lessons.

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Past simple: worksheets pdf, handouts, printable exercises and lessons for elementary and intermediate level esl.

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Play an online game that focuses on identifying and using the Past Simple tense.

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You can set this page as a homework task for a group of students; doing so will give you a record of who has completed the task. Visit the teacher's section for more information.

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This game is for practicing past tense English verbs. It is intended to be used by ESL (English as a second language) students, to review past participles. The aim of this game is not to explain or communicate the concept of past tense, rather it is just to practice using past tense. The concept of past tense is difficult to illustrate visually and really is better explained by a teacher in a classroom. So, this game is really just intended as a tool to practice verbs and sentences in past tense. The language used is quite basic, but I think it covers almost all of the basic past tense verb forms (regular and irregular) and a few more difficult ones.

There are 3 different tasks in the game. In the first task, you simply have to drag the verbs to match present to past tense forms. The second task requires you to choose the correct word to complete the sentence. Finally, for the third task you have to reorder the phrase. This sequence repeats with different sets of content.

There is also a review screen in which you can see each verb with its past-participle and an image to convey the meaning.

The game uses a timer to give an element of challenge to the game. The timer can be turned of by clicking on the settings button in game.

There are 22 sets of content. Each set has 8 verbs, with a matching image and sentence to convey meaning and context. This gives a total of 176 items. These were selected from lists of basic verbs in English with a slight bias towards choosing irregular past tense forms; although, some verbs that were hard to represent visually were excluded. For example, it is quite difficult to draw an image to show the meaning of the verb 'decide'. I hope that almost all the basic verbs are covered here and that by mastering this game, students will have a comprehensive mastery of all the basic past tense forms.

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Practice past tense verbs online. This game is of ESL students to learn regular and irregular past tense verbs online for free. You look at the pictures and then click on the right verbs.

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Read a short story and identify all the verbs in the Past Simple tense. Write a summary using at least five of these verbs.

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1,232 Past simple reading English ESL worksheets pdf & doc

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A selection of English ESL past simple reading printables