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We don't ... in the morning., I don't .... in the evening., We don't ... at midday., I don't ... at night., We don't ... in the afternoon..

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She _____ (not/have) time to play., ________ (you/do) activities after school?, He never ___________ (go) to the park., They __________ (watch) the programme every Sunday.

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You_________(not like) chocolate, She_________(not study) at the moment, My parents and I often____________(go) to the cinema.

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This Is Halloween: Past Simple / Continuous

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Let's do English ESL general grammar practice. Students watch a video of "This is Halloween" and complete sentences with either Past Simple or Past Continuous.

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1) I was studying for the test a) Past Simple b) Past Continuous 2) She started to dance in the middle of the hall a) Past Simple b) Past Continuous 3) My dad bought me a dress for prom a) Past Simple b) Past Continuous 4) I was preparing myself for the competition last week a) Past Simple b) Past Continuous 5) Sam and I were listening to music while we were chatting about life a) Past Simple b) Past Continuous

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1) I was _____ TV when the lights went out. a) watched b) watching 2) He was playing tennis when he ____ her arm. a) was breaking b) broke 3) I was watching the TV ____ I was doing homework. a) when b) while 4) I wasn't paying attention ___ the teacher was speaking. a) when b) while 5) I was walking my dog when I ___ you. a) saw b) was seeing 6) They were sleeping ___ the phone rang. a) when b) while 7) I ___ watching a horror movie when my brother scared me. a) were b) was 8) What were you _____ when I texted you yesterday? a) doing b) doed 9) He scored a goal and ____ the match. a) was winning b) won 10) I was riding my bike when I ______ a) fell b) was falling

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1) I was _____ TV when the lights went out. 2) He was playing tennis when he ____ her arm. 3) I was watching the TV ____ I was doing homework.

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Learning Resources (Matching Columns Game): Past simple / Past continuous (4º - Educación primaria (7+5) - fun) - Fun Game

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My favourite TV programme or nothing! Past simple vs Past continuous - English ESL video lesson

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ESL video lesson with an interactive quiz: Grammar practice . Use past simple and/or past continuous to fill in the sentences all along the video.

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In this video we talk about how we can help our students use chunks communicatively - we share 4 ideas that have worked well for us in the classroom. We're using an interactive video quiz in one of our ideas, which you can find here.

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Minions: Many Evil Bosses (Scrambled Sentences for A1 Level) - English ESL video lesson

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ESL video lesson with an interactive quiz: Grammar practice . Students will be unscrambling past simple and past continuous sentences to practice making past tense sentences on their own. The sentences often contain prepositions of place or movements.If you wish you can edit out the prepositions if you want to make the task easier for a certain group.

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Join a game of kahoot here. Kahoot! is a free game-based learning platform that makes it fun to learn - any subject, in any language, on any device, for all ages!

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Past Simple - regular and irregular verbs

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I (take) medicine two weeks ago., We (leave) the house at 7am., He (break) his leg yesterday., Katie (do) her homework at 4:30.

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Job Interview (20 Irregular Verbs in Past Simple)

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In this video quiz students fill in the missing past simple irregular verbs. 20 gapfill questions to practice grammar. These are quick questions where students need to fill in only one word, but still I'm a bit unsure whether 20 questions are OK or too many. So I would appreciate your feedback about it.

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macbook86 February 21, 2017

Task description & scene summary

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verbs used: get, go, have, leave, not like, make,verbs used: get, go, have, leave, not like, make

Video length: 2 minutes 12 seconds

Copyright license: iSLCollective Copyright License

First published: 2017-02-21, 00:42:42 (GMT+1)

KIERAN DONAGHY ABOUT ISLCOLLECTIVE VIDEO QUIZZES:

"iSLCollective Interactive Video Quizzes are highly engaging and motivating multimodal texts for English language students to learn vocabulary and improve their listening skills. They are the perfect complement to the creative and innovative lesson plans on Film English."
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Creator ofFilmEnglish.com, a site with hundreds of high quality, free ESL/EFL lesson plans created around short films

Video quiz questions (printable)

1) Past Simple: HAVE

Fill the gap: The fish just ________________________ some food.

2) Past Simple: LEAVE

Fill the gap: Simon ________________________ the room.

3) Past Simple: BE

Fill the gap: The fish ________________________ very scared.

4) Past Simple: GO

Fill the gap: The fish ________________________ back into the water.

5) The cat _____ it.

no like

don't like

didn't like

6) Past Simple: MAKE

Fill the gap: Simon ________________________ the cat leave.

KIERAN DONAGHY ABOUT ISLCOLLECTIVE VIDEO QUIZZES:

"iSLCollective Interactive Video Quizzes are highly engaging and motivating multimodal texts for English language students to learn vocabulary and improve their listening skills. They are the perfect complement to the creative and innovative lesson plans on Film English."
Kieran Donaghy,
Creator ofFilmEnglish.com, a site with hundreds of high quality, free ESL/EFL lesson plans created around short films

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Home Video lessons Past Simple macbook86 February 21, 2017 verbs used: get, go, have, leave, not like, make,verbs used: get, go, have, leave, not like, make verbs used: get, go, have, leave, not like, make,verbs used: get, go, have, leave, not like, make Video length: 2 minutes 12 seconds Copyright license: iSLCollective Copyright License First published: 2017-02-21, 00:42:42 (GMT+1) KIERAN DONAGHY ABOUT ISLCOLLECTIVE VIDEO QUIZZES: "iSLCollective Interactive Video Quizzes are highly engaging and motivating multimodal texts for English language students to learn vocabulary and improve their listening skills.

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BE, CHOOSE, DRIVE, FEEL, HEAR, THROW, OPEN, PACK, RUN, SEE, FIND, SAY , TALK, ENJOY, RING, FEED, STOP, START, THINK, TELL, TEACH.

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Past Simple - Irregular Verbs PART 1 | Baamboozle

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The game is aimed at practising the past tense of some common English verbs.

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What's Wheel Decide?

Wheel Decide is a free online spinner tool that allows you to create your own digital wheels for decision making, prize giveaways, raffles, games, and more. Browse through our wheels and spin to randomize your life and make the decisions that have no wrong answers.

Decision Making

Let the wheel decide. Save your energy for the big decisions

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Past Continuous x Simple Past | Baamboozle

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Complete with Past Continuous or Simple Past

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Past Progressive vs. Simple Past (The Incredible Smoke Seller) - English ESL video lesson

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The Egyptian Pyramids - Present Perfect Simple

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Watch the movie and unscramble the sentences. Watch the movie and unscramble the sentences.

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Let's do English ESL general grammar practice. Fill in the gap with the perfect perfect tense with the the correct auxiliary verb and the suggested verb.

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Updated December 2022 - contact me if there are any problems.

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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Updated January 2020 - changed 'been' to 'gone' in the first set of content, so that 'go' now matches to 'gone'. The sentence still uses 'been' in the phrase contruction part - 'He has been to America'.

This is a mini-game for practicing perfect tense sentences in English. It is intended to be used by ESL learners to review and reinforce the use of perfect tense.

The game is divided into 3 parts. In the first part, you have to match simple verb forms to their perfect tense conjugations - for example, eat matches to eaten. The aim of this part is to review the verb forms before starting to make sentences and also to remind/cement the idea that perfect tense uses different verb forms. In the second part, you have to look at the image and click on the words to form an accurate perfect tense sentence - for example, 'she has eaten lunch'. The aim here is to practice making accurate sentences and to test the students on word order and grammar issues. In the third part, you have to look at the image and click on one of 3 sentences. The 3 sentences here only have minor differences and the aim to give students practice in noticing correct grammar for perfect tense.

The sentences used in this game are arranged into 4 sets of content. These are grouped according to the different uses of perfect tense. The first set covers basic use of perfect tense to describe things that you have done at a non-specific point in time. For example, 'she has eaten lunch'. Some life experiences are also included in this set, such as 'seen an elephant' and 'graduated from college'. The aim with this set is to cover all the basic verbs and try to get phrases that people are likely to hear in everyday life, such as 'done homework' or 'passed the test'. This set also varies between singular and plural and between positive and negative. The intention with this is to expose students to all the different forms that basic perfect tense phrases can take.

The second set of phrases concerns life experiences - sentences that would answer 'have you ever x?' questions. A contrast was created between sentences stating the number of times something has been done and sentences stating that something has never been done. This is important as the sentence order is different for 'never' phrases. The aim here is to expose learners to these kind of life experience phrases. I tried to use phrases that could be typically be experienced in everyday like - e.g. 'had an injection' or 'failed the test'. But typically these sentences are unusual in nature, such as 'eaten a spider'.

The third set concerns duration and how long you have done something for. This is one of the main uses of perfect tense - to describe an action that you continue to do from the past up until present, for example: 'lived in London' or 'played the trumpet'. The key issue with these sentences is whether they are used with 'for' or 'since'. If there is a specific time mentioned at which the action began, then 'since' is used. Whereas, if you just have a duration - e.g. '5 years', then 'for' is used. This distinction is quite important and so it is important for students to get practice with sentences that contrast this.

The final set concerns phrases involving the words 'just', 'already' and 'yet'. These signify slightly different meanings for perfect tense and so contrasting them is quite useful. Phrases with 'yet' are used for situations in which an action hasn't taken place, but is likely to do so in the future - e.g. "the store hasn't opened yet". 'Just' phrases are used to describe events that have recently happened with evidence showing. For example, 'he has just washed the car' with the car showing as clean and the water and soap visible. Similarly, 'already' phrases describe events that have taken place. I chose to use 'already' for situations when there is evidence in the present. This means that there is a lot of overlap between the 'just' and 'already' phrases, but the options available for students to click on should preclude any confusion. The aim of this content is to practice making phrases using these words, with a particular focus on correct word order. I really think that practicing these phrases like this is useful for learners.

The images used in this game are quite specific in nature. The problem with creating images for perfect tense is that it is quite a hard concept to represent visually. For something like 'he is flying a kite', it is quite easy to represent - you just show a boy flying a kite and it directly matches the meaning; however, for something like, 'he has already flown a kite', the meaning is much more subtle and difficult to show visually. The solution used in this game is to have the actions separated from the person. For example, in the sentence 'she has eaten lunch', the action of eating lunch is shown in a bubble and then person to whom the sentence refers is shown next to the bubble, with a thumbs-up to signal having done this action. I think that this is a good solution as I think this closely resembles the way the meaning is understood. In perfect tense, the action is not really being performed by the person, rather it exists as a concept that they relate to, so I think it makes sense to separate it off in this way. To further explain, in the simple sentence 'he is flying a kite' you have the boy as the subject and the kite as the object being flown. The sentence is about how the boy relates to the kite. Conversely, in the perfect tense sentence 'he has flown the kite' the boy is still the subject and the kite the object; however, the sentence is more about how the boy relates to the action of flying the kite. And, to some extent, the action of flying the kite can be thought of as like an object in the sentence.

So in accordance with this perspective, the images are split into 2 with the action in a bubble and subject of the sentence shown next to the bubble. The subject/person, also indicates how they relate to the action. In the first set, this is done with a thumbs-up to indicate something has been done, and a no-hands to show that something hasn't been done. In the second set, the person holds up fingers to indicate the number of times they have done the action (also with a number displayed in a circle). For the 3rd set, each person holds up a sign showing the time to be used in the phrase - the task then is for the student to work out which word (for/since) to use with that time. Finally, for the last set of content, the phrases used are somewhat different. They are more concerned with things that have happened with evidence clear in the present. Because of this, they don't use the split bubble type images.

The game gives points for each correct answer and takes points for incorrect clicks. The maximum scores possible is 23000.

I hope your students can find this game useful. Email me with any feedback - use the contact form linked below or leave a message.

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Practice perfect tense online. A simple game for ESL students to learn perfect tense verbs and phrases. Practice forming sentences using perfect tense.