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Past Simple Affirmative Negative Games, ESL Activities and Worksheets

• Elementary (A1-A2)
• Pre-intermediate (A2)
• Intermediate (B1)

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ESL Past Simple Affirmative and Negative Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Matching, Categorizing, Gap-fill, Rewriting Sentences - Elementary (A1-A2) - 35 minutes

This engaging past simple worksheet helps students to learn and practice regular and irregular verbs in past simple affirmative and negative sentences. Students start by matching regular and irregular verbs to pictures and writing the verbs under the pictures in the past simple. Next, students decide whether verbs are regular or irregular and write the past simple form of each verb under the appropriate heading. Students then move on to complete affirmative and negative sentences with the past simple form of the verbs in brackets. Next, students do a gap-fill exercise to practice the verbs where they complete a text in the past simple. Finally, students rewrite some past simple sentences from the text in their negative form.

Excuses Excuses

ESL Past Simple Board Game - Speaking: Reforming Sentences, Freer Practice - Group work - Elementary (A1-A2) - 30 minutes

Here is an amusing past simple board game to help students practice past simple affirmative sentences as well as regular and irregular verbs. In the game, students practice making excuses for arriving to class late. Students take it in turns to roll the dice and move their counter along the board. When a student lands on a square marked 'Sorry I'm late', they pick up an excuse card and change the sentence into its past simple form to make an excuse for being late, e.g. 'Sorry I'm late. I missed the bus'. If the student forms the sentence correctly, they stay on the square. If not, the student must go back two spaces. The first student to arrive at class wins the game.

In the Past

ESL Past Simple Game - Speaking: Forming Sentences from Prompts, Freer Practice - Group work - Elementary (A1-A2) - 25 minutes

Here is a free past simple game to help students practice forming past simple affirmative sentences. Players take it in turns to turn over a time expression card and make a true past simple affirmative sentence using one of the verbs on their cards and the time expression. If the player constructs a believable past simple sentence, which is agreed on by the other students to be true, the player discards the verb card. If the other students think the sentence can't be true or it's grammatically incorrect, the player keeps the card. The first player to get rid of all their verb cards wins.

Mark the Jogger

ESL Past Simple Worksheet - Reading and Writing Exercises - Elementary (A1-A2) - 30 minutes

In this past simple tense worksheet, students read a text about 'Mark the Jogger' and complete past simple affirmative and negative sentences about the text. First, students read a text about Mark's typical working day. The students then pretend that yesterday was a typical day for Mark and complete past simple affirmative and negative sentences about what he did and didn't do. They do this by changing the verbs in the text into their past simple form and using them in the sentences. Students then write a short paragraph about what they did yesterday in the past simple. Finally, students read their paragraphs to the class.

My Last Summer Holiday

ESL Past Simple Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Identifying, Categorizing, Gap-fill, Rewriting Sentences - Reading: Answering Comprehension Questions - Writing: Writing a Paragraph - Elementary (A1-A2) - 30 minutes

In this past simple worksheet, students practice common regular and irregular verbs in their affirmative and negative forms by reading and writing about past holidays. Students begin by reading a story about someone's last holiday and underlining all the past simple verbs in the text. Students then use the verbs from the story to complete a table of present simple and past simple verbs. Students also identify the irregular verbs from the table and put a tick next to them. Next, students answer comprehension questions in sentence form about the story. Students then move on to complete sentences with the negative form of the verbs in brackets. After that, students rewrite present simple sentences in the past simple. In the last exercise, students write about their last holiday using the past simple.

Past Simple

ESL Past Simple Affirmative and Negative Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Matching, Categorizing, Gap-fill, Rewriting Sentences - Elementary (A1-A2) - 35 minutes

This engaging past simple worksheet helps students to learn and practice regular and irregular verbs in past simple affirmative and negative sentences. Students start by matching regular and irregular verbs to pictures and writing the verbs under the pictures in the past simple. Next, students decide whether verbs are regular or irregular and write the past simple form of each verb under the appropriate heading. Students then move on to complete affirmative and negative sentences with the past simple form of the verbs in brackets. Next, students do a gap-fill exercise to practice the verbs where they complete a text in the past simple. Finally, students rewrite some past simple sentences from the text in their negative form.

Present to Past

ESL Present Simple to Past Simple Board Game - Speaking Activity - Elementary (A1-A2) - 25 minutes

This fun present simple to past simple board game helps to teach students how to make past simple affirmative sentences containing time expressions. The game also helps students practice changing regular and irregular verbs into their past simple form. Students take it in turns to roll the dice and move their counter along the board. When a student lands on a square, they make a past simple affirmative sentence with the time expression and words in the square. If a student forms the sentence correctly, they stay on the square. If a student makes a grammar mistake, they go back two squares. The first student to reach the finish wins the game.

Restart

ESL Past Simple Game - Listening and Speaking Activity - Elementary (A1-A2) - 25 minutes

In this free past simple speaking activity, students play a game where they use past simple affirmative sentences and picture cards to talk about what they did yesterday. One student goes first, lays down a picture card and makes a past simple affirmative sentence about the action shown on the card, e.g. 'Yesterday, I went cycling'. The next student must now lay down either another 'I went...' card or a 'Restart' card which enables the student to change the verb into something else, e.g. 'Yesterday, I did my homework'. The first student to lay down all their cards wins the game.

Who did the same?

ESL Past Simple Activity - Speaking: Sentence Completion, Controlled Practice - Elementary (A1-A2) - 35 minutes

In this past simple speaking activity, students complete affirmative sentences with true information about what they did in the past. The students then try to find someone who did the same as them. To begin, students complete past simple affirmative sentences with true information about what they did in the past. Students also write one more true past simple sentence at the end. Next, students move around the class, trying to find someone who did the same as them, e.g. A: I woke up at 7 o'clock this morning. What about you? B: I woke up at 7 o'clock too. If both students' answers are the same, the two students write each other's names in the 'Name' column next to the sentence. However, if their answers are different, neither student writes anything. When everyone has finished, students tell the class what they found out.

Words to Sentences

ESL Past Simple Game - Writing and Speaking Activity - Elementary (A1-A2) - 30 minutes

In this engaging past simple game, students collect words in order to make as many past simple affirmative sentences as they can. Players take it in turns to roll the dice and move their counter along the board. The player then writes down the word they land on and colours in the square. The player now owns the word in the square and no one else can write it down. However, other players are allowed to pass through the square during the game to get to other words. The game continues until all the words have been coloured in. Afterwards, the players use the words they wrote down to make as many past simple affirmative sentences as they can. Each word can only be used once. The players then read out their sentences, paying close attention to the -ed sound of the past simple regular verbs. The other players listen and confirm each sentence is grammatically correct and that the -ed pronunciation is appropriate. Players score one point for each grammatically correct sentence and one point for each suitable -ed pronunciation. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins.

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