Simple Past Worksheets and Games ESL ELL Grammar

Get ready to teach the Simple Past tense. Our grammar games, worksheets, reading comprehension activities, posters, and workshops will help your students master the mechanics of the Simple Past tense. Our material will help your students become more fluent and sound more natural. In addition, our oral interaction games will help them use action verbs in context.

This complete document is exactly what you are looking for. Your students will learn about the affirmative form, including a section dedicated to the verb to be, as well as learn more about the negative and the interrogative forms. We even have a section on the pronunciation of the three possible "ED" sounds. Mastering these basic notions and conventions is an essential part of learning how to speak and write properly and fluently.

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This 98-page document includes:

• Teachers’ notes and activity suggestions.
• A set of 7 posters to display in your classroom.
  • Including conjugation of different past rules + to be and to have.
• Reference sheets for affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms.
  • Including a section on specific affirmative rules.
• A simple reading comprehension task.
• A worksheet on the affirmative form.
• A reference sheet on the pronunciation of the different “ED” sounds.
• 2 worksheets focusing on pronunciation.
• A reference sheet on the past tense of the verb “to be” + a section on “there was/were”.
• A writing activity to practice using “there was/were”.
• A worksheet on the affirmative form of the verbs “to be” + “to have”.
• A two-page list of the most common irregular verbs in the past tense.
• 2 worksheets on regular and irregular verbs.
• 2 worksheets targeting the use of auxiliaries and the negative form.
• 2 worksheets on Yes/No question formation.
• 3 worksheets on Information question formation.
• An inference and deduction-based game.
• A “Battleship” type of game focusing on Yes/No questions.
• A past tense pronunciation workshop to go over proper pronunciation.
• A “class survey” activity to work on Yes/No questions.
• A “read and color” worksheet focusing on all types of sentences.
• A miming game
  • Using actions related to house chores.
  • Including a chores “Pictionary” sheet.
• All relevant answer keys are included.
• All documents come in color and black & white versions.
• Most activities target vocabulary related to house chores.

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