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638 FREE Past Simple Worksheets

A Ghost Story It's Halloween season. If your students are fed up with pumpkins and costume parties, maybe they will be interested in reading a spooky story. However, they will have to complete it by choosing th ...

Famous People Speaking Cards Simple cards featuring a variety of famous people (most of them no longer with us) to be used when practicing years, birthdays plus introduction of the past simple of to be. I created them with my ...

Irregular Verbs: A Different Way to Practice This is a worksheet to practice irregular verbs divided into groups according to certain similarity. Students follow the pattern which helps them guess the remaining forms in the chart without hav ...

Bruce and the Cat Reading comprehension activity, with different exercises, true/false, questions, drawing, etc. It can be used with children at elementary or intermediate levels. It is a good way to review verb te ...

Song Worksheet: Stand by Me by The Beatles My students had to read 'The Body' and before reading it we worked on the song Stand by me by The Beatles because the film is based on that book. The have to listen to the song and complete with t ...

Past Simple Regular Verbs This is a 2-page picture dictionary for teaching or revising 52 different regular verbs. They can also be used as a study sheet or a classroom poster. Available in both colour and black and whit ...

Talking about the Past: Detective and Suspect Dialogue and Activity Two part, past simple, past continuous, and questions, police and suspect activity cards. The first is a 'partner' reading or role play activity. The second is a speaking, gap fill role play activ ...

Police and Witness Dialogue - Talking about the Past Reporting a crime. Past simple, past continuous, and questions activity. Reading, speaking, gap fill writing & role play activity cards. The first card is a reading dialogue for partners. The ...

Short Movie Worksheet: Inbox It is a short film activity called Inbox. It is ideal for elementary and pre intermediate students to practice Simple Past Tense. It is a silent film but there are pre watching, while watching, po ...

Tenses Worksheet General work-sheet on tenses ( simple present " prefrences" simple past " what did you do?" "YN questions") (past con. and present con). It helps the students in putting all the tenses in one fra ...

Find Someone Who... Using "Used to" Great to use in a conversational classroom. After teaching the students the rules of using "used to" use this worksheet to help them create and answer questions using this phrase. They need to go ...

Scrambled Halloween Story It can be a homework or a filler during the Halloween season. Students have to put together the sentences of a Halloween story using the codes given in the table. It is ideal for elementary level ...

Irregular Verbs: A Board Game Practice A simple worksheet with clear rules (can be alternated, of course) will help your students practice the most common irregular verbs in a funny way. Students have to say or find all the forms, tran ...