Year: 2022

Irregular Verbs – Controlled Past Simple Speaking Activity
Irregular Verbs – Controlled Past Simple Speaking Activity

Speaking activities are the best thing in teaching and learning a foreign language. However, students sometimes run out of ideas about what they should say or the language they use is far from the one we try to teach them. To solve the problem, I designed the CARD SPEAKING activity.

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Videos to Teach the Past Simple Tense
Videos to Teach the Past Simple Tense

Recently I have created a set of videos to teach the past simple tense in English. There is a video that helps students learn to form the past tense in the following situations:

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3 Speaking Activities to Practice the Past Simple Tense
3 Speaking Activities to Practice the Past Simple Tense

Textbooks often donĀ“t offer enough speaking practice.

If the book is good it gives you two speaking activities per unit and nothing more.

Then the teacher has to search high and low to find some more.

To make the search shorter, I share three speaking activities you can use to practise the past simple tense. In these activities, your students will use regular verbs, irregular verbs and questions in the past simple tense.

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Past Simple for Regular Verbs – Videos and Speaking Activities to Teach this Grammar Effectively
Past Simple for Regular Verbs – Videos and Speaking Activities to Teach this Grammar Effectively

Do your students struggle with the past simple tense?

Do you want to make your teaching more effective and fun?

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