Elementary students often struggle with verbs. They know very few of them and this deficit becomes obvious at the moment they start learning the past simple tense. To help them I created the following post where I try to teach 22 frequent verbs and their past tense.

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In this post, you can find an infographic with all the verbs and four games to learn the verbs.
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Verbs in the past simple tense – infographic

[/su_heading][su_spacer] Ask your students to study the following infographic. Drill the pronunciation with them and give them about five minutes to memorise the words.

You might ask your students to divide the verbs to regular and irregular verbs, too.
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Verbs in the past simple tense – games

[/su_heading][su_spacer] Then play the following games. If each student has got their own computer, they play on their own. If you use an IWB, ask one student to come to the front of the class and the others try to help him/her.
[wptabsy] [tab]Darts game[/tab] [tab]Dice game[/tab] [tab]Time game[/tab] [tab]Length game[/tab] [tabcontent] In this games, students should write the verbs. They must divide the verbs with a comma and a space. If they answer correctly they have to stop the dart to get as many points as possible. The highest score they can achieve is 60, if they stop the dart in the triple of the number 20. The aim of this game is to get as many points as possible.

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[showmyadsa] [su_button url=”https://engames.eu/Irregular_verbs_past_simple/darts game/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#f56b68″ size=”6″]Darts game – full screen[/su_button] [/tabcontent] [tabcontent] In this games, students should write the verbs. They must divide the verbs with a comma and a space. If they answer correctly they have to stop the dice to get as many points as possible. They get one point for each point on the dice and they get 10 points bonus if the dice show the same number.
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[su_button url=”https://engames.eu/past tense verbs/dice/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#f56b68″ size=”6″]Dice game – full screen[/su_button] [/tabcontent] [tabcontent] In this game, student write the verbs. They must divide the verbs with a comma and a space. If they answer correctly, they have to guess how long is the line on the screen. The better their guess is the more points they get.

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[showmyadsa] [su_button url=”https://engames.eu/past tense verbs/length/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#f56b68″ size=”6″]Length game[/su_button] [/tabcontent] [tabcontent] In this game, student write the verbs. They must divide the verbs with a comma and a space. If they answer correctly, they have to stop the countdown when it reaches zero. The closer to zero they get the more points they get.

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[adinserter block=”2″] [su_button url=”https://engames.eu/past tense verbs/time/index.html” target=”blank” background=”#f56b68″ size=”6″]Guess the time game[/su_button] [/tabcontent] [/wptabsy]