Tag Archives: past simple tense

When I was teaching my classes online, we couldn’t practice speaking. We had to use Google Meet and the interaction was pretty limited. Once we...

The present perfect tense is one of the most difficult tenses for my students. Therefore, I have spent a lot of time creating various materials to teach...

In this post, I would like to share with you a set of materials which I have designed to teach the past simple tense. Using these worksheets my students...

I have already shared many materials to teach the past simple tense here. You can find activities to teach irregular verbs, a great post on teaching questions...

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...

Yesterday a friend sent me a song he’d written that uses only the past simple and past continuous tenses. He asked me how I liked it, and I had to...

We usually present just one tense to students. However, ever since I was a student I have always wanted to see a more complex picture and get more tenses...

Past simple is one of the most important English tenses. Scott Thornbury once wrote that he would sacrifice all the perfect tenses and other grammar if...

Many students find the difference between present perfect tense and past simple very confusing. To help them I have created the following infographic. Advertisement: Here...