Past simple – speaking activities
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 returned to our classes I …
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Present perfect vs. Past simple – new activities
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 this tense. To …
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Past simple tense – the form
Some students find it difficult to learn all the forms of the past simple tense. The following worksheets will help them learn this grammar easily.
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Teach Past Simple Tense With Michael Rosen Rap
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 in the past …
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22 Verbs in the past simple tense
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 …
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Past simple and past continuous
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 …
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Five tenses for learners of English
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 at …
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Past simple tense
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 he could teach past …
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Present perfect vs Past simple tense
Many students find the difference between present perfect tense and past simple very confusing. To help them I have created the following infographic. Advertisement: [showmyads] Here you can practise the …
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