Past Simple Affirmative Negative ESL Games, Worksheets and Activities
Alicia's Day

ESL Past Simple Affirmative and Negative Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Matching, Categorizing, Gap-fill, Rewriting Sentences
This insightful past simple worksheet helps students to learn and practice regular and irregular verbs in past simple affirmative and negative sentences. First, students match regular and irregular verbs...
Guess the Past

ESL Past Simple Affirmative Game - Grammar and Speaking: Sentence Completion, Guessing, Asking and Answering Questions
In this entertaining past simple game, students complete affirmative sentences about their classmates' recent activities and then ask 'Did you...?' questions to find out...
In the Past

ESL Past Simple Game - Speaking: Forming Sentences, Freer Practice - Group Work
Here is an engaging past simple game to help students practice forming past simple affirmative sentences. In groups, players take turns turning over a time expression card and making a true past simple affirmative sentence using one of the...
Mark the Jogger

ESL Past Simple Worksheet - Grammar, Reading and Writing Exercises: Identifying, Gap-fill, Writing a Short Paragraph
In this free past simple worksheet, students read a text about 'Mark the Jogger' and complete past simple affirmative and negative sentences about the text. First, students read a text about Mark's day and...
My Last Summer Holiday

ESL Past Simple Worksheet - Grammar, Reading and Writing Exercises: Identifying, Categorising, Answering Questions, Gap-fill, Rewriting Sentences, Paragraph Writing
In this productive past simple worksheet, students practice common regular and irregular verbs in their affirmative and negative forms by reading and...
Past Simple Sentence Spin

ESL Past Simple Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences, Controlled Practice - Group Work
Here is a creative past simple game to help students practice making affirmative and negative sentences in the past simple tense. In groups, students take turns picking up an action card and reading it...
Present to Past

ESL Present Simple to Past Simple Board Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences, Changing Verb Forms
This fun present simple to past simple board game helps students practice making past simple affirmative sentences with time expressions. The game also helps students practice changing regular and...
Restart

ESL Past Simple Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences, Freer Practice - Group Work
In this interesting past simple game, students use past simple affirmative sentences and picture cards to talk about what they did yesterday. One student goes first, lays down a picture card and makes a...
Who did the same?

ESL Past Simple Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Sentence Completion, Freer Practice
In this past simple speaking activity, students complete affirmative sentences with true information about what they did in the past and then try to find people who did the same things as them. First, students...
A Holiday to Remember

ESL Past Simple Affirmative Negative Worksheet - Grammar and Writing Exercises: Gap-fill, Writing Sentences - Speaking Activity: Discussion - Pair Work
This holiday-themed worksheet helps students practice past simple affirmative and negative statements as well as regular and irregular past simple verbs...
Class Story

ESL Past Simple Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences, Story Telling, Communicative Practice - Group Work
In this imaginative past simple game, students work together to make a story using past simple affirmative and negative sentences. Take three word cards and write them on the board. One student from the...
Excuses Excuses

ESL Past Simple Board Game - Speaking: Reforming Sentences, Freer Practice - Group Work
In this amusing past simple board game, students make excuses for arriving to class late to practice past simple affirmative sentences and regular and irregular verbs. Students take turns rolling...
Gone in 30 Seconds

ESL Past Simple Board Game - Grammar and Speaking: Impromptu Speech, Communicative Practice - Group Work
This free past simple board game helps students to utilize their knowledge of the past simple to talk about a variety of everyday topics. Students take turns rolling the dice and moving their counter along...
Holiday Romance

ESL Past Simple Activity - Grammar and Writing: Writing Sentences, Freer Practice - Group Work
In this memorable past simple activity, students create a story about a holiday romance by inventing answers to questions and writing them down. In groups, students answer the first question on...
How was your weekend?

ESL Past Simple Worksheet - Reading, Writing and Grammar Exercises: Matching, Writing a Dialogue - Speaking Activity: Role-Play - Pair Work
This useful past simple worksheet helps students learn how to use the past simple to talk about what they did at the weekend and practice basic small talk...
Past Simple Review

ESL Past Simple Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Categorising, Rewriting Sentences, Writing Questions
In this in-depth past simple worksheet, students review regular and irregular past simple verbs as well as affirmative and negative past simple sentences and questions. First, students...
True Lies

ESL Past Simple Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences, True or False, Asking Questions, Guessing - Group Work
Here is a light-hearted past simple true or false guessing game that helps students practice past simple affirmative and negative statements, questions and verb forms. In groups, students take turns...
Words to Sentences

ESL Past Simple Board Game - Grammar and Writing: Writing Sentences, Freer Practice - Group Work
In this creative past simple board game, students collect words in order to make as many past simple affirmative sentences as they can. Players take turns rolling the dice and moving their counter...
My Memories

ESL Past Simple Fluency Practice - Speaking Activity: Impromptu Speech, Communicative Practice - Group Work
In this enjoyable past simple speaking activity, students use past simple affirmative and negative sentences to talk about various things they remember. This activity works best with older students or...
Oh, Really?

ESL Past Simple Game - Grammar and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Group Work
In this free past simple game, students try to make believable past simple sentences with a variety of time expressions. One student goes first by picking up a picture card and asking the person on their right...
One Day...

ESL Past Simple Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences, Story Telling - Group Work
In this inventive past simple speaking activity, students use past simple affirmative and negative sentences to tell stories in a chain format. One student starts by picking up a card, reading the introductory...
Sentence Building Race

ESL Past Simple Sentence Building Activity - Grammar: Matching, Forming Sentences - Pair Work
In this rewarding past simple activity, students race to make past simple affirmative and negative compound sentences. In pairs, students then race to make ten past simple compound sentences by...
The Lion and the Mouse

ESL Past Simple Affirmative Negative Worksheet - Grammar and Reading Exercises: Word Search, Gap-fill, Rewriting Sentences
This free past simple worksheet helps students practice affirmative and negative sentences as well as a variety of regular and irregular past simple verbs...
MythBusters

ESL Past Simple Game - Grammar and Speaking: Gap-fill, Guided Discussion, Guessing - Group Work
In this intriguing past simple game, students complete statements with past simple regular and irregular verbs and then guess which statements are historical facts and which are myths. First, in groups...