Past Simple Affirmative Negative ESL Games, Worksheets and Activities

Alicia's Day

Elementary (A1-A2) 30 minutes
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... read more

Guess the Past

Elementary (A1-A2) 25 minutes
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... read more

In the Past

Elementary (A1-A2) 25 minutes
ESL Past Simple Game - Speaking: Forming Sentences from Prompts, 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... read more

Mark the Jogger

Elementary (A1-A2) 25 minutes
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... read more

My Last Summer Holiday

Elementary (A1-A2) 30 minutes
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... read more

Past Simple Sentence Spin

Elementary (A1-A2) 25 minutes
ESL Past Simple Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences from Prompts, 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... read more

Present to Past

Elementary (A1-A2) 25 minutes
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... read more

Restart

Elementary (A1-A2) 25 minutes
ESL Past Simple Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences from Prompts, 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... read more

Who did the same?

Elementary (A1-A2) 25 minutes
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... read more

A Holiday to Remember

Pre-intermediate (A2) 30 minutes
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... read more

Class Story

Pre-intermediate (A2) 25 minutes
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... read more

Excuses Excuses

Pre-intermediate (A2) 30 minutes
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... read more

Gone in 30 Seconds

Pre-intermediate (A2) 30 minutes
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... read more

Holiday Romance

Pre-intermediate (A2) 25 minutes
ESL Past Simple Activity - Grammar and Writing: Writing Sentences from Prompts, 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... read more

How was your weekend?

Pre-intermediate (A2) 50 minutes
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... read more

Past Simple Review

Pre-intermediate (A2) 30 minutes
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... read more

True Lies

Pre-intermediate (A2) 30 minutes
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... read more

Words to Sentences

Pre-intermediate (A2) 30 minutes
ESL Past Simple Board Game - Grammar and Writing: Writing Sentences from Prompts, 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... read more

My Memories

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
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... read more

Oh, Really?

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
ESL Past Simple Game - Grammar and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts, 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... read more

One Day...

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Past Simple Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences from Prompts, 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... read more

Sentence Building Race

Intermediate (B1) 20 minutes
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... read more

The Lion and the Mouse

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
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... read more

MythBusters

Upper-intermediate (B2) 35 minutes
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... read more