Past Simple Passive ESL Activities, Worksheets & Games
Famous Inventions and Discoveries

ESL Past Simple Passive Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Information Gap, Asking and Answering Questions - Pair Work
In this free past simple passive activity, students ask and answer questions about famous inventions and discoveries. In pairs, students take turns asking and answering past simple passive questions...
General Knowledge Quiz

ESL Past Simple Passive Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Sentence Completion, Writing, Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Pair Work
In this creative past simple passive activity, students create a general knowledge quiz. In pairs, students complete past simple passive sentences with factual...
Here is the News

ESL Past Simple Passive Worksheet - Grammar, Reading and Writing Exercises: Rewriting Sentences, Identifying, Gap-fill, Writing an Article - Pair Work
In this useful past simple passive worksheet, students use the context of news reports to practice past simple active and passive forms. First, students change past...
Past Simple Passive News

ESL Past Simple Passive Worksheet - Grammar and Writing Exercises: Writing Sentences, Paragraph Writing
In this comprehensive past simple passive worksheet, students create news headlines and a news story. Students begin by creating news headlines on four topics using the past simple passive. Next, students...
Past Simple Passive Quiz

ESL Past Simple Passive Game - Grammar and Speaking: Gap-fill, Asking and Answering Questions, Guessing, Controlled Practice - Pair Work
Here is a fun past simple passive game to use with intermediate students in class. Students start by completing interesting historical facts with the past simple passive...
Past Simple Passive Quiz Time

ESL Passive Voice Game - Grammar and Speaking: Writing and Asking Questions, Forming Sentences, Guessing - Group and Pair Work
In this free past simple passive game, students ask and answer general knowledge quiz questions in the past simple passive. In two groups, students read...
The worksheet was completed

ESL Past Simple Passive Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Gap-fill, Writing Sentences
Here is a productive past simple passive worksheet for intermediate students to use in class. Students start by completing sentences with the past simple passive form of the verbs in brackets. Next, students...
Past Beliefs

ESL Past Simple Passive Game - Grammar: Writing Sentences, Changing Verb Forms, True or False, Guessing - Pair Work
In this engaging past simple passive game, students write statements about past beliefs using it was + past participle forms of verbs and then guess whether each one is true or false. First, students use...
When I was a child...

ESL Past Simple Passive Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Writing Sentences, Discussion, Freer Practice - Group Work
This insightful past simple passive speaking activity helps to teach students how to use the past simple passive followed by an infinitive with 'to' to talk about their experiences of growing up. First, students...