Past Simple Wh Questions ESL Activities, Games and Worksheets
Wh Questions with Did

ESL Wh Questions with Did Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Matching, Gap-fill, Writing Questions - Speaking Activity: Freer Practice - Pair Work
This comprehensive past simple Wh questions worksheet helps students learn and practice Wh questions with 'did'. Students start by matching past simple Wh...
Where did they go?

ESL Past Simple Questions Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Information Gap, Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Pair Work
In this free past simple information gap activity, students ask and answer Wh questions in the past simple to complete missing information in a chart...
Your Last Holiday

ESL Past Simple Wh Questions Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Pair Work
In this enjoyable past simple speaking activity, students use Wh questions to find out about a classmate's last holiday. Students begin by creating past simple...
My Last Holiday

ESL Past Simple Running Dictation - Grammar and Speaking Activity: Forming, Asking and Answering Questions, Table Completion - Pair and Group Work
In this free past simple running dictation activity, students ask and answer past simple Wh questions about holidays. In pairs, one student is the writer and...
Past Simple Wh Question Time

ESL Past Simple Questions Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Questions - Group Work
In this entertaining past simple Wh questions game, students race to make past simple questions that elicit certain short answers. In groups, students take turns taking a short answer card from an...
Roll of the Dice

ESL Past Simple Wh Questions Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming and Asking Questions, Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Pair Work
In this fun past simple questions game, students try to answer all their opponent's questions correctly. In pairs, Student B begins by rolling the dice and...
The First Time

ESL Past Simple Wh Questions Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions - Pair Work
In this insightful past simple Wh questions activity, students practice asking Wh questions and using the past simple tense with time expressions to talk about experiences earlier in life...
The Honeymoon

ESL Past Simple Information Gap Activity - Grammar, Writing and Speaking: Information Gap, Writing, Asking and Answering Questions - Pair Work
In this rewarding past simple information gap activity, students write and then ask past simple Wh questions in order to complete a text. In two groups, students...
The Past Simple Exchange

ESL Past Simple Questions Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Forming, Asking and Answering Questions - Group and Pair Work
In this engaging past simple speaking activity, students practice forming, asking and answering past simple Wh conversation questions. To begin, in two...
The QuASI Structure

ESL Past Simple Wh Questions Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Matching, Categorizing, Error Correction, Writing Questions
In this useful past simple questions worksheet, students learn and practice past simple Wh question word order using the QuASI structure. First, students match questions with correct...
What's the Question?

ESL Past Simple Questions Activities - Grammar Exercises, Writing Questions, Gap-fill - Speaking Game: Relay, Forming Questions - Group Work
In these productive past simple Wh question activities, students complete a worksheet to practice past simple verb forms and Wh questions. Students then play...
When did you do that?

ESL Past Simple Wh Questions Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice
This free past simple questions speaking activity helps students practice Wh questions and time expressions in the past. Students go around the class asking and answering the questions on the worksheet...
When was the last time...?

ESL Past Simple Wh Questions Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Forming, Asking and Answering Questions - Pair Work
Here is an interesting past simple questions activity to help teach students how to ask and answer past simple Wh questions. In the activity, students interview each other about things they did in the past...
Where did you go on holiday?

ESL Past Simple Wh Questions Activity - Grammar, Writing and Speaking: Writing Questions and Answers, Reading and Completing a Dialogue - Pair Work
This memorable past simple holiday questions activity helps students ask and answer questions about their last holiday. Pairs begin by reading a conversation...
Who Went Where?

ESL Past Simple Wh Questions Activity - Speaking: Role-play, Asking and Answering Questions, Guessing, Table Completion, Gap-fill - Group and Pair Work
In this intriguing past simple Wh questions activity, students work together to solve a mystery about where different people went earlier in the day. In the...
Your Partner's Past

ESL Past Simple Questions Game - Grammar and Speaking: Gap-fill, Guessing, Asking and Answering Questions - Pair Work
In this engaging past simple guessing game, students write, ask and answer a variety of past simple Wh questions with the verb 'to be' and 'do' about a partner's past. First, students write past simple Wh...
Ask Me a Question

ESL Past Simple Wh Questions Activity - Grammar, Writing and Speaking: Completing and Answering Questions, Discussion - Group Work
In this inventive past simple questions activity, students review past simple Wh questions by writing questions for other classmates to answer. Students write...
Do you remember?

ESL Past Simple Wh Questions Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Controlled and Freer Practice
Here is a past simple questions speaking activity to help students ask Wh questions and talk about past events. In the activity, students go around the class asking and...
What did you do?

ESL Past Simple Wh Questions Game - Grammar and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Group Work
Here is a compelling past simple questions game to help students practice asking and answering Wh questions. Two team leaders take turns secretly choosing...
Leonardo DiCaprio

ESL Past Simple Questions Activity - Grammar, Writing and Speaking: Information Gap, Writing, Asking and Answering Questions - Group and Pair Work
In this free past simple information gap activity, students write and ask past simple Wh questions in order to complete a text about Leonardo DiCaprio...