Past Simple Yes/No Questions ESL Games, Activities and Worksheets

Copy Cat

Elementary (A1-A2) 20 minutes
ESL Did You Questions Activity - Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Group Work

In this engaging Did you questions activity, students find someone who did the same things as them yesterday by asking past simple yes/no questions... read more

Did, Was and Were Questions

Elementary (A1-A2) 30 minutes
ESL Past Simple Yes No Questions Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Matching, Writing Questions and Answers - Speaking Activity: Freer Practice - Pair Work

In this useful past simple yes/no questions worksheet, students practice simple yes-or-no questions and short answers... read more

Did you...?

Elementary (A1-A2) 25 minutes
ESL Past Simple Yes No Questions Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Writing, Asking and Answering Questions, Sentence Completion

In this free questions with did activity, students write, ask and answer Did you...? questions. First, students write down a Did you...? for each sentence... read more

Did You or Didn't You?

Elementary (A1-A2) 25 minutes
ESL Past Simple Yes No Questions Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming, Asking and Answering Questions - Group Work

This imaginative past simple yes/no questions game helps students practice yes/no questions and short answers with the verb to be and do. In groups... read more

Last Week

Elementary (A1-A2) 25 minutes
ESL Did You Questions Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Forming, Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice

In this enjoyable past simple Find Someone Who activity, students ask and answer yes/no questions in the past simple about what they did last week. Students... read more

Who did what?

Elementary (A1-A2) 25 minutes
ESL Past Simple Did You Activity - Speaking: Guessing, Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts, Freer Practice

In this past simple yes/no questions speaking activity, students make guesses about things their classmates did recently. Students then find out if their guesses... read more

Past Simple Yes No Questions Practice

Pre-intermediate (A2) 25 minutes
ESL Past Simple Yes No Questions Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Matching, Error Correction, Rewriting Sentences, Gap-fill, Writing Questions

In this holiday-themed past simple yes/no questions worksheet, students practice questions and short... read more

Speech Bubbles

Pre-intermediate (A2) 25 minutes
ESL Did You Questions Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Asking Questions, Freer Practice - Pair Work

In this intriguing past simple yes/no questions activity, students ask Did you...? questions to a partner in order to find out why they wrote certain answers. First... read more

What did I do?

Pre-intermediate (A2) 35 minutes
ESL Past Simple Yes No Questions Game - Grammar and Speaking: Reforming Words, Guessing, Asking and Answering Questions - Group Work

In this fun past simple yes/no questions game, students use Did you...? questions to find out what people did at different... read more

What did you do last night?

Pre-intermediate (A2) 25 minutes
ESL Did You Game - Grammar and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Guessing - Group Work

In this free past simple yes/no questions game, students guess what their classmates did last night by asking questions with Did you...? Students take turns... read more

Where did I see you?

Pre-intermediate (A2) 20 minutes
ESL Did You Questions Game - Grammar and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Controlled Practice - Group Work

In this entertaining past simple yes/no questions game, students ask and answer Did you...? questions in order to find out where they saw other people... read more

Where did you go?

Pre-intermediate (A2) 30 minutes
ESL Past Simple Yes No Questions Game - Grammar and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Guessing - Group Work

In this past simple yes/no questions guessing game, students ask a classmate Did you...? questions in order to... read more

Years Gone By

Pre-intermediate (A2) 25 minutes
ESL Past Simple Yes No Questions Game - Grammar and Speaking: Sentence Completion, Guessing, Asking and Answering Questions - Pair Work

Here is a creative past simple guessing game to help older students practice past simple yes/no questions with the... read more

Yes, I did.

Pre-intermediate (A2) 30 minutes
ESL Past Simple Yes No Questions Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming, Asking and Answering Questions, True or False - Group and Pair Work

In this amusing past simple true or false guessing game, students practice asking and answering past simple... read more