Past Tenses ESL Games, Activities and Worksheets

Complete the Question

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Past Tenses Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Forming, Asking and Answering Questions - Group and Pair Work

In this engaging past tense speaking activity, students form, ask and answer conversation questions in the past simple, past continuous, past perfect simple and past... read more

Let's Review Past Tenses

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
ESL Past Tenses Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Matching, Gap-fill, Binary Choice

In this useful past tenses worksheet, students revise the past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous tense. First, students match words in bold in sentences with the correct... read more

Past Tense Race

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
ESL Past Tenses Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Matching, Sentence Completion - Pair Work

In this free past tenses activity, pairs race against each other to complete their partner's sentences with appropriate endings, putting verbs in the sentences in... read more

Past Tense Review Battleships

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
ESL Past Tenses Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences - Pair Work

In this fun past tenses game, students play battleships using the affirmative and negative forms of the past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous. To start, students mark four ships... read more

What's the Sentence?

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
ESL Past Tenses Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences - Group Work

In this challenging past tenses game, students listen to information and race to make sentences using the past simple with either the past perfect or past continuous. In groups, students take turns picking up... read more

Past Tense Artists

Upper-intermediate (B2) 35 minutes
ESL Past Tenses Game - Grammar: Drawing, Guessing, Sentence Completion - Group Work

In this entertaining past tenses game, students race to guess mixed past tense sentences from drawings. One student from Team A comes up to the... read more

Past Tense Pairs

Upper-intermediate (B2) 35 minutes
ESL Past Tenses Activity - Grammar, Speaking and Listening: Matching, Categorising, Gap-fill, Binary Choice - Pair Work

In this productive past tenses activity, students work with a partner to complete sentences containing various... read more

Past Tenses Board Game

Upper-intermediate (B2) 30 minutes
ESL Past Tenses Board Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences from Prompts, Freer Practice - Pair Work

In this enjoyable past tenses board game, students practice forming sentences on a variety of topics using six past tense structures. In groups, students... read more