Basic, introductory explanation of the past perfect tense. It contains an approach to its use, formula and keywords. 3 examples are given to illustrate. Perfect to use a general scheme of how to use the tense. It does not contain any further informati ...
Basic, introductory explanation of the past perfect tense. It contains an approach to its use, formula and keywords. 3 examples are given to illustrate. Perfect to use a general scheme of how to use the tense. It does not contain any further informati ...
Use the song "Always" to teach the difference between past perfect and past simple. Moreover, it offers a chance to practice the writing skills inventing love stories. After some group works there is also the possibility to initiate class discussion. ...
Here you'll find some cards including information about St Patrick's day. All of them are taken from history sources. It is very useful should you prepare a history and culture class about Ireland. It also explains the Irish influence in other countri ...
A number of sentences to complete. I use this for a revision of the past simple, past continuous, present perfect simple, present perfect continuous, and past perfect simple. Reported speech also included. Multiple answers are sometimes possible, answ ...
This power point presentation is part of my series of presentation on past narrative tenses. It introduces the use of past perfect by showing the students well-known items that had been invented before "Student X" was born. You have to choose any stud ...
The worksheet is a simple children's story for young learners to practice the past simple, past continuous and past perfect simple tense. It is illustrated and each illustration shows a word that students will have to use. The first letter of the word ...
This short presentation helps teachers in explaining the past perfect tense to students at pre-intermediate or intermediate level concentrating on the pitfalls of using this particular past tense. It is perfect for first presentation or revision.
A set of grammar tasks to revise different grammar points learned in the previous level (3): supply the right options of varied tenses and linkers+report 3 direct statements +change to passive voice+ correct mistekes+ sentence combination using relati ...
Finding exercise about past tenses is a difficult task so, I create this exercise where ss will be able to practice grammar rules, listening and reading. In the first exercise ss match the tenses with their usages, then they listen a song and complete ...
This worksheet includes some exercises about 'simple past vs present perfect' and 'simple past vs past perfect' for intermediate level students. It also contains some exercises about conjunctions commonly used with simple past, present perfect and pas ...
This is a worksheet for teaching the past simple and present perfect tense. There are two different activities in which students are asked to write the two sentences as one using when and past perfect in either the first or the second part ...
This is a worksheet for teaching or revising the differences between the past simple and the past perfect tense. There is a simple activity in which students are asked to complete the sentences with either the past simple or past perfect of the v ...
This a very simple worksheet for teaching or revising the past perfect tense at pre-intermediate level. There are 2 different activities in which students are asked to fill in the gaps with the past perfect in the affirmative form and rewrite the ...
This presentation is an exercise for students to practice past forms (simple past, past perfect or past continuous), they have already learned. The presentation has slides with pictures, and sentences for students to complete with simple past, past pe ...
I've used this when reading the story "Christmas Carol" By Charles Dickens with my students. It was useful to help retelling and also to remember details about the story. Although there is a movie that students can watch.
This is a fictitious newspaper article about a hit-and-run offence. Students need to complete the text by put the verbs into the correct tense in the active or passive voice. Use to check students really know all their tenses. Grammar aspects included ...
A thorough revision of past tenses and narrative tenses, with concept checking and practice. Here, students revise their knowledge of past tenses (simple, continuous and perfect), check functional and structural rules and focus on writing/telling a na ...
This is a worksheet to practice story tenses: past simple, past perfect and past continuous. It suits intermediate level. It includes two tasks. The first task includes 5 sentences to be completed by the correct form of the infinitive verb given betwe ...
Listen to the song and complete the gaps. You could use this worksheet to introduce past perfect. You can also use it to introduce contractions of modal verb and the verb to be. Suggested link to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WkR2Tv4dq4
The pre-intermediate kids whom I teach absolutely hate fantasy movies and comedies, so I decided to engage them into the conversation and learning by offering a movie "Krampus: the Christmas evil". It's not a very scary story, so it can be used as an ...