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Verb - past tense

 

Fun Fact: "August 15th, 2007 - Marks the first year since the end of WWII that Japan's prime minister (Shinzo Abe) and Cabinet forewent the yearly Yasukuni Shrine visit."


 

All-In-One Activity

This activity will have the students read, write, speak and listen to one another in a ‘find your partner’ like activity.
 
Using Celine Dion’s love song, students play bingo listening for past tense verbs in the song.
 
Students fill in a form then insert the info into a template to create a crazy story, then have a go at writing their own. Requires knowledge of past-tense of play, go, see, have, and is (optional).
 
The students listen to a brief story about the death of Hello Kitty. Then, using those clues, they ask their friends questions to determine who is the murderer.
 
This is a quick and easy vocab review `game` for 1st grade past tense verbs. Ideal for a quick review before doing a writing exercise.
 
This activity is a simple worksheet for reviewing simple past tense using what the students ate or drank for breakfast.
 
This is a board/dice game that practices the irregular and regular paste tense verbs. Students make one sentence each time they land on a square.
 
R & R stands for Read & Race.  Students work together in groups to gather the sentences around the room.
 

Story Time

Students utilize intreresting photographs to formulate a past tense story.

 

Takuya Kimura's Best Friend

Students learn the usage of the past tense while investigating a Japanese musician from SMAP, Takuya Kimura.

 

Was & Did

Working in pairs, one student gives their partners past tense and past participle questions while their partners search out two pictures across the room looking for the answers.

 

What's the Diff?

Students remember the placement of objects on a scene while practicing simple past tense verbs.

 


 Worksheets Without Explanations

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Walkie Talkie

 

Past Tense Revision

 

Past Practice