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Past tenses index pages
Irregular Past Simple games/ worksheets page – NEW PAGE
Past Simple games/ worksheets page
Past Continuous games/ worksheets page
Past Perfect games/ worksheets page
Used to/ Didn’t use to games/ worksheets page
Teaching past tenses articles
Fun video activities to practice past tenses
and see the index pages above for articles on teaching each past tense
Photocopiable mixed past tenses/ narrative tenses classroom activities
Past numbers trivia board game narrative tenses review
Past times things in common (including Present Perfect, Past Continuous and Past Perfect and lots of time expressions)
Was were past times warmer cooler guessing game (Past Simple and Past Continuous)
The first time/ last time past tenses extended speaking and presentation
The last time you… narrative tenses guessing game and review
Guess the past time game (with lots of useful past time expressions)
Past prepositions of time Snap
Past simple/ continuous/ perfect logic puzzles
Remembering and forgetting childhood memories
The story of your life mini-presentations
A childhood memory extended speaking
Weekends Past Continuous/ Past Perfect
Ghosts vocabulary storytelling game
Narrative tenses guess the year game
Office equipment inventions Past tense review
Crime vocabulary storytelling game
Daily routines narrative tenses
Narrative tenses storytelling game
Guess the year business past tenses review
Xmas in history trivia quiz past tenses review
Xmas past tense mimes (Past Continuous and then past tenses review)
Mixed past tenses picture books
Once Upon a Time by Nick Sharratt (fun enough just to do for the vocabulary, or has Past Simple and Past Continuous for tweens who are studying those points)
Mixed past tenses songs/ Narrative tenses songs
Narrative tense song worksheet- Hole in my Bucket by Spearhead
Past and present tense review song worksheet – Yesterday by The Beatles
and see the index pages above for songs with particular past tenses
Related pages
Business past tenses worksheets
Updated 20 May 2026
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