About 43 Simple Past PDFs
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Past Simple index pages
Irregular Past Simple games/ worksheets page – NEW PAGE
Teaching Past Simple articles
Fun practice activities for there is/ are/ was/ were – NEW LINK
The four Past Simple blocks games in the 14th section of this article
Past Simple lists
Doubled consonants before -ed list by level
Photocopiable Past Simple classroom activities
There is/ are/ was/ were household vocabulary roleplays and writing – NEW LINKS
Good and taboo Past Simple questions
How many did…? trivia quiz irregular Past Simple practice
Irregular Past Simple dice game
Past Simple Make Me Say Yes personalised speaking game
Past Simple business monologues
Past Simple small talk questions
Simple Past sentence completion guessing games
Regular Simple Past pronunciation and storytelling
Irregular Simple Past pronunciation and storytelling
Guess the past time game (with lots of useful time expressions)
How was your weekend? roleplays
How was your weekend brainstorming
Your weekend formal and informal questions
Common verbs in Business English simple past pronunciation
Helping people Past Simple bluffing game
Technical/ Medical Regular Simple Past pronunciation
Make a Xmas story Past Simple practice
Past Simple songs
Bang Bang My Baby Shot Me Down by Nancy Sinatra/ Cher (with lots of irregular Past Simple and some negatives – link to the lyrics)
Past Simple stories
Fortunately by Remy Charlip (with nice short sentences, so easy to focus on the verbs)
Related pages
Present Perfect and Past Simple page (for contrasting the two tenses)
Past tenses main page (including activities for all three narrative tenses)
Updated 20 May 2026
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