Daily routines past tenses games
Past Continuous/ Past Perfect/ routines vocabulary
Part A: Daily routines Past Continuous things in common game
Ask questions and share information to find a time when your actions were exactly the same as your partner (although you were in different places).
Suggested topics
Arrive Brush
Change Clean
Comb Dust
Fizzy drink Get dressed – Get undressed
Get into – Get out of Get on – Get off
Hang out Have a ciggie
Hoover/ Vacuum Hot drink
Leave Lock – Unlock
Mop Open – Shut/ Close
Pick up your dry cleaning – Drop off… Queue
Read (Supermarket/ Daily) shopping
Tidy up/ Clear up Use
Vending machine Wait
Wash up Watch Wipe
When your teacher stops you, share one thing you were doing at the same and see if it is the same for anyone else in the class.
Ask about any vocabulary above you aren’t sure about, saying when you were doing each thing once you understand it.
Part B: Daily routines Past Perfect guessing game
Tell the story of your partner’s day yesterday, starting when they fell asleep and working your way backwards through the day, e.g. “When you fell asleep, you’d already brushed your teeth” and “When you brushed your teeth, you’d already got into your pyjamas”. When you make a mistake, you get one point for each correct sentence until then and it is your partner’s turn to guess your day (also in reverse order).
Language presentation
What’s the difference between:
- “wear my clothes” and “get dressed”?
- “clean my flat” and “tidy my flat”?
- “play with my friends” and “meet up with my friends”?
- “hang out with my friends” and “go out with my friends”?
- “wake up” and “get up”?
Correct these mistakes:
- Have a lunch X
- Arrive at home X
- Take a cup of tea X
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Related pages
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