Past Simple - Grammar Practice
An A2 lesson on past simple, with contextual examples, grammar guidance, controlled practice and space for written answers. Includes an answer key and teacher notes.
What’s in the worksheet?
- Contextual examples and grammar guidance
- Choose, complete and rewrite activities
- Space for written answers
- Answer key and teacher notes on page 3
Practise positive past-simple forms through an unexpected-afternoon dialogue and a beach-day gap-fill. This A2 lesson covers regular and irregular verbs, sentence changes, personal writing and guided speaking; page 3 is the key.
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A simple way to teach it
Before the lesson
Print the two student pages and retain answers. Review familiar irregular forms and regular spelling, including studied and stopped.
- Read the dialogue and complete Part A, grouping regular and irregular past forms.
- Fill the beach-day context, then rewrite and reorder the Part C sentences.
- Write three sentences about a recent day, including regular and irregular verbs, then use the supplied partner prompts.
Support and extension
For support, provide a short irregular-verb bank. Accept natural alternative word order in the reordering task and standard spelling variants where relevant. The main target is positive past forms; the speaking questions are already supplied. An optional extension is to put a learner's recent-day account in chronological order.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
