Past Simple Activities and Exercises

Practice past simple tense with our free online ESL activities and exercises.

Available Activities

Past Simple – Irregular Verbs 1 – Gap fill exercise
Past Simple – Irregular Verbs 2 – Gap fill exercise
Past Simple – Irregular Verbs 3 – Gap fill exercise
Past Simple – Irregular Verbs 4 – Gap fill exercise
A1 Irregular Verbs – Scatter sheet activity
Past Simple Board Game – Interactive board game
Past Simple Time Markers – Card set
50 Common Verbs (regular and irregular) – great for testing knowledge of past forms
Irregular Verbs – Card set: 50 common irregular verbs
Past Simple Irregular Verbs (A1) – Flashcards: base form on the front, past simple on the back
Past Simple Irregular Verbs (A2) – Flashcards: base form on the front, past simple on the back
Past Simple & Past Continuous – A Cloze exercise.
Before or Ago – Multiple choice activity.
Past Simple – -ed Pronunciation (A2) – Categorise activity: sort regular verbs by how the -ed ending sounds: /t/, /d/ or /ɪd/
Past Simple: Childhood Questions – Conversation cards: 15 discussion questions
Past Simple: Recent Past Questions – Conversation cards: 15 discussion questions
Present Perfect or Past Simple? Finished and Unfinished Time – Categorise activity: sort time expressions into finished and unfinished time
Past Simple Irregular Verbs – Tic tac toe: make a past simple sentence with the irregular verb