TEACHER’S NOTES

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Gone in 30 Seconds

Activity Type Introduction

Reading and speaking This past simple board game helps students to utilize their
activity, group work knowledge of the past simple to talk about a variety of everyday
topics.

Focus Procedure
Past simple affirmative
Explain that the students are going to play a board game where
and negative sentences,
they have to talk about various topics for 30 seconds using the
regular and irregular past
past simple tense.
simple verb forms
Divide the students into groups of three or four.
Aim
Give each group a copy of the game board, a dice and counters.
To talk about everyday
topics in the past simple Have one student keep the time in each group.
tense.
Students place their counters on the start square.

Preparation Students then take it in turns to roll the dice and move their
counter along the board.
Make one copy of the
game board for each When a student lands on a square, they have to talk about the
group of three or four. topic on the square in the past simple tense for 30 seconds without
Enlarge the game board stopping.
to A3 if possible. You
will also need to prepare If a student can’t think of anything to say, makes a grammar
some dice and counters. mistake, or stops talking before the 30 seconds are up, they must
go back to their previous square.

Level The first student to reach the finish wins the game.
Pre-intermediate (A2) As an alternative, you could have the students miss a turn instead
of going back to their previous square.

Time
30 minutes

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 PAST SIMPLE AFFIRMATIVE AND NEGATIVE

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Gone in 30 Seconds

the last something the last

time you interesting time you
woke you did last went to a
up late week park

the last a town or

the house a the last
time you Move city you
you lived in restaurant time you
went out ahead 4 lived in
when you you went to went to the
with your spaces when you
were a child recently cinema
friends were a child

what you
Go back
did before
2 spaces
class

a holiday a
how you what you
you didn't Oh no! frightening
came to did last
enjoy very Go back experience
class today night
much you had

the last the last

what you
time you time you your last
did last
went to a went to a holiday
weekend
beach zoo

the last a place you

Go back Go back
time you visited last
3 spaces 2 spaces
were bored year

Oh no! the last the last what you

Go back time you time you had for
to the came home walked very lunch
start late far yesterday

the last the last

a person
time you time you
spent a lot
Finish cooked
you met
last week
of money some food

what you the last

the last
studied in time you
time you
the last played a
felt very
English game or
tired
class sport

the first
a hobby Move
a party you Miss time you
you used to ahead 2
didn't enjoy a turn went
have spaces
abroad Start

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