Guess the Past Time Game
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Practising past time expressions speaking game
Lesson Plan Content:
Guess the past time game
Choose one card below and explain things at that time until your partner guesses it, giving other hints if you need to. Show the whole list of times to choose from if they get stuck.
Useful phrases for giving hints“Yes, but you need to be more precise/ more detail”/ “Yes, but when?” “No, (much/ quite a lot/ a bit) earlier/ later” “I first/ last/ then” “I… once/ twice/ a couple of times/ a few times/ many times then” “(Good guess but) I wanted to/ tried to… then but I couldn't” |
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last year (= 2011)
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the day before yesterday before breakfast |
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the day before yesterday after dinner
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when I was three |
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in 2005
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last month |
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two months ago
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in August |
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in the autumn
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on New Year’s Day (= 1 January this year) |
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on Christmas Day (= 25 Dec last year)
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on Valentine’s Day (= 14 February) |
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when I was five
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yesterday evening |
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yesterday afternoon |
yesterday morning
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on my birthday
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on my mum’s birthday |
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before I came here today
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at my school’s sports day |
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100 years ago |
1000 years ago
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1,000,000 years ago
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last Christmas |
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