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Guess the Past Time Game

A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS

Practising past time expressions speaking game

By: Alex Case
Level: All Levels
Theme: Time
Study Area: Past Tenses
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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”

 

 

last year (= 2011)

 

 

the day before yesterday before breakfast

 

the day before yesterday after dinner

 

 

when I was three

 

in 2005

 

 

last month

 

two months ago

 

 

in August

 

in the autumn

 

 

on New Year’s Day (= 1 January this year)

 

on Christmas Day (= 25 Dec last year)

 

 

on Valentine’s Day (= 14 February)

 

when I was five

 

 

yesterday evening

 

yesterday afternoon

 

yesterday morning

 

 

on my birthday

 

 

on my mum’s birthday

 

before I came here today

 

 

at my school’s sports day

 

100 years ago

 

1000 years ago

 

 

1,000,000 years ago

 

 

last Christmas

 

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