Past Simple Make Me Say Yes- Personalised Speaking Game

A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS

Yes/ No Simple Past questions speaking with points for getting positive answers, including typical time expressions with Simple Past sentences.

By: Alex Case
Level: All Levels
Theme: General
Study Area: Past Tenses
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Lesson Plan Content:


Past Simple make me say yes personalised speaking game

 

Instructions

Take turns trying to make your partner say “Yes, … was/ were/ did” by asking past Yes/ No questions. You get one point for each “Yes” answer and half a point for “I don’t know”, but no point for “No” answers.

Share one thing you learnt about your partner and ask the same question to the class to see how many people say “Yes”.

Do the same, but using at least one word from the next page below in each question, crossing them off so that other people have to use different words.

Ask about any words you couldn’t use, working together as a class to make suitable questions each time.

Change partner and do the same with just “Was/ Were…?” questions (without the next page to help).

 

Possible questions

Were you…?/ Was your…?/ Were your… s?

Did you…?/ Did your… (s)?

(big/ middle/ little) brother/ sister                   aunt/ uncle

classmate(s)/ friend(s)                            cousin(s)

grandmother/ grandfather                         mother/ father/ parents

teacher

at school/ home/ a soccer game/…

brush…

buy…

carry…

clean…

dislike…

do homework/…

drink…

eat…

finish…

get up

go home/ to school/ to the supermarket/ to the cinema/ to a party/ to…

go shopping/ hiking/ …ing

happy/ sad/ tired/ hungry/ cold/ hot/ fat/ thin/ loud/ quiet/ tall/ short/ sporty

have breakfast/ lunch/ dinner/ a snack/…

here

in Tokyo/ Japan/ Asia/ Europe/ bed/ your house/ the living room/ the park/ the playground/…

leave…

like…

meet…

near…

on holiday.

play…

put… in/ on/ under/ next to/ in front of/ behind…

ride a bike/ horse/…

say…

sit on/ near/ in front of…

stand on/ near/ in front of/ behind…

start…

take a bath/ a shower/…

take a bus/ a train/ the underground…

visit…

wash…

watch…

wear sunglasses/ pink/ blue…/ a black…/…

after…

at… o’clock (today/ yesterday)

at… past/ to… (the day before yesterday/ on Monday)

before…

in January/ February/ March/ April/ May/ June/ July/ August/ September/ October/ November/ December

last night/ weekend/ week/ month/ year

on… day (morning/ afternoon/ evening/ night)

on the 1st/ 2nd/ 3rd/ …th of…

this morning

when you were/ he was/ she was… years old

yesterday (morning/ afternoon/ evening)

 

 

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