TEACHER’S NOTES

ESL / EFL RESOURCES My Memories

Activity Type Introduction

Speaking activity, group
work
Language Focus
Past simple affirmative
and negative sentences
In this insightful speaking activity, students use past simple
affirmative and negative sentences to talk about various things
they remember. This activity works best with older students or
adults and is good for developing fluency.
Procedure
Split the class into groups of three or four.

Give each group a set of cards. Ask the students to shuffle the
Aim
cards and place them face down on the table.
To talk about various
topics in the past simple Students take it in turns to pick up a card from the top of the pile.
tense.
The student who picks up the card then talks about the topic on
the card for one or two minutes using past simple affirmative and
Preparation negative sentences.
Make one copy of the
The rest of the group asks the student questions to get him or her
cards for each group of
to speak more.
three or four and cut as
indicated.
Then, the next student takes a card and so on.

Level
Pre-intermediate

Time
30 minutes

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 PAST SIMPLE AFFIRMATIVE AND NEGATIVE

ESL / EFL RESOURCES My Memories

your first job the place where

your last holiday your first love
you grew up

a teacher you
your earliest a wedding you a party you
liked or didn't
memory attended really enjoyed
like at school

what you did

one of your
a holiday you for fun when
your first car best friends at
didn’t enjoy you were a
school
teenager

the first time you

a hobby you your first day at
travelled abroad your grandparents
used to have school
or far away

a frightening
an important your happiest a subject you
experience
event in your life moment disliked at school
you had

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