Simple Past ESL Escape Room

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Welcome to your grammatical mission: using the SIMPLE PAST TENSE correctly!

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Your missions

01 Quiz

Introduction

02 Find!

Collect all the clues (numbers) by completing each of the challenges, and enter them in order in the final section to finish the game.

Reward

MAKE SUR YOU WRITE DOWN THE NUMBER GIVEN AT THE END OF EACH CHALLENGE! YOU WILL NEED IT TO ESCAPE THE GAME!

INTRODUCTION

QUIZ

Complete the following quiz, and getthe first number towards your reward!

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QUIZ

question 1/5

Which of the following situations is one used for the SIMPLE PAST TENSE?

When the action takes place as we speak

When the action will happen later

When the action has already happened

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RIGHT!

Explanation: We use the simple past for finished actions, states or habits in the past!

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question 2/5

Which of the following situations is NOT one used for the SIMPLE PAST TENSE?

A series of completed actions in the past

An action in the past

Regular habits, daily routines

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Explanation: regular habits and daily routines are specific to the SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE!

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QUESTION 3/5

TRUE OR FALSEmost verbs in English take -ED in the SIMPLE PAST TENSE?

False

True

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RIGHT!

Explanation: Most verbs in English take -ED in the simple past tense. Only exceptions do not.

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QUESTION 4/5

TRUE OR FALSEThe negative form of simple part is ALWAYS formed with the auxiliary DID

False

True

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RIGHT!

Explanation: The verb to be is already an auxiliary! There is no need to add another one!

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QUESTION 5/5

Which one of the following questions (interrogative form) is the correct?

Did you went to the Bahamas last Christmas?

Was you go to the Bahamas last Christmas?

Did you go to the Bahamas last Christmas?

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RIGHT!

Explanation: The verb to go is not an auxiliary, so we needed to use "DID". And when you use DID, the verb needs to be in its base form.

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QUIZ

ERROR!

Wrong! Try again!

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FIND!

From among all the statements you discover,click only on the correct ones

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CLICK ONLY ON THE CORRECT STATEMENT 1/3

I wasn't don't know!

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I didn't know!

I was there not.

I didn't was there!

CLICK ONLY ON THE CORRECT STATEMENT 2/3

Paul understood not the lesson very well.

Paul understood the lesson very well.

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Paul did not understoon the lesson very well.

Paul wasn't understand the lesson very well.

Paul did understand not the lesson very well.

CLICK ONLY ON THE CORRECT STATEMENT 3/3

Were you sick next week?

Were you sick last week?

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Was you sick last week?

Did you were sick last week?

Were you sick now?

ERROR!

Wrong! That statement is incorrect

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