Adventure in the Past: Past Simple & Past Continuous Jeopardy
A team game for teens at A2 level based on Solutions Pre-Intermediate Unit 2. Students practise the past simple, the past continuous, the difference between the two tenses, and landscape vocabulary. The game ends with personal stories that use both tenses.
A free Jeopardy Quiz for Teens at CEFR A2 level. Topic: Past Simple / Past Continuous.
Categories
- Past Simple
- Past Continuous
- Past Simple vs Past Continuous
- Landscapes & You
Questions
- Past Simple (100): Say the past simple form of these three verbs: go, see, have.
- Past Simple (200): Find and correct the mistake: 'Yesterday we climbed a hill and we seed a waterfall.'
- Past Simple (300): Change this sentence into a negative and then into a question: 'They swam in the lake.'
- Past Simple (400): Tell your team three things you did last weekend. Use three different past simple verbs, and make at least one of them irregular.
- Past Simple (500): Tell a short story of 3 or 4 sentences about a trip you took. Use at least two irregular verbs and one negative sentence.
- Past Continuous (100): Complete the sentence: 'At 8 p.m. last night, I ___ (watch) TV.'
- Past Continuous (200): Choose 'was' or 'were' and explain your choice: 'My friends ___ walking in the forest.'
- Past Continuous (300): Make a question that starts with 'What' for this answer: 'She was swimming in the river.'
- Past Continuous (400): Describe what three people in your family were doing at 7 o'clock yesterday evening.
- Past Continuous (500): Imagine you were on a busy beach at 12 o'clock yesterday. Describe the scene in at least four past continuous sentences. What were people doing?
- Past Simple vs Past Continuous (100): Complete the sentence: 'I ___ (walk) home when it _____ (start) to rain.'
- Past Simple vs Past Continuous (200): Complete the sentence: 'While we ____ (hike), we ___ (see) a bear.'
- Past Simple vs Past Continuous (300): Join these two sentences with 'when' and past tenses: 'I sleep. The phone ring.'
- Past Simple vs Past Continuous (400): Explain the difference in meaning between these two sentences: 'When Tom arrived, we had dinner.' and 'When Tom arrived, we were having dinner.'
- Past Simple vs Past Continuous (500): Finish this story in two or three sentences, using both tenses: 'We were climbing a cliff when suddenly...'
- Landscapes & You (100): Water falls from a high place, often in the mountains or a forest. What is it called? Say one sentence about it.
- Landscapes & You (200): Explain the difference between a hill and a mountain, then name 5 more landscape word.
- Landscapes & You (300): Describe a beautiful place in nature that you visited. Where was it, and what did you do there?
- Landscapes & You (400): Compare a landscape near your home with a landscape you saw on holiday or on TV. How were they different?
- Landscapes & You (500): Tell your team about a time you were in nature. What were you doing when something surprising or funny happened? Use at least one landscape word and both tenses.