Adventure Jeopardy: Past Simple vs Past Continuous
A B1 Jeopardy game for teens, based on Solutions Pre-Intermediate Unit 2. Three teams practise the past simple and past continuous, when and while, and landscape vocabulary through stories, error correction and personal speaking tasks.
A free Jeopardy Quiz for Teens at CEFR B1 level. Topic: Past Simple vs Past Continuous.
Categories
- Simple or Continuous?
- When or While?
- Landscapes
- Fix the Mistake
- Your Adventures
Questions
- Simple or Continuous? (100): Complete the sentence with the correct form of 'walk': 'I ___ by the river when I saw a fish jump out of the water.'
- Simple or Continuous? (200): Complete with the correct forms of 'climb' and 'start': 'While we ___ the hill, it ___ to rain.'
- Simple or Continuous? (300): Many stories begin like this: 'The sun was shining and the birds were singing.' Explain why the writer uses the past continuous here.
- Simple or Continuous? (400): Explain the difference in meaning between these sentences: 'When the guide arrived, we had lunch.' and 'When the guide arrived, we were having lunch.'
- Simple or Continuous? (500): Make your own sentence about a forest that uses both the past simple and the past continuous. Then say which action interrupted the other one.
- When or While? (100): Complete with 'when' or 'while': '___ I was swimming in the lake, I saw a snake.'
- When or While? (200): Complete with 'when' or 'while' and explain your choice: 'We were walking through the valley ___ we heard a loud noise.'
- When or While? (300): Join these two sentences with 'while': 'My brother was taking photos. I was looking at the waterfall.'
- When or While? (400): Explain the difference between 'When it started to snow, we went back to the hotel' and 'While it was snowing, we walked back to the hotel.'
- When or While? (500): Tell a short story of 2-3 sentences about a storm at the beach. Use 'when' once and 'while' once.
- Landscapes (100): Name this landscape: a very large, dry area with a lot of sand and very little rain. Then say one thing a traveller could do there.
- Landscapes (200): Name this landscape: a place where a river drops down from a high place. Then make a past continuous sentence about it.
- Landscapes (300): Explain the difference between a hill and a mountain. Then use one of the words in a past simple sentence.
- Landscapes (400): Some explorers went into a dark cave. Use the past continuous to describe the scene and the past simple to say what happened next.
- Landscapes (500): Compare a glacier and a volcano. Say what each one is, and then make one sentence about each using the past simple or past continuous.
- Fix the Mistake (100): Correct this sentence: 'I walked along the cliff when I was seeing an eagle.'
- Fix the Mistake (200): Correct this sentence: 'While we crossed the river, my phone was falling into the water.'
- Fix the Mistake (300): Correct this sentence and explain the rule: 'She was knowing the way through the forest.'
- Fix the Mistake (400): Correct this sentence and explain your changes: 'It rained heavily and the wind blew, so we were deciding to stay in the tent.'
- Fix the Mistake (500): Find and correct two mistakes, then explain them: 'While I was hiking in the mountains, I was finding an old map and was deciding to follow it.'
- Your Adventures (100): Tell the class what you were doing at 8 o'clock last night.
- Your Adventures (200): Describe a time when you were outside and the weather suddenly changed. What were you doing?
- Your Adventures (300): Think of the last time you saw a beautiful landscape, such as a lake, mountain or beach. Where were you, and what were you doing when you first saw it?
- Your Adventures (400): Tell the group about something surprising that happened while you were on a trip or holiday. Say what was happening and what happened next.
- Your Adventures (500): Compare a place you visited with the landscape near your home. Say what people were doing there when you arrived and what you did during your visit.