This activity helps students practise asking and answering questions in the past simple, using the topic of holidays to personalise their responses. It focuses on forming questions from affirmative statements, reinforcing accuracy.
Activity Overview
- Level: Elementary / Pre-intermediate
- Target language: Past simple questions and statements (e.g. “Where did you go?”, “I went to…”)
- Time: 20–25 minutes
- Group size: Pairs
What you need
- One copy of the worksheet per student (download here)
How to use the activity
- Give each student a copy of the worksheet and put them into pairs.
- Students fill in the YOU column with sentences about their last holiday. For example:
- I went to Italy.
- I stayed there for a week.
- I travelled by plane.
- For each sentence they wrote, students write a corresponding past simple question in the QUESTION column. For example:
- Where did you go?
- How long did you stay?
- How did you travel?
- Students then interview their partner using their questions and write the responses in the YOUR PARTNER column.
- Monitor and provide support as necessary. Encourage natural follow-up questions to keep the conversation flowing.
This is a great activity for practising the past simple in a real-life context while also helping students improve their question formation and speaking fluency.
Related grammar links
- Past simple guide – Learn how to form and use past simple.
