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Listening - PowerPoint presentations -
Interactive exercises - Interactive games -
Songs - Videos - Cartoons

Listening :

• Past simple and continuous (english.baladre.org)
  - Interactive exercises + Listening exercises

PowerPoint presentations :

• Step back into the past - PowerPoint Presentation (skydrive.live.com)

INTERACTIVE exercises :

• The past simple or continuous - presentation and interactive exercises
  (englishgrammarsecrets.com)

  

• An Accident - A Verb-Form Exercise - interactive (a4esl.org)
  "Read the text carefully
  and change the verbs to the correct form."
  - Preterit simple / Preterit progressif

  

• Past simple and continuous (english.baladre.org)
  - Interactive exercises + Listening exercises
  
• Which preterite ? (chez.com/sir)

• Idem (sir05)

• Simple past vs past continuous (7 exercises) - (Michel Barbot)

INTERACTIVE games :

• A day in Jersey.
  "Watch the slideshow (and a video ), listen and play the game.
  All the words you must find are verbs in the past."
  Activity created by Renée Maufroid. (Ac. Lille)

  

Songs :

• Inna Modja - "Mister H"
  (YouTube)
  + the LYRICS
  "Couldn’t wake up this morning while I was ending a break
  I was late so I try to hurry hurry
  I was running in the street and I broke my heels...
  I couldn’t make it till my office
  So my boss was yelling on my phone
  I had to cry and cry and say I’m sorry
  Then I met...
  I saw my ex-man..."
  (parolesdeclip.fr)

• Wreck On The Highway sung by Bruce Springsteen :
  "Last night I was out driving
  Coming home at the end of the working day
  I was riding alone through the drizzling rain
  On a deserted stretch of a county two-lane
  When I came upon a wreck on the highway"
  (lyrics007.com)
  - the video (YouTube) - UPDATED

  

• Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is - sung by Chicago
  "As I was walking down the street one day
  A man came up to me and asked me what the time was..."
  - with the VIDEO (YouTube)

• I twisted my ankle (onestopenglish.com)
  Audio + Script
  Use of past simple and preterit continuous.
  "What happened?
  I was lifting a heavy bag and I hurt my back!"
  
  

• Eternity by Robbie Williams :
  "Yesterday when we were walking
  You talked about your ma and dad,
  What they did that made you happy,
  What they did that made you sad.
  We sat and watched the sun go down
  Then picked a star before we lost the moon"

• SONGS

VIDEOS :

• The Epipleptic Bicycle by Edward Gorey
  (YouTube)

  

• He is alive!!!
  Pour parler de cette histoire, on pourrait utiliser le preterit simple et le preterit progressif :
  "They were talking..., when some boys decided to..."
  (YouTube)
  
  

   

CARTOONS :

• I was reaching for the stars when I fell into this black hole.
  (cagle.com)

  

• Present Perfect vs Simple Past with some American presidents!
  "Read, listen and fill-in the gaps.
  American presidents' speeches and bios will help you understand the use of Present Perfect vs Simple Past."
  Activity created by Renée Maufroid.
  (Accessible à de bons 3èmes, voire aux 4èmes euro.)

  

• Ago, for, since?
  "Listen to Peter Carter's podcast, then play the game."
  Activity created by: Renée Maufroid

  

• A quiz about using SINCE, FOR, LAST, AGO (englishmedialab.com)
  
  

• Past Simple & Present Perfect - with yet / ago / since... (usingenglish.com)
  Choose the correct verb form to complete the sentences

• GRAMMAR GAMES - Present perfect vs past simple - interactive (British Council)
  
  

• Present Perfect and Simple Past - Click on the correct answer. (web2.uvcs.uvic.ca)

• Simple Past / Present Perfect (English Page)

• Past Simple or Present perfect ? (Better English)

• Present Perfect or Past Simple? (about.com)

• Past and Perfect (eflworksheets)

• Preterite or Present Perfect ? Gap-Fill Exercise (interactive) - (sir05)

• Simple Past / Present Perfect - gap fill exercise - Text about computers (English Page)

• Hallelujah sung by Rufus Wainwright (stlyrics.com)
  - Use of preterit + present perfect
  "Maybe I've been here before
  I know this room, I've walked this floor
  I used to live alone before I knew you
  I've seen your flag on the marble arch
  Love is not a victory march
  It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah"
  - the VIDEO or Hallelujah sung by Jeff Buckley (YouTube) - UPDATED

• Pink - Who Knew
  - the LYRICS
  - with an activity created by Renée Maufroid

  

• Against the wind by Bob Seger :
  "... it was long ago
  Janey was lovely she was the queen of my nights...
  The secrets that we shared
  Mountains that we moved
  Caught like a wildfire out of control...
  We were running against the wind..."

• Amazing by George Michael :
  "I was stitched up by the hands of fate...
  I was going down for the third time
  My heart was broken, I was not open to your suggestions
  I had so many questions...
  I think you should celebrate..."

• Big River by Jimmy Nail

• B Movie Box Car Blues by Blues Brothers
  (sing365.com)

• Copacabana by Barry Manilow

• Honey by Bobby Goldsboro (oldielyrics.com) - UPDATED

• Hurricane by Bob Dylan

• I Shot the Sheriff by Bob Marley

• I twisted my ankle : Audio + Script (onestopenglish.com)
  Use of past simple and preterit continuous.
  "What happened?
  I was lifting a heavy bag and I hurt my back!"
  
  
  
  

• I Used to Be An Animal by The Animals :
  "I want to tell you a story
  Once upon a time
  There were five young guys..."

• Just a friend of mine by Vaya Con Dios

• Lazybones - a song by Ben Eyler - Listen to it!
  (elllo.org)

• Living Next Door to Alice by Smokie

• Lucky Man by Emerson, Lake & Palmer :
  "He had white Horses
  And ladies by the score
  All dressed in satin
  And waiting by the door
  Ooooh, what a lucky man he was"

• Lullaby by Shawn Mullins (sing365.com) - UPDATED

• Minnie the Moocher by Blues Brothers

• Once Upon a Time in the West by Dire Straits

• Pocahontas by Neil Young

• 'Route 23' by Steven Seagal (lyrics on the CD : Songs from the Crystal Cave)

• Stan by Eminem

• Tennessee Waltz by Redd Stewart and Pee Wee King

• The Tale Of Mr. Morton - a song you can listen to. (subject and predicate) - (school-house-rock.com)

  

• Veggie Tales by Billy Joe Mcguffery :
  "Now Billy Joe McGuffrey was a really clumsy kid.
  On the first day of first grade, I'll tell you what he did.
  He tripped over a pencil box and flew up in the air,
  Landed on a kangaroo who pulled out all his hair..."

• Yesterday by The Beatles
  "Oh, yesterday came suddenly.
  Why she
  Had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say.
  I said..."
  (lyrics007.com)