 And now let's have a look at some teaching ideas for the past simple tense. Here, we have one of our more basic activities. It consists of a series of pictures that the teacher would have cut out before class. The teacher will then put students into pairs and ask them to create a story about somebody's day that they had in the past, yesterday or last weekend. So the students, using their own imagination, will put the pictures in any order they choose and then the teacher will ask them to piece it together making statements in the past simple. So they could start off with, she woke up and had a cup of coffee. Then she wrote a letter to her friend. So on and so forth until probably ending up with and then she went to bed at nine o'clock.