 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. In this version of the activity we previously looked at, we have more complicated verb structures, especially with the irregular verbs such as wake and see. Again, we'll challenge our students to have a look at the various prompts, and to order the pictures so as to make a story. Here the focus will be on making a narrative story using the past simple tense. Hopefully, after a certain amount of time, our students will be able to create their own story and then present it to the class. If we have a higher level group of students, we could have the option to erase the prompts, simply give the students the pictures, perhaps a title to the story as well, and leave it to them to create a story all on their own.