Cards to practice present tense - past tense - past participle verb sets. It can also be used to practice present-tense-past tense pairs.
The cards are colour-coded. Each verb has a present tense card (blue), past tense card (red), and past participle card (red).
Print out the cards on thick paper (or back them with a second sheet) so that the words don't show through. I backed mine with coloured paper. I recommend laminating them as well if you will use them more than once.
There are 36 cards total. This is one deck. Print enough copies for how many groups you will have. For playing a Go-Fish or Old Maid style game, I suggest 4~6 people per group.
Here is the activity I used them for:
First, write out all the present tense verbs from the deck on the board. Elicit the past tense and past participle forms from the students to complete the chart.
Group students and pass out the cards and demonstrate the game with your JTE.
RULES
1. Each group member gets three cards and the remaining cards go face-down on the table, with one card left face up (discard pile).
2. On your turn, take a card from the discard or the deck and throw a card you don't need (optional: say word on discarded card) so that you have three cards again.
3. Take turns doing this until someone collects a set of three matching verbs (eg. eat, ate, eaten). That person puts the three cards on the table and reads them out, then the other group members repeat them. The student can then take three more cards from the deck.
4. Continue until no cards are left. The student with the most sets of three wins.
I followed the card game up with a race to see which group could group their cards into sets of three the fastest.
I hope this resource comes in handy!
Note: When teaching passive form, not all past participles can be used (is, come, have). They can be used in present perfect tense (had been, has come etc). My school is teaching them all in second year regardless, so I included some of them in this document.
I really like these cards, while I only used past simple and present simple for my warm up, they worked perfectly! (I made 10 sets and had my students in groups of 4. They each had a whole set and they switched who was flipping the cards for each turn. They had a lot of fun trying to get the most right.)