Japanese Grammar Worksheets - PAST TENSE
Japanese grammar worksheets, lesson plans, games and useful links for expressing past tense - ta form, しました、しませんでした、した、しなかった etc.
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Worksheets
Change verbs to 'Ta form' 
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I went to the Jazz club ジャズクラブへいきました Read about someone's weekend. Then work through past tense exercises. Students then create their own past tense composition.
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Ta form explained |  |
What did you do? なにをしましたか
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What did you do survey
Survey your partner about what they did today.
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Board games
Nani o shimashita ka?
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Games in class
Round Robin Actions L Ford
Introduce the game by saying a target structure with an action. (Eg. 日本へ行きました。うちわを買いました。 Moving your hand like a fan.) The next Ss has to repeat the structure but add one more item and action. (Eg.日本へ行きました。うちわを買いました。そして、 おはしを買いました。Moving your hand like a fan and then like chopsticks). Continue around the class.
Party Mingle J Webster
Each student is given a small piece of paper with a sentence on it, describing what they did last weekend. 「東京に行って、すもうを見ました。」「ハワイに行って、さめと泳ぎました。」 etc. The more outrageous the sentence the better. Once students have read their sentence and the teacher makes sure that they understand their sentences, students are instructed to stand up and mingle as if they were at a party asking 「来週何をしましたか。」After everyone has had a chance to mingle, the class sits down again and the teacher asks 「トムさんは何をしましたか。」 and the class reconstructs what everyone did. You can also have students practicing little phrases like 「すみません」 if they bump into people, or opening lines like 「ひさしぶりですね。」Teachers can add in props like empty glasses, or ask students to dress like they were going to a party.
Lesson plans
Diary (past tense) lesson plan |  |
PowerPoints
Past Tense PowerPoint
Students use the verb picture prompts on the PowerPoint to practice the past tense. 
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