🕰️ Life in the Past
📚 Have/Had To
🎯 Verb + Prepositions
📅 Years & Timeline
💬 Mixed
Challenge
Challenge
100
Complete the sentence: People ______ TV in black and white.
Answer: watched
100
Yesterday I ______ clean my room.
Answer: had to
100
listen ___ music
Answer: to
100
Read this year: 1984
Answer: Nineteen eighty-four
100
Unscramble.
about / We / talked / dinosaurs
Answer:
We talked about dinosaurs.
200
Find TWO mistakes: People use horses for travel everywhere.
Answer: People used horses to travel everywhere.
200
Choose the correct answer.
She _____ feed her dog every morning.
A) had to B) has to C) have to
Answer: B
200
Choose the correct option:
We are waiting __ our teacher.
A) at B) for C) to
Answer: B
200
Read this year: 2016
Answer: two thousand and sixteen (or) twenty sixteen
200
Complete the conversation.
A: _____ are you going?
B: I’m going _____ school.
Answer: Where, to
300
Name three things people didn’t have 100 years ago.
Possible answers: smartphones, tablets, the Internet, video games, laptops, streaming services.
300
Correct the sentence: They had to finish their homework every day. (Today)
Answer: They have to finish their homework every day.
300
Fill in every blank.
We talked _____ dinosaurs and looked _____ the museum map before we traveled _____ London.
Answer: about, at, to
300
Put these years in order.
2015
1989
2003
1998
Answer: 1989, 1998, 2003, 2015
300
You have 30 seconds.
Say:
✔ one sentence with had to
✔ one sentence with look at
Possible answers:
I had to study yesterday.
Look at the picture.
400
Describe it using two sentences.
Possible answers:
- Students wrote on chalkboards.
- They didn’t use computers.
- They sat at wooden desks.
400
Make a sentence about yesterday using had to.
Possible answer: I had to study English. I didn't have to go to school.
400
Correct all the mistakes:
I looked for the board and listened at music.
Answer: I looked at the board and listened to music.
400
Which happened first?
A) 1997
B) 2004
C) 1983
D) 2019
Answer: 1983
400
Find and correct all three mistakes.
Yesterday I have to clean my room. Then I listened music and traveled London.
Answer: Yesterday I had to clean my room. I listened to music. I traveled to London.
500
Compare the past and today using three complete sentences.
Possible answer:
People traveled by train more often.
Today people travel by plane.
People didn’t use smartphones.
500
Complete the story:
Yesterday, Jake _____ wake up early because he _____ go to the dentist. Today, he _____ finish his homework.
Answer: had to, had to, has to.
500
Write one sentence using three different verb+preposition combinations.
think/talk + about, go/listen/travel + to, look + at, look/wait + for
500
Make a timeline using these years: 1995, 2000, 2010, 2025. Describe each event with one sentence.
In 1995...
In 2000...
In 2010...
In 2025...
500
Create a short story (4 to 5 sentences) using:
- a year
- had to
- travel to
- look at
- something from life in the past
Sample answer:
In 1995 my family traveled to Mexico. We had to drive for many hours. We looked at old buildings and museums. People didn’t have smartphones, so we used maps instead.