Teaching With Songs Past Simple Activities With Music Songs Nursery Rhymes Fun Act 6960

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SONG: Killing me softly

SIMPLE PAST Roberta Flack

1. Listen to the song.


2. Complete the song using the verbs in the box
3. Play bingo using the verbs in the past

Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words
killing me softly with his song, killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words, killing me softly with his song

1. I _______ he _________ a good song,


2. I _________ he __________ a style
3. And so I _________ to see him to listen for a while
4. and there he ___________ this young boy, a stranger to my eyes.
Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words
killing me softly with his song, killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words, killing me softly with his song

5. I __________ all flushed with fever, embarrassed by the crowd.


I__________ he _________ my letters
6. and ______________ each one out loud
7. I ___________that he would finish but he just _________ right on.
Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words
killing me softly with his song, killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words, killing me softly with his song

8. He _______ as if he _________ me, in all my dark despair


9. And then he ____________ right through me, as if I wasn’t there.
And he just kept on singing, singing clear and strong.

Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words
killing me softly with his song, killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words, killing me softly with his song

Looked knew sang kept read


prayed felt found was came
heard had sang were saw Wrote
played visited worked drove ate went
spoke drank ran
STUDENTS: 1. Number each box in upper left hand corner from 1 to 25. Use any order you wish!
Everyone’s will be different. 2. Listen to teacher call a number and a verb in the past. Write the
verb in the box with the corresponding number. Use one half box per each game.
TEACHER: You have 1 set of verbs.
The first student to fill in a complete line of 5 spaces wins. Keep going for winner #2, #3, etc. Lines can
be vertical, horizontal or diagonal. Remind students to only write in half box per game.

Looked knew sang kept read


prayed felt found was came
heard had sang were saw
Wrote played visited worked drove
Ate went spoke drank ran
GROUP THE VERBS INTO REGULAR Vs IRREGULAR VERBS

Looked knew sang kept read prayed


felt found was came heard had sang were
saw wrote played visited worked drove ate
went spoke
Strumming mydrank
pain with hisran
fingers, singing my life with his words
killing me softly with his song, killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words, killing me softly with his song
RREGULAR VERBS
IRREGULAR VERBS
1. I ____________ he _________________ a good song

PRESENT PAST he ___________________


2. I _____________ PRESENT a style
PAST
3. And soran
1. Run 1. Visit
I ___________________ to see him toVisited
listen for a while
ANSWER KEY
2.
2.
3. 4. And there he ________________ this young boy,
3.
a stranger to my eyes.
4.
4.
Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words
5. killing me softly with his song, killing me softly with his song
5. me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words, killing
6. SANG
HEARD
6.
5. I __________ all flushed with fever, embarrassed by the crowd
7.
7.HEARD HAD
8. 6. I__________ he _________ my letters
8.
CAME
9. 7. and ______________ each one9.out loud
10. WAS
10.
8. I ___________that he would finish
11.
11.
12.
9. but he just _________ right on.
12.
Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words
13. killing me softly with his song, killing meFELT
softly
13. with his song
Telling my whole life with his words, killing me softly with his song
14.
14.
FELTme, in all my
10. He _______ as if he _________ FOUND
dark despair
15.
15.
READ
16. 11. And then he ____________ right16.
through me, as if I wasn’t
there. And he just kept on singing, singing clear and strong.
17. PRAYED
17.
18. Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words
killing me softly with his song, killing me18.
softly withKEPT
his song
19. Telling my whole life with his words, killing me softly with his song
19.
20.
20.

SANG LOOKED
KNEW

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