Instagram Vacation Stories | Past Simple

Instagram Vacation Stories | Past Simple is a grammar activity designed for students to practise the past simple tense while talking about exciting vacation experiences. Each slide presents a collage of photos from a travel destination, providing visual prompts that make speaking practice engaging and relatable.

How to Use

1. Display each slide with the travel destination collage.
2. Provide the speaking prompts to guide students in forming sentences using the past simple tense.
   • Example prompts: Where did you go? What did you do? Who did you meet?
3. Students describe the travel experiences using the pictures as inspiration, forming full past simple sentences.
4. Encourage students to:
   • Talk in pairs, small groups, or as a whole class,
   • Include as many details as possible from the collages,
   • Ask and answer questions to practice conversational skills.
5. Optionally, students can create their own “Instagram Vacation Stories” to extend the activity and personalise their speaking practice.