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Verb Tenses
In this verb tense learning exercise, students study the usage of past, present, and future tense in English. Students complete 4 short answer questions using the correct tense in the written responses.
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Use(d) To
In this past tense ESL worksheet, students will focus on the terminology of "used to." Students will sort 10 sentences into three groups according to their past tense form.
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Past Tense
Learners explore the function of verbs when considering tense. They transform a text from future to past tense. Students read a story and discover it is written in past tense. In groups, learners rewrite the verbs in the text to...
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The Preterite
Students practice one of the past tenses in Spanish called the preterite after the teacher presents the provided Power Point presentation.
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Information and Communication Technology
Students use correct English to give an oral report on the pyramids of Egypt. They focus on correctly using the past tense to describe history.
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Narrating in Simple Past with Video
Students practice in constructing simple past tense forms and checking for subject verb agreement.
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Using Modal Verbs to Problem Solve - Discussing a Difficult Situation
Students focus on the use of modal verbs of probability and advice in the past tense while discussing and solving a difficult problem.
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English Pool of Exercies
For this ESL worksheet, students focus on the past perfect progressive tense. Students use the given words to complete 10 questions and self check their own work on this interactive website.
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Exercise on Simple Past
In this English grammar worksheet, students focus on using the simple past tense. Students complete 11 fill in the blank questions and self check on this interactive web page.
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Past Tense 2
For this verb tense worksheet, students read the sentences and complete them with a verb in the past tense form. Students complete 10 exercises.
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Past Tense
Students complete an online grammar activity using the past tense form of the verbs. For this grammar quiz lesson, students read through the paragraphs and complete them using the past tense of the verbs in parenthesis.
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Present Perfect/Past Tense
In this grammar quiz worksheet, students read the sentences and select the present perfect or past tense form of the verb to complete the exercises. Students complete an online grammar quiz using present perfect or past tense form of...
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Conjugate a Verb Today!
In this conjugating verbs worksheet, students are given definitions for the infinitive, gerund, and past participle forms. Present, past, and future tenses are also identified and defined.
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Past or Present Perfect
In this grammar instructional activity, students read the sentences and then write past or present perfect on the line to show the correct verb tense.
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Fly-by-Night News
In this verb usage worksheet, students circle each verb in the sentence and write the past tense form of the verb on each line.
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Speaking Practice
In this conversations worksheet, students finish conversations by writing appropriate questions or answers. This is intended to be a partner activity.
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Past Tense Worksheet
In this ESL past tense verb worksheet, students read 10 sentences and using the verb in parentheses, fill the blank with either the past continuous, past perfect simple, or past perfect continuous.
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Understand Dictionary Entries-Verbs
In this language arts worksheet, learners look for the correct guidance for how an entry is found in a foreign language dictionary. They use the root and suffixes through breaking the word apart using the graphic organizer.
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Simple past with was/were
In this grammar learning exercise, students work in teams of 2-5 players to complete questions on the learning exercise. After having the questions checked for correct tense students can quiz the other teams.
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Simple Past and Present Progressive
Learners review the past and progressive verb tenses. Working in pairs, students identify the past and progressive tenses in their biographical writing. After picking a card, learners act out a verb in either the past or progressive tense.
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Quel temps fait -il?
Students converse about the weather in French focusing on the conjugation of the verb "faire". They identify types of weather using French vocabulary while viewing a weather video then complete a set of four practice activities.
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Guide to Grammar and Writing: A Quiz in Identifying Tenses
In this 10 question quiz, students match names of English tenses in one column with sentences that contain those verb tenses (written in all capital letters) in another column by typing the number of the sentence in the boxes provided.
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Many Things for Esl Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of the well-known Interesting Things for ESL site (the authors are professors teaching in Japan). The Japanese site has many of the same features as the English Only version in fact, it usually goes to the...
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Language Guide: El Pasado, El Futuro, El Condicional
The past tense, the future tense and the conditional tense are modeled and explained with links to interactive practice activities where students can see and hear the verb conjugations.