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Past Perfect

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers read fifteen sentences and complete them with the verb in past simple, past progressive, or past perfect simple. They complete an online grammar activity practicing verb tenses.
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Interactive
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Past Perfect--Questions

For Teachers 3rd
In this grammar worksheet, 3rd graders click on the correct statements that affirm the scenarios given. This is an interactive worksheet that focuses on the past perfect tense. There are ten questions.
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Grammar Lesson Plan: Simple Past vs. Present Perfect

For Teachers 4th - 10th
What's the difference between the present perfect and simple past? Have your class practice identifying and using both of these verb tenses through pair activities, whole-class discussion, and a worksheet.
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Interactive
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Present Perfect or Past Simple Tense?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Does the sentence require the present perfect or the past simple tense? Meant to be an online resource, you could easily print this to complete in the classroom. Learners fill in each blank with the correct tense. Ten questions are listed. 
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The Present Perfect Tense and the Prepositions "For" and "Since"

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this present perfect grammar worksheet, students complete 10 sentences using "for" or "since." There is instruction provided on this page.
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'fat Man' Finishes Walk Across U.S.

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students read and discuss an article about an overweight American man trying to lose weight by walking across the country. They complete vocabulary exercises, take a comprehension quiz and explore the uses of the past perfect verb tense.
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Talking About the Past

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders practice using the simple past and the present perfect. They use a timeline and practice using them. They fill out a worksheet and review it as a class.
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Present Perfect/Past Tense

For Teachers 5th - 7th
For 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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Azar Grammar

Song Lessons: I Wanna Be Like You

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy's swing rendition of Robert and Richard Sherman's "I Wanna Be Like You" offers young grammarians an opportunity to examine verb tenses, noun clauses, gerunds, and prepositions.
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Thanksgiving Lesson

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Practice using proper verb tenses in the spirit of Thanksgiving! Learners are given holiday photographs as prompts to create oral and written sentences in a targeted verb tense.
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Verb Tense Practice Worksheet

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
Reinforce the indicative, negative and interrogative verb tenses with this straightforward worksheet. Middle schoolers use three parts of a sentence to construct new sentences in each verb tense. A reference section provides exmaples of...
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Time Signifiers - Past or Present Perfect?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars refine their usage of past simple or present perfect. After a lecture/demo, students work in pairs and utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to help them gain practice with time signifiers.
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Sentence Auctions

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students proofread sentence to determine which are grammatically correct and which contain errors. They bid on grammatically correct sentences and try to buy as many possible. Points are awarded for purchased sentences that contain no...
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Present Perfect Simple or Continuous

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students discuss and analyze the differences between the present perfect simple and present perfect continuous forms from a clear context and develop the skill of noticing word stress, weak forms of auxiliaries.
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Reported Speech 1

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this reported speech worksheet, students review and discuss five key directives to choosing the grammatically correct verb in ten sentences.
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Reported Speech 2

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this reported speech worksheet, students review and determine the grammatically correct verb for ten sentences involving different voice tenses.
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Russian Poisoning

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students read a newspaper article about Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian KGB officer who was mysteriously poisoned in 2006. They discuss and define vocabulary words, complete comprehension worksheets and analyze the grammar and...
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Government and Community Resources

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Learners explore how to communicate using past tense and present perfect tense verbs. They discuss words related to postal activities and the procedures to follow when mailing letters and packages, registering mail, and buying money orders.
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Fun With Formatting

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students investigate the concept of using a word processing program with the intention of improving formatting skills like centering text. They also highlight different text sections and demonstrate how to save changes made to a document...
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Listening for Meaning: Same Sound

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students listen to a taped conversation to help them learn the meaning of the contraction "d" with the words "had" and "would".