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Verb Review 1 (Present/Past)
Using a fill-in-the-blank format learners explore the use of present/past/future verbs. This 41-question activity upper elementary and older students in an ESL class would get a good background in the use of verbs.
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Using the Proper Tense
In this grammar activity, students fill in the blank using the correct tense. Students are given 24 sentences to practice the skill.
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Verb Tenses: Present, Past, and Future
In these verb tenses worksheets, students complete three pages of activities that help them understand and use the present, past, and future verb tenses correctly.
Film English
Serial Taxi
Explore the murder mystery genre through film, discussion, and writing. The plan features several activities centered around a two-minute video that include collaboration, writing, and prediction. After the lesson, individuals write...
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Looking Into the Future- Verb Tenses
In this verb tense worksheet set, students complete 6 pages of activities associated with the use of future tense verbs. They use the perfect future, mixed future, and future perfect simple tenses as they complete charts, conversations,...
Nosapo
Days of the Week
What do you usually do on Saturdays? What will you do on Thursday? Class members practice the simple future tense and the days of the week with a series of activities and questions. They then share their answers with a partner.
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Irregular Verbs
In this irregular verbs worksheet, students put irregular verbs in the past tense, the future tense, and in the blanks of sentences. Students complete 2 activities.
Oxford University Press
Language Focus: Present Continuous, Imperatives
What will your class do in the future? What won't they do? Practice the present continuous form for future arrangements (or future progressive tense) with several fill-in-the-blanks and sentence reordering activities.
Pearson
Future Time Clauses
What will you do when you grow up? What are you going to do after school is over? Learn about future time clauses and how they connect to independent clauses with a helpful grammar presentation.
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Past Tense
Young scholars 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, young scholars rewrite the verbs in the...
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ESL Weekly Activity Grid
In this ESL weekly activity grid worksheet, students fill in their usual morning, afternoon, and night weekly activities. They can also use the grid to write what will happen in the future by filling in the grid using words that are in...
IPA Productions
A Christmas Carol - The Story
Thirty-six pages familiarize scholars with the story and vocabulary of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. After reading and listening to an abbreviated version of the holiday tale learners show what they know about the sequence...
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A Past Thing Past Tense Verbs
In this past tense verbs worksheet, students read about and discuss past tense verbs and underline the past tense verb in 6 sentences looking for the clue letters -ed.
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The Past Tense
In this past tense worksheet, students change the verbs in parentheses from present to past tense, underline the regular and irregular past simple tense verbs in 8 sentences and then sort them into the correct boxes.
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Going to or Will? Exercise
In this verb activity worksheet, students read the dialogue examples and fill in the gaps with the verb in brackets using going to or will in the future tense. Students complete 15 exercises.
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Completing Conversations: Future Tense
In this future tense worksheet, students complete short conversations, using phrases given at the top of the page; conversations focus on the future tense. Appropriate for ELL, but not exclusive.
University of North Carolina
Conditionals: Verb Tense in “If” Clauses
"If you give a mouse a cookie, then he's going to ask for a glass of milk." These iconic words from Laura Numeroff's classic tale offer a great example of conditionals, a topic covered in the handout as part of a larger writing series...
Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin
Lesson 12 - Ed Suffix with Unchanging Base Words
Understanding different verb tenses begins with knowing how to decode words. A lesson on the -ed suffix with unchanging base words introduces readers to the past tense. Teachers present the skill with oral reading and spelling...
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Mastering Verbs
Second graders will master verbs. In this language arts lesson students will spend extra time working with verbs, and mastering the past, present, and future tenses of commonly used verbs. The students will engage in several activities...
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Teacher Kit Unit 1
Nine lessons makeup a unit designed to reinforce grammar and vocabulary through practice pages based on readings of African folktales. Each lesson consists of a mini lesson, a vocabulary review, and a instructional activity. Topics...
Pearson
Past Progressive and Simple Past
How do you describe something that was happening in the past? Use a presentation on past progressive tense to assist your class in finding the correct way to tell a story or write a description.
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Expressing a Condition with "If"
Before presenting the material to your classes, review different constructions of the conditional tense. This teacher's guide provides several examples and role-play opportunities with your class. Dialogue to build familiarity with the...
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Permanent/Temporary: indicating long or short term activity
In this permanent or temporary worksheet, students choose the correct verb tense for the words in the sentences about doing something temporary or long term. Students complete 6 sentences.
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Feelings
Students complete grammar and story writing activities with a theme of feelings. In this grammar and writing lesson, students discuss feelings and complete grammar revision for the future tense of verbs. Students read a story and then...