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Present Perfect or Simple Past?

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this interactive grammar activity, learners complete each of the ten sentences with the correct form of the verbs in the parenthesis. Students have a choice to use the present perfect or simple past form.
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Past Versus Present Perfect

For Students 4th - Higher Ed
Using this 15 question activity learners practice using the past and present perfect forms of verbs. This would be a great worksheet for use with students in both upper elementary and older grades.
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The Past Simple or The Present Perfect Exercise

For Students 4th - 5th
In this past simple and past perfect worksheet, students fill in a chart and fill in the blanks to sentences with past simple and present perfect words. Students complete 10 spaces for the chart and 14 sentences.
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Past Tense Worksheet

For Students 5th - 6th
For 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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The Past Perfect Continuous Exercise

For Students 8th - 9th
In this verb tense worksheet, students read the sentences and fill in the gaps with the verb in brackets using the past perfect continuous or the past perfect simple forms. Students complete 16 exercises.
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Present Perfect – Have You Ever?

For Students 5th - 8th
Designed for an English language development class, this worksheet is more like a treasure hunt. Learners walk around the room looking for others who have done a certain thing, like ride a horse. They use these prompts to practice asking...
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ESL Writing Questions Using Present Perfect Verb Tense Followed by the Past Simple Form

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
In this ESL verb tense worksheet, students use 20 nouns that are given on the sheet to write questions that include the present perfect tense of a verb, and follow that up with a question using the past simple verb form.
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Past Simple Form "Yes/No" Questions

For Students 7th - 8th
In this past simple verbs worksheet, students create twenty different yes or no questions, using given words, in the simple past form.
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Learning Verbs 1

For Students 6th - 12th
In this grammar worksheet, students complete a table of plural and singular verb tenses for the following verbs: be, go, do, have, see, and eat. The verb tenses to be filled in include: present simple, past simple, present continuous,...
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Comparisons of the Past Simple and Present Perfect Verb Tenses

For Teachers 8th - 11th
In this past simple and present perfect verb tense worksheet, students study two tables that show the proper use of the verb tenses. They complete 7 sentences by putting the verbs in brackets into the correct verb tense.
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Verb Tense Exercise 11

For Students 5th - 10th
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 12 fill in the blank questions regarding simple past and past perfect verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Talking About the Past

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore communications by discussing deceased individuals. For this past tense lesson, students analyze which verbs to use when speaking of a person who is no longer living. Students read a story about the race car driver...
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Present Perfect & Past Simple

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this present perfect and past simple activity, learners complete sentences by filling in the blanks with the past simple or present perfect tense of the verbs. Students complete 10 problems.
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Present Perfect Grammar

For Students 5th - 6th
In this verb tenses worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 12 sentences with either the simple past or the present perfect of the verb in parentheses. Students then correct verb tense errors in 25 sentences.
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Simple Past vs. Present Perfect

For Students 6th - 8th
In this verb tense worksheet, students read 4 sentences and then discuss with a partner the differences between the sentences. There are 8 groups of sentences to discuss.
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Present Perfect Verb Tense- Class Data Collection Activity

For Students 4th - 8th
For this verb tense and data collection worksheet, learners find out about the life experiences of their classmates. They ask questions using the present perfect tense and the suggestions in a chart on the page. They record the...
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English Exercises: Present Perfect Tenses

For Students 3rd - 7th
In this online interactive English skills worksheet, students respond to 45 fill in the blank and multiple choice questions about verb tenses. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Verbs & Tenses

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students in an ESL classroom practice using verbs and the correct tense. In teams, they work together to make a sentence using the same verb and tense clue word. They read their sentences aloud and gain points on the correctness of it.
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ESL: Past/Present Simple Tense

For Students 4th - 5th
In this past simple/present simple worksheet, learners fill in blanks in sentences with the appropriate verb form, choosing from a drop down list.
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Present Perfect/Past Tense

For Teachers 5th - 7th
In this grammar quiz worksheet, learners 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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English Exercises: Verb Tenses

For Students 5th - 10th
For this online interactive English worksheet, students respond to 11 fill in the blank questions that require them to use parts of speech appropriately. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Verbs & Tenses

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students illustrate known tenses with tense clue words. They select a range of verbs. Teachers divide the class into teams. The idea is for each team to make the longest and perfectly constructed sentence. Words and scores are tallied on...
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Verb Phrases

For Students 4th - 6th
This worksheet tackles the topic of verb phrases by providing an explanation of a verb phrase followed by several examples of verb phrases and their meanings. Students complete fill in the blank sentences with the correct verb phrase.
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The Present Perfect Tense and the Simple Past Tense

For Students 6th - 8th
In this present perfect tense and simple past tense worksheet, students identify the differences between the present perfect tense and the simple past tense.