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Better English Lessons: What Does the -ed Sound Like?
In this online interactive English skills activity, students respond to 20 multiple choice questions that require them to select the appropriate sounds made by the -ed in the noted words. Answers are scored immediately.
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Avoir, Être, et Le Passé Composé
The instructional activity begins with direct instruction: how and when do we use avoir and être to form the past tense? After identifying the verbs that use either avoir or être, French learners write about five things they did the week...
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Irregular Verbs Group 7
Give your class practice with nine not-the-most-basic irregular English verbs with this plain, but handy, worksheet. They write the past tense form of nine verbs next to the present tense form, then they use each verb to fill in the...
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Sentence Building 4
In this grammar worksheet, students will build 6 sentences using the following format: article, adjective, occupation, verb (past simple), adverb, preposition, article, room.
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Modal Auxiliaries
Forming polite instructions, giving instructions, and expressing advice can be made a little easier using this grammar-related presentation. First, learners review using an auxiliary and simple verb to form sentences. Then, they focus on...
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Irregular Verbs
Divided into two 10-question exercises, this worksheet provides practice with irregular verbs in the simple past tense. Ten present-tense, monosyllabic verbs are given in a word bank; learners write the past tense form in a blank in each...
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English in Mind Unit 6: Grammar Practice
In this English grammar worksheet, learners practice the past simple verb form and time expressions. Students complete thirty five fill in the blank questions.
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Past Simple Irregular Verb Crossword
In this grammar crossword learning exercise, students read 24 clues which are sentences with missing irregular verbs. Students fit the answers into the puzzle. Note: A confusing clue for U.S. students would be " I ----- ten Pounds in the...
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Time Signifiers - Past or Present Perfect?
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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Quiz 3A: Using -ed
For this grammar worksheet on tense, students complete a set of 10 sentences, filling in the correct form of the verb [simple present or simple past].
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Past Perfect Simple
In this past perfect simple activity, students complete a ten question online interactive quiz. Students use the provided words to form questions in past perfect simple tense.
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Simple Past: Negatives
In this online/interactive past tense negative verbs worksheet, students read sentences with present tense verbs, change the verbs to negative past tenses, check, show a letter, and show answers. Students write 5 answers.
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Simple Past Tense: "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
For this simple present tense worksheet, students use fill in blanks in the story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" with simple past tense verbs. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Verbs in Simple Past Tense "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
In this simple past tense worksheet, learners fill in blanks with simple past verbs to complete sentences about "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Past Perfect Simple-Positive Sentences
In this past perfect simple tense worksheet, students use words and phrases given to form positive sentences in the tense. Answers may be submitted online for review. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Past Perfect Simple Sentences
In this past perfect simple tense activity, students use words and phrases given to form positive sentences in the tense. Answers may be submitted online for review. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Past Perfect Simple Negative Sentences
In this past perfect simple worksheet, students use words and phrases given to form negative sentences. Answers may be submitted online for review. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Past Perfect Simple-Negative Sentences
In this past perfect simple tense worksheet, students use words and phrases given to form negative sentences in the tense. Answers may be submitted online for review. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Simple Past Tense Verbs
In this verb worksheet, learners complete sentences by filling in correct simple past tense forms of verbs given. Answers may be checked online.
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Present Perfect/Past Tense
For 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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Error Correction: Present Perfect and Past Simple
In this verb tense worksheet, students read 10 sentences that may contain errors. Students correct the sentences that are wrong. This is intended for ESL students.
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ESL Simple Past Tense of the Verb To Be- Fill-In-The-Blank Worksheet
In this ESL simple past of the verb, to be, worksheet, students look at 8 small clip art pictures. They write a sentence that describes the picture using the simple past of the verb to be.
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ESL Simple Past Verb Tense- Yes/No Questions
In this ESL simple past tense verb instructional activity, learners look at 8 pictures before they answer the yes/no questions. They use the simple past tense of the verbs.
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Song Lessons: The Past Progressive
Learners examine the past progressive verb form using song lyrics. In this past progressive verbs lesson, students listen to "Jealous Guy" by John Lennon, paying close attention to the simple past and past progressive verbs in the song....