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Past Continuous vs. Simple Past
What were you doing a minute ago? What about last year? Learners read a set of 10 sentences and fill in each blank with a simple past or past continuous verb listed in parentheses.
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What's Going On? -- Present Progressive in Photos
Magazine photos of people in action provide opportunities for beginning and intermediate English learners to employ the present progressive (continuous) verb tense. Partners describe what people are doing and share their sentences with...
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Letters Home
When you're writing historical fiction, the past really can become the present — especially if you're writing in the present continuous tense! Cover World War I, verb tenses, censorship, and letter writing with one informative...
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Past Perfect
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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Simple Past and Present Progressive
Students 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, students act out a verb in either the past or progressive tense.
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Verb Tense Review
In this verb tense review instructional activity, students practice usage of simple present, present progressive, simple past, past progressive, present perfect, present perfect progressive, and simple future tenses. Students answer...
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Verb Review 1: Past Progressive/Past Tense
In this verb tense worksheet, students fill in blanks with the correct form of given verbs, either past tense or past progressive tense. Worksheet consists of 5 short review paragraphs to complete.
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The Present Tense- Present Perfect
In this present perfect verb tense worksheet, students study the proper use of the verb tense by reading the explanation and examples on the first page. They apply the rules while completing 10 sentences and writing 4. They complete 14...
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Using the verb "To be" Exercise
In this verb tenses worksheet, students complete each sentence by using the correct form of the verb "to be." Students are instructed to use the present progressive tense in each of the 10 sentences.
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Past Simple or Progressive
Students complete an online grammar quiz using the past simple or progressive forms of verbs. In this grammar quiz instructional activity, students read the sentences and complete them using the past simple forms or progressive forms...
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Past Simple or Past Progressive
Students complete an online grammar quiz for past progressive form or past progressive. In this grammar quiz lesson, students read the example sentences and use the past simple or past progressive form of the verbs to complete each...
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Present Simple or Progressive Form 6
In this online grammar worksheet, students read the sentences and complete them with a verb in the present simple or present progressive forms. Students complete 15 exercises.
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Past Simple or Past Progressive
In this online grammar worksheet, students read the sentences and complete them with a verb in past simple or past progressive form. Students complete 15 online exercises.
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Present Perfect or Simple Progressive
In this present perfect/simple progressive activity, students choose the correct verb form to use in each sentence. Students fill in the blanks on this interactive activity and check their mistakes.
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Past Simple or Past Progressive 2
In this online grammar worksheet, students read the sentences and complete them by putting the verb in simple past or past progressive form. Students complete 15 exercises.
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Present Simple or Progressive 7
In this online grammar worksheet, students read the sentences and complete them with verbs in the present simple or present progressive form. Students complete 15 exercises.
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Quiz: Verb Practice
In this verb worksheet, students complete sentences using the simple present, simple past or present progressive tense of give verbs. Students are given 3 examples.
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The Present Tense: Simple and Progressive
In this present tense instructional activity, students put the base words into the correct categories according to the s or es for the third person singular present tense of the word. Students complete this for 30 words, correct...
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Present Perfect Tense
In this interactive grammar worksheet, students select the word from each drop down menu that completes each of the eight sentences. This worksheet focuses on using the present perfect progressive or nonprogressive tense.
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Present Tense Verbs
In this recognizing present tense verb usage worksheet, students complete sentences using the verbs in the word bank, applying context clues, and writing them in the correct form. Students write 12 answers.
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Past Perfect Tense
In this grammar worksheet, students complete 16 sentences by filling in the blanks using past perfect tense. For example, "The zoo (just finished) renovating when we visited last August."
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Verb Tense Review
In this verb tense review worksheet, students fill in the blanks with the correct verb forms to meet the stated criteria. Students focus on simple present, present progressive, simple past, past progressive, present perfect, present...
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Verb Tense Review
In this verb tense review worksheet, students respond to 32 questions that require them to fill in the blanks using verbs with the appropriate tenses.
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Verb Tense Review
For this verb tense review worksheet, students respond to 32 fill in the blank questions that require them to review the simple present tense.