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Beginning Daily Activities Unit
Begin each day with a warm-up that has ELLs focusing their minds on a skill that will be taught that day. Focusing on verbs, each daily lesson reinforces study and self-management skills, helps learners become proficient in working with...
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Auxiliary Verbs
What is an auxiliary verb? Is that the same thing as a modal verb? Use this reference guide to explain each verb type to your emerging grammarians. While it is intended for native English speakers, you could use it with English language...
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Present Perfect Simple or Continuous
Pupils 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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English Exercises: Present Simple and Continuous
In this online interactive English worksheet, students respond to 10 fill in the blank questions that require them to use verb tenses appropriately. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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ESL: Continuous and Past Simple
In this ESL verb tense worksheet, students select the verbs that correctly fill in blanks in sentences and put a set of pictures in the correct order.
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Talking About the Future
Students investigate how to communicate about the future using the proper verb tense. In this communication about the future activity, students talk to a partner about future plans. They fill in an associated chart about the present...
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Present Simple or Present Continuous
In this ESL verb forms worksheet, students complete 10 sentences by inserting the correct present simple or present continuous form of each verb given in parentheses.
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Troubling Tenses-- Past Simple Vs. Present Continuous 2
In this language arts worksheet, students learn to differentiate between "yesterday" and "tomorrow" by filling in the blanks in 15 sentences with the correct word.
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Grammar Games and Activities
Thirty pages of grammar activities? Your young grammarians will be well versed in the parts of speech, basic verb tenses, and much more after completing even a handful of these exercises.
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Structure Practice: The Passive Voice
Use this online interactive worksheet in an ELD class or for younger native speakers. They practice using simple past tense verbs in the passive voice. Many of the constructions are not straightforward, nor often used by early speakers,...
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Integrating Past Continuous
Students recognize the situations in which the use of the past continuous would be beneficial in writing. They focus on the use of the past continuous as a descriptive tense when something important occurred.
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Present Simple or continuous
In this grammar instructional activity, students fill in the blanks of eight sentences with the correct form of the specified verb. This instructional activity is intended to be used with advanced English language learners.
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English Exercises: Past Continuous Verbs
In this online interactive English instructional activity, students respond to 25 multiple choice and fill in the blank questions that require them to use verbs appropriately. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Verb Tenses
In this verb fill in the blank worksheet, students complete a paragraph by adding 18 verbs in the proper form. They write the present perfect or past simple verb in 12 more examples.
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ESL Test-Verb Tense
In this ESL testing worksheet, students fill in blanks with correct present continuous verbs, write sentences correctly, and fill in present simple and past tense verbs.
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Verb Forms And Contractions
In this mixed verb and contraction worksheet, student fill in the blank with the proper verb form the first 16 statements. They insert the proper present perfect or past simple verb in 28 statements and insert the proper contraction in a...
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Using the Proper Tense
In this grammar worksheet, students fill in the blank using the correct tense. Students are given 24 sentences to practice the skill.
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Verb Tenses and Their Uses Exercise
In this recognizing verbs in sentences worksheet, students review the three tenses and verb uses, fill in the blanks with uses and to complete sentences, and correct mistakes in sentences. Students write 19 answers.
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Expressing the Future
In thisfuture tense activity, students read the differences between expressing the future through present simple and present continuous verb forms.
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Present Continuous Tense
In this English grammar activity, students focus on the usage of present tense. Students complete 20 fill in the blank questions using the interactive drop down menu for each.
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Exercises on the Past Tense
In this interactive grammar activity, students complete the 20 sentences by selecting the correct form of the verb from the drop down menu.
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ESL: Past Continuous or Simple Past?
In this tense worksheet, students use a given verb and re-write sentences using its correct form: continuous or simple past. Links to additional resources are given.
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Simple Past or Past Continuous
For this ESL worksheet, students focus on the past tense. Students complete 16 exercises choosing to use either the simple past or past continuous tense and using the interactive key when finished.
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Present Simple vs. Present Continuous
In this ESL verb tenses activity, students examine 7 pictures and the sentences with present simple verbs. Students change the sentence to the present continuous form and choose the correct sentence from 4 choices.