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ESL: Past Continuous or Simple Past?
In this tense instructional activity, 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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Past Simple, Past Perfect, Past Progressive with a love story
In this past simple, past perfect, and past progressive worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences, rewrite sentences, put verbs in the correct tense, and more. Students complete 4 activities total.
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Talking About the Past
Young scholars explore communications by discussing deceased individuals. In this past tense lesson plan, students analyze which verbs to use when speaking of a person who is no longer living. Young scholars read a story about the race...
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ESL: Continuous and Past Simple
In this ESL verb tense instructional activity, 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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Verbs & Tenses
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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English Exercises: Verb Tenses
In this online interactive English activity, 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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Verb Tense
In this ESL worksheet, students focus on the usage of verb tense. Students complete 28 fill in the blank sentences using the interactive website when finished.
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When Can I Use 'When'? (Past and Future Tenses) - Test Your Grammar Skills
In this grammar skills learning exercise, students use three templates to write sentences that fit each pattern. They write 10 sentences using when plus past continuous verbs, 10 sentences using when for definite future plans, and 10...
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Verbs & Tenses
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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How Sure Are You?
In this grammar worksheet, students will work in small groups to decide if the sentences are grammatically correct or not. Students will wager bets on how sure they are that a sentence is correct and points will be given to the teams.
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Present Perfect Simple or Continuous
Students 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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Past Simple vs. Past Perfect
In this past simple and past perfect learning exercise, students add sentences and put verbs into the correct form. Students complete 2 activities total.
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Verb Practice Worksheet
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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Running on Faith
Students listen to the song, "Running on Faith" by Eric Clapton. They listen for the present perfect verb tense used in the song and then practice writing sentences in this verb tense and others previously studied.
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ESL: Present, Present Simple, Past Simple Tense
In this ESL instructional activity, learners write questions for given statements, and complete a word search of given verbs and a crossword puzzle. A link to audio and additional resources is given.
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Then and Now
Students explain the differences and time relationships between the past simple, present perfect (continuous) and present simple tenses when speaking about the past and present. They use a graphic organizer before speaking.
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Information and Communication Technology
Students use correct English to give an oral report on the pyramids of Egypt. They focus on correctly using the past tense to describe history.
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Conjugate a Verb Today! (negative – example)
In this grammar worksheet, students will read examples of how to conjugate a verb in a negative sentence in the past, present, and future tense.
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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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Add Me!
In this present tense worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences and write the name of the tense that the sentence is in. Students complete 35 questions total.
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Permanent/Temporary: indicating long or short term activity
For 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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English Exercises: Verbs
In this online interactive English worksheet, students respond to 12 fill in the blank questions that require them to select appropriate verbs to finish each of the sentences. Students may submit their...
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Conjugate a Verb
For this verb conjugation worksheet, students follow the steps to help them conjugate a verb. Students conjugate by finding the present, past, and future tense of the verbs.
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-ed word accuracy
First graders read past tense words. In this word accuracy lesson, 1st graders view index cards containing words ending in -ed. Students practice saying the given words in the past and present tense.