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Grammar Lesson Plan: Simple Past vs. Present Perfect
What's the difference between the present perfect and simple past? Have your class practice identifying and using both of these verb tenses through pair activities, whole-class discussion, and a worksheet.
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Verb Tense Review: the Importance of Time
When you ask a fourth grader to write a sentence in the past perfect progressive tense, there might be some confusion. But with a presentation that features several different verb tenses, along with examples and a handy timeline, your...
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ESL: Simple Past Tense and Questions
In this ESL simple past tense and questions worksheet, students read a set of questions in the past tense and write the positive and negative sentence answers.
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ESL Simple Past Verb Tense- Yes/No Questions
In this ESL simple past tense verb worksheet, students look at 8 pictures before they answer the yes/no questions. They use the simple past tense of the verbs.
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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: Regular and Irregular Verbs
For this ESL verb tense worksheet, students type the correct form of a given verb in boxes to correctly complete a paragraph. Students may click on button for help and immediate feedback.
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Test on Simple Past Tense
In this simple past tense learning exercise, students write the past tense forms of irregular verbs, complete tables and sentences in simple past and fill in blanks using 'was' or 'were.' Answers may be submitted online. ESL appropriate...
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Simple Past or Past Continuous- A Dialog
In this verbs worksheet, students complete a 20 question on-line interactive exercise about simple past or past continuous verb forms. The worksheet is in the form of a dialog.
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ESL-Simple Past and Progressive Review
In this ESL tense worksheet, students write the past tense of a set of present tense phrases, then do the same for a set of positive to negative phrases.
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Past Simple
In this past simple verb tenses worksheet, students read six sentences and then complete the other two sentences requested in each set of sentences. Students fill in either the positive, negative or question form of each of the six past...
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Simple Past Or Past Continuous?
In this simple past or past continuous worksheet, students choose which verb tense, simple past or past continuous, that completes ten sentences grammatically correct.
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Past Tense Activities - Irregular Verbs: Part 1
As part of a series of resources designed for English learners, a language arts lesson prompts kid engage in activities and exercises that focus on the past tense of irregular verbs.
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ESL: Verb Tense Activity
For this ESL verb tense worksheet, students fill in blanks in sentences using the correct form of a verb shown in brackets., 10 sentences total.
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Simple Past Tense: "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
In 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, students 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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ESL-Past Simple Tense
In this ESL past simple tense worksheet, students complete sentences with past simple tense verbs and complete a word search. A link to audio and additional resources is given.
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ESL: Verb Activity-Past Simple Tense
In this ESL verb tense worksheet, students put given verbs into past simple tense and choose correct forms of verbs. A link to audio and additional resources are given.
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ESL: Simple Past Irregular Verbs
For this simple past-irregular verbs worksheet, students find the past tense of given words in a words search puzzle, then write verbs to match pictures and fill in blanks, telling what they did yesterday.
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ESL-Past Simple Tense
In this ESL past simple tense worksheet, students rite the past simple of given verbs, complete sentences with correct past simple forms and complete a word search.
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ESL: Past Simple Tense
In this ESL past simple tense activity, learners watch a video of "The Tortoise and the Hare," then fill in blanks in sentences about the video, using past simple tense.
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ESL: Past Perfect and Past Simple Tense
In this ESL past simple/past perfect worksheet, students fill in the correct form of verbs given in parenthesis. A link to audio and HTML code is given.
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Exercise on Simple Past
In this English grammar worksheet, students focus on using the simple past tense. Students complete 11 fill in the blank questions and self check on this interactive web page.
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Simple Past-Positive Sentences #2
In this simple past tense worksheet, students use words and phrases given to form positive sentences in the given tense. Answers may be submitted online for review. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Past Tense Activities - Irregular Verbs
"What did you do yesterday?" Language learners engage in carefully scaffolded activities that review past tense regular verbs, that introduce new vocabulary words, and that permit practice of using the past tense of irregular verbs.