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Past Simple or Present Perfect?
In this ESL verb tense worksheet, students read 10 sentences with the verbs omitted. Students insert either a past simple or present perfect verb.
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ESL Writing Questions Using Present Perfect Verb Tense Followed by the Past Simple Form
In this ESL verb tense worksheet, students use 20 nouns that are given on the sheet to write questions that include the present perfect tense of a verb, and follow that up with a question using the past simple verb form.
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ESL: Present Perfect Simple
For this ESL present perfect simple worksheet, students use a drop down list to tell the tense of given words/phrases, then fill in blanks to describe a picture, use verbs in present perfect simple tense.
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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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ESL: Past Simple
In this ESL past simple worksheet, students write the past simple form of given verbs and complete sentences correctly, using the correct past simple tense.
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ESL: Continuous and Past Simple
In this ESL verb tense worksheet, learners select the verbs that correctly fill in blanks in sentences and put a set of pictures in the correct order.
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ESL: Verb Forms-Passive
in this ESL verb form activity, students fill in blanks in a text about Maple Syrup, using the passive simple present or past simple tense of verbs given, identify products make with maple syrup and put steps to making syrup in the...
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ESL Storyboards
In this ESL literacy worksheet, students examine each individual board and then use them to tell and write a story about the events.
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Time Signifiers - Past or Present Perfect?
Learners 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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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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Exercise on Past Perfect Simple
In this past simple perfect tense worksheet, students use words and phrases given to form positive sentences. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Past Simple: Pronunciation of Regulars
In this regular verbs worksheet, students categorize the regular verbs into the correct past tense category for their ending. Students categorize 24 words.
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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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English Exercises: Past Simple
For this ESL worksheet, students complete a 10 question fill in the blank online interactive exercise about the correct use of the past simple verb form.
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Past Simple 2
In this ESL question answering worksheet, students examine 7 picture clues and read the questions next to them. Students answer each question in a complete sentences using a past simple verb form.
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ESL: Past/Present Simple Tense
In this past simple/present simple worksheet, students fill in blanks in sentences with the appropriate verb form, choosing from a drop down list.
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ESL: Irregular Verbs
In this ESL irregular verbs worksheet, learners complete a chart, filling in verbs changing from simple to past tense. A link to audio and additional resources is provided.
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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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Past Tense Worksheet
In this ESL past tense verb activity, students read 10 sentences and using the verb in parentheses, fill the blank with either the past continuous, past perfect simple, or past perfect continuous.
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Verb Phrases
This worksheet tackles the topic of verb phrases by providing an explanation of a verb phrase followed by several examples of verb phrases and their meanings. Students complete fill in the blank sentences with the correct verb phrase.
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Verb Tense
For 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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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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Irregular Verbs Group 7
With a simple fill-in-the blank format, this worksheet provides a quick review of past tense verbs. The format and sentence content seem appropriate for older students.It could be used in an ESL class.
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Integrating Target Structures
Students read short essays on the characteristics of several cities. They discuss these characteristics focusing on the use of the passive and active voice in past tenses.