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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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Verbs: Regular, Irregular, Simple Past Tense
Adding -ed to the ends of most verbs can change a sentence to the past tense—but what about verbs like think or draw? Provide class members with practice activities that focus on both regular and irregular verbs in the simple past tense.
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Big Grammar Book
With this comprehensive language arts resource in your arsenal, you'll never have to look for another grammar activity! Whether you're teaching kindergartners how to write the upper- and lower-case letters of the alphabet, or helping...
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Quiz 9: Simple Past vs. Past Progressive
In this grammar worksheet, students complete the sentences by changing the word in the parenthesis to the past progressive or the simple past tense. There are 10 sentences to complete on this worksheet.
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Past Simple v. Past Perfect Simple
Help English learners tell the difference between the past tense and the past perfect tense with a grammar instructional activity. As kids read twelve sentences, they change the given verbs to the correct tense based on context clues.
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Past, Present, and Future Tense Verbs
A short and straightforward worksheet is the perfect addition to your grammar unit on verb tense. Twelve sentences prompt young readers to choose whether the verb is written in the past, present, or future simple tenses, and to write the...
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Verb Tense Exercise 6
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 15 fill in the blank questions regarding simple past and present perfect verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Past Versus Present Perfect
Using this 15 question activity learners practice using the past and present perfect forms of verbs. This would be a great learning exercise for use with students in both upper elementary and older grades.
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Past Tense 4
For this online grammar worksheet, learners read the sentences in present tense followed by sentences in past tense in which the verb is omitted. Students write the verb in the past tense to complete 14 exercises.
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Verb Tense Exercise 11
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 12 fill in the blank questions regarding simple past and past perfect verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Song Lessons: The Past Progressive
Students examine the past progressive verb form using song lyrics. In this past progressive verbs lesson, students listen to "Jealous Guy" by John Lennon, paying close attention to the simple past and past progressive verbs in the song....
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When Can I Use 'When'? (Past and Future Tenses) - Test Your Grammar Skills
In this grammar skills worksheet, learners 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 sentences...
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Troubling Tenses – Past Simple vs. ‘going to’ 2
In this grammar skills worksheet, learners will complete 15 sentences in the past simple tense or containing the phrase "going to" by using either "yesterday" or "tomorrow".
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Learning Verbs 1
In this grammar activity, 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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Past versus Present Perfect
In this past and present perfect review worksheet, students fill in the 20 blanks in 15 questions with the appropriate forms of the verbs listed in parentheses.
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Alfie's Bad Week - Past Simple Verbs
In this ELL grammar activity, students work with the past simple negative verb forms. They rewrite a to do list using the new verbs and compare the lists verbally with a partner. They complete 8 fill in the blank answers.
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The Past Perfect Continuous Exercise
In this English grammar skills worksheet, students answer 16 fill in the blank questions regarding the use of past perfect continuous verbs.
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Verb Tense Practice Worksheet
Reinforce the indicative, negative and interrogative verb tenses with this straightforward worksheet. Middle schoolers use three parts of a sentence to construct new sentences in each verb tense. A reference section provides exmaples of...
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Parts of Speech
This online multiple choice quiz focuses on upper-level grammar concepts. In addition to covering simple parts of speech such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives, this resource also covers more advanced information, such as transitive vs....
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Present Perfect: Forms
In this present perfect and past participle worksheet, students read examples on how to write subjects into the present perfect and past participle form. Students also read about different verbs in those tenses. Click on "Continue with...
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The Past Perfect Continuous Exercise
In this verb tense worksheet, students read the sentences and fill in the gaps with the verb in brackets using the past perfect continuous or the past perfect simple forms. Students complete 16 exercises.
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Verb Tense Review
In this verb tense review worksheet, students learn about different verb tenses: simple present, present progressive, simple past, past progressive, present perfect, present perfect progressive, and simple future. They answer 32...
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Verbs in Paragraphs
In this grammar instructional activity, students copy down a paragraph changing all the underlined verbs from the simple past to the present.
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Self-Test Quiz: Using Gerunds and Infinitives
In this gerunds and infinitives worksheet, students use the cues given to create the simple past tense and the correct form of the gerund or infinitive.