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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.
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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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Past Tense Activities - Regular Verbs
Here is a supplemental lesson plan regarding past tense verbs for English language learners that is a great tool for the classroom when you are teaching grammar exercises.
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ESL: Practice Using Present Progressive Tense
Small, cartoonish pictures of people expressing emotions and actions (blowing his nose, holding her head and frowning, dancing, smiling) provide the basis for writers to describe the feelings and experiences taking place. Help your ESL...
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ESL: Intermediate Grammar 3
In this intermediate ESL grammar worksheet, students type the correct tense of a given verb in a sentence, shown in parentheses. Students may click on a check answer an show answer button.
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Talking About the Future
Students investigate how to communicate about the future using the proper verb tense. For this communication about the future lesson, students talk to a partner about future plans. They fill in an associated chart about the present...
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Mixed-tense Questions
In this mixed-tense questions worksheet, students answer twenty mixed-tense questions with short answers or true and false answers. Students share their responses with their classmates.
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ESL Grammar: Questions & Future Tense
In this English Language grammar worksheet, students complete the several speaking and writing exercises that help them learn how to form and use questions in the future tense.
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ESL Grammar: Present Tense
In these English Language grammar worksheets, students complete several sentence writing activities and speaking exercises that help them identify and use the present tense of verbs.
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Simple Present or Present Continuous?
Mastering verb tense is an important part of building your learners' reading skills. Young grammarians look over ten sentences and use context clues to decide whether they should use the present or present progressive tense.
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ESL Present Perfect Verb Tense Partner Worksheet
In this ESL present perfect verb tense instructional activity, students work with partners to answer questions that are answered using the present perfect verb tense. They answer 8 questions about what they ate, where they traveled, and...
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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 Matching Present Continuous Verb Worksheet
In this ESL present continuous verb matching activity, students match 8 verbs to the pictures that best express their meaning.
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ESL: Non-Progressive Verbs
In this ESL non-progressive verbs worksheet, students read examples, then complete multiple choice questions, selecting correct sentences and determining correct simple and present progressive tense activities.
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Using Modal Verbs to Problem Solve - Discussing a Difficult Situation
Students focus on the use of modal verbs of probability and advice in the past tense while discussing and solving a difficult problem.
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Form Questions in Simple Present Tense
In this simple present tense worksheet, students use words and phrases given to questions in simple present tense. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Professions in My Village
Students construct oral sentences including what they did "before" and "after" the tsunami. In this ESL vocabulary development and verb tense practice activity, students orally state what is illustrated on a flash card using proper verb...
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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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It’s 12.00 O’clock!
Learners draw a picture of themselves and label specifically where they are and what they are doing. In this language arts lesson, students respond to the questions, "Where are you?" and "What are you doing?" Learners ask and answer the...
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Live And Let Die?
In this live and let die worksheet, students, with a partner, complete a verb tense table on the verb die, fill in nine sentences with nine phrases associated with death and discuss ten questions dealing with suicide and crimes.
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Upper-Intermediate English Grammar Review # 3
DUPLICATE learners complete grammar worksheet.
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Present Continuous TB1B
In this ESL questions and answers instructional activity, students analyze 7 pictures that depict people in action. Students write a statement that answers the question, "What are they doing?"
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Present Continuous
In this ESL verb tenses instructional activity, students analyze 7 pictures of people engaged in different activities. Using the present continuous verb tense, students write a sentence on the line that tells what the person is doing in...
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Subject and Object Questions
Students gain practice asking direct questions. They recognize the difference between subject and object questions. After a lecture/demo, students work in small groups and use a worksheet imbedded in this plan to gain practice.