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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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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 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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ESL Blue: Present Tenses
In this online interactive ESL worksheet, students respond to 20 fill in the blank questions regarding the use of present tense verbs. They choose between simple present and present progressive forms. Students may check their answers...
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Mixed Verb Tenses
He was running or he has been running? Young grammarians must examine context clues to determine which verb phrase to use in ten sentences.
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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: Past
The focus of this 38-page packet is on past tense verbs. Packed with games, activities, exercises, and drills that can be adapted to any level, the resource deserves a place in your ESL/ELD curriculum library.
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Irregular Verbs 2
In this recognizing irregular verb forms worksheet, students fill in the blanks for present tense, past tense, or past participle verbs and check their online/interactive answers. Students write 38 answers.
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Stuck in Traffic
In this present tense activity, students read the conversation and fill in the blanks with the correct present tense form of the verb 'to be.'
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Drill For Future Tense: "be" and "going to"
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite seventeen sentences by changing the present tense verbs to future tense primarily with the verbs be and going to.
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Worksheet 9: There Is/Are
This nifty activity has learners identify locations on a map. Once students have identified the location, they use a word bank to fill in the blanks on the worksheet. This activity could be used with elementary children or ESL students.
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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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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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Present Simple Verbs: Letter Gap Fill
In this present simple verbs worksheet, students read a letter to Jackie from Sara and fill in twelve blanks with the appropriate verbs from the word bank that completes each one grammatically correct.
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Beginning Daily Activities Unit
Begin each day with a warm-up that has ELLs focusing their minds on a skill that will be taught that day. Focusing on verbs, each daily lesson reinforces study and self-management skills, helps learners become proficient in working with...
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Test 1 Irregular Verbs
In this language arts worksheet, students read 10 questions and answer them with "yes" followed by the past tense of the verb. Example: Did the farmer feed his pigs? (Yes, the farmer fed his pigs.)
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Verbs & Tenses
Young scholars 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...
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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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Drill - Simple Present and Present Continuous
In this grammar instructional activity, learners rewrite twenty sentences and change the verb tense in each one from simple present to present continuous or visa versa.
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A VIP - Present Perfect Simple and Continuous
Here is an interesting way to teach the present perfect and present perfect continuous. Individuals practice these verb tenses as well as the simple past by asking a partner questions about an imaginary biography. The biography is...
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ESL Present Continuous
In this present continuous worksheet, students learn to form the negative for present continuous verb tense. Students write the negative form for each given example.
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English Exercises: Present Perfect
In this verb tenses activity, students complete a 60 question online interactive quiz about the correct use of the present perfect verb tense.
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Test: Irregular Verbs
In this language arts worksheet, students read 10 questions and answer them using the past tense of the verb. Students then change 10 verbs from present to past or past to present.
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Present Continuous Positive and Negative
In this present continuous verb worksheet, students fill in the blank in ten sentences with the present continuous form of the verb at the end of each sentence in parenthesis.