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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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Past Simple / Past Participle : Irregular verbs
Here is a basic online interactive practice page for 10 common irregular verbs. Learners find the present tense forms in a word search, conjugate them in the past and past participle, and fill in the blanks with the correct past tense...
Pearson
Past Progressive and Simple Past
How do you describe something that was happening in the past? Use a presentation on past progressive tense to assist your class in finding the correct way to tell a story or write a description.
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Verb Forms
Regular and irregular verb forms are outlined in this catchy PowerPoint. After discussing the infinitive, simple present, simple past, past participle, and present participle forms of verbs, your scholars take a quick test that includes...
Oxford University Press
Language Focus: Simple Past Tense, Affirmative and Negative
Find out what people did or didn't do with a grammar learning exercise, which focuses on the past tense of different verbs. After kids use a word bank to complete a paragraph, they use the words did and didn't in several exercises about...
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Simple Past and Past Participle
In this simple past and past participle worksheet, students choose the correct simple past and past participle forms of verbs to complete sentences, and choose the correct simple past and past participle verbs to label pictures. Students...
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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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Exercise on Simple Past
In this simple past tense instructional activity, students write positive sentences using simple past tense and words and phrases given. Answers may be checked online.
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Simple Past Form
In this interactive grammar worksheet, students complete five sentences by using the simple past form. Students also read a dialogue and fill in the missing words in the correct verb form.
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Simple Past Tense: Negatives and Questions
In this simple past tense: negatives and questions worksheet, students read the explanations and examples, then interactively complete 10 exercises using negatives and questions in sentences with immediate online feedback.
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Simple Past: Regular Verbs
In this simple past tense worksheet, students read how to create the simple past tense by using regular verbs. Students click on "Continue with Exercise" at the bottom of the page to see actual worksheet.
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Present Perfect and Simple Past
In this present perfect and simple past activity, students must fill in the blanks with the appropriate verb form. Students are given two choices for each sentence in this interactive activity.
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Expressing Past Time - Part 1
Here is an incredibly-thorough, 99-slide presentation which covers many rules of grammar. The focus is on present and past tenses of verbs, irregular verbs, and how to properly use them. The colorful PowerPoint has dozens of examples for...
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Past Simple & Past Continuous
What is the difference between the simple past tense and the past continuous? Help your pupils master these tenses with the information and six grammar exercises included here.
Pearson
Past Time
How do you talk about things that have already happened? What about things that happened in the past and are still happening? Explore past, past perfect, and past progressive verb tenses in a helpful slideshow presentation.
Pearson
The Simple Past: Yes/No and WH- Questions
Were you in an accident? How did it happen? Pupils practice asking and answering questions with a language arts slideshow presentation. As they work on describing past events to explain a current condition, individuals take a look at the...
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Quiz 6A: Verb Practice
Here is a worksheet that provides practice using English verb forms like the simple present, simple past, and present progressive. Learners fill in the blanks in 10 sentences using the given verb correctly based on context. I'd go over...
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Present Perfect: Present Perfect or Simple Past?
In this online interactive grammar worksheet, students answer 10 multiple choice questions regarding present perfect and simple past verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Simple Past Tense: "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
In this simple present tense worksheet, learners 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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Present Perfect or Past Simple Tense?
Does the sentence require the present perfect or the past simple tense? Meant to be an online resource, you could easily print this to complete in the classroom. Learners fill in each blank with the correct tense. Ten questions are listed.
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Past Tense 5
Which past tense verb to use? Kids can plug-in and complete this online worksheet to practice verb tense. They read the first sentence in order to help them choose the past tense verb that would finish the second sentence. There are 20...
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Past Tense 3
Save paper and use an online worksheet instead. This activity asks learners to read each of 14 sentences then fill in each blank with the most appropriate past tense verb. They can check their answers for immediate feedback.
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Simple Past: Yes/No Questions
In this online interactive grammar skills instructional activity, students answer 5 fill in the blank questions that require them to write statements as questions. Students may submit their answers to be scored.