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Worksheet
Nosapo

Verbs: Regular, Irregular, Simple Past Tense

For Students K - 8th Standards
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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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Past Tense -- Simple Past

For Students 3rd - 5th
A quick review of the past tense begins this worksheet. It focuses on the simple past, and has a diagram to identify past actions in visual terms. Adding -ed or -ied is explained, and the past forms of to be are clarified. However, it...
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PPT
Curated OER

Tenses: Verbs in the past, present, and future tenses

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Use this presentation with your ELLs, younger learners, or as practice for those finicky 4th graders. Verb tense and usage is covered from present, past, to future. There are several examples provided as well as six verbs to be put into...
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PPT
Curated OER

Expressing Past Time - Part 1

For Teachers 4th - 6th
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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Worksheet
Curated OER

Sentence Bulls Eye: Irregular Past Tense

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this irregular past tense verbs practice learning exercise, students draw two lines from each of 8 sentence beginnings through two conjunctions and two ending to form 8 grammatically correct sentences.
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Handout
Minnesota Literacy Council

Regular Verbs Simple Present and Simple Past Tenses

For Students 3rd - 12th
Class members listen as the instructor reads pairs of sentences that contain the simple present and simple past tense of the same verbs.
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PPT
University of Hawaiʻi

Verb Tense Review: the Importance of Time

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
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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Worksheet
Grammar Net

Past Simple v. Past Perfect Simple

For Students 4th - 10th Standards
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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Interactive
Curated OER

Verb Tense Exercise 17

For Students 5th - 9th
In this online interactive grammar skills instructional activity, learners answer 12 fill in the blank questions regarding present and past tense verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Past Simple & Past Continuous

For Students 4th - 7th
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.
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Lesson Plan
Pearson

Yellow Submarine

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Here's a clever twist on a grammar lesson. Kids listen to the Beatles' happy children's song, "Yellow Submarine" and then identify the simple present and past tense verbs in the lyrics.
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Activity
Macmillan Education

Card Games: Irregular Verbs

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Who says learning grammar can't be fun? Focusing on commonly used irregular verbs, this pair of card games helps young grammarians learn different tenses for verbs that fail to follow the regular rules of conjugation.
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Handout
Grammar Bytes

Rules For Using Irregular Verbs

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Add to the grammar toolboxes of young scholars with this comprehensive resource on irregular verbs. Offering clear instruction with the help of numerous examples, this reference document is perfect for upper-elementary English language...
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Learning
Vita Education Services

Past Continuous Game

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Your pupils were studying the past continuous when you realized that they could benefit from this game! Learners roll a die and complete the sentence they land on. They will have a chance to begin and end sentences.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Verb Review 1 (Past Progressive/Past Tense)

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Here is a week's worth of bell-ringers for your class! Each of the five short paragraphs focuses on using the correct past progressive or past tense verb to complete the blanks. Each paragraph has around 10 verbs to conjugate. 
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Interactive
Curated OER

Structure Practice: The Passive Voice

For Students 3rd - 6th
Use this online interactive worksheet in an ELD class or for younger native speakers. They practice using simple past tense verbs in the passive voice. Many of the constructions are not straightforward, nor often used by early speakers,...
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PPT
Curated OER

Tense Shift

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
Use this comical slide show with your youngsters to review verb tense and tense shift. A shirtless weight-lifter guides your class through examples on how to correct common errors. There are 22 slides included, and several questions to...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Present Perfect or Past Simple Tense?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
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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Activity
Savvas Learning

Verbs: Past

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
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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Interactive
Curated OER

Verb Tense Exercise 16

For Students 5th - 8th
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, learners answer 12 fill in the blank questions regarding verb tenses. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Identifying Verb Tenses

For Teachers 5th - 6th
How many different verb tenses are there? When do you use each? After introducing the different tenses with your upper elementary schoolers, have them read through a series of sentences, underline the verb in each sentence, and then...
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Interactive
Arcademics

Verb Viper

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Scholars show what they know about verbs with a quick snake-themed learning game. While verbs scroll across the screen, a viper snaps at correct combinations of subjects and verbs. Practice takes a look at to be and have verbs,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Past Tense

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this past tense worksheet, learners change the verbs in parentheses from present to past tense, underline the regular and irregular past simple tense verbs in 8 sentences and then sort them into the correct boxes.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Verb Review 1 (Past Prerogative/Past Tense)

For Students 5th - 6th
In this verb usage worksheet, students change the verb tense of the word in parenthesis in 36 sentences. The verbs will be past progressive/past tense.