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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.
Nosapo
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.
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.
Curated OER
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 worksheet, 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...
Curated OER
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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Present Perfect and Simple Past
In this present perfect and simple past learning exercise, students must fill in the blanks with the appropriate verb form. Students are given two choices for each sentence in this interactive learning exercise.
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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...
Curated OER
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...
Curated OER
Past Perfect
Middle schoolers read fifteen sentences and complete them with the verb in past simple, past progressive, or past perfect simple. They complete an online grammar activity practicing verb tenses.
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Present Perfect: Present Perfect or Simple Past?
For this online interactive grammar worksheet, learners answer 10 multiple choice questions regarding present perfect and simple past verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
Curated OER
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: Irregular Verbs
In this online interactive grammar skills activity, students answer 10 multiple choice questions regarding irregular verbs forms. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Simple Past and Present Verbs
For this grammar worksheet, students rewrite a paragraph and change all the underlined verbs from simple past tenses to present tenses.
Oxford University Press
Language Focus and Vocabulary Unit 4.1: Past Continuous and Prepositions
Study verb tense, prepositions, and geographical features from around the word in one activity. After choosing between was and were in several sentences, as well as deciding whether they should use the past tense or past continuous...
Vita Education Services
Past Continuous Game
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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Grammar Games and Activities
Thirty pages of grammar activities? Your young grammarians will be well versed in the parts of speech, basic verb tenses, and much more after completing even a handful of these exercises.
Grammar Net
Past Simple v. Past Perfect Simple
Help English learners tell the difference between the past tense and the past perfect tense with a grammar learning exercise. As kids read twelve sentences, they change the given verbs to the correct tense based on context clues.
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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 Simple Past Verb Tense- Yes/No Questions
In this ESL simple past tense verb worksheet, students look at 8 pictures before they answer the yes/no questions. They use the simple past tense of the verbs.