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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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Worksheet
Curated OER

Past Perfect or Present Tense

For Students 4th - 8th
A great resource for English language learners! They fill in the blanks with verbs in the past tense or past perfect tense. There are 15 sentences, and learners can check their answers with the click of a button. 
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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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Past Perfect

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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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Handout
Road to Grammar

Mastering the Present Perfect Tense

For Students 6th - 12th
You have found a solid resource for covering the present perfect tense. Starting with explanation and examples, this resource moves quickly into a series of exercises that target specific elements of the present perfect tense. Scroll to...
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Pearson

Past Time

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
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.
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Pearson

Present Perfect: Since and For

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Present perfect tense doesn't mean that something is perfect, just that it's continuing from the past into the present. Demonstrate proper usage of present perfect verb tense with a slideshow presentation, which features a passage about...
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Handout
St. Louis Community College

Verb Tenses

For Teachers 5th - 12th Standards
Help your pupils keep their simple, perfect, and progressive tenses straight with a reference page. Each verb tense is paired with a definition and at least one sample sentence.
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Curated OER

Verb Tenses

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Why is it so important to have consistent verb tense when writing? Discuss some of the implications with your middle and high school classes. Examples are provided, and both incorrect and corrected sentences are shown. There's a lot of...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Practice with Past Perfect

For Students 8th
For this practice with past perfect worksheet, 8th graders write a complete sentence for each of the 12 words given using the past perfect tense.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Verb Tense Exercise 6

For Students 5th - 10th
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 15 fill in the blank questions regarding simple past and present perfect verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Simple Past and Present Perfect Quiz

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Print this quiz to assess your kids and their understanding of the simple past and present perfect tenses. In the first exercise, learners complete the questions using either tense. (One of the questions has a spelling error-fix this...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Tenses and Conjugation

For Students 7th - 8th
Present, past, future, present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect. Past, active, indicative. Need a worksheet that not only defines verb forms, but demonstrates how to use them? If you want a resource for class members needing...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Present Perfect Tense: Just and Recently

For Students 7th - 8th
In this present perfect tense:  just and recently learning exercise, students read the explanations and examples of correct usage, then interactively complete 9 sentences with immediate online feedback.
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Activity
English With Jennifer

Conversation Pieces: A Verb Tense Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Teach your English language learners about conversations by inviting them to participate in a conversation about an interesting object. Through this conversation, learners will naturally use various verb tenses and practice asking and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Grammar Lesson Plan: Simple Past vs. Present Perfect

For Teachers 4th - 10th
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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Interactive
Curated OER

Using the Past Perfect

For Students 6th - 8th
In this past perfect tenses worksheet, students practice forming the past perfect of verbs as they combine sentences. Students read the two given sentences and complete the past perfect sentence by filling in the correct verb form.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Verb Forms- Present and Past Tense

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this verb tense worksheet, students fill in 30 blanks by choosing the proper verb form from the word in parenthesis. They complete a conversation by putting 18 verbs into the present perfect or simple past tense.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Verb Tense Exercise 11

For Students 5th - 10th
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 12 fill in the blank questions regarding simple past and past perfect verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Curated OER

Correct Uses of the Verb "Be"

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Useful for an intermediate to advanced ESL class, as well as a standard Language Arts class, this grammar presentation guides learners through the forms of "be." Slides detailing the present tense singular and plural, as well as past...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Telling a Story

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Writers explore storytelling and focus in on verb tenses. They will work with a partner to generate a story and then switch partners and retell the story. They also complete past perfect continuous and past continuous verb tense worksheets.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Comparisons of the Past Simple and Present Perfect Verb Tenses

For Teachers 8th - 11th
In this past simple and present perfect verb tense worksheet, students study two tables that show the proper use of the verb tenses. They complete 7 sentences by putting the verbs in brackets into the correct verb tense.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Past vs. Present Perfect 1

For Students 6th - 8th
In this past tense and present perfect tense worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 10 sentences with the appropriate forms of the verbs in parentheses.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Present Perfect

For Students 7th - 8th
In this present perfect worksheet, learners review and discuss when its appropriate to use the present perfect tense of a verb in a sentence. Students fill in the blanks in five sentences to make them grammatically correct.