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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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Past Simple

For Students 2nd - 5th
Hop on the computers for this fun past simple practice! First, users match eight pictures to their written descriptions. Then, they study some irregular verb rules, and finally, they use two models to describe six pictures. A great...
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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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Irregular Past Simple

For Students 3rd - 6th
Learners practice, through repetition, the past tense forms of the irregular verbs teach, wear, win, and write. It is an interactive online resource, so have your elementary fast finishers in the computer lab work on it while you help...
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Past Simple Tense

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this interactive grammar instructional activity, students complete each of the ten sentences by typing in the correct past simple tense of the verb.
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Grammar Exercises

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this grammar instructional activity, students put words in the correct order, write sentences in the past simple tense, fill in the blanks to sentences, and more. Students complete 4 activities.
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Past Simple Tense

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this simple past tense worksheet, learners choose the correct word, fill in the blanks to sentences, and more. Students complete 26 questions.
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Revision- Past Simple Tense

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this past simple tense worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with was, wasn't, were, or weren't, and write the past simple forms of the irregular and regular verbs. Students complete 3 activities.
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Past Simple

For Students 2nd - 4th
For this past simple tense worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with verbs in the past simple tense. Students complete 20 sentences total.
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Past Simple

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this past simple tense worksheet, learners read words in the past simple tense, and fill in the blanks to sentences with words in that tense. Students complete 20 sentences total.
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Total English Advanced: Stories...

For Students 8th - 11th
In this narrative tenses worksheet, students practice past simple tense, past continuous tense, past perfect simple tense, and past perfect continuous tenses as they complete 4 paragraph starters by following instructions.
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Test Your Grammar Skills: How To Get From Bed To Work in 27 Easy Steps! – Past Simple Verbs

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this grammar instructional activity, students will change the underlined verbs in each sentence from present simple to past simple tense.
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Test Your Grammar Skills

For Students 4th - 5th
In this grammar instructional activity, students complete four tables using the past simple tense of the verbs be, go, do and have. Students choose the correct form of the verb to go with the list of pronouns.
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English in Mind Unit 1: Grammar Practice

For Teachers 6th - 7th
In this English grammar worksheet, students complete sentences in the present simple, present continuous, and past simple tenses. Students conjugate verbs in the correct form. Thirty eight fill in the blank questions are asked.
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Negation: Past Tense

For Students Higher Ed
In this verb tense instructional activity, students focus on the past simple tense.  Students complete 16 fill in the blank sentences and use the interactive website to check when finished.
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English Exercises-Past Simple Tense

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this past simple tense worksheet, students watch a video about a frog prince, then fill in blanks using past tense of verbs given and complete a word search. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Sentence Building 2

For Students 4th - 6th
In this sentence building worksheet, students will write 6 sentences following this format" article, adjective, noun, verb (past simple), preposition, article, noun.
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Troubling Tenses – Past Simple vs. ‘going to’ 2

For Teachers 5th - 12th
In this grammar skills worksheet, students will complete 15 sentences in the past simple tense or containing the phrase "going to" by using either "yesterday" or "tomorrow".
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How Sure Are You?

For Students 7th - Higher Ed
In this grammar worksheet, students will work in small groups to decide if the sentences are grammatically correct or not. Students will wager bets on how sure they are that a sentence is correct and points will be given to the teams.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Sequence of Tenses

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Purdue University tutorial covers active and passive voices through simple examples.
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Isabel's Esl Site: Past Simple Tense

For Students 9th - 10th
The English past simple is presented clearly, with examples and exercises. ESL students could use this site on their own. Some guidance in Spanish.
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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Past Tense and Its Types

For Students 2nd - 8th
Defines past tense and provides examples of the different types.