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Past Tense Activities - Regular Verbs
Here is a supplemental lesson plan regarding past tense verbs for English language learners that is a great tool for the classroom when you are teaching grammar exercises.
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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...
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Past Tense Activities - Irregular Verbs
"What did you do yesterday?" Language learners engage in carefully scaffolded activities that review past tense regular verbs, that introduce new vocabulary words, and that permit practice of using the past tense of...
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Verb Tenses - Present and Past Tense Verbs
In this grammar worksheet, learners read about the meaning of present and past tense verbs. They replace the present tense verbs in 10 sentences with past tense verbs. They write the sentences over with the present tense verbs but add...
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Verb Tense Practice Worksheet
Reinforce the indicative, negative and interrogative verb tenses with this straightforward worksheet. Middle schoolers use three parts of a sentence to construct new sentences in each verb tense. A reference section provides exmaples of...
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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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Past Continuous Tense
In this interactive grammar worksheet, students type in the correct past continuous tense of the given words into each of the ten sentences.
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Thanksgiving Lesson
Practice using proper verb tenses in the spirit of Thanksgiving! Learners are given holiday photographs as prompts to create oral and written sentences in a targeted verb tense.
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Modals: Can, May and Will Verbs: Present Tense
Cover can, may, will, and shall with this lesson plan on using modals in the present tense. Starting off with a warm-up activity, the resource includes a text to analyze, examples of modals, and exercises with answers. The language in...
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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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Past Continuous Tense - Negative
In this online/interactive past tense worksheet, students use verbs in parenthesis to fill in the blanks and change the sentences to the negative past tense. Students fill in 10 blanks and check their answers by clicking on the "Check...
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Yellow Submarine
Here's a clever twist on a grammar lesson plan. 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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Past Perfect Tense
In this grammar worksheet, learners complete 16 sentences by filling in the blanks using past perfect tense. For example, "The zoo (just finished) renovating when we visited last August."
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English in Mind Unit 15: Grammar Practice
In this grammar practice worksheet, students match infinitives with their past form, complete sentences with adverbs, and chose the correct verb to put in a sentence. Twenty nine fill in the blank questions are asked.
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Yesterday - Working With Past Tense Verbs
In this grammar worksheet, students fill in the missing words in three paragraphs that tell what they did yesterday. They write the past tense of the 16 base words that are given in a word bank at the bottom of the page as they fill in...
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Past tense
In this grammar worksheet, students write the correct form of the given verb in the sentence. Students choose to use either the simple past tense or the past progressive tense.
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Pendemonium: The Great African Surfari
Young scholars discover the importance of matching verbs to their subjects through a discussion of a whimsical video on verb agreement and a read aloud of the book, "To Root, To Toot To Parachute". They practice verb agreement in...
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Avoir, Être, et Le Passé Composé
The lesson begins with direct instruction: how and when do we use avoir and être to form the past tense? After identifying the verbs that use either avoir or être, French learners write about five things they did the week prior. Then, in...
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Past Continuous Tense - Questions
In this online/interactive creating interrogative sentences worksheet, students use groups of words that include the subjects, present tense verbs, and prepositional phrases to create questions with past continuous tense verbs. Students...
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Simple Past Or Past Continuous?
In this simple past or past continuous worksheet, young scholars choose which verb tense, simple past or past continuous, that completes ten sentences grammatically correct.
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Using Modal Verbs to Problem Solve - Discussing a Difficult Situation
Students focus on the use of modal verbs of probability and advice in the past tense while discussing and solving a difficult problem.
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Adele's ESL Corner: Past Simple Tense-Negative
In this ESL negative tense worksheet, students type the past simple negative tense word that correctly complete sentences. Students may click on a "check answer" link.
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Adele's ESL Corner: Word Order-Past Tense
In this ESL past tense word order worksheet, students change the order of words to form sentences. Students may click on a "check answer" button.
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Past Perfect--Questions
In this grammar worksheet, 3rd graders click on the correct statements that affirm the scenarios given. This is an interactive worksheet that focuses on the past perfect tense. There are ten questions.