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Verb Phrases
This instructional activity tackles the topic of verb phrases by providing an explanation of a verb phrase followed by several examples of verb phrases and their meanings. Students complete fill in the blank sentences with the correct...
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ELD Lesson Plan: Courage
What is true courage? Your class can explore the answer with these three Houghton-Mifflin stories ("Hatchet," "Passage to Freedom," "Climb or Die," and "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle"), which feature courageous characters and...
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ESL-Business Vocabulary
In this ESL business vocabulary worksheet, students complete sentences using passive voice future simple, past simple or present simple.
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Troubling Tenses 1
In this grammar activity, students read 15 sentences in the past simple and "going to" forms. Students complete each sentence by adding the words yesterday or tomorrow.
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Complete the Sentences: Verbs
In this irregular verbs practice learning exercise, students read a letter that is missing verbs and fill in the 44 blanks with irregular verbs from the word bank.
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A Day in the Life of Me
Students respond to the text, A Day in the Life of Me. In this literature activity, students discuss the sequence of events in the story and write simple sentences with a sketch of each important event.
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Simple Past Tense 1/2: exercises for beginners
In this was and were worksheet, students fill in the blanks with was and were, answer short answer questions, match what the speaker says to the pictures, and more. Students complete 4 tasks total.
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Present Perfect
In this present perfect worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with simple or past tense forms of verbs by completing the sentences or choosing the correct word. Students complete 23 problems total.
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Verb Masquerade: Verbals Don't Act Like Verbs
In this verb learning exercise, students read 6 sentences, look at the underlined words in each one and decide whether each underlined word is a gerund, infinitive or participle. Students use the word jump to write a simple sentence for...
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Regular or Irregular: Two Kinds of Verbs
The two kinds of verbs, regular and irregular, are the focus of this language arts worksheet. After a thorough, two-page description of both types, young grammarians fill in the present tense verb given the simple past and past...
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Irregular Verbs
Divided into two 10-question exercises, this worksheet provides practice with irregular verbs in the simple past tense. Ten present-tense, monosyllabic verbs are given in a word bank; learners write the past tense form in a blank in each...
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Los participios irregulares (El presente perfecto)
Provide your intermediate to advanced Spanish class with practice using irregular participles in the present perfect tense. Simple fill-in-the-blank sentences are provided here, but consider providing a few sentences in English and...
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What is a Metaphor?
The use of metaphors really paints a picture in the reader's mind. Get your class using metaphors in their writing by studying them first. This activity has four simple metaphors, and the reader must identify which two things are being...
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Mr Bean´s Christmas
In this simple past learning exercise, students fill in the blanks and choose the correct simple past forms of verbs to complete the sentences and then match them to the pictures. Students complete 8 sentences and 8 matches.
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Preterite: BE + -ING
In this preterit worksheet, students read and discuss how to use correct tense verbs in sentences. Students choose and fill in twenty-two blanks with appropriate simple past verb tenses to make each sentence grammatically correct.
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Future Tense Looking Forward
In this verb learning exercise, student read a selection about the past, present and future verb tenses. Students change the verb tense in 8 sentences to make them future tenses and write a paragraph using at least 5 sentences about...
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Irregular Verbs Group 7
With a simple fill-in-the blank format, this worksheet provides a quick review of past tense verbs. The format and sentence content seem appropriate for older students.It could be used in an ESL class.
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Reported Speech 1
In this reported speech worksheet, students review and discuss five key directives to choosing the grammatically correct verb in ten sentences.
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Reported Speech 2
For this reported speech worksheet, students review and determine the grammatically correct verb for ten sentences involving different voice tenses.
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First Year Test - Tenses
In this tenses worksheet, students complete a letter with words in different tenses, choose the correct words in sentences, and put sentences in the correct order. Students complete 3 activities.
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Guided Reading: My Horse
Students read patterned sentences. For this guided reading lesson, students use one to one matching and picture clues to aid comprehension. Cross-curricular activities are provided.
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Antonyms
In this antonyms learning exercise, students read the sentences and choose which word is the antonym of the bold word in the sentence. Students complete 12 problems.
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The Second Conditional
In this second conditional worksheet, 7th graders read the examples and explanations, then interactively select the correct words to complete 20 sentences, with immediate online feedback.
Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary
Learning the Printing Trade
Students explore U.S. History by reading biographical text in class. In this Benjamin Franklin instructional activity, students read about the famous American's first job and the transition he underwent from printing to politics....