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Wish + Simple Past
Everyone loves taking a trip to the computer lab! Bring your English language learners to this online resource to have them work with wish and the past simple tense. They read a few example sentences before jumping in! The first activity...
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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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Past Events
In this recognizing past events worksheet, students change present tense verbs to the past simple of regular verbs, write a simple narrative of past events, and turn interrogative sentences into past tense statements Students write...
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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.
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Basic English Sentence Patterns
A simple set of practice sheets deals with sentence structure and patterns. The 117-page packet includes 10 units of skills, varying from identifying parts of speech in a sentence to writing the correct part to make a sentence complete....
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Past Continuous vs. Simple Past
What were you doing a minute ago? What about last year? Learners read a set of 10 sentences and fill in each blank with a simple past or past continuous verb listed in parentheses.
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Past, Present, and Future Tense Verbs
A short and straightforward worksheet is the perfect addition to your grammar unit on verb tense. Twelve sentences prompt young readers to choose whether the verb is written in the past, present, or future simple tenses, and to write the...
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Past Simple
In this past simple verbs worksheet, students match pictures with action verbs, complete sentences with past simple verbs, and write past simple verbs next to the regular verbs. Students complete 3 activities.
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ESL: Past Simple Tense
In this ESL past simple tense learning exercise, students watch a video of "The Tortoise and the Hare," then fill in blanks in sentences about the video, using past simple tense.
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Regular Verbs Simple Present and Simple Past Tenses
Class members listen as the instructor reads pairs of sentences that contain the simple present and simple past tense of the same verbs.
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The Past Tense -- Simple Past
A quick review of the past tense begins this instructional activity. It focuses on the simple past, and has a diagram to identify past actions in visual terms. Adding -ed or -ied is explained, and the past forms of to be are clarified....
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Verb Review 1: Present/Past
Use this worksheet (with four mini-exercises) to sum up skills learned about various verb forms and usage rules. It covers present, present progressive, past simple, and future tenses in regular and irregular verbs. Young grammarians...
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Past Simple Tense
In this simple past tense worksheet, students choose the correct word, fill in the blanks to sentences, and more. Students complete 26 questions.
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Past Tense Exercise
In this online interactive verbs worksheet, students rewrite 25 sentences online changing their present tense verbs to past tense verbs. Students type each sentence in the white boxes provided.
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Troubling Tenses--Past Simple vs. Present Continuous 1
In this language arts worksheet, students explore the past simple and present continuous verb tenses by completing 15 sentences with the word "tomorrow" or "yesterday."
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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.
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Simple Past
An interactive online instructional activity for practicing simple past tense verb forms features cute pictures, and offers a decent challenge with three exercises. First, learners choose the correct form of a verb from a drop-down menu...
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Simple Past and Present Perfect Quiz
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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Sentence Types: "The Americanization of Shadrach Cohen"
Readers identify sentence types with 25 examples based on Bruno Lessing's short story "The Americanization of Shadrach Cohen." For each, they choose from simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.
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Topic Sentence
Looking for a simple worksheet on topic sentences? This one's for you! Learners find the topic sentence for each paragraph by cutting out the paragraphs and placing them in the right order.
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Past Tense 1
Nothing says past tense like the Ice Age. Learners fill in the blanks for each of 10 sentences with the proper past tense verb. Each sentence focuses on information related to dinosaurs or Ice Age animals.
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The Past Simple in Negative Exercise
In this past simple and negative worksheet, students correct mistakes in sentences and make sentences negative. Students correct 5 sentences and make 8 sentences negative.
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Past Perfect or Present Tense
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.