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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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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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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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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...
Pearson
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 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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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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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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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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Present Perfect/Past Tense
In this grammar quiz worksheet, students read the sentences and select the present perfect or past tense form of the verb to complete the exercises. Students complete an online grammar quiz using present perfect or past tense form of...
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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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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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English in Mind Unit 1: Grammar Practice
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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Past Simple or Past Progressive
Students complete an online grammar quiz for past progressive form or past progressive. In this grammar quiz lesson, students read the example sentences and use the past simple or past progressive form of the verbs to complete each...
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Past Simple or Progressive
Students complete an online grammar quiz using the past simple or progressive forms of verbs. In this grammar quiz lesson, students read the sentences and complete them using the past simple forms or progressive forms verbs in parenthesis.
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English in Mind Unit 5: Grammar Practice
In this English grammar worksheet, students select the correct verb to use in the past simple. Students also choose between wasn't or weren't, and was or were in order to complete a sentence. Thirty three fill in the blank questions...
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Troubling Tenses – Past Simple vs. ‘going to’ 2
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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English in Mind Unit 2: Grammar Practice
In this grammar practice worksheet, students complete sentences in the past continuous tense, make positive sentences negative, identify whether a sentence is written in past simple or past continuous, and form answers from a given...
Azar Grammar
Song Lessons: I Wanna Be Like You
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy's swing rendition of Robert and Richard Sherman's "I Wanna Be Like You" offers young grammarians an opportunity to examine verb tenses, noun clauses, gerunds, and prepositions.
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English in Mind Unit 6: Grammar Practice
For this English grammar worksheet, students practice the past simple verb form and time expressions. Students complete thirty five fill in the blank questions.
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Monkey and Rabbit Together
Engage young ones and explain grammar with the folk tale Monkey and Rabbit Together. Using a list of verbs from the story, young readers work on verb participles and proper speech habits. The story itself is not included. Social studies...
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Sk8er Boi (Skater Boy)
Students listen to and analyze the lyrics for Avril Lavigne's song, Sk8er Boi. They discuss and interpret the vocabulary, phrasal verbs, and various grammar structures used in the lyrics.
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Present Perfect Simple or Continuous
Students discuss and analyze the differences between the present perfect simple and present perfect continuous forms from a clear context and develop the skill of noticing word stress, weak forms of auxiliaries.