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Past Events
In this recognizing past events activity, 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 thirty...
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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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Test Your Grammar Skills: Learning Verbs 1
In this grammar instructional activity, students complete a table of plural and singular verb tenses for the following verbs: be, go, do, have, see, and eat. The verb tenses to be filled in include: present simple, past simple, present...
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Using the Verb "to be" Exercise 9
In this using the verb "to be" activity, learners complete each sentence using the correct form of the verb "to be" in the simple present tense. Students complete 10 sentences.
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Using the Verb "to be" Exercise 10
In this using the verb "to be" worksheet, students fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb "to be" in the simple present tense. Students complete 10 sentences.
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Past Simple: Pronunciation of Regulars
In this regular verbs worksheet, learners categorize the regular verbs into the correct past tense category for their ending. Students categorize 24 words.
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Information and Communication Technology
Students use correct English to give an oral report on the pyramids of Egypt. They focus on correctly using the past tense to describe history.
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Using the Verb "To be" Exercise 6
In this using the verb "to be" learning exercise, students use the correct form of the verb "to be" in the simple present tense. Students complete 10 sentences.
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Language Practice: Past Simple and Time Expressions
In this past simple and time expressions worksheet, learners answer multiple choice questions, complete a dialogue, match parts of sentences and more. Students complete 5 activities.
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Learning About Verb Tenses
How much do your youngsters know about the simple present, past, and future tenses? Find out with this series of practice activities. To begin, learners become acquainted with the verb tenses by reading definitions and examples and...
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Negation: Past Tense
In this verb tense learning exercise, 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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Simple past with was/were
For this grammar worksheet, students work in teams of 2-5 players to complete questions on the worksheet. After having the questions checked for correct tense students can quiz the other teams.
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Present Perfect – Have You Ever?
Designed for an English language development class, this learning exercise is more like a treasure hunt. Learners walk around the room looking for others who have done a certain thing, like ride a horse. They use these prompts to...
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Narratives in the Simple Past
Students recognize the simple past forms in a folktale. They supply some of these forms when asked
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The Past Progressive
For this verb tenses worksheet, students change the verb in ten sentences from simple past to past progressive form. Students will need to use an auxiliary verb of being.
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Verb Tense for Regular and Irregular Verbs
In this regular and irregular verb tenses worksheet, 6th graders write the present, simple past and present perfect form of regular and irregular verbs; the instructions are in French.
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Where did you go yesterday?
In this past tense worksheet, students fill in the blanks to paragraphs of what people did yesterday. Students complete 3 paragraphs with multiple choice answers.
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ESL: Irregular Verbs
In this ESL irregular verbs worksheet, students complete a chart, filling in verbs changing from simple to past tense. A link to audio and additional resources is provided.
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ESL: Past Perfect and Past Simple Tense
In this ESL past simple/past perfect worksheet, students fill in the correct form of verbs given in parenthesis. A link to audio and HTML code is given.
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Active and Passive Voice
Adult language learners will benefit from this 20-slide presentation about active and passive voice constructions. Learners craft active and passive voice questions in the simple present and simple past tenses.
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Grammar Practice Workbook
To an English teacher, the only sound worse than nails on a chalkboard is a student using improper grammar. Make poor grammar a problem of the past with this extensive collection of worksheets that covers...
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Yellow Submarine – The Beatles – Notes
Enhance English language skills using the fan-favorite song, "Yellow Submarine" by The Beatles. Scholars predict what the song is about then listen and mark specific words they hear. Playing the song again, participants unscramble...
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ESL: Past Continuous or Simple Past?
In this tense worksheet, students use a given verb and re-write sentences using its correct form: continuous or simple past. Links to additional resources are given.
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A Past Perfect Thing
In this past perfect verbs worksheet, students review, identify, and use pas perfect verbs. In this fill in the bank, and short answer worksheet, students answer thirteen questions.