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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 listed.
Pearson
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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Future Tense
Practice the concept of the future tense using this presentation. In this resource, learners explore the use of shall, will, and going to. This comprehensive exploration would be a useful tool in a middle school classroom.
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Simple Past - Irregular
Here is a flashing, blinking, colorful, interactive, online activity that would be handy to keep fast finishers on the job in a computer lab. They choose correct past tense forms from drop-down menus for each of eight illustrated...
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Simple Past Tense: "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
For this simple present tense worksheet, students use fill in blanks in the story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" with simple past tense verbs. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Using the Verb "To be" Exercise 07
In this verb tense activity, students complete each sentence using the simple past tense form of the verb "to be." Students complete 10 questions.
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Verb Tense Exercise 6
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 15 fill in the blank questions regarding simple past and present perfect verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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The 3 Simple Tenses (Plus One)
Go back to the basics with this quick PowerPoint. Review present, past, and future tenses, and introduce present progressive. Provide additional verbs for pupils to conjugate after the presentation.
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Language Practice: Simple Past tense, Past Tense of "to be" and the Preposition of Place
In this past tense activity, students fill in the blanks to sentences, write sentences, use prepositions, and more. Students complete 3 activities.
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Grammar Practice: Consistency of Tense
After a concise explanation of verb inconsistency, learners study detailed examples and then rewrite a series of sentences to eliminate tense inconsistencies. An answer key is provided. The worksheet could be used as part of a mini...
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ESL Simple Past Tense of the Verb To Be- Fill-In-The-Blank Worksheet
In this ESL simple past of the verb, to be, activity, students look at 8 small clip art pictures. They write a sentence that describes the picture using the simple past of the verb to be.
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Test on Simple Past Tense
In this simple past tense worksheet, students write the past forms of a set of irregular verbs, complete a table, write and convert sentences in simple past, fill in blanks with 'was' or 'were' and write questions. Answers may be checked...
IPA Productions
A Christmas Carol - The Story
Thirty-six pages familiarize scholars with the story and vocabulary of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. After reading and listening to an abbreviated version of the holiday tale learners show what they know about the sequence of...
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Present Perfect or Simple Past?
In this interactive grammar worksheet, learners complete each of the ten sentences with the correct form of the verbs in the parenthesis. Students have a choice to use the present perfect or simple past form.
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The Past Tense
In this past tense worksheet, learners change the verbs in parentheses from present to past tense, underline the regular and irregular past simple tense verbs in 8 sentences and then sort them into the correct boxes.
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Gone With the Past: Past Tense Verbs
For this past tense verbs worksheet, students change the verbs to past tense in 8 sentences and change 8 past tense verbs into present tense verbs on the lines provided.
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Perfect-English-Grammar.com: Irregular Verbs Past Simple (Part 2)
Practice, practice, practice! Your young grammarians write the past tense form of irregular verbs (The present tense form is given in parentheses.) in the blank space in 25 sentences. Space between the sentences is very small, so I'd...
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Quiz 6A: Verb Practice
Here is a worksheet that provides practice using English verb forms like the simple present, simple past, and present progressive. Learners fill in the blanks in 10 sentences using the given verb correctly based on context. I'd go over...
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Past Simple or Past Perfect 2
Finish complex sentences with either a past perfect or past tense verb. The class fills in two blanks for each of 15 sentences. Tip: This is an online learning exercise and can be used at a workstation or as homework. Sometimes I choose...
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Exercise on Simple Past
In this simple past tense worksheet, students write positive sentences using simple past tense and words and phrases given. Answers may be checked online.
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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 activity. After a thorough, two-page description of both types, young grammarians fill in the present tense verb given the simple past and past participle...
Savvas Learning
Verbs: Past
The focus of this 38-page packet is on past tense verbs. Packed with games, activities, exercises, and drills that can be adapted to any level, the resource deserves a place in your ESL/ELD curriculum library.
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Narrating in Simple Past with Video
Students practice in constructing simple past tense forms and checking for subject verb agreement.
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Verbs in Simple Past Tense "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
In this simple past tense worksheet, students fill in blanks with simple past verbs to complete sentences about "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." ESL appropriate but not exclusive.