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Pearson

Yellow Submarine

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Here's a clever twist on a grammar lesson. 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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Curated OER

Simple Past Tense

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this simple past tense worksheet, learners rewrite sentences, write interrogative sentences, change sentences, and ask questions. Students complete 47 sentences total.
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Curated OER

Simple Past Tense: Negatives and Questions

For Students 4th - 5th
In this simple past tense:  negatives and questions learning exercise, students read the explanations and examples, then interactively complete 10 exercises using negatives and questions in sentences with immediate online feedback.
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Curated OER

Past Continuous vs. Simple Past

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
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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Curated OER

Verb Tenses

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Discover how to use proper verb tenses with context clues. Five sentences help first graders decide if they should use -ed or -ing to end simple verbs. Each sentence provides context clues to indicate the time. Use the resource in...
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Curated OER

Simple Past Tense-Beginners

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this simple past tense worksheet, students read about forming past tense, then put verbs in sentences into past tense and rewrite sentences in past tense.
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Grammar Net

Past Simple v. Past Perfect Simple

For Students 4th - 10th Standards
Help English learners tell the difference between the past tense and the past perfect tense with a grammar worksheet. As kids read twelve sentences, they change the given verbs to the correct tense based on context clues.
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Curated OER

Simple Past Tense

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this simple past tense worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with the correct simple past tense words. Students complete 25 multiple choice questions total.
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Curated OER

English Exercises: Present Perfect and Simple Past Tense

For Students 7th
In this present perfect and simple past tense worksheet, 7th graders interactively select the correct word to complete 16 sentences, then select the sentences with the correct usage, with immediate online feedback.
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Curated OER

Past Time

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Review important grammatical rules. Focusing on the past tense, learners practice concepts that are used to form sentences in the past tense. This could a good activity at a center.
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Curated OER

Past Tense 1

For Students 4th - 5th
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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Curated OER

Simple Past and Present Perfect Quiz

For Teachers 4th - 8th
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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Pearson

Past Progressive and Simple Past

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
How do you describe something that was happening in the past? Use a presentation on past progressive tense to assist your class in finding the correct way to tell a story or write a description.
PPT
Pearson

Past Time

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
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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Curated OER

Past, Present, and Future Tense Verbs

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
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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Curated OER

Simple Past - Irregular

For Students 2nd - 5th
Here is a flashing, blinking, colorful, interactive, online instructional 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...
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McGraw Hill

Irregular Verbs

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
It's no secret that the English language doesn't always follow clear sets of rules. Help your class adapt to these inconsistencies with this collection of grammar worksheets that teaches children the past tense form of many...
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Curated OER

Past Simple

For Students 2nd - 5th
Hop on the computers for this fun past simple practice! First, users match eight pictures to their written descriptions. Then, they study some irregular verb rules, and finally, they use two models to describe six pictures. A great...
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Curated OER

Expressing Past Time - Part 1

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Here is an incredibly-thorough, 99-slide presentation which covers many rules of grammar. The focus is on present and past tenses of verbs, irregular verbs, and how to properly use them. The colorful PowerPoint has dozens of examples for...
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Curated OER

Present Perfect or Past Simple Tense?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
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...
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IPA Productions

A Christmas Carol - The Story

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
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...
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Past Tense Verbs

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this interactive grammar learning exercise, students listen to a musical clip of the Beatles song "No Reply" and fill in the missing words in the lyrics. Each word is a past tense verb. There are 20 fill-in's to complete.
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Curated OER

Past tense

For Teachers 4th - 5th
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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Curated OER

Simple Past

For Students 4th - 5th
In this simple past tense instructional activity, students choose the correct verbs to complete the sentences in the simple past tense. Students complete 4 sentences.