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ESL: Past Simple Tense Activity
For this ESL past simple tense worksheet, students fill in blanks in the story of "Little Red Riding Hood" using past simple tense of verbs given in parenthesis.
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ESL: Past/Present Simple Tense
In this past simple/present simple worksheet, students fill in blanks in sentences with the appropriate verb form, choosing from a drop down list.
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Error Correction: Present Perfect and Past Simple
In this verb tense activity, learners read 10 sentences that may contain errors. Students correct the sentences that are wrong. This is intended for ESL learners.
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How Sure Are You?
In this grammar learning exercise, students will work in small groups to decide if the sentences are grammatically correct or not. Students will wager bets on how sure they are that a sentence is correct and points will be given to the...
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What is a Metaphor?
The use of metaphors really paints a picture in the reader's mind. Get your class using metaphors in their writing by studying them first. This worksheet has four simple metaphors, and the reader must identify which two things are being...
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Before the Tsunami
Students practice their conversation and writing skills as they strengthen their ability to talk and write about the past. In this ESL lesson, students narrate a series of past events using past simple verb forms. Students then discuss...
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ESOL Telephone Communications
Students answer incoming telephone calls, take simple messages, and respond to voice mail prompts. They write a paragraph using correct spacing and legible cursive handwriting. They practice the sounds of past tense endings.
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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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TPR is a Valuable Tool!
Students, at the beginning ESL proficiency level, participate in Total Physical Response activities in order to learn the present continuous and past tense, sentence structure and word order in English.
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Los participios irregulares (El presente perfecto)
Provide your intermediate to advanced Spanish class with practice using irregular participles in the present perfect tense. Simple fill-in-the-blank sentences are provided here, but consider providing a few sentences in English and...
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Present Perfect
In this verb tense worksheet, students complete a 34 question multiple choice online interactive exercise. Students read each verb phrase and mark if it is past simple or present perfect simple.
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Speaking Skills - Asking Questions
Students focuses on the question form and helping students gain skill while switching tenses in the question form. They improve speaking confidence when using quesion forms.
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Future Perfect And Future Progressive
In this future perfect and future progressive learning exercise, 7th graders read and discuss how to choose the correct form of a verb to use in a sentence or a phrase. Students put four sets of words in order to make four coherently...
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Paragraph Writing-Using -ed in Regular Verbs
In this paragraph writing worksheet, students write a paragraph about different places they have lived, using a set of 4 given sample sentences that use verbs with "ed" endings.
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Changing Verb Voice (Active/Passive) Practice
In this active voice and passive voice practice worksheet, students read an informative instructional activity. Students then respond to 5 questions that require them to identify the voice the sentences are written in and rewrite them in...
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Present Perfect Progressive
For this verb tense worksheet, students write the correct form of the verbs in parentheses to complete each of 40 phrases in the sentences provided.
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Second Conditional Exercise
In this second conditional instructional activity, students read the 17 sentences and fill in the gap using the verb in brackets in the second conditional form.
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Present Simple Questions
In this questions worksheet, students put the words in order to make question sentences. Students make 12 sentences and correct 5 sentences.
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Can you Follow Me? Conventions
Use the present tense to create written assignments. Critical thinkers take a passage written in past or future tense and rewrite it in present tense. They then write a set of instructions in present tense.
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The Second Conditional
In this second conditional instructional activity, 7th graders read the examples and explanations, then interactively select the correct words to complete 20 sentences, with immediate online feedback.
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When Can I Use "When"?
For this language arts worksheet, students practice the correct use of "when" with past and future tense verbs. Students read examples of correct usage, them write 10 sentences each for: past continuous verbs, definite future plans and...
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Controlled Narrative Writing
Learners add details to their narratives. In this narrative writing instructional activity, students look at a simple four sentence narrative and add adjectives and adverbs to make it more descriptive. They do this activity whole class,...
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Sentence Building 4
In this grammar worksheet, students will build 6 sentences using the following format: article, adjective, occupation, verb (past simple), adverb, preposition, article, room.
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Reported Speech
In this reported speech worksheeet, students note the difference between reported speech and quoted speech. Rules for tense usage are also given.