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Present Simple 'Yes/No' Questions with 'Be'
Teach your class how to use the verb "to be" properly in sentences with this worksheet. For this activity, learners compose questions using the present simple forms of to be such as is, are, and am. The directions are limited, so you...
Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin
Lesson 12 - Ed Suffix with Unchanging Base Words
Understanding different verb tenses begins with knowing how to decode words. A lesson on the -ed suffix with unchanging base words introduces readers to the past tense. Teachers present the skill with oral reading and spelling...
Pearson
Conditionals
Are you wishing for a great grammar presentation? Wish no longer with an engaging slideshow that focuses on the conditional verb form. Learners begin their sentences with wish before completing them with the correct usage.
Pearson
Past Progressive and Simple Past
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.
Film English
Everyday
What would you do if you got an extra day every week? Partners share some information about their routines and lives and write compositions about one another based on the information. Each partner tries to guess what the other person...
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003 - Information for the Public
An information-packed eight-page article detailing the history of understanding active transport across cell membranes makes up the bulk of this handout. Two pages of reading comprehension and critical-thinking questions follow. The...
University of North Carolina
Conditionals: Verb Tense in “If” Clauses
"If you give a mouse a cookie, then he's going to ask for a glass of milk." These iconic words from Laura Numeroff's classic tale offer a great example of conditionals, a topic covered in the handout as part of a larger writing series...
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Using Infinitives
Infinitives have multiple purposes. Introduce your Spanish class to the variety of ways to use infinitives other than simply conjugating them. Use the material and presentation included here to inspire and inform a lesson on infinitives....
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Total English Intermediate: I Do or I Am Doing?
In this present simple and present continuous verbs worksheet, students write 4 sentences about their lives using present simple verbs. Students also write 4 sentences about their lives using present continuous verbs.
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Regular and Irregular Verbs in German
Young scholars review formation of present tense of regular verbs learned in German 1. Students complete a worksheet after viewing a PowerPoint show. They watch a second portion of the PowerPoint show about the peculiarities of irregular...
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What's Going On? -- Present Progressive in Photos
Magazine photos of people in action provide opportunities for beginning and intermediate English learners to employ the present progressive (continuous) verb tense. Partners describe what people are doing and share their sentences with...
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Subject-Verb Agreement
Eighth graders evaluate writing samples for subject-verb agreement and make necessary changes. They correct verb phrases and create simple sentences using pronouns as subjects. In groups, they correct writing samples and submit at the...
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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A VIP - Present Perfect Simple and Continuous
Here is an interesting way to teach the present perfect and present perfect continuous. Individuals practice these verb tenses as well as the simple past by asking a partner questions about an imaginary biography. The biography is...
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Present Perfect Grammar
For this verb tenses worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 12 sentences with either the simple past or the present perfect of the verb in parentheses. Students then correct verb tense errors in 25 sentences.
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Present Perfect Grammar Review
In this present perfect instructional activity, students fill in the blanks of sentences with the correct form of a verb so that it is present perfect. Students correct sentences to make the verbs in present perfect.
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Past/Participle Verb Forms 1: Irregular verb forms
For this past and participle worksheet, learners write the past and participle form for each verb in the sentences. Students complete this activity for 25 sentences.
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Present Perfect Simple or Past Simple
In this present perfect simple or past simple instructional activity, students decide which tense time clauses are in and then fill in the blanks to sentences with each tense. Students complete 2 activities.
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Past Tense Verbs
Pupils read Hilburt The Halibut, and discuss the verbs in the story. Using the overhead projector, and a copy of the story on a transparency, the class examine the verbs and identify all the past tense verbs within the story.
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Past Tense Verbs
Pupils demonstrate that verbs can tell about actions that happened in the past, as well as name past tense verbs when given present verbs. They practice sentence construction and apply their new knowledge through creative writing.
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ESL: Verb Tense Exercise 14
In this ESL verb tense learning exercise, students us words in parenthesis to complete text, using the appropriate tense of verbs given. A reference web site is given for additional activities
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Active & Stative Verbs
For this active and stative verbs worksheet, learners fill in the blanks to sentences with present simple and present continuous verbs and correct the mistakes they find in sentences. Students complete 2 activities.
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Coping with Verbs
First graders in a foreign language class explore how verbs function in sentences.
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Vivid Verbs in Writing
Eighth graders explore how to incorporate vivid verbs in their writing. They review action verbs in sentences and view a Power Point presentation discussing possible verbs and their meanings. They view a website and retell a Greek myth...