ESL Kid Stuff
Past Tense Activities - Irregular Verbs: Part 1
As part of a series of resources designed for English learners, a language arts lesson prompts kid engage in activities and exercises that focus on the past tense of irregular verbs.
ESL Kid Stuff
Past Tense Activities - Regular Verbs
Here is a supplemental lesson plan regarding past tense verbs for English language learners that is a great tool for the classroom when you are teaching grammar exercises.
University of Hawaiʻi
Verb Tense Review: the Importance of Time
When you ask a fourth grader to write a sentence in the past perfect progressive tense, there might be some confusion. But with a presentation that features several different verb tenses, along with examples and a handy timeline, your...
ESL Kid Stuff
Past Tense Activities - Irregular Verbs
"What did you do yesterday?" Language learners engage in carefully scaffolded activities that review past tense regular verbs, that introduce new vocabulary words, and that permit practice of using the past tense of...
ESL Kid Stuff
Past Tense Activities - Irregular Verbs: Part 2
The second part of a two-part lesson on irregular past tense verbs prompts language learners to add four more verbs to the list of twelve they have been working with.
Curated OER
Test on Simple Past Tense
In this simple past tense worksheet, students write the past tense forms of irregular verbs, complete tables and sentences in simple past and fill in blanks using 'was' or 'were.' Answers may be submitted online. ESL appropriate but not...
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Grammar Lesson Plan: Simple Past vs. Present Perfect
What's the difference between the present perfect and simple past? Have your class practice identifying and using both of these verb tenses through pair activities, whole-class discussion, and a worksheet.
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Simple Past Tense: "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
In 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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ESL Simple Past Tense of the Verb To Be- Fill-In-The-Blank Worksheet
For this ESL simple past of the verb, to be, worksheet, 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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Irregular Past Tense Verbs
In this irregular past tense verbs worksheet, students fill in blanks in sentences using past simple tense. Pictures accompany sentences; ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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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.
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Past Simple
In this past simple verb tenses worksheet, students read six sentences and then complete the other two sentences requested in each set of sentences. Students fill in either the positive, negative or question form of each of the six past...
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.
Curated OER
Simple Past Tense-Questions with Interrogative
In this simple past tense worksheet, students use words and phrases given to form questions in simple past tense. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Simple Past-Positive Sentences #2
For this simple past tense worksheet, students use words and phrases given to form positive sentences in the given tense. Answers may be submitted online for review. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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ESL: Forming Simple Past Tense
In this ESL worksheet, students fill in the correct form of given verbs to complete a simple paragraph. Students may click on either a "check answers" or "show a letter for help" button.
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Verb Phrases
This worksheet tackles the topic of verb phrases by providing an explanation of a verb phrase followed by several examples of verb phrases and their meanings. Students complete fill in the blank sentences with the correct verb phrase.
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ESL Test-Verb Tense
In this ESL testing worksheet, students fill in blanks with correct present continuous verbs, write sentences correctly, and fill in present simple and past tense verbs.
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Adele's ESL Corner: Past Simple Tense-Negative
In this ESL negative tense worksheet, students type the past simple negative tense word that correctly complete sentences. Students may click on a "check answer" link.
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Past Simple: Pronunciation of Regulars
In this regular verbs worksheet, students categorize the regular verbs into the correct past tense category for their ending. Students categorize 24 words.
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ESL: Simple Past Irregular Verbs
In this simple past-irregular verbs worksheet, students find the past tense of given words in a words search puzzle, then write verbs to match pictures and fill in blanks, telling what they did yesterday.
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Simple Past: Was or Were
In this simple past tense worksheet, students complete sentences by choosing either 'was' or 'were' from a drop down list. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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ESL: Past Simple Tense
In this ESL past simple tense learning exercise, students watch a video of "The Tortoise and the Hare," then fill in blanks in sentences about the video, using past simple tense.
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ESL-Past Simple Tense
In this ESL past simple tense worksheet, learners complete sentences with past simple tense verbs and complete a word search. A link to audio and additional resources is given.