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Verbs: Regular, Irregular, Simple Past Tense
Adding -ed to the ends of most verbs can change a sentence to the past tense—but what about verbs like think or draw? Provide class members with practice activities that focus on both regular and irregular verbs in the simple past...
Minnesota Literacy Council
Regular Verbs Simple Present and Simple Past Tenses
Class members listen as the instructor reads pairs of sentences that contain the simple present and simple past tense of the same verbs.
Oxford University Press
Language Focus: Simple Past Tense, Affirmative and Negative
Find out what people did or didn't do with a grammar worksheet, which focuses on the past tense of different verbs. After kids use a word bank to complete a paragraph, they use the words did and didn't in several exercises...
Curated OER
Verb Forms
Regular and irregular verb forms are outlined in this catchy PowerPoint. After discussing the infinitive, simple present, simple past, past participle, and present participle forms of verbs, your scholars take a quick test...
Curated OER
Past Simple / Past Participle : Irregular verbs
Here is a basic online interactive practice page for 10 common irregular verbs. Learners find the present tense forms in a word search, conjugate them in the past and past participle, and fill in the blanks with the correct past tense...
Curated OER
Verb Forms- Present and Past Tense
In this verb tense worksheet, learners fill in 30 blanks by choosing the proper verb form from the word in parenthesis. They complete a conversation by putting 18 verbs into the present perfect or simple past tense.
Curated OER
Simple Past Tense
In this online interactive verbs worksheet, students find and highlight 20 simple past tense verbs in a word search puzzle. Students fill in the correct multiple choice verb to complete 5 sentences grammatically correct.
Curated OER
Past Continuous vs. Simple Past
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.
Curated OER
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.
ESL Kid Stuff
Past Tense Activities - Irregular Verbs: Part 1
As part of a series of resources designed for English learners, a language arts activity prompts kid engage in activities and exercises that focus on the past tense of irregular verbs.
Curated OER
Past Tense 5
Which past tense verb to use? Kids can plug-in and complete this online worksheet to practice verb tense. They read the first sentence in order to help them choose the past tense verb that would finish the second sentence. There are 20...
Curated OER
Test on Simple Past Tense
In this simple past tense learning exercise, 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...
Curated OER
Past Tense 3
Save paper and use an online worksheet instead. This activity asks learners to read each of 14 sentences then fill in each blank with the most appropriate past tense verb. They can check their answers for immediate feedback.
ESL Kid Stuff
Past Tense Activities - Irregular Verbs: Part 2
The second part of a two-part lesson plan 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
Past Simple & Past Continuous
What is the difference between the simple past tense and the past continuous? Help your pupils master these tenses with the information and six grammar exercises included here.
Curated OER
Simple Past and Present Perfect Quiz
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...
Curated OER
Structure Practice: The Passive Voice
Use this online interactive worksheet in an ELD class or for younger native speakers. They practice using simple past tense verbs in the passive voice. Many of the constructions are not straightforward, nor often used by early speakers,...
Curated OER
Expressing Past Time - Part 1
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...
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.
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...
Curated OER
Simple Past and Past Participle
In this simple past and past participle worksheet, learners choose the correct simple past and past participle forms of verbs to complete sentences, and choose the correct simple past and past participle verbs to label pictures. Students...
Grammar Net
Past Simple v. Past Perfect Simple
Help English learners tell the difference between the past tense and the past perfect tense with a grammar activity. As kids read twelve sentences, they change the given verbs to the correct tense based on context clues.
St. Louis Community College
Verb Tenses
Help your pupils keep their simple, perfect, and progressive tenses straight with a reference page. Each verb tense is paired with a definition and at least one sample sentence.
Curated OER
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.