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Present, Present Progressive and Past Tense Practice
This activity, which was designed for use in an ESL setting, focuses on the present, present progressive and past verb tense. The types of sentences used would be appropriate for older students. There are 20 questions.
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Verbs in Past Tense
In this grammar learning exercise, students fill in the correct form of the verb in parentheses in past tense in thirty sentences. Students check to make sure each one is grammatically correct.
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Verb Tense Exercise 17
In this online interactive grammar skills instructional activity, learners answer 12 fill in the blank questions regarding present and past tense verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Past Simple v. Past Perfect Simple
Help English learners tell the difference between the past tense and the past perfect tense with a grammar instructional activity. As kids read twelve sentences, they change the given verbs to the correct tense based on context clues.
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Past Tense 4
For this online grammar worksheet, learners read the sentences in present tense followed by sentences in past tense in which the verb is omitted. Students write the verb in the past tense to complete 14 exercises.
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Verb Review 1 (Mixed Including Passive)
Cut this sheet in two, and provide each learner with two days worth of bell-ringer activities. English language learners (or those studying English grammar) complete a short activity that has them complete a paragraph using the passive...
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Past Progressive/Past Tense Practice
As part of a study of the past progressive and past tense forms of verbs, students fill in the blanks. The activity, which focuses on the use of past tense verbs and forming questions, would be appropriate for older students. The story...
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Past Tense Interview
This open-ended activity to review past tense verbs could be used with both younger and older students. Using an interview format, students ask their classmates questions and fill in the answers. For younger students, you would want to...
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Yesterday - Working With Past Tense Verbs
In this grammar worksheet, students fill in the missing words in three paragraphs that tell what they did yesterday. They write the past tense of the 16 base words that are given in a word bank at the bottom of the page as they fill in...
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Past Tense Forms of Verbs
In this grammar worksheet, students change fifteen present tense verbs into past tense verbs. Students then place the verb in ten sentences in the past tense to make each one grammatically correct.
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Verb Tense Exercise 6
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 15 fill in the blank questions regarding simple past and present perfect verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Verb Review 1 (Present/Past)
Using a fill-in-the-blank format learners explore the use of present/past/future verbs. This 41-question activity upper elementary and older students in an ESL class would get a good background in the use of verbs.
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Past Versus Present Perfect
Using this 15 question activity learners practice using the past and present perfect forms of verbs. This would be a great learning exercise for use with students in both upper elementary and older grades.
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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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QUIZ 5A: Irregular Verbs (Group 1)
In this irregular verb worksheet, students write the past tense of 12 irregular verbs. They complete 7 sentences using the past tense of the verbs they formed at the top of the page.
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Dropped Endings and Verb Tense Worksheet 1
In this grammar learning exercise, students rewrite a paragraph changing it from present tense to past tense. Students check for omitted endings from nouns as well.
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Verb Tense Practice Worksheet
Reinforce the indicative, negative and interrogative verb tenses with this straightforward worksheet. Middle schoolers use three parts of a sentence to construct new sentences in each verb tense. A reference section provides exmaples of...
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Learning Verbs 1
In this grammar activity, students complete a table of plural and singular verb tenses for the following verbs: be, go, do, have, see, and eat. The verb tenses to be filled in include: present simple, past simple, present continuous,...
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Quiz 9: Simple Past vs. Past Progressive
In this grammar worksheet, students complete the sentences by changing the word in the parenthesis to the past progressive or the simple past tense. There are 10 sentences to complete on this worksheet.
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Irregular Past Participles
In this irregular past participles worksheet, students examine 30 verbs and identify the irregular past participles and the past tense forms of each of them.
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Time words/Tenses Review
In this time words and verb tenses worksheet, students respond to 42 questions that require them to correct the verb tense and time word mistakes in the 42 sentences.
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Verb Tense Review
In this verb tense review worksheet, students learn about different verb tenses: simple present, present progressive, simple past, past progressive, present perfect, present perfect progressive, and simple future. They answer 32...
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Irregular Verbs I
In this grammar worksheet, students answer ten questions with yes by using the past tense of each verb in each question. Students then write the past tense for ten verbs.
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Verb Form Worksheet 2
In this grammar worksheet, students write a verb form that goes with the underlined auxiliary verb in five sentences and then write a past-tense auxiliary verb in five additional sentences.