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The Past Tense -- Simple Past
A quick review of the past tense begins this instructional activity. It focuses on the simple past, and has a diagram to identify past actions in visual terms. Adding -ed or -ied is explained, and the past forms of to be are clarified....
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.
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Test on Simple Past Tense
For 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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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...
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Simple Past Tense: Negatives and Questions
In this simple past tense: negatives and questions worksheet, students read the explanations and examples, then interactively complete 10 exercises using negatives and questions in sentences with immediate online feedback.
Vita Education Services
Past Continuous Game
Your pupils were studying the past continuous when you realized that they could benefit from this game! Learners roll a die and complete the sentence they land on. They will have a chance to begin and end sentences.
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Past Time
Review important grammatical rules. Focusing on the past tense, learners practice concepts that are used to form sentences in the past tense. This could a good activity at a center.
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Wish + Simple Past
Everyone loves taking a trip to the computer lab! Bring your English language learners to this online resource to have them work with wish and the past simple tense. They read a few example sentences before jumping in! The first activity...
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Simple Past: Yes/No Questions
In this online interactive grammar skills instructional activity, students answer 5 fill in the blank questions that require them to write statements as questions. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
Pearson
The Simple Past: Yes/No and WH- Questions
Were you in an accident? How did it happen? Pupils practice asking and answering questions with a language arts slideshow presentation. As they work on describing past events to explain a current condition, individuals take a look at the...
Pearson
Past Time
How do you talk about things that have already happened? What about things that happened in the past and are still happening? Explore past, past perfect, and past progressive verb tenses in a helpful slideshow presentation.
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Using the Verb "To be" Exercise 07
In this verb tense worksheet, students complete each sentence using the simple past tense form of the verb "to be." Students complete 10 questions.
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Test on Simple Past Tense
In this simple past tense instructional activity, students write the past forms of a set of irregular verbs, complete a table, write and convert sentences in simple past, fill in blanks with 'was' or 'were' and write questions. Answers...
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Simple Past Tense: was/were
In this simple past learning exercise, students rewrite sentences using the simple past forms, write adverbs, fill in the blanks with was and were, and more. Students complete 5 activities.
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Past Simple Tense
In this simple past tense worksheet, students choose the correct word, fill in the blanks to sentences, and more. Students complete 26 questions.
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.
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Decoding the First Alphabets: Not as Simple as A, B, C
Explore early writing systems and their significance in understanding the development of past civilizations. In groups, learners research early writing systems and then present their findings to the rest of the class. They teach their...
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Preterite: BE + -ING
In this preterit worksheet, students read and discuss how to use correct tense verbs in sentences. Students choose and fill in twenty-two blanks with appropriate simple past verb tenses to make each sentence grammatically correct.
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Using the Verb "To be" Exercise 6
In this using the verb "to be" activity, students use the correct form of the verb "to be" in the simple present tense. Students complete 10 sentences.
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Past Simple and Past Continuous
In this past simple and past continuous worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences by choosing the correct word or filling in the correct tense. Students complete 6 exercises.
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Past Simple vs. Past Perfect
For this past simple and past perfect worksheet, students add sentences and put verbs into the correct form. Students complete 2 activities total.
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Revision- Past Simple Tense
In this past simple tense learning exercise, students fill in the blanks to sentences with was, wasn't, were, or weren't, and write the past simple forms of the irregular and regular verbs. Students complete 3 activities.
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The Past Progressive
In this verb tenses worksheet, students change the verb in ten sentences from simple past to past progressive form. Students will need to use an auxiliary verb of being.
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English Exercises: Simple Past and Present Perfect
For this online interactive English worksheet, students respond to 28 fill in the blank questions that require them to use auxilary modals appropriately. Students may submit their answers to be scored.