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Speaking Practice
Review the past and present tense! Two short speaking practices are included on this worksheet. The speaker pairs up with a partner to practice the first activity and finds a new partner to practice the second activity.
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Avoir, Être, et Le Passé Composé
The lesson begins with direct instruction: how and when do we use avoir and être to form the past tense? After identifying the verbs that use either avoir or être, French learners write about five things they did the week prior. Then, in...
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Jazz in America
Students participate in a class discussion about jazz music, compare improvisation with regular conversion, listen to various jazz musicians and compare and contrast their individual sounds.
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Sequence of Events
Your intermediate and advanced learners can expand their conversation skills when they learn how to express multiple past events in the same sentence. This reference guide provides helpful commentary, examples, and translations.
Illustrative Mathematics
Pennies to Heaven
Even though pennies seem to be relatively thin, stack enough of them into a single stack, and you could have quite a high stack. Enough so, that the final result can be a surprise to you as well as your class. This activity centers...
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A Look Into the Past
Students create a timeline that is broken down into significant events that are divided into decades. They participate in open discussion and create some open ended questions to stimulate further conversation.
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Speaking Practice- Past Tense Review
In this speaking practice learning exercise, students collaborate with a classmate. Students finish the conversation sentences any way they like.
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Conversation with _______
After choosing a famous person your learners admire, they write a scene where they pretend to meet their chosen person. They identify a specific event they'd like to discuss with them, and write a dialogue detailing their fictitious...
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Before the Tsunami
Students practice their conversation and writing skills as they strengthen their ability to talk and write about the past. In this ESL lesson, students narrate a series of past events using past simple verb forms. Students then discuss...
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Grammar Games and Activities
Thirty pages of grammar activities? Your young grammarians will be well versed in the parts of speech, basic verb tenses, and much more after completing even a handful of these exercises.
MENSA Education & Research Foundation
Magical Musical Tour: Using Lyrics to Teach Literary Elements
Language arts learners don't need a lecture about poetry; they listen to poetry every day on the radio! Apply skills from literary analysis to famous songs and beautiful lyrics with a lesson plan about literary devices. As class...
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Reporter Rights vs. Legal Access...
Students explore cases that have occurred in the past in which reporters refuse to reveal their confidential conversations with government sources and investigate the status of the current bills in Congress. Students use this information...
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ESL Simple Past Tense of the Verb To Be- Fill-In-The-Blank Worksheet
In this ESL simple past of the verb, to be, instructional activity, 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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ESL Simple Past Verb Tense- Yes/No Questions
In this ESL simple past tense verb worksheet, students look at 8 pictures before they answer the yes/no questions. They use the simple past tense of the verbs.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Family Time: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 5)
Support English language development with a family-themed unit consisting of a series of lessons designed to get your scholars moving, looking, speaking, writing, and listening. Conversation topics include birthdays, family...
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Conversation Completions
For this conversation completions worksheet, students choose phrases and sentences to complete communication sentences. Students determine four fill in the blank answers.
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Simple Past Sentences
In this simple past activity, students will focus on usage of the past tense. Students will complete 7 matching questions by looking at the pictures in one column and matching them with the correct verb in the second column. Then...
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Simple Past Survey
In this simple past ESL worksheet, students will focus on answering questions using the simple past tense. Students will respond to 8 simple past questions by responding in the positive or the negative.
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Past Simple 2
In this ESL question answering worksheet, students examine 7 picture clues and read the questions next to them. Students answer each question in a complete sentences using a past simple verb form.
Civil War Trust
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Through a careful reading and examination of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, scholars take part in grand conversations about the novel's contents, slavery, and the impact the book had on it. Furthermore, learners analyze an...
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Hero or Tyrant: Connecting Beethoven’s Third Symphony to Napoleon, Part One
The second and third movements of the Eroica, Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, provides listeners with an opportunity to connect to French Revolution and to Napoleon Bonaparte. As they listen to the music, individuals draw what their ears...
Keep Your Children Safe
Fleeting Happiness
Shed light onto the subject of happiness with a instructional activity that focuses on how the emotion—much like other emotions—does not last forever. Scholars read brief passages and answer nine short-answer questions that examine their...
US National Archives
Inaugural Quiz!
Inauguration Day is a time-honored tradition to celebrate the transition between presidential inaugurations. How much do you know about the history of the ceremony itself? High schoolers test knowledge about Inauguration Day with an...
Stanford University
Ruby Bridges
A two-part lesson features Civil Rights hero, Ruby Bridges. Part one focuses on the heroic actions of Ruby Bridges then challenges scholars to complete a Venn diagram in order to compare themselves to her. Part two begins with a...