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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.
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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 irregular verbs.
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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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Thanksgiving Lesson
Practice using proper verb tenses in the spirit of Thanksgiving! Learners are given holiday photographs as prompts to create oral and written sentences in a targeted verb tense.
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Past Perfect
Middle schoolers read fifteen sentences and complete them with the verb in past simple, past progressive, or past perfect simple. They complete an online grammar activity practicing verb tenses.
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Verb Tenses - Present and Past Tense Verbs
In this grammar worksheet, young scholars read about the meaning of present and past tense verbs. They replace the present tense verbs in 10 sentences with past tense verbs. They write the sentences over with the present tense verbs but...
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Present Perfect or Past Simple Tense?
Does the sentence require the present perfect or the past simple tense? Meant to be an online resource, you could easily print this to complete in the classroom. Learners fill in each blank with the correct tense. Ten questions are listed.
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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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Yellow Submarine
Here's a clever twist on a grammar lesson. Kids listen to the Beatles' happy children's song, "Yellow Submarine" and then identify the simple present and past tense verbs in the lyrics.
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English in Mind Unit 15: Grammar Practice
In this grammar practice worksheet, students match infinitives with their past form, complete sentences with adverbs, and chose the correct verb to put in a sentence. Twenty nine fill in the blank questions are asked.
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Past Continuous Tense
In this interactive grammar worksheet, students type in the correct past continuous tense of the given words into each of the ten sentences.
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Modals: Can, May and Will Verbs: Present Tense
Cover can, may, will, and shall with this lesson on using modals in the present tense. Starting off with a warm-up activity, the resource includes a text to analyze, examples of modals, and exercises with answers. The language in the...
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English in Mind Unit 15: Grammar Practice
Use this grammar worksheet to have learners complete twenty eight fill in the blank sentences in the past present tense. They also arrange words to complete a sentence, and change a sentence from positive to negative.
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The Present Perfect Tense and the Prepositions "For" and "Since"
In this present perfect grammar worksheet, students complete 10 sentences using "for" or "since." There is instruction provided on this page.
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Listening and Punctuation and Grammar, oh my!
A great way to practice listening, punctuation, and proper grammar is playing this great partner activity. Learners must work together to read and write different sentences.
Azar Grammar
Song Lessons: I Wanna Be Like You
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy's swing rendition of Robert and Richard Sherman's "I Wanna Be Like You" offers young grammarians an opportunity to examine verb tenses, noun clauses, gerunds, and prepositions.
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English in Mind Unit 1: Grammar Practice
In this English grammar worksheet, students complete sentences in the present simple, present continuous, and past simple tenses. Students conjugate verbs in the correct form. Thirty eight fill in the blank questions are asked.
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English in Mind Unit 5: Grammar Practice
In this English grammar worksheet, students select the correct verb to use in the past simple. Students also choose between wasn't or weren't, and was or were in order to complete a sentence. Thirty three fill in the blank questions...
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Simple Past Or Past Continuous?
In this simple past or past continuous worksheet, students choose which verb tense, simple past or past continuous, that completes ten sentences grammatically correct.
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Past Perfect--Questions
In this grammar worksheet, 3rd graders click on the correct statements that affirm the scenarios given. This is an interactive worksheet that focuses on the past perfect tense. There are ten questions.
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Past Continuous Tense - Questions
In this online/interactive creating interrogative sentences worksheet, students use groups of words that include the subjects, present tense verbs, and prepositional phrases to create questions with past continuous tense verbs. Students...
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Past Continuous Tense - Negative
In this online/interactive past tense worksheet, students use verbs in parenthesis to fill in the blanks and change the sentences to the negative past tense. Students fill in 10 blanks and check their answers by clicking on the "Check...
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Developing Grammar
Students work on grammar with annual events and past tenses respectively. They drill and practice independently and in small groups. Students' extend their linguistic precision when talking about their lives.
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Past Simple or Progressive
Students complete an online grammar quiz using the past simple or progressive forms of verbs. In this grammar quiz lesson, students read the sentences and complete them using the past simple forms or progressive forms verbs in parenthesis.