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Actions - Present Continuous
What are you doing? Why, studying the present continuous tense, of course. Language learners engage in activities and exercises that provide them with practice crafting and answering questions using the present continuous tense.
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Past Continuous Tense
For this past continuous tense worksheet, learners choose the correct form of the past continuous tense in ten multiple choice sentences.
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Past Continuous- Sentence Completion
In this ESL past continuous worksheet, students read 10 sentences that are incomplete. Students finish the sentences any way they like, using correct verb tenses.
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Simple Past or Past Continuous- A Dialog
In this verbs learning exercise, students complete a 20 question on-line interactive exercise about simple past or past continuous verb forms. The learning exercise is in the form of a dialog.
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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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Integrating Past Continuous
Students recognize the situations in which the use of the past continuous would be beneficial in writing. They focus on the use of the past continuous as a descriptive tense when something important occurred.
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ESL: Past Continuous or Simple Past?
In this tense worksheet, students use a given verb and re-write sentences using its correct form: continuous or simple past. Links to additional resources are given.
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A VIP - Present Perfect Simple and Continuous
Here is an interesting way to teach the present perfect and present perfect continuous. Individuals practice these verb tenses as well as the simple past by asking a partner questions about an imaginary biography. The biography is...
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ESL: Verb Tense Activity
In this ESL verb tense activity, students fill in blanks in sentences using the correct form of a verb shown in brackets., 10 sentences total.
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Past Tense Worksheet
In this ESL past tense verb worksheet, students read 10 sentences and using the verb in parentheses, fill the blank with either the past continuous, past perfect simple, or past perfect continuous.
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ESL Test-Verb Tense
In this ESL testing worksheet, learners fill in blanks with correct present continuous verbs, write sentences correctly, and fill in present simple and past tense verbs.
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ESL: Continuous and Past Simple
In this ESL verb tense worksheet, students select the verbs that correctly fill in blanks in sentences and put a set of pictures in the correct order.
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Verbs & Tenses
Students in an ESL classroom practice using verbs and the correct tense. In teams, they work together to make a sentence using the same verb and tense clue word. They read their sentences aloud and gain points on the correctness of it.
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Verbs & Tenses
Students illustrate known tenses with tense clue words. They select a range of verbs. Teachers divide the class into teams. The idea is for each team to make the longest and perfectly constructed sentence. Words and scores are tallied on...
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ESL: Present, Present Simple, Past Simple Tense
In this ESL worksheet, students write questions for given statements, and complete a word search of given verbs and a crossword puzzle. A link to audio and additional resources is given.
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Then and Now
Students explain the differences and time relationships between the past simple, present perfect (continuous) and present simple tenses when speaking about the past and present. They use a graphic organizer before speaking.
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Big Grammar Book
With this comprehensive language arts resource in your arsenal, you'll never have to look for another grammar activity! Whether you're teaching kindergartners how to write the upper- and lower-case letters of the alphabet, or helping...
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Time Signifiers - Past or Present Perfect?
Pupils refine their usage of past simple or present perfect. After a lecture/demo, students work in pairs and utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to help them gain practice with time signifiers.
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Banking Grammatically
Twelfth graders identify the different roles involved in banking. They list and create defintions for the different types of banking services offered at a branch office.
Students write sentences using verbs in present and past tenses....
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Reported Speech 1
For this reported speech worksheet, students review and discuss five key directives to choosing the grammatically correct verb in ten sentences.
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Reported Speech 2
In this reported speech worksheet, students review and determine the grammatically correct verb for ten sentences involving different voice tenses.
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TPR is a Valuable Tool!
Learners, at the beginning ESL proficiency level, participate in Total Physical Response activities in order to learn the present continuous and past tense, sentence structure and word order in English.
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Comparing Transportation Systems
Young scholars compare and contrast various forms of transportation. Comparisons are based on the the distance traveled and the student's personal experiences with that form of transport. This lesson plan is intended for students...
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Speaking Skills - Asking Questions
Students improve speaking confidence when using difficult question forms. This lesson focuses on helping students explain how to engage in this kind of social conversation. A worksheet imbedded in this plan provides practice.