ESL Kid Stuff
Past Tense Activities - Irregular Verbs: Part 1
As part of a series of resources designed for English learners, a language arts lesson plan prompts kid engage in activities and exercises that focus on the past tense of irregular verbs.
ESL Kid Stuff
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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Verb Tense Review: the Importance of Time
When you ask a fourth grader to write a sentence in the past perfect progressive tense, there might be some confusion. But with a presentation that features several different verb tenses, along with examples and a handy timeline, your...
ESL Kid Stuff
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.
ESL Kid Stuff
Past Tense Activities - Irregular Verbs: Part 2
The second part of a two-part lesson on irregular past tense verbs prompts language learners to add four more verbs to the list of twelve they have been working with.
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Test on Simple Past Tense
In this simple past tense activity, 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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ESL: Simple Past Tense and Questions
In this ESL simple past tense and questions activity, students read a set of questions in the past tense and write the positive and negative sentence answers.
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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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Simple Past Tense: "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
In this simple present tense instructional activity, students use fill in blanks in the story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" with simple past tense verbs. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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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, worksheet, 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.
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Irregular Past Tense Verbs
In this irregular past tense verbs instructional activity, students fill in blanks in sentences using past simple tense. Pictures accompany sentences; ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Verbs in Simple Past Tense "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
In this simple past tense instructional activity, students fill in blanks with simple past verbs to complete sentences about "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Past Simple
In this past simple verb tenses worksheet, students read six sentences and then complete the other two sentences requested in each set of sentences. Students fill in either the positive, negative or question form of each of the six past...
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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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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ESL-Simple Past and Progressive Review
In this ESL tense worksheet, students write the past tense of a set of present tense phrases, then do the same for a set of positive to negative phrases.
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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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Exercise on Simple Past
In this English grammar learning exercise, students focus on using the simple past tense. Students complete 11 fill in the blank questions and self check on this interactive web page.
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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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Simple Past Tense-Questions with Interrogative
For this simple past tense worksheet, learners use words and phrases given to form questions in simple past tense. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Irregular Verbs Group 7
With a simple fill-in-the blank format, this learning exercise provides a quick review of past tense verbs. The format and sentence content seem appropriate for older students.It could be used in an ESL class.
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ESL: Simple Past: Regular and Irregular Verbs
In this ESL verb tense worksheet, students type the correct form of a given verb in boxes to correctly complete a paragraph. Students may click on button for help and immediate feedback.
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ESL Past Simple or Present Perfect? Verb Tense Worksheet
In this ESL past simple or present perfect verb tense worksheet, students choose the correct form of the verb given in brackets to complete 23 sentences.