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Sit or Set
In this sit or set worksheet, students choose the correct word to complete the sentences. Students complete 8 sentences with the word sit or set.
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Misused Verbs: Can/May
In this misused verbs worksheet, students insert the words can, was able to, may, or might into the sentences. Students complete 10 sentences total on this worksheet.
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Lay/Lie
In this lay or lie instructional activity, students choose the correct word to complete the sentences. Students choose lay or lie to complete 18 sentences.
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Sit or Set
For this sit or set worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with either the word sit or set. Students fill in the blanks to 20 sentences total.
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Misused Verbs: Lie/Lay
For this misused verbs worksheet, students insert the words lie or lay into the sentences. Students complete 10 sentences total on this worksheet.
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Using Reported Speech
Students fine tune their communication skills to include expressing the ideas of others, as well as their own opinions. They must practice a number of times before feeling comfortable using them in every day conversations.
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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.
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Reducing Adjective Clauses Part 2
In this reducing adjective clauses part 2 worksheet, learners read the explanation for shortening a relative (adjective) clause with an active voice verb, then interactively completes 10 sentences by reducing the modifying clause to a...
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Verbs with School House Rock
In this verbs instructional activity, students choose the correct words to fill in the blanks for School House Rock. Students complete 16 lines total.
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A real or unreal situation?
In this yes, no, or maybe learning exercise, students answer yes, no, or maybe to the sentences after considering if the sentence really happened or not. Students complete 6 problems.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Level 2-- Telephone Communication
Students, after reviewing an extensive vocabulary list on the board, practice, after seeing the teacher model an example of dialogue, requesting operator assistance or 911 with a partner.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Past and Present
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explains the difference between past and present and includes a sorting exercise, video content, and assessment.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Verb Tense Handout [Pdf]
This is a four-page "Verb Tense" handout from Nesbitt - Johnston Writing Center, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, which focuses on the proper tenses to use when writing about literature and when writing about science. I explains present,...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Verb Tense Activities
This site provides several worksheets that require students to analyze the verb tenses used in sentences. Students will enjoy the "pirates" theme as they identify verbs, verb phrases, and verb tenses.
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: Be Verb Past and Present
Twenty sentences with blanks where a "be" verb should be. Students choose which verb fits correctly into the context of the sentence. Correct answers are provided for any that are missed, and a percentage score is kept and displayed at...
Quia
Quia: Challenge Board: Verb Tense
In this one or two player game, students select categories (past, present, future, past progressive, present progressive) and point values for each question. After the selection, they type in the required tense to fill in each sentence...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Sequence of Tenses
This Purdue University tutorial covers active and passive voices through simple examples.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Verbs: The 12 Basic English Tenses
Information about verb tenses and links to additional information about present, past, and future tenses.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Using the Correct Verb Tense
Verb tense is used to show when an action occurs, whether it is in the past, the present, or the future. [0:56]
Other
Isabel's Esl Site: Past Simple Tense
The English past simple is presented clearly, with examples and exercises. ESL students could use this site on their own. Some guidance in Spanish.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Verb Tenses: Grammar Rules
This page explains the three major verb tenses: past, present, and future with examples. It also offers links to information about each of these as well as the perfect, continuous, and perfect continuous of each.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: A Quiz in Identifying Tenses
In this 10 question quiz, students match names of English tenses in one column with sentences that contain those verb tenses (written in all capital letters) in another column by typing the number of the sentence in the boxes provided.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Verb Tenses
This slideshow lesson focuses on 12 verb tenses by providing background and examples of each. The 12 verb tenses are as follows: present, present continuous, present perfect, present perfect continuous, past, past continuous, past...
Quia
Quia: Recognizing Verb Tenses
To earn fame and fortune in this game, name the correct tense used in each sentence by selecting it from the four options given. Both Java and HTML versions are provided.