Curated OER
For/Since: indicating a quantity of time vs. a specific time
In this for or since worksheet, learners fill in for or since for sentences about quantity of time and also fill in expressions after the words for or since. Students complete 15 sentences.
Curated OER
Reading Comprehension Exercise
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read paragraphs and fill in the blanks with words given and correct mistakes. Students complete 2 activities.
Curated OER
Reading and the Appreciation of Style
Students are introduced to hurricanes by answering questions. They practice using new vocabulary words. They work together in pairs to compare the words used in different levels of the text.
Curated OER
Sit or Set
For this sit or set worksheet, students choose the correct word to complete the sentences. Students complete 8 sentences with the word sit or set.
Curated OER
Being/Been
In this being and been instructional activity, students read about how to use being and been correctly. They choose the correct word to complete the sentence with either being or been. Students complete 10 sentences.
Curated OER
World Literature: The Inferno Essay
In this literature analysis worksheet, studnets read Dante's Inferno and write an introduction with a thesis statement. Students give a synopsis of the comedy and then write an essay. Students select from the five options to complete the...
Curated OER
ESL Activity - Beat the Teacher
Students play the game Tick-Tack Toe with the students. Teachers prepare a list of questions for the students, primarily to find out already known knowledge. Students try to beat the teacher at this game.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Past Perfect
This video lesson focuses on the past perfect verb tense; it defines perfect tense, participles, and past perfect. It explains the requirements to form a past perfect tense including the use of the helping verb "had." It offers practice...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Past Perfect Tense
A video lesson explaining the past perfect verb tense, how it is formed, and how it can be utilized within a sentence. [4:06]
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Past Perfect Tense
An explanation with examples of past perfect verb tense in sentences.
Other
Real Fast Spanish: How to Use the Spanish Past Perfect Tense
This article discusses when and how to use the Spanish past perfect verb tense. A past imperfect and past perfect verb conjugations chart for the verb haberand examples of the past perfect verb tenses are included.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Past Perfect
This lesson introduces the past perfect tense and how it is used. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow and provides review questions over the lesson's content.
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Past Perfect
Excellent explanation of the formation of the past perfect tense. Free, interactive activities include an online quiz and test for mastery. The printer friendly page makes a nice review master for students keeping a notebook.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Past Perfect Continuous (Past Perfect Progressive) Tense
An explanation with examples of past perfect progressive verb tense in sentences.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How to Use Perfect Verb Tenses
The three perfect verb tenses show actions that have already been completed. [0:47]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Past Perfect Continuous
This slideshow lesson explains the past perfect continuous verb tense; it defines it, discusses its purpose, explains how to create it, and provides examples.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Perfect Verb Aspect
If a verb action is completed in the past, it's in the 'perfect aspect'. Test your knowledge!
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sequence of Verb Tenses
This grammar page teaches the sequence of verbs, including simple present and past, present and past perfect, future, future perfect, and infinitive verbs. Includes chart and examples. L.11-12.4b Patterns/changes
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,...
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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Choosing a Past Tense
This slideshow focuses on choosing a past tense; it lists the four types of past tense: simple past, past continuous, past perfect, past perfect continuous. It defines each, explains its purpose, provides an example, and discusses when...
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Verbs: Past Perfect Quiz
Choose the correct past perfect tense verb to complete each of the ten sentences in this Quiz. Answers can be checked upon completion.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: The Present Perfect Tense
Review examples and then complete three online exercises dealing with the present perfect tense. English translations are provided for some of the examples. The first exercise provides verb infinitives as cues for the present perfect...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Past Perfect Continuous
This lesson introduces the past perfect continuous tense and how it is used. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow and provides review questions over the lesson's content.