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Present Perfect or Past Simple Tense?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
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...
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Grammar Lesson Plan: Simple Past vs. Present Perfect

For Teachers 4th - 10th
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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Past Simple or Past Progressive

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students complete an online grammar quiz for past progressive form or past progressive. In this grammar quiz activity, students read the example sentences and use the past simple or past progressive form of the verbs to complete each...
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Past Simple or Progressive

For Teachers 6th - 7th
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.
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Past Perfect

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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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Comparisons of the Past Simple and Present Perfect Verb Tenses

For Teachers 8th - 11th
In this past simple and present perfect verb tense worksheet, learners study two tables that show the proper use of the verb tenses. They complete 7 sentences by putting the verbs in brackets into the correct verb tense.
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Simple Past and Present Perfect Quiz

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Print this quiz to assess your kids and their understanding of the simple past and present perfect tenses. In the first exercise, learners complete the questions using either tense. (One of the questions has a spelling error-fix this...
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Troubling Tenses – Past Simple vs. ‘going to’ 2

For Teachers 5th - 12th
In this grammar skills worksheet, students will complete 15 sentences in the past simple tense or containing the phrase "going to" by using either "yesterday" or "tomorrow".
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Pictures Are Worth A Thousand Words

For Teachers 1st
First graders write simple sentences based on historical figures they find in pictures. For this simple sentences lesson plan, 1st graders search for pictures in Microsoft Word and write simple sentences about them. These pictures and...
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Adele's ESL Corner: Past Simple Tense-Negative

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this ESL negative tense worksheet, students type the past simple negative tense word that correctly complete sentences. Students may click on a "check answer" link.
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English in Mind Unit 1: Grammar Practice

For Teachers 6th - 7th
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

For Teachers 4th - 5th
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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Verbs; Simple Past (Regular Verbs)-2

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this foreign language worksheet, pupils complete sentences by filling in the blanks. Each sentence contains a hint that gives the student a clue as to the intended final meaning of the sentence.
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Past tense

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this grammar worksheet, students write the correct form of the given verb in the sentence. Students choose to use either the simple past tense or the past progressive tense.
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Avoir, Être, et Le Passé Composé

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The lesson begins with direct instruction: how and when do we use avoir and être to form the past tense? After identifying the verbs that use either avoir or être, French learners write about five things they did the week prior. Then, in...
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Time Signifiers - Past or Present Perfect?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students 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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English in Mind Unit 9: Grammar Practice

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this grammar practice worksheet, students complete thirty eight fill in the blank sentences focusing on the past simple passive form of verbs, and using a, an, or the.
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Present Perfect/Past Tense

For Teachers 5th - 7th
In this grammar quiz worksheet, students read the sentences and select the present perfect or past tense form of the verb to complete the exercises. Students complete an online grammar quiz using present perfect or past tense form of...
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Verb Tense Practice Worksheet

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
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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Adele's ESL Corner: Past Perfect Simple

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this ESL past perfect simple worksheet, students complete sentences with the simple form of past perfect. Students may check answers on line.
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Simple Past Or Past Continuous?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this simple past or past continuous worksheet, pupils choose which verb tense, simple past or past continuous, that completes ten sentences grammatically correct.
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English in Mind Unit 2: Grammar Practice

For Teachers 6th - 7th
In this grammar practice worksheet, students complete sentences in the past continuous tense, make positive sentences negative, identify whether a sentence is written in past simple or past continuous, and form answers from a given...
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Before the Tsunami

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Young scholars practice their conversation and writing skills as they strengthen their ability to talk and write about the past. For this ESL lesson, students narrate a series of past events using past simple verb forms.  Young...
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Thanksgiving Lesson

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
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.