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Simple Past Tense: was/were
In this simple past activity, students rewrite sentences using the simple past forms, write adverbs, fill in the blanks with was and were, and more. Students complete 5 activities.
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Quiz: 3B: using-ed
In this grammar activity on tense, students complete a set of 10 sentences, filling in the correct form of the verb, [simple present or simple past].
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Quiz 3A: Using -ed
For this verbs worksheet, students read ten sentences that have the verbs missing. Students use the verbs in parentheses in the simple present or simple past to complete the sentences.
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Present Perfect Grammar
In this verb tenses worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 12 sentences with either the simple past or the present perfect of the verb in parentheses. Students then correct verb tense errors in 25 sentences.
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Information and Communication Technology
Students use correct English to give an oral report on the pyramids of Egypt. They focus on correctly using the past tense to describe history.
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Words In the News Carnival Celebrations
Students complete vocabulary building and verb tense activities before reading an online article. They complete worksheets and an online quiz before writing a story about a hypothetical situation in which they have money stolen.
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Present Perfect Grammar Review
In this present perfect worksheet, students fill in the blanks of sentences with the correct form of a verb so that it is present perfect. Students correct sentences to make the verbs in present perfect.
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Describing Graphs
In this graphs worksheet, learners fill in the blanks to sentences to describe graphs. Students complete 19 sentences total on this worksheet.
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Present Perfect Practice
In this present perfect verb review worksheet, students fill in the 40 blanks in 9 questions with the appropriate forms of the verbs listed in parenthesis.
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When Can I Use "When"?
In this language arts worksheet, students practice the correct use of "when" with past and future tense verbs. Students read examples of correct usage, them write 10 sentences each for: past continuous verbs, definite future plans and...
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How Sure Are You?
In this grammar activity, students will work in small groups to decide if the sentences are grammatically correct or not. Students will wager bets on how sure they are that a sentence is correct and points will be given to the teams.
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ESL: Forming Simple Past Tense
In this ESL worksheet, students fill in the correct form of given verbs to complete a simple paragraph. Students may click on either a "check answers" or "show a letter for help" button.
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Present Perfect – Have You Ever?
Designed for an English language development class, this instructional activity is more like a treasure hunt. Learners walk around the room looking for others who have done a certain thing, like ride a horse. They use these prompts to...
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Time Expressions with Hacer
The verb hacer has many purposes in the Spanish language, one of which is as part of time expressions. Your class can learn how to use hacer in the preterite, present perfect continuous, and past perfect continuous to express different...
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Narratives in the Simple Past
Students recognize the simple past forms in a folktale. They supply some of these forms when asked
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Verb Masquerade: Verbals Don't Act Like Verbs
In this verb worksheet, students read 6 sentences, look at the underlined words in each one and decide whether each underlined word is a gerund, infinitive or participle. Students use the word jump to write a simple sentence for one of...
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ESL: Past Continuous or Simple Past?
In this tense learning exercise, 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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Using Simple Past Tense
In this simple past tense worksheet, students change sentences to the simple past tense, 10 sentences total. Sentences are about a pumpkin festival in New Hampshire.
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Simple Past or Past Continuous
In this ESL worksheet, students focus on the past tense. Students complete 16 exercises choosing to use either the simple past or past continuous tense and using the interactive key when finished.
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Asda in a Pickle After Rat Found in Gherkins
Practice reading and speaking through a simulation activity in which learners role-play as store managers and angry customers. The class also reviews present and past-perfect tenses. Extensions and a print-friendly handout are provided.
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Present Perfect Progressive-Negative Sentences
In this past perfect simple tense worksheet, students use words and phrases given to form questions in the tense. Answers may be submitted online for review. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Simple Past Tense 1/2: exercises for beginners
In this was and were learning exercise, students fill in the blanks with was and were, answer short answer questions, match what the speaker says to the pictures, and more. Students complete 4 tasks total.
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Present Perfect
In this present perfect worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with simple or past tense forms of verbs by completing the sentences or choosing the correct word. Students complete 23 problems total.
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Speaking Skills - Asking Questions
Students focuses on the question form and helping students gain skill while switching tenses in the question form. They improve speaking confidence when using quesion forms.