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Interactive
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Past Tense Verbs

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this interactive grammar learning exercise, students listen to a musical clip of the Beatles song "No Reply" and fill in the missing words in the lyrics. Each word is a past tense verb. There are 20 fill-in's to complete.
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Interactive
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English Exercise - Past Simple Affirmative

For Students 8th - 11th
In this past simple verb tense interactive worksheet, students watch a video fo Paul McCartney's, "Yesterday." They fill in 9 blanks in the lyrics of the song, They write the past simple form of 25 verbs. They submit their answers using...
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Interactive
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Modal Verbs

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this verbs online interactive worksheet, students choose the most appropriate modal verb that grammatically completes 10 sentences.
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Lesson Plan
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Narrating in Simple Past with Video

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students practice in constructing simple past tense forms and checking for subject verb agreement.
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Lesson Plan
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Talking About the Past

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore communications by discussing deceased individuals. In this past tense instructional activity, students analyze which verbs to use when speaking of a person who is no longer living. Students read a story about the race...
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Monkey and Rabbit Together

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Engage young ones and explain grammar with the folk tale Monkey and Rabbit Together. Using a list of verbs from the story, young readers work on verb participles and proper speech habits. The story itself is not included. Social studies...
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Worksheet
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Never Been to Spain, A Lesson on the Present Perfect Tense

For Students 4th - 7th
In this song lesson worksheet, students learn about the song Never Been to Spainby Hoyt Axton. They learn about the song's background and the grammar and vocabulary in the song. Students answer 5 questions about that song.
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Worksheet
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Song Lessons Fundamentals of English Grammar 3rd Edition

For Students 4th - 5th
In this Song learning exercise, students listen to the song once and describe the singer's attitude. The students listen to the song one more time and list one yes/no question and all the future and imperative forms that they hear....
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Worksheet
Usborne Publishing Ltd

Little Red Riding Hood Worksheet

For Students 1st - 3rd
Designed to be used after a reading of The Little Red Riding Hood, this worksheet asks kids to match thought bubbles with pictures, to order events, and to form the past tense of selected verbs.
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TPR is a Valuable Tool!

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students, at the beginning ESL proficiency level, participate in Total Physical Response activities in order to learn the present continuous and past tense, sentence structure and word order in English.
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Lesson Plan
Classics for Kids

"Mars" from The Planets

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
Gustav Holst's The Planets provide young musicians an opportunity to examine how composers can create a suite: a collection of smaller pieces grouped to explore a single topic. After listening to "Jupiter," they examine "Mars" in detail,...
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Muslim Arab/Spanish Connection

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders watch the video, 'El Cid.' They participate in teacher-led discussion about the beliefs, customs, goals, and heroes of both Spaniards and Moors. They create and present an artifact to the class showing the results of their...
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Lesson Plan
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Writing a Storybook

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore language arts by creating their own stories in class. In this book making lesson, students read the story City Pig in class and create storyboard illustrations in order to analyze the story. Students utilize these...
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Lesson Plan
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Listening for Meaning: Same Sound

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students listen to a taped conversation to help them learn the meaning of the contraction "d" with the words "had" and "would".