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The Past Tense -- Simple Past
A quick review of the past tense begins this instructional activity. It focuses on the simple past, and has a diagram to identify past actions in visual terms. Adding -ed or -ied is explained, and the past forms of to be are clarified....
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Past Time
Review important grammatical rules. Focusing on the past tense, learners practice concepts that are used to form sentences in the past tense. This could a good activity at a center.
St. Louis Community College
Verb Tenses
Help your pupils keep their simple, perfect, and progressive tenses straight with a reference page. Each verb tense is paired with a definition and at least one sample sentence.
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Past Tense Subject/Verb Agreement
In this past tense subject/verb agreement worksheet, learners determine verbs in sentences. In this multiple choice worksheet, students complete ten sentences.
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The Imperfect Tense
Take a trip to the computer lab or flip your class and use this online resource. Spanish language learners can read the included information about the imperfect and practice with the online interactive exercises that are linked on the...
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English Exercises: Past Tense Verbs (Online Interactive)
In this verb forms worksheet, students complete a 44 question multiple choice online interactive quiz in which the correct past tense verb is selected to finish each sentence.
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Expressing Past Time - Part 1
Here is an incredibly-thorough, 99-slide presentation which covers many rules of grammar. The focus is on present and past tenses of verbs, irregular verbs, and how to properly use them. The colorful PowerPoint has dozens of examples for...
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Verb Tenses
Why is it so important to have consistent verb tense when writing? Discuss some of the implications with your middle and high school classes. Examples are provided, and both incorrect and corrected sentences are shown. There's a lot of...
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Past Tense: Was and Were
In this verb tense worksheet, students fill in blanks in a set of 10 sentences with either "was" or "were" to correctly complete.
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Past Tense, Present Perfect, Past Perfect
Support grammar instruction with a worksheet that focuses on verb tenses. With two exercises, multiple choice and fill in the blank, class members identify correct tenses in order to show understanding of proper sentence completion.
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Test on Simple Past Tense
For this simple past tense worksheet, students write the past tense forms of irregular verbs, complete tables and sentences in simple past and fill in blanks using 'was' or 'were.' Answers may be submitted online. ESL appropriate but not...
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Simple Past Tense: Negatives and Questions
In this simple past tense: negatives and questions worksheet, students read the explanations and examples, then interactively complete 10 exercises using negatives and questions in sentences with immediate online feedback.
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Past Tense Test
For this past tense verbs worksheet, students listen to ten sentences as they are dictated and listen to the ending sound of the past tense verbs. Students mark the correct ending sound (d, t, id) on a chart. Students write the past...
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Past Tense Test: Basic English Grammar
In this verb/past tense worksheet, students review the ending sounds of past tense verbs. Students listen to a sentence, fill in the missing verb, then mark the correct ending sound on a chart. Next, students form the past tense of 10...
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Irregular Past Tense Verbs
In this verb activity, students focus on those verbs that have an irregular past tense. Students complete 15 fill in the blank sentences choosing the correct word from the word box.
Pearson
Past Time
How do you talk about things that have already happened? What about things that happened in the past and are still happening? Explore past, past perfect, and past progressive verb tenses in a helpful slideshow presentation.
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Past Experiences-Past Tense Verbs
In this past-tense sentence construction activity, 4th graders rewrite sentences practicing the past tense of "be". They rewrite sentences in the negative, reorder sentences to make questions and write a paragraph.
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English Exercises: Present Perfect and Simple Past Tense
In this present perfect and simple past tense learning exercise, 7th graders interactively select the correct word to complete 16 sentences, then select the sentences with the correct usage, with immediate online feedback.
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Verb To Be: Past Tense
In this verb tense worksheet, students complete a 10 question online interactive multiple choice exercise on the correct use of past tense verbs of being.
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El Imperfecto
You class can learn all about how to form the imperfect with -ar and -er/-ir verbs. The slides do cover the only verbs that are irregular in the tense and the situations for which you use the imperfect (plus examples). Go over the...
Oxford University Press
Language Focus and Vocabulary Unit 4.1: Past Continuous and Prepositions
Study verb tense, prepositions, and geographical features from around the word in one activity. After choosing between was and were in several sentences, as well as deciding whether they should use the past tense or past continuous...
Savvas Learning
Verbs: Past
The focus of this 38-page packet is on past tense verbs. Packed with games, activities, exercises, and drills that can be adapted to any level, the resource deserves a place in your ESL/ELD curriculum library.
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Was or Were
Was and were are verbs used for present and past tense. Use this printable handout to challenge your class; they must choose which verb fits correctly into 16 different sentences. Note: Answers are provided.
Pearson
Past Progressive and Simple Past
How do you describe something that was happening in the past? Use a presentation on past progressive tense to assist your class in finding the correct way to tell a story or write a description.