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ESL: Practice Using Present Progressive Tense
Small, cartoonish pictures of people expressing emotions and actions (blowing his nose, holding her head and frowning, dancing, smiling) provide the basis for writers to describe the feelings and experiences taking place. Help your ESL...
University of Hawaiʻi
Verb Tense Review: the Importance of Time
When you ask a fourth grader to write a sentence in the past perfect progressive tense, there might be some confusion. But with a presentation that features several different verb tenses, along with examples and a handy timeline, your...
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Verbs: Present Progressive
Explore the present progressive tense with your English language learners. Study the first chart, noticing the verbs that are used. Then use the same six verbs to complete sentences in the second chart.
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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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Present Tense Exercise 21: Review of the Present Progressive Tense
In this present progressive tense activity, students fill in the spaces with the correct form of the verb in present progressive tense. Students complete a paragraph with 16 blanks.
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Language Focus: Present Continuous, Imperatives
What will your class do in the future? What won't they do? Practice the present continuous form for future arrangements (or future progressive tense) with several fill-in-the-blanks and sentence reordering activities.
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Business English at Work: Verb Tense, Voice and Mood-Verbals
Demonstrate the various tenses of irregular and regular verbs. The verbs be, do, and have are charted out for the present tense, past tense, and past and present participles. Likewise, many regular verbs are conjugated into present,...
University of North Carolina
Verb Tenses
Twelve categories of verbs exist in the future tense, ranging from simple present to future perfect progressive, but only three have a place in academic writing. Those three tenses make up the content of an informational handout that...
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Exercise 17: Future Tense
The future perfect progressive tense is tricky! It's almost a tongue-twister in itself. Discuss when this tense is used with your learners, and then study the two examples provided. Eleven sentences are included; your learner must...
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Spelling Rules for the Present Progressive Tense
Help your learners change words to the present progressive tense using this presentation. Using simple words like read, leave, and sit, they add an ing ending properly to a list of words. This is a good way to introduce this topic.
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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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Future Tense
Practice the concept of the future tense using this presentation. In this resource, learners explore the use of shall, will, and going to. This comprehensive exploration would be a useful tool in a middle school classroom.
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Tense Shift
Use this comical slide show with your youngsters to review verb tense and tense shift. A shirtless weight-lifter guides your class through examples on how to correct common errors. There are 22 slides included, and several questions to...
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Using the Present Progressive
What is the present progressive, and how does it change a verb's meaning? There are eight sentences on this worksheet, and each contains a verb already in the present progressive. The pupil studies the bolded word (in present progressive...
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Present Tense Exercise 23
In this present tense exercise, students complete each sentence using the correct from of the simple present tense or present progressive tense. Students complete 10 sentences.
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Present Tense Exercise 24
In this simple present and present progressive tense worksheet, middle schoolers complete a paragraph by filling in the correct form of the verb in the simple present tense or present progressive tense.
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The Present Tense - Present Progressive
In this grammar worksheet, students learn about using the present progressive tense in sentence writing. They then answer 14 questions using what they just learned.
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Present Tense Exercise 15
In this present progressive tense worksheet, students review the example sentences that use the present progressive tense. Students then select the correct present progressive verb to complete the 10 online sentences.
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Present Tense Exercise 16
In this present progressive tense activity, fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb in the present progressive tense. Students complete 10 sentences.
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Present Tense Exercise 18
In this present progressive tense worksheet, students fill in the spaces with the correct form of the verb in the present progressive tense. Students complete 10 sentences.
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Present Tense Exercise 17
For this present progressive tense worksheet, students use the correct form of the verb in the present progressive tense. Students complete 10 questions.
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Present Tense Exercise 19
For this present progressive tense worksheet, students fill in each blank with the correct form of the verb in the present progressive tense.
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Present Tense Exercise 14
In this present tense instructional activity, students complete each sentence using the correct form of the verb in the present progressive tense. Students complete 7 sentences.
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Verbs: Present Activities
In this present tense verbs worksheet, students use pictures and context clues to choose verbs from a word bank and write them in present progressive tense to complete sentences. Students fill in the blanks to complete eight sentences.