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Using the Simple Present
In this simple present tense learning exercise, students answer a set of 39 questions that relate to a YouTube video; link is given for the video, questions focus on using simple present tense.
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What's Going On? -- Present Progressive in Photos
Magazine photos of people in action provide opportunities for beginning and intermediate English learners to employ the present progressive (continuous) verb tense. Partners describe what people are doing and share their sentences with...
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An Overview of the THEA Writing Test
Prepare your class for the Texas Higher Education Assessment (THEA) or any other upcoming writing test (such as the SAT) with this presentation. Complete with instructions on the composition and rubric of the test, as well as sample...
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Conjugate a Verb Today!
In this conjugating verbs worksheet, students are given definitions for the infinitive, gerund, and past participle forms. Present, past, and future tenses are also identified and defined.
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Present (Be + -ing)
In this present tense worksheet, 7th graders review and discuss how to change verbs to present tense verbs and decide the correct verb to put into six sentences.
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School-Home Links: Correct Verb Usage
In this verb usage worksheet, students complete a section of sentences where they use the present tense of the given verb and a section where they use the past tense of the given verb. Parents or guardians must sign the worksheet.
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Tense Consistency Exercise 2
In this tense consistency worksheet, students are given the beginnings to ten sentences along with a tense in which they must complete the sentence.
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The Past Tense - Past Perfect
In this past perfect tense activity, students practice usage. In this fill in the blank and short answer activity, students write twenty-eight answers.
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Past Continuous Tense - Questions
In this online/interactive creating interrogative sentences worksheet, students use groups of words that include the subjects, present tense verbs, and prepositional phrases to create questions with past continuous tense verbs. Students...
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News Radio Activity
For this news radio worksheet, students read sentences taken from a news radio program and decide if it is in the simple present or present progressive tense. Students complete 20 problems and if it is in the present progressive, they...
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Present Continuous Tense Worksheet
In this present continuous worksheet, students write sentences using the words given in present continuous tense. Students complete this for 10 sentences.
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ESL Writing Questions Using Present Perfect Verb Tense Followed by the Past Simple Form
In this ESL verb tense worksheet, students use 20 nouns that are given on the sheet to write questions that include the present perfect tense of a verb, and follow that up with a question using the past simple verb form.
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Verbs & Tenses
Pupils illustrate known tenses with tense clue words. They select a range of verbs. Teachers divide the class into teams. The idea is for each team to make the longest and perfectly constructed sentence. Words and scores are tallied on...
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Verbs & Tenses
Students in an ESL classroom practice using verbs and the correct tense. In teams, they work together to make a sentence using the same verb and tense clue word. They read their sentences aloud and gain points on the correctness of it.
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Learning Verbs 1
In this grammar instructional activity, students complete a table of plural and singular verb tenses for the following verbs: be, go, do, have, see, and eat. The verb tenses to be filled in include: present simple, past simple, present...
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The Present Continuous Exercise
In this present continuous worksheet, learners change the sentences to be in the present continuous tense. Students complete 12 sentences and write 4 on their own.
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Verb Tense Exercise 12
In this verb tense worksheet, students fill in blanks with the correct tense of verbs in parentheses, using simple past, present perfect or past perfect. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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The Past Simple or The Present Perfect Exercise
For this past simple and past perfect worksheet, students fill in a chart and fill in the blanks to sentences with past simple and present perfect words. Students complete 10 spaces for the chart and 14 sentences.
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Using Modal Verbs to Problem Solve - Discussing a Difficult Situation
Students focus on the use of modal verbs of probability and advice in the past tense while discussing and solving a difficult problem.
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ESL: Present Perfect Simple
In this ESL present perfect simple instructional activity, students use a drop down list to tell the tense of given words/phrases, then fill in blanks to describe a picture, use verbs in present perfect simple tense.
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Simple Past Tense: "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
In this simple present tense learning exercise, students use fill in blanks in the story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" with simple past tense verbs. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Present Perfect Simple-Positive Sentences
In this present perfect simple tense worksheet, students use words and phrases given to form positive sentences using "will." Answers may be submitted online for review. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Past Participle for Infinitive Verbs
In this grammar worksheet, students practice the proper use of past participles by completing 15 sentences. Example: Ben has (drive) 300 miles in the past two days. Answer- driven
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Conjugate a Verb Today Question and Example
For this conjugating verbs worksheet, students study the questions and examples for conjugating verbs in the present, past, and future tense.