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The Future Tense - Future Perfect
In this future tense learning exercise, students complete sentences in different variations of the future tense by filling in the blanks. Students complete 42 sentences.
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Using the Proper Tense
In this grammar worksheet, students fill in the blank using the correct tense. Students are given 24 sentences to practice the skill.
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Verb Tenses
In this verb tense worksheet, students read about 5 different verb tenses: simple present, present progressive, simple past, past progressive and future. This worksheet contains no questions.
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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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Troubling Tenses--Past Simple vs. Present Continuous 1
For this language arts worksheet, students explore the past simple and present continuous verb tenses by completing 15 sentences with the word "tomorrow" or "yesterday."
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ESL: Simple Past Irregular Verbs
In this simple past-irregular verbs worksheet, students find the past tense of given words in a words search puzzle, then write verbs to match pictures and fill in blanks, telling what they did yesterday.
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Verbs: Did or Have Done
Study the present perfect or past simple verb forms with this resource. There are two exercises provided; in the first, budding grammarians complete a set of eight sentences with the correct verb form. In the second, they rewrite a list...
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English Exercises: Present Simple Exercises
Here is a blinking, wiggling interactive online practice exercise in which learners adapt 30 sentences to correctly use the present simple tense. They rewrite negative sentences as affirmatives. They may submit their answers to be scored.
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Present Time: ESL
Review the basics with your ESL students. This presentation covers basic English Grammar focusing specifically on simple present, present progressive, adverbs of frequency, and short answers. This is a content review and intended to...
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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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Understanding the -ED Ending
English is a complex language, so take some time to clarify one aspect that is often confusing for English language learners: the -ed ending. This resource includes information about the different ways the -ed ending is used and provides...
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ELD Lesson Plan: Courage
What is true courage? Your class can explore the answer with these three Houghton-Mifflin stories ("Hatchet," "Passage to Freedom," "Climb or Die," and "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle"), which feature courageous characters and...
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The Past Continuous Exercise
In this verb tenses instructional activity, learners explore the past continuous and the past simple verb tense. Students determine the correct form of the verb to complete each of the nineteen sentences.
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The Three Parts of Verbs: Present, Past and Past Participles
In this verbs worksheet, students underline all the verbs in 6 sentences, list the tense of the verbs on the lines provided, pick 3 action verbs and write the three simple tenses for each one. Students then take those same 3 action verbs...
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Verb Review 1 (Past/ Past Progressive)
In this verb tenses instructional activity, students complete each of 14 blanks in sentences by changing the verb tense of the word in parentheses.
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ESL: Present, Present Simple, Past Simple Tense
In this ESL worksheet, students write questions for given statements, and complete a word search of given verbs and a crossword puzzle. A link to audio and additional resources is given.
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Exercises on the Past Tense
For this interactive grammar worksheet, students complete the 20 sentences by selecting the correct form of the verb from the drop down menu.
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English Exercises: Verbs
In this online interactive English worksheet, students respond to 12 fill in the blank questions that require them to select appropriate verbs to finish each of the sentences. Students may submit their...
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Present Simple- Passive
In this present simple and passive worksheet, students make passive sentences from the words and phrases provided. There are examples and instructions on the page.
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English Exercises-Past Simple Tense
In this past simple tense worksheet, students watch a video about a frog prince, then fill in blanks using past tense of verbs given and complete a word search. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Test Your Grammar Skills
For this grammar worksheet, students complete four tables using the past simple tense of the verbs be, go, do and have. Students choose the correct form of the verb to go with the list of pronouns.
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Past Perfect 3
In this online grammar worksheet, students read the sentences and write the given verbs in past perfect tense. Students complete 15 exercises.
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Exercise on Past Perfect Simple
In this past simple perfect tense instructional activity, students use words and phrases given to form positive sentences. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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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.