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Past Versus Present Perfect

For Students 4th - Higher Ed
Using this 15 question activity learners practice using the past and present perfect forms of verbs. This would be a great worksheet for use with students in both upper elementary and older grades.
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Adjective Riddles

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners create adjective riddles for various candies. They describe the sound, taste, appearance, and smell of the candy, using at least 10 different adjectives. Classmates try to guess the candy name.
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Verb Tenses

For Students 5th - Higher Ed
In this exploration of the use of verbs, learners complete a variety of activities involving 30 short answer and fill-in-the-blank questions. This worksheet would be appropriate for upper elementary and older students learning English.
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Popcorn Action

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students divide one side of paper into three columns: 1) What I see 2) What I smell 3) What I hear. On the other side, have them write two columns: 4) What I feel 5) What I taste. They fill in #1, 2,3 as the teacher pops popcorn.
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The Many Faces of Paul Robeson

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students discuss and construct timelines based on the life of author/performer/Civil Right's activist, Paul Robeson. They view photographs of him at various times in his life and discuss the roles he may have been playing at those times.
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Chicago Tribune vs. US (1942): When Does Freedom of the Press Go Too Far?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students define freedom of the press in peace and war time. As a class, they identify the need for the public to be informed, but discuss where the line should be drawn to protect national security. They develop their arguments and...
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Scrabble Laps

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners integrate physical fitness with spelling of core vocabulary words used in science and social studies. They walk, skip, gallop or jog around a track and for each lap they perform, they are given a letter by the teacher. The...
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Christmas and New Year Past Tenses Mimes

For Students 9th - 11th
In this English worksheet, learners, working with a partner, practice acting out one of thirty-three mimes with each other to see if their partner can guess what the other one is miming.
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Quaternions

For Students 11th - 12th
In this quaternions learning exercise, students solve and complete 7 different problems. First, they read and identify quaternions as expressions in a given form of ordinary real numbers. Then, students add and subtract a few problems by...
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Simple Present / Present Progressive

For Students 5th - Higher Ed
Using a fill-in-the-blank and multiple choice format, this activity gives students a chance to practice their skills using the simple present tense of a verb and present progressive. With 20 questions, and a varied format, this worksheet...
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Adjectives: Opposites

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this adjectives worksheet, students read groups of words and determine nouns that do not belong with the adjectives given. Students cross out eight answers.
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Present, Present Progressive and Past Tense Practice

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
This activity, which was designed for use in an ESL setting, focuses on the present, present progressive and past verb tense. The types of sentences used would be appropriate for older students. There are 20 questions.
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Interview: "Going to"

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this asking questions worksheet, students interview 2 Americans and ask each one 8 questions involved with the verb phrase "going to" and then record each of their answers.
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Present Simple and Plural Activities - Things We Do At School...

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this present simple verb tense online worksheet, learners enter the proper verb tense of the underlined words in 13 sentences. They fill in the verbs from a word bank in the next 10 sentences, enter either don't or doesn't in the next...
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Lesson #25

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students use their knowledge of verbs to write poems about the wind.
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Introduction to Adverbs

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students develop a definition of the role/function of adverbs. Specifically students articulate that adverbs modify verbs by telling how something is done, when something is done, where something is done, or modify adverbs or adjectives.
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Commercial Time. Don't Turn that Channel!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars review information on drug abuse and types of drugs and then learn about alcohol and other drug abuse in a hands on activity. In addition, they learn about kinds of drugs and the effects of drug abuse on the body.
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Irregular Verbs Worksheet 1

For Students 7th - 9th
In this grammar worksheet, students read two paragraph passages, underline the irregular verbs in each one and write the correct form of the verb right above the incorrect one.
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Wonderful Wintertime

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students explore the seasons and how to describe them with adjectives. In this lesson about winter and descriptive language, students develop an understanding of the seasons specifically winter, and become equipped to describe them with...
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Jack Be Nimble

For Teachers K
Students recite the poem "Jack Be Nimble". In this poetry lesson, students read the poem and discuss other action words to use instead of jump. They rewrite the poem using their own name and a new action word. 
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Using Comic Strips to Teach the Use of Quotation Marks

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars identify when and why quotations are used. Using comic strips and speech bubbles, they read and discuss examples of quotation marks, and in pairs write text for a cartoon on a piece of paper using quotation marks around...
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Used to/Be used to

For Students 4th - 6th
In this used to/be used to practice activity, student identify and use forms of "used to" an "be used to" in sentences. Students write thirteen answers.
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Using Descriptive Language

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the use of adjectives in a product review, then write their own descriptive review. In this writing and word usage lesson, students first analyze the choice of adjectives in a New York Times article about the iPhone,...
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Aftermath and Universal Lessons of the Holocaust

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students reflect on the information given to them during the examination of the Holocaust. In groups, they answer hard questions about what they have learned and how they could make a difference in the world today. They also analyze...