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Past Simple or Present Perfect?
In this ESL verb tense worksheet, students read 10 sentences with the verbs omitted. Students insert either a past simple or present perfect verb.
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Present Perfect and Past Simple
In this present perfect and past simple instructional activity, students create a conversation in which two friends talk about Paris. Students use the subject and verb given in the prompt and add any necessary words to create correct...
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ACT College Readiness Standards
Here is a template offering a comprehensive outline of ACT skill categories, what standards are expected to be mastered, and blank spaces for you to include how you plan to address those standards within your curriculum.
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Simple Past Tense: "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
In this simple present tense worksheet, 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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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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Asda in a Pickle After Rat Found in Gherkins
Practice reading and speaking through a simulation activity in which learners role-play as store managers and angry customers. The class also reviews present and past-perfect tenses. Extensions and a print-friendly handout are provided.
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Total English Advanced: Stories...
In this narrative tenses learning exercise, students practice past simple tense, past continuous tense, past perfect simple tense, and past perfect continuous tenses as they complete 4 paragraph starters by following instructions.
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Verbs in Simple Past Tense "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
In this simple past tense worksheet, students fill in blanks with simple past verbs to complete sentences about "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Simple Past Tense Verbs
In this verb worksheet, students complete sentences by filling in correct simple past tense forms of verbs given. Answers may be checked online.
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Modal Auxiliaries
Forming polite instructions, giving instructions, and expressing advice can be made a little easier using this grammar-related presentation. First, learners review using an auxiliary and simple verb to form sentences. Then, they focus on...
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Verb Tenses
In this verb fill in the blank worksheet, young scholars complete a paragraph by adding 18 verbs in the proper form. They write the present perfect or past simple verb in 12 more examples.
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Verb Forms And Contractions
In this mixed verb and contraction worksheet, student fill in the blank with the proper verb form the first 16 statements. They insert the proper present perfect or past simple verb in 28 statements and insert the proper contraction in a...
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Simple Past Verbs-- Goldilocks
In this language arts worksheet, students change verb tenses into the simple past form. Students read the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears which has all verbs missing. Students supply the missing past tense verbs. This appears to...
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Gap Fill Letter- ESL Verbs
In this ESL verbs activity, students read a friendly letter and fill in 24 spaces with a present simple, past simple or present continuous verb.
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Simple Past-Positive Sentences #2
For this simple past tense worksheet, students use words and phrases given to form positive sentences in the given tense. Answers may be submitted online for review. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Song Lessons: I Wanna Be Like You
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy's swing rendition of Robert and Richard Sherman's "I Wanna Be Like You" offers young grammarians an opportunity to examine verb tenses, noun clauses, gerunds, and prepositions.
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The Beatles and The Rolling Stones
Students exchange information orally about The Beatles and The Rolling Stones during the 1960s until 1970. They work in pairs to complete a gap-fill activity from memory. Students play hangman at the beginning of the lesson.
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Sk8er Boi (Skater Boy)
Students listen to and analyze the lyrics for Avril Lavigne's song, Sk8er Boi. They discuss and interpret the vocabulary, phrasal verbs, and various grammar structures used in the lyrics.
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Verb Tense Review
In this verb tense review instructional activity, students practice usage of simple present, present progressive, simple past, past progressive, present perfect, present perfect progressive, and simple future tenses. Students answer...
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Using Irregular Verbs that Stay the Same
In this irregular verbs worksheet, students choose the correct form of the verb in the sentences. Students cross out any verb forms that do not exist. Students complete 20 examples. Students then write 2 irregular verb sentences.
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Verb Tense Exercise 11
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 12 fill in the blank questions regarding simple past and past perfect verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Verb Tense Review
In this verb tense review worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 32 sentences using the proper verb tense. They use simple present tense, present progressive tense, simple past tense, past progressive tense, present perfect tense,...
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Verb Tense Review
In this verb tense review worksheet, students fill in the blanks with the correct verb forms to meet the stated criteria. Students focus on simple present, present progressive, simple past, past progressive, present perfect, present...
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Simple Past or Past Continuous- A Dialog
In this verbs worksheet, students complete a 20 question on-line interactive exercise about simple past or past continuous verb forms. The worksheet is in the form of a dialog.