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Lesson 12 - Ed Suffix with Unchanging Base Words
Understanding different verb tenses begins with knowing how to decode words. A lesson on the -ed suffix with unchanging base words introduces readers to the past tense. Teachers present the skill with oral reading and spelling...
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Complete the Sentences 3
Develop vocabulary in your young learners with this resource. There are a series of sentences here, and elementary schoolers must choose a word from the list to complete each of the 12 sentences. Example words include abolished,...
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Subject-Verb Agreement
Perfect for a middle school classroom, this two-page reference guide introduces subject-verb agreement and gives 10 specific explanations and examples. Then, independently, attempt the 15 sentences that follow. Learners must select the...
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El presente perfecto
Review the present perfect with your intermediate Spanish class, and give them this practice sheet. If learners finish early, have them translate sentences you've written in English into Spanish.
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Irregular Verbs
Learners choose the correct form of the irregular verb offered in a drop-down menu to complete each of 20 sentences correctly. Possibilities include present tense, past, and past participle. With a single click, learners can see the...
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Past Simple Tense
In this past simple worksheet, students fill in the blanks with past simple verbs, write past forms of verbs, and more. Students complete 3 activities.
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The Past Simple Tense
For this past simple tense worksheet, students complete a crossword, and fill in the blanks to sentences with and without pictures. Students complete 3 activities.
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Verb Tenses Exercises
In this past simple and present perfect simple worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with verbs in the correct tense, and rewrite sentences by choosing for or since to insert in the sentence. Students complete 10 problems...
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Past Simple: Regular and Irregular Verbs
For this regular and irregular verbs worksheet, learners complete a crossword with verbs that label pictures and complete sentences with the past simple tense of the verbs that are given. Students complete 2 activities total.
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Present Perfect and Past Simple
In this present perfect and past simple worksheet, students fill in words to a chart for each tense, fill in the blanks to sentences, write questions, and more. Students complete 4 activities.
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Mastering Verbs
Second graders will master verbs. In this language arts lesson students will spend extra time working with verbs, and mastering the past, present, and future tenses of commonly used verbs. The students will engage in several activities...
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Past Time: Vocabulary Practice
In this past time worksheet, students select the word or phrase from 3 choices that means the same as the word in bold in 12 sentences. All pertain to events in the past.
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Present and Past Tense of Play and Go
In this present and past tenses worksheet, 5th graders complete 4 charts for the regular verb play and the irregular verb go.
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Past and Present Tense Verbs
In this sentence construction instructional activity, students complete 8 sentences by selecting the appropriate words from two columns to complete each sentence.
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ESL Past Simple or Present Perfect? Verb Tense Worksheet
In this ESL past simple or present perfect verb tense worksheet, students choose the correct form of the verb given in brackets to complete 23 sentences.
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Verb Tense: Past Continuous
In this past continuous activity, students fill in the blanks to sentences with verbs in the past continuous tense. Students complete 8 sentences total.
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English Exercises: Past Simple Tense
In this online interactive English worksheet, learners respond to 25 fill in the blank questions that require them to select "have" or "has" to finish each of the sentences. Students may submit their answers to be...
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Never Been to Spain, A Lesson on the Present Perfect Tense
In this song lesson worksheet, students learn about the song Never Been to Spainby Hoyt Axton. They learn about the song's background and the grammar and vocabulary in the song. Students answer 5 questions about that song.
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Quiz 6A: Verb Practice
Here is a worksheet that provides practice using English verb forms like the simple present, simple past, and present progressive. Learners fill in the blanks in 10 sentences using the given verb correctly based on context. I'd go over...
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Past Simple or Present Perfect?
These 10 sentences, in which your learners choose the correct of two options for the verb, provide practice with the tricky, finer points of distinguishing when to use the past simple form or the present perfect. Learners click on a box...
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Grammar Games and Activities
Thirty pages of grammar activities? Your young grammarians will be well versed in the parts of speech, basic verb tenses, and much more after completing even a handful of these exercises.
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Letters Home
When you're writing historical fiction, the past really can become the present — especially if you're writing in the present continuous tense! Cover World War I, verb tenses, censorship, and letter writing with one informative lesson and...
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A Christmas Carol - The Story
Thirty-six pages familiarize scholars with the story and vocabulary of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. After reading and listening to an abbreviated version of the holiday tale learners show what they know about the sequence...
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Verb Review 1 (Present/Past)
Using a fill-in-the-blank format learners explore the use of present/past/future verbs. This 41-question activity upper elementary and older students in an ESL class would get a good background in the use of verbs.