Past Tense Activities - Irregular Verbs: Part 1

Given the present tense of 15 irregular verbs, learners must find the past tense form in a word search. I'd use this with collaborative learning groups that integrate English learners and native speakers to differentiate instruction and...

This learning exercise provides extensive experience with the past tense of the verbs begin, drink, ring, sink, sing, and swim. Your young grammarians write the past tense form of each one, use the past tense of each verb in a complete...

The second part of a two-part lesson on irregular past tense verbs prompts language learners to add four more verbs to the list of twelve they have been working with.

Adding -ed to the ends of most verbs can change a sentence to the past tense—but what about verbs like think or draw? Provide class members with practice activities that focus on both regular and irregular verbs in the simple past tense.

Find out what people did or didn't do with a grammar learning exercise, which focuses on the past tense of different verbs. After kids use a word bank to complete a paragraph, they use the words did and didn't in several exercises about...

Here is a supplemental lesson plan regarding past tense verbs for English language learners that is a great tool for the classroom when you are teaching grammar exercises.

A quick review of the past tense begins this worksheet. It focuses on the simple past, and has a diagram to identify past actions in visual terms. Adding -ed or -ied is explained, and the past forms of to be are clarified. However, it...

Ensure that your pupils get their verb tenses straight with this past tense practice. Individuals work on their grammar by completing each sentence by choosing the past tense forms of the verbs listed.

A lesson challenges grammarians to show what they know about past-tense verbs. Following a brief review, the class brainstorms a list of verbs and discusses how to make them past tense. Independently, scholars sort cards displaying a...

Bring your class to the computer lab or set up computers in the back of the classroom for this online worksheet. They complete 12 sentences using either the past tense or the perfect tense. Answers are easily accessible; all they have to...