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Overview of Past Tenses
This PPT contains rules of usage of all the past tenses including examples for each situation. With the help of these sentenses you can elicit these rules from your students if they are...
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Have You Ever...?
Teaching grammar through speaking is one of the most difficult things to do for a teacher. With this worksheet you will be able to help your students use time adverbs such as...
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Revising Past Tenses
This is a 2-page worksheet for revising past tenses: past simple, past continuous and past perfect. Recommended for intermediate students who are asked to choose the correct option, choose the correct...
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Song Worksheet: Wishlist by Pearl Jam
I made this worksheet as an extra activity for a class in which I aborded  past/past perfect tenses and "wish" (past, present and future) subjects, in a class for intermediate level students. This...
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Past Perfect Worksheet
This worksheet focuses on past perfect and presents a compilation of five exercises where students will have to make up their own sentences, fill in the blanks with either past perfect or past simple...
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Inventions Timeline
The worksheet can be used as a warmer at any lesson on technology or serve a grammar purpose for practicing:Â 1) passive voice (FM Radio was invented in 1933. Television had been invented before first...
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Past Perfect vs Past Perfect Continuous Worksheet
This is a worksheet for teaching the differences between the past perfect and past perfect continuous at pre-intermediate level. There are 3 different activities in which students are asked to choose...
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Upper Intermediate Level Tense Revision
This worksheet has different types of exercises such as a cloze text, finding mistakes, actives or passives as well as an answer key in the end. It covers all tenses and students have spend time on it...
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Irregular Verbs- Mnemonic Rhyming Groups- Edited 2014
Learning can be fun with mnemonics. When we were kids, rhyming songs and phrases were some of the gimmicks used to make us remember different things. I hope sorting these irregular verbs into rhyming...
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Noodle Battle - Teaching Composition
This worksheet is based on the cartoon serial ‘Minuscules’. The cartoon serial ‘Minuscules’ (France, 2007) which is the collection of 3-5 minute mini-stories. The dynamic plot stories about different...
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Past Tense Presentation
These slides show the differences between tenses and how they are formed and used. Past simple, past continuous, present perfect. The last slide of the presentations contains an exercise on finding...
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The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
I try to smuggle some literary texts into my classes to make my students familiar with some of the great English writers and their work. This one is a grammar worksheet which I brought my students...
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Past Perfect
Basic, introductory explanation of the past perfect tense. It contains an approach to its use, formula and keywords. 3 examples are given to illustrate. Perfect to use a general scheme of how to use...
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Song Worksheet: Always by Bon Jovi (Past Perfect vs Past Simple)
Use the song "Always" to teach the difference between past perfect and past simple. Moreover, it offers a chance to practice the writing skills inventing love stories. After some group works there is...
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St Patrick's for Teens and Young Adults
Here you'll find some cards including information about St Patrick's day. All of them are taken from history sources. It is very useful should you prepare a history and culture class about Ireland. It...
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Perfect, Simple and Continuous
A number of sentences to complete. I use this for a revision of the past simple, past continuous, present perfect simple, present perfect continuous, and past perfect simple. Reported speech also...
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Past Perfect PPT
This power point presentation is part of my series of presentation on past narrative tenses. It introduces the use of past perfect by showing the students well-known items that had been invented...
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Gap-fill Reading
The worksheet is a simple children's story for young learners to practice the past simple, past continuous and past perfect simple tense. It is illustrated and each illustration shows a word that...
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Past Perfect
This short presentation helps teachers in explaining the past perfect tense to students at pre-intermediate or intermediate level concentrating on the pitfalls of using this particular past tense. It...
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Diagnostic Test Level 4
A set of grammar tasks to revise different grammar points learned in the previous level (3): supply the right options of varied tenses and linkers+report 3 direct statements +change to passive voice+...
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Song Worksheet: Goodbye My Lover (Past Tenses)
Finding exercise about past tenses is a difficult task so, I create this exercise where ss will be able to practice grammar rules, listening and reading. In the first exercise ss match the tenses with...
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Tense Review Worksheet (Simple Past, Present Perfect, Past Perfect)
This worksheet includes some exercises about 'simple past vs present perfect' and 'simple past vs past perfect' for intermediate level students. It also contains some exercises about conjunctions...
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Past Simple and Past Perfect Worksheet
This is a worksheet for teaching the past simple and  present perfect tense. There are two different activities in which students are asked to write the two sentences as one using when and past...
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Past Simple vs. Past Perfect Worksheet
This is a worksheet for teaching or revising the differences between the past simple and the past perfect tense. There is a simple activity in which students are asked to complete the sentences with...
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Past Perfect Worksheet
This a very simple worksheet for teaching or revising the past perfect tense at pre-intermediate level. There are 2 different activities in which students are asked to fill in the gaps with the past...
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Practicing Past Forms
This presentation is an exercise for students to practice past forms (simple past, past perfect or past continuous), they have already learned. The presentation has slides with pictures, and sentences...
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Christmas Carol Reading
I've used this when reading the story "Christmas Carol" By Charles Dickens with my students. It was useful to help retelling and also to remember details about the story. Although there is a movie...
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A Hit-and-run Offense (Tenses)
This is a fictitious newspaper article about a hit-and-run offence. Students need to complete the text by put the verbs into the correct tense in the active or passive voice. Use to check students...
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Review of Past Tenses
A thorough revision of past tenses and narrative tenses, with concept checking and practice. Here, students revise their knowledge of past tenses (simple, continuous and perfect), check functional and...
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Story Tenses
This is a worksheet to practice story tenses: past simple, past perfect and past continuous. It suits intermediate level. It includes two tasks. The first task includes 5 sentences to be completed by...
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Song Worksheet: Escape (the Piña Colada Song) by Rupert Holmes
Listen to the song and complete the gaps. You could use this worksheet to introduce past perfect. You can also use it to introduce contractions of modal verb and the verb to be. Suggested link to the...
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Movie Worksheet: Krampus
The pre-intermediate kids whom I teach absolutely hate fantasy movies and comedies, so I decided to engage them into the conversation and learning by offering a movie "Krampus: the Christmas evil"....
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Quote Grammar Message
My point is grammar. I love creating different grammar tasks. This time I’ve decided to come up with something special for checking my students’ grammar. There are 45 sentences, some of them have...
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Movie Worksheet: The Danish Girl
After watching the movie The Danish Girl, students will independently work on a worksheet based on that movie. It features the third conditional, and past tenses, too. Additionally, they will be...
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Tenses in Passive
This is the worksheet I designed and used for teaching different tenses in passive voice. I found my students making mistakes in transforming the verb forms because in passive structures we should...
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Movie Worksheet: Describing Accidents (Past)
This fun video activity is to practise using various narrative tenses, including past simple, past continuous, and past perfect. The video has many clips of accidents, slips, and falls. Learners...
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Tenses Revision Board Game
Students use prompts + the subject in the field they land on to make questions/positive/negative sentences. Applicable to all tenses. E.g., revision of past tense. A student rolls a 5 and makes a...
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Movie Worksheet: Mr. Bean at the Hospital (Mixed Past Tenses)
This fun video activity is to practise using mixed past tenses, including past simple, past continuous, and past perfect. The video shows Mr. Bean at the hospital. Learners must combine two sentences...
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Verb Tenses
Verb tenses are tools that English speakers use to express time in their language. You may find that many English tenses do not have direct translations in your language. That is not a problem. By...
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Past Perfect Powerpoint
This powerpoint provides complete explanation and examples of the  sentence structures. It also provides pictures and  differences between past simple and past perfect so students are able to...
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Tenses Table
This is an overview of the different tenses in English: present simple, present continuous, present perfect, present perfect continuous, past simple, past continuous, past perfect, Â past perfect...
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The Legend of the Scarecrow (Past Tenses Revision)
This is a worksheet to revise the narrative tenses, namely the past simple, past continuous and past perfect. It allows students to practice their listening, reading, pronunciation, vocabulary and...
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The Past Tenses Show Poem
This is a little poem I came up with as a metaphor for the narrative tenses. You can use it as a poster or a fun handout for higher level groups. You can ask them why each metaphor is used and do a...
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Past Perfect Tense Video and Worksheet
Watch a video lesson to help students learn about the past perfect tense, and then complete the worksheet to help them continue to practice using the past perfect tense. This actvity can be used in...
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Detective & Suspect Dialogue
This is a great dialogue worksheet for learners who have difficulty learning some grammar topics such as past simple, past continuous and past perfect. This worksheet is not suitable for young...
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Song Gap Fill: "My Girl" by Madness
A lyrics gap fill of the song "My Girl" by the ska band Madness. (See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw-8AGRcyvk) The song contains a number lines in the past perfect as well as some...
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Exercises on Past Perfect Simple
Exercises on Past Perfect Simple I. Write the verbs in Past Perfect Simple. II. Write the verbs in Past Perfect Simple. Use the negative form. III. Complete the questions in Past Perfect Simple. IV....
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Practise Active and Passive Voice. History of Central Europe
The worksheet focuses on the Passive and Active voice used to create past narrative. The tasks are based on the video that lists the historical events and major changes in Central Europe in 20th...
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Grammar Review B2 and C1 Levels
This PowerPoint presentation helps students review the time tenses. It includes some warm-up examples (teachers should prepare their own explanations), and three grammar exercises (with answers) that...
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