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Present tense of -ar verbs
Beginning Spanish learners conjugate a series of common -ar verbs like bailar, cantar, cobrar, and llamar. They conjugate the verbs in parentheses to complete each of 15 sentences. When the class is finished, pair learners up and have...
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Inglés Básico: Clothes (Ropa)
English language learners choose their own pace with this online resource. The website is written primarily in Spanish, and this lesson focuses on clothing vocabulary and using present tense and continuous present tense forms. There are...
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Le Futur
Introduce your intermediate French speakers to the future tense with this plan. The plan is broken up into teacher tasks and student tasks, making it clear and easy to understand. There are also three worksheets included, but only one...
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English Exercises: Present Simple Exercises
To practice using present simple verb forms, your young grammarians complete 24 sentences using has and have with an online interactive activity. They use a drop down menu in each sentence to choose their answer before they submit...
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Mi vida loca
At this point, your Spanish speakers are almost high school graduates! Have them reflect on their life thus far by creating a timeline of their life. Then, for each age range, have them write about two events on their timeline. Consider...
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Cuentitos para ni
Vamos a escribir! Your older learners will love writing a children's book for learners at the elementary level. The resource suggests having small groups write their stories and create PowerPoint slides with illustrations, but this can...
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The 3 Simple Tenses (Plus One)
Go back to the basics with this quick PowerPoint. Review present, past, and future tenses, and introduce present progressive. Provide additional verbs for pupils to conjugate after the presentation.
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Past Time
Review important grammatical rules. Focusing on the past tense, learners practice concepts that are used to form sentences in the past tense. This could a good activity at a center.
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Future Tense
Practice the concept of the future tense using this presentation. In this resource, learners explore the use of shall, will, and going to. This comprehensive exploration would be a useful tool in a middle school classroom.
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Past, Present or Future Tense
Test your pupils' mastery of verb tenses with quick quizzes. Included here are three quizzes, each at a different level of difficulty.
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ESL Grammar Practice Worksheets: Future Tense
Your class is going to get plenty of practice with these future tense worksheets, but will they enjoy themselves? You will have to find out! Learners practice using going to and will in various exercises, practicing with each type of the...
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Subject-Verb Agreement
Subject and verb agreement isn't tricky for middle and high schoolers until you throw in singular subjects in plural form or confusing word order. Review some basic information before having your class complete the practice opportunity...
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Past Series: Reporting a Past Series of Events
In this past tense worksheet, students choose the correct verb in the past tense to complete the sentences. Students complete 19 sentences.
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Advanced Grammar 1-- Tenses and Time Expressions
Quiz your class using this short assessment tool. English language learners (or native speakers reviewing verb conjugation) fill in 16 blanks to complete various sentences. The way this quiz is designed, each question is worth 6.6...
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Present Time and Past Time
Review past and present tense, and then give your class this worksheet to assess their current knowledge. There are 30 sentences to complete, and the sentences all deal with present and past tenses.
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Time Expressions Active Voice
Can you recall the six verb tenses? Review the six verb tenses with this informational handout. While there is no practice opportunity provided, several examples, and clue words are shown for each tense. Walk through this guide with your...
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Present Perfect – Have You Ever?
Designed for an English language development class, this activity is more like a treasure hunt. Learners walk around the room looking for others who have done a certain thing, like ride a horse. They use these prompts to practice asking...
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Perfect Tense or Past Tense
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...
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Present Perfect or Past Simple Tense?
Does the sentence require the present perfect or the past simple tense? Meant to be an online resource, you could easily print this to complete in the classroom. Learners fill in each blank with the correct tense. Ten questions are...
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Pop Concert in Iran
Read, analyze, and critique a newspaper article about a concert with a Western singer and an Iranian band. Scholars will assess key vocabulary terms within the article, learn how to understand a short news report, and hone in on how the...
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Preterite vs. Imperfect #9
What is the difference between the preterite tense and the imperfect? Compare the two, and then give your class this practice half-sheet. There are 12 verbs in parentheses, and your class must decide which should be in the preterite...
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Present Tense: Stem-Changing Verbs #2
Remembering how to conjugate stem-changing verbs is always a challenge. It requires a lot of conjugation practice to burn those patterns into your memory! Use this half-sheet as a bell-ringer or complete it as a class.
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Present Tense: All Verbs #2
Practice, practice, practice! That is the only way your Spanish language classes will learn how to conjugate verbs in the present tense. Give them this short activity as a bell-ringer or an exit ticket to assess their development.
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Preterite Tense: All Verbs #1
Practice conjugating! Beginning Spanish speakers read the short paragraph, conjugating the verbs in parentheses. All verb types are included, so there are -ar, -ir, and -er verbs to conjugate in the preterite tense.