Learning Present and Past Tense in Regular Verbs

This teaching resource has been created to help introduce simple present tense and simple past tense to your students. A great matching activity that is versatile and can be used in a variety of ways.

Print, cut out, and laminate the cards. These could be used in the following ways in the classroom:

• Give each student a card. Encourage the students to make groups of three, consisting of the image, the present tense sentence and the past tense sentence.
• As a class, group the sentences according to whether they are present tense or past tense.
• Using the cards as examples, allow the students to create their own present tense and past tense sentences, based on a picture they have drawn.

Tips for Teaching Kids Correct Verb Tense Usage

Looking for some more activities to help kids understand verb tense? Here are some suggestions:

1. Make sure you start with simple present, past and future tense. For example – Present: I play, Past: I played and Future: I will play.
2. Introduce time markers to your students. Use words like ‘yesterday’, ‘today’, and ‘tomorrow’. For example – I played soccer, I play soccer and I will play soccer.
3. Practice with real-life scenarios, when kids talk about their daily routines, past or future events they are then encouraged to use the correct tense.
4. Mark events on a timeline and have kids describe them using the correct tense.

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Use the dropdown menu to choose between the editable Google Slide version of this resource and the easy to print PDF version. This resource is also available to print in black and white as well as color.

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