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Learning verb forms can be very tricky in the English language! Thanks to having the internet at our fingertips, we can find many helpful resources! This list of worksheets contains fun activities for students to practice using past tense verb forms. I hope that these resources make learning English easier regardless of your student’s age or grade level. 

1. Changing Verb Tenses Activity

For this tense activity worksheet, students will practice rewriting the sentences in the past tense. In the first sentence, the walk will need to be changed to walked to show that it occurred in the past. 
Learn more: K5 Learning (Worksheet #1)

2. Tense Sentence Worksheet 

To complete this task, students will need to rewrite the sentences with “had” followed by -ed verbs to show past tense. For example, students could revise the first sentence to: “The student had read a book”. 

Learn more: K5 Learning (Worksheet #3)

3. Simple Past Tense Grammar Worksheet

Students will reword the affirmative sentence to make a negative sentence and a question sentence. This practice worksheet will teach students the keywords and methods required to form affirmative, negative, and question sentences.

Learn more: English Grammar

4. Past Tense Verb Worksheet

Students will complete this simple worksheet by rewriting the word in parentheses in the past tense verb form. For example, the word “shift” will become “shifted”, the word “see” will become “saw”, and so forth. The collection of worksheets within this resource is very helpful for learning past tense verbs. 

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5. Irregular Past Tense Matching Verbs Worksheet

Students will need to match the present tense to past tense verbs. For example, “fight” will match with “fought”, and “buy” will match with “bought”.  This is a nice worksheet to use for extra practice with irregular verbs, including past tense. 

Learn more: Live Worksheets

6. Past Tense Battleships Game

Each player will start by writing 10 past tense verbs on their grid. The goal is to locate battleships by calling out grid coordinates. When a battleship is identified, the opposite team will make a sentence using the past tense verbs. The first team to find 10 battleships will win.

Learn more: Learny Kids

7. Simple Past Tense Exercises

Students will complete each sentence using the word in parentheses in the correct verb form. The first sentence requires students to rewrite the verb “take” in past tense which would be “took”. The responses encourage students to think critically.

Learn more: Grammar Bank

8. Beach-Themed Past Tense Matching Game

Students will complete this game by correctly cutting out the sentences and matching them. I would recommend starting with a class discussion about what students can observe by visiting the beach. I would also recommend pairing this activity with a beach story for students to understand the theme. 

Learn more: ESL Kids World

9. Past Continuous Tense Form Worksheet

To complete, students will look at the timeline of pictures and events and answer the corresponding questions. This worksheet can be used as a reading comprehension activity for students. 

Learn more: ENG Worksheets

10. Past Tense Verb Worksheet

This awesome resource requires students to recall and write down what they did and ate the previous day. By doing so, students will be using past tense verbs. 

Learn more: Boggles World ESL

11. Past Simple Tense Crossword Puzzle

This fun resource requires students to complete each puzzle with the correct form of the regular and irregular past tense verbs. For example, a student would enter the word “taught” for the past simple of the verb “teach”. This is a fun choice exercise for classroom centers or quiet time. 

Learn more: Puzzle Fast

12. Verb Tense Sort

Verb tense sorting is an activity that requires students to sort the verbs into past tense and present tense. The teacher may read the words aloud to guide students in successfully completing this activity. 

Learn more: Worksheeto

13. Fill in the Blank Past Tense Verb Activity

For this activity, students will rewrite the verbs in parentheses in the past tense form. If the sentence requires students to write the past tense of “to feel”, then the answer is “felt”. 

Learn more: Worksheeto