Using past tense writing prompts with English as a second language (ESL) students can help them develop their language and writing skills. Discover examples of childhood and teen memory prompts, recent memory prompts, and creative prompts to inspire ESL students' writing. Personalized Topics When ...
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Short Writing Prompts Write a short paragraph about a memorable experience using at least three past perfect tense verbs. Focus on the sequence of events: Prompt Example: Describe a day when everything seemed to go wrong but ended well. Matching Match the past perfect tense verbs with their pa...
Students complete the lyrics to Celine Dion's song "Because You Loved Me" by writing theverbroots in the simple-pasttense. Then have them listen (or play video with lyrics) to the song to check their answers. *I used this activity when I taught ESL abroad, but it can also be used ...
[00:41:56] Gabriel Mizrahi: It was a little tense, yeah. And my mom and I are super close and it was really hard and she was really upset with me and I understood why she was upset. If I were a mother, I would not want my son going off to North Korea for, you know, after...
This engaging past simple activity requires that students help each other fixing the very common mistake of switching to the present tense when talking about events, situations or anecdotes related to their pasts. In this activity, students work in pairs. Display the first prompt. Student A will...
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The child second language learners had the highest rate of overregularization of present tense stem-changing morphology (e.g., conto 'I tell/count' instead of cuento), followed by the child heritage speakers, and, lastly, the children in Spain, who almost never overregularized (overregular- ...