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Activities: “What do ‘simple,’ ‘continuous,’ and ‘perfect’ mean in English verb tenses?”

By: revel arroway

Activity 1: Identify the aspect

Can you identify the aspect used in each of these sentences?

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Activity 2: Jill and Jimmy are having a chat

Read this conversation. Then identify the aspect used in each sentence.

A drawing of a red-haired white woman in a teal shirt and a black-haired white boy in a green and orange polo.

  1. Jimmy: Mommy! Mommy! I’ve seen little green men in the backyard!
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  2. Jill: What? What are you saying Jimmy?
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  3. Jimmy: I was playing in the backyard…
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  4. Jimmy: …and I saw a lot of little green men!
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  5. Jill: Jimmy, little green men don’t exist.
    Select your answer
  6. Jill: You haven’t seen any out there.
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  7. Jimmy: But I did! I did see little green men!
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  8. Jimmy: Five of them were walking in the grass!
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  9. Jill: Well, I haven’t seen any green men, little or big, in the backyard all day.
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  10. Jimmy: You don’t believe me! I’ll show you! Come into the yard with me.
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  11. Jill: Okay, okay Jimmy. We will go look.
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  12. Jimmy: Do you see them? Right there!
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  13. Jimmy: Five little green men are walking in the grass!
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    A drawing of two very small green plastic army men (the toy) in the grass.

  14. Jill: Well, what do you know?
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  15. Jill: There ARE little green men in the backyard!
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