Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

CALL for Level 3 Thursday, November 20, 2025

Agenda

1. Practice with word order in past tense sentences

• Past tense sentences 1
• Past tense sentences 2
• Past tense sentences 3

2.  Practice quizzes on D2L

Note:  The quizzes have no time limit, and you have unlimited attempts (tries).

• Self-quiz — Spelling regular past tense verbs with -ed
• Self-quiz: List 1 — past tense pronunciation of -ed
• Self-quiz: List 2 – past tense pronunciation of -ed

5. Video options

a) Story videos with Anna & friends

• • “Yesterday was amazing!”
  • “I passed it!”
  • “A long time ago”

b) Grammar videos

  Note:  Most of the videos are on Youtube, so you will need to SKIP ADS. 

• • Simple Past – Grammar & Verb Tenses (ELLII)
  • Past tense pronunciation with Todd
  • 105 Regular Verbs in English with -ED: English Pronunciation Practice
  • Irregular past tense verbs with Todd
  • Grammar: Simple Past Tense Regular & Irregular Verbs (D2L login required)
  • Katie and Todd talk about yesterday

5.  More grammar options:

• Past Simple 1
• Past Simple 2
• Past Simple 3
• Past Simple 4
• Past Simple 5
• Past Simple 6

6.   ESOL News Oregon <– Articles about Oregon.  Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced.  All have exercises.  Some have audio/video.