British Council
Letters Home
When you're writing historical fiction, the past really can become the present — especially if you're writing in the present continuous tense! Cover World War I, verb tenses, censorship, and letter writing with one informative lesson and...
Pearson
Past Time
How do you talk about things that have already happened? What about things that happened in the past and are still happening? Explore past, past perfect, and past progressive verb tenses in a helpful slideshow presentation.
University of Hawaiʻi
Verb Tense Review: the Importance of Time
When you ask a fourth grader to write a sentence in the past perfect progressive tense, there might be some confusion. But with a presentation that features several different verb tenses, along with examples and a handy timeline, your...
McGraw Hill
Grammar Practice Workbook
To an English teacher, the only sound worse than nails on a chalkboard is a student using improper grammar. Make poor grammar a problem of the past with this extensive collection of worksheets that covers everything from sentence...
Mama's Learning Corner
Endings: Add –ing
Practicing and working with -ing words will send your pupils on the road to mastery! Learners complete seven sentences with by writing in the correct -ing words. A word bank is provided to support students.
St. Louis Community College
Verb Tenses
Help your pupils keep their simple, perfect, and progressive tenses straight with a reference page. Each verb tense is paired with a definition and at least one sample sentence.
Curated OER
Using the Present Progressive: Word Search Game
Use the six clues to help your language learners find the accompanying words in the word search. Words can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal, but the first letter in each word is shaded gray to ease the challenge.
Curated OER
Verbs: Present Progressive
Explore the present progressive tense with your English language learners. Study the first chart, noticing the verbs that are used. Then use the same six verbs to complete sentences in the second chart.
Curated OER
Verbs: Present Activities
In this present tense verbs worksheet, students use pictures and context clues to choose verbs from a word bank and write them in present progressive tense to complete sentences. Students fill in the blanks to complete eight sentences.
Curated OER
Simple Present / Present Progressive
Using a fill-in-the-blank and multiple choice format, this activity gives students a chance to practice their skills using the simple present tense of a verb and present progressive. With 20 questions, and a varied format, this...
Curated OER
ESL: Practice Using Present Progressive Tense
Small, cartoonish pictures of people expressing emotions and actions (blowing his nose, holding her head and frowning, dancing, smiling) provide the basis for writers to describe the feelings and experiences taking place. Help your ESL...
Curated OER
News Radio Activity
For this news radio worksheet, learners read sentences taken from a news radio program and decide if it is in the simple present or present progressive tense. Students complete 20 problems and if it is in the present progressive, they...
Curated OER
Present Tense Exercise 14
In this present tense worksheet, students complete each sentence using the correct form of the verb in the present progressive tense. Students complete 7 sentences.
Curated OER
Present Tense Exercise 23
In this present tense exercise, students complete each sentence using the correct from of the simple present tense or present progressive tense. Students complete 10 sentences.
Curated OER
Present Tense Exercise 16
In this present progressive tense learning exercise, fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb in the present progressive tense. Learners complete 10 sentences.
Curated OER
Present Tense Exercise 17
In this present progressive tense worksheet, students use the correct form of the verb in the present progressive tense. Students complete 10 questions.
Curated OER
Present Tense Exercise 18
In this present progressive tense activity, students fill in the spaces with the correct form of the verb in the present progressive tense. Students complete 10 sentences.
Curated OER
Present Tense Exercise 19
In this present progressive tense worksheet, students fill in each blank with the correct form of the verb in the present progressive tense.
Curated OER
Present Tense Exercise 21: Review of the Present Progressive Tense
In this present progressive tense worksheet, students fill in the spaces with the correct form of the verb in present progressive tense. Students complete a paragraph with 16 blanks.
Curated OER
Present Tense Exercise 24
In this simple present and present progressive tense worksheet, students complete a paragraph by filling in the correct form of the verb in the simple present tense or present progressive tense.
Curated OER
Present Tense Exercise 15
In this present progressive tense worksheet, students review the example sentences that use the present progressive tense. Students then select the correct present progressive verb to complete the 10 online sentences.
Curated OER
The Hurricane: Quiz on Present Tense Forms
In this present progressive tense worksheet, students complete a 20 question on-line interactive exercise. Students change each verb to present progressive tense in a story about hurricanes.
Curated OER
ESL Blue: Present Tenses
In this online interactive ESL worksheet, students respond to 20 fill in the blank questions regarding the use of present tense verbs. They choose between simple present and present progressive forms. Students may check their answers...
Curated OER
Simple Present & Present Progressive
In this simple progressive and present progressive worksheet, students fill in the 9 blanks in a paragraph with the appropriate forms of the verbs in parentheses.