Curated OER
Verbs: Present Time
Use the simple present tense to complete the 12 sentences provided. Your grammarian selects a word from the word bank and conjugate it correctly. This could be a great resource for English language learners or those pupils trying to...
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...
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
Reading 2. Vocabulary Practice: Present and Past, Simple and Progressive
This worksheet serves a dual purpose. First, teach your class the 12 vocabulary words provided. Then, after they identify which word belongs in each sentence, have them identify which verb tense each sentence uses. They distinguish...
Oxford University Press
Language Focus: Present Continuous, Imperatives
What will your class do in the future? What won't they do? Practice the present continuous form for future arrangements (or future progressive tense) with several fill-in-the-blanks and sentence reordering activities.
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
Tense Shift
Use this comical slide show with your youngsters to review verb tense and tense shift. A shirtless weight-lifter guides your class through examples on how to correct common errors. There are 22 slides included, and several questions to...
Savvas Learning
Verbs: Present
Present tense verbs are the focus of a 24-page packet designed for language learners and loaded with activities, worksheets, and exercises. Step-by-step directions, materials lists, and variations for each lesson are included. A solid...
Curated OER
What's Going On? -- Present Progressive in Photos
Magazine photos of people in action provide opportunities for beginning and intermediate English learners to employ the present progressive (continuous) verb tense. Partners describe what people are doing and share their sentences with...
LearnEnglishFeelGood.com
Simple Present or Present Continuous?
Mastering verb tense is an important part of building your learners' reading skills. Young grammarians look over ten sentences and use context clues to decide whether they should use the present or present progressive tense.
Curated OER
Verbs: Present Time
In this present tense verbs worksheet, students complete sentences with verbs chosen from a word bank and write the correct form. Students fill in the blank in seven sentences.
Curated OER
Verbs: Present Activities
In this present tense verbs activity, students determine synonyms for bolded verbs in sentences. Students choose eight multiple choice answers.
Curated OER
The Present Tense - Present Progressive
In this grammar worksheet, students learn about using the present progressive tense in sentence writing. They then answer 14 questions using what they just learned.
Curated OER
Present Tense Verbs
In this verbs worksheet, students decide whether to use the simple present or present progressive tense in sixteen sentences.
Pearson
Non-Action Verbs
A verb is something you do — but can you always see the action? Use a slideshow presentation to clarify the differences between verbs that describe actions, and verbs that describe senses, preferences, and emotions.
Curated OER
Quiz 6A: Verb Practice
Here is a worksheet that provides practice using English verb forms like the simple present, simple past, and present progressive. Learners fill in the blanks in 10 sentences using the given verb correctly based on context. I'd go over...
Curated OER
ESL Blue: Present Tenses
In this online interactive ESL instructional activity, 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...
Curated OER
Present Simple or Progressive
Take your class to the computer lab, or simply send your learners struggling with the present simple or progressive tenses. This online, interactive worksheet has 15 multiple choice questions. You could also print this out and provide it...
Curated OER
Verb Review 1: Present/Past
Use this worksheet (with four mini-exercises) to sum up skills learned about various verb forms and usage rules. It covers present, present progressive, past simple, and future tenses in regular and irregular verbs. Young grammarians...
Curated OER
Actions in Progress
English language learners will find this practice particularly helpful. They match the sentences to their visual depiction. In the second exercise, they fill in the missing words. They use the sentences in the first activity to discover...
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.
Pearson
Gerunds: Subject and Object
Ace the next grammar quiz with the help of a presentation about subject and object gerunds! After defining the concept, the slides guide class members through different examples and activities with gerunds.
Curated OER
Verb Tense Review
In this verb tense review worksheet, students fill in the blanks with the correct verb forms to meet the stated criteria. Students focus on simple present, present progressive, simple past, past progressive, present perfect, present...
Teacher Writing Center
Thanksgiving Lesson
Practice using proper verb tenses in the spirit of Thanksgiving! Learners are given holiday photographs as prompts to create oral and written sentences in a targeted verb tense.