Starting off with present participles, this resource tackles the progressive with grammatical explanations, examples in English and Spanish, and an interactive practice exercise. Use the menu at the top of the webpage to navigate to each...

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

Present progressives describe an action in progress, or something that started in the past and is still happening. It is formed with the helping "to be" verb in the present tense and the present participle of the verb. [0:42]

When something is ongoing, we say that it's in the 'progressive' or 'continuous' aspect. Test your knowledge of this grammatical aspect!

In this one or two player game, students select categories (past, present, future, past progressive, present progressive) and point values for each question. After the selection, they type in the required tense to fill in each sentence...

Learn about progressive verb tenses (present progressive, present continuous, past progressive, past continuous, future progressive, and future continuous) by reading, watching a video [0:52] and taking short online quizzes.

If an action has been ongoing for some time, or was once ongoing and has since completed, we say it's in the progressive perfect aspect! Test your knowledge of this grammatical aspect.

English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the recall of basic verb tenses that are needed in beginning English.

In this 10 question quiz, students match names of English tenses in one column with sentences that contain those verb tenses (written in all capital letters) in another column by typing the number of the sentence in the boxes provided.

English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the application of the present progressive verb tense, a topic covered in Level 2 English.