TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Many Verb Tenses Are There in English?
How many different verb tenses are there in a language like English? At first, the answer seems obvious- there's past, present, and future. Anna Ananichuk explains how thanks to something called grammatical aspect, each of those time...
City University of New York
City University of New York: E Recource Center: Grammar Tutorials: Verb Tense
The tutorial contains five exercises addressing correct use of verb tenses. Each exercise contains an explanation of the grammar concept and then an opportunity for students to practice. Students can download pdf of each explanation. The...
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: Be Verb Past and Present
Twenty sentences with blanks where a "be" verb should be. Students choose which verb fits correctly into the context of the sentence. Correct answers are provided for any that are missed, and a percentage score is kept and displayed at...
abcteach
Abc Teach: Verb Skill Sheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] Provides worksheets to use with students explaining the different types of verbs and how to use them. There is one five page mini-unit on simple present, past and future tenses. Also included are a cut...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Sequence of Tenses
This Purdue University tutorial covers active and passive voices through simple examples.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: The Present Perfect Tense
Review examples and then complete three online exercises dealing with the present perfect tense. English translations are provided for some of the examples. The first exercise provides verb infinitives as cues for the present perfect...
Other
Ez School: Games: Alter Verb Tense
This practice quiz presents a verb and asks students to type in a specific form of the verb, such as the past perfect tense of sleeping.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Simple Present
This lesson introduces the simple present tense and how it is used. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: El Preterito Formas (Part 3)
These Colby College exercises provide a very extensive review of irregular verbs, stem-changers, and spelling changes in the preterite tense. Change present tense conjugations to preterite tense. Answers may be checked and corrected.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Verb Tense
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart revises work on verbs and investigates verb tense: (past, present and future); compare sentences from narrative and information texts, e.g. narrative in past tense, explanations in...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Verb Tense
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use verb tenses with increasing accuracy in speaking and writing. Students will use past tense consistently for narration, and will recognize and use the term 'verb' appropriately.
English Club
English Club: What Is Tense?
Notes and examples of verb tense including past, present, future, progressive, and perfective.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Verb Conjugation Grammar Rules
This page explains verb conjugations including persons: first, second, and third person; number: singular and plural; and tenses: present, past, and future and simple, continuous, and perfect. It provides examples of verb conjugations.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Verbs With Helpers
An explanation of how to use helping words with verbs, depending on the conjugation of the verb and the tense.
Other
Tidewater Community College: Writing Center: Verb Tenses
Writing center guide to verb tenses that dicusses present, present continuous, past, past continuous, future, future continuous, present perfect, and past perfect.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Spellingcity.com: Verbs in the Past Tense [Pdf]
Practice skills with past tense verbs by choosing the best verb to fill in the blank in each sentence on this worksheet.
Other
Mr. Fraiha's 4th Grade e.l.a. Website: Progressive Verb Tenses
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.
Other
2ndgradeworksheets.net: Past Tense Verbs [Pdf]
Practice skills with past tense verbs by circling all of the past tense verbs in the ten sentences on this learning exercise.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Verbs: The 12 Basic English Tenses
Information about verb tenses and links to additional information about present, past, and future tenses.
Other
Adele's Esl Corner: Past Tense Regular Verbs
Change the verbs to past tense in each of the ten sentences in this exercise.
English Worksheets Land
English Worksheets Land: Progressive Verb Tenses [Pdf]
Practice writing progressive tense verbs by writing the past, present, and future progressive tenses of each verb on this worksheet.
English Worksheets Land
English Worksheets Land: Progressive Verb Tenses: What Are You Doing, Ki? [Pdf]
Practice writing progressive tense verbs by writing the past, present, and future progressive tense of each verb listed on this worksheet.
English Worksheets Land
English Worksheets Land: Progressive Verb Tenses: The Word Factory [Pdf]
Practice writing progressive tense verbs by writing the past, present, and future progressive tense of each verb listed on this worksheet.
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Present Perfect
A straightforward explanation of how the present perfect tense is formed with a printer-friendly page that is great for note keeping. One free online quiz and test evaluate mastery.