ClassFlow
Class Flow: Past and Present
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explains the difference between past and present and includes a sorting exercise, video content, and assessment.
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...
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Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Verb Tense Handout [Pdf]
This is a four-page "Verb Tense" handout from Nesbitt - Johnston Writing Center, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, which focuses on the proper tenses to use when writing about literature and when writing about science. I explains present,...
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...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: A Quiz in Identifying Tenses
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Using the Present Progressive Tense
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]
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Verb Forms
This page explains the five forms of verbs: root, third-person singular,present participle, past, and past participle and provides examples of each.
Quia
Quia: Challenge Board: Verb Tense
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...
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.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Sequence of Tenses
This Purdue University tutorial covers active and passive voices through simple examples.
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Using the Correct Verb Tense
Verb tense is used to show when an action occurs, whether it is in the past, the present, or the future. [0:56]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Verb Tenses
This slideshow lesson focuses on 12 verb tenses by providing background and examples of each. The 12 verb tenses are as follows: present, present continuous, present perfect, present perfect continuous, past, past continuous, past...
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Past, Present, or Future Tense
This Skillswise site focuses on verb tenses. Included are a video about why learning about tenses is important, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, quizzes on the information presented, and games to practice the skill. The...
Quia
Quia: Recognizing Verb Tenses
To earn fame and fortune in this game, name the correct tense used in each sentence by selecting it from the four options given. Both Java and HTML versions are provided.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Helping and Modal Auxiliary Verbs
A helping and modal auxiliary verb site from the Capital Community College. Use this site as a reference tool when learning about modal auxiliary verbs.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: The Past Participle
View pictures and answer the questions relating to the picture in either the present perfect tense or using the past participle as an adjective. Click the "?" if you are uncertain about an answer.
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.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Irregular Verbs
An extensive look at verbs in all their various forms and uses. A very valuable and easy to understand resource with many 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...
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 learners to practice. Students can download pdf of each explanation. The...
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...
English Club
English Club: Basic Tenses: Regular Verbs
Notes and examples of verb tense including past, present, future, past participle, present participle, simple, continuous, perfect, and continuous perfect.
Languages Online
Languages Online: Ser
Great explanation of how to use the verb "ser". Matching, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and crossword exercises provide practice using "ser" with professions, nationalities, and characteristics. An opportunity to practice...