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.
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Conversation Pieces: A Verb Tense Activity
Teach your English language learners about conversations by inviting them to participate in a conversation about an interesting object. Through this conversation, learners will naturally use various verb tenses and practice asking...
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Verb Tense Exercise 16
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 12 fill in the blank questions regarding verb tenses. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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ESL: Continuous Affirmative/Present Simple
In this ESL verb tense instructional activity, students read about simple present and present continuous tense, then use correct verb forms to fill in blanks in sentences.
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Future Forms - Total English
In this ELL grammar worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 8 sentences by choosing will, going to, or the present continuous form of the verbs that are given in brackets. They read a letter of complaint, decide what the problem was,...
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Tense Revision
In this verb tenses online interactive instructional activity, students read 24 sentences and fill in each blank in each sentence with the correct form of the verb in parentheses next to each blank.
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Present Perfect Simple and Continuous
In this present perfect simple or continuous verb tense worksheet, ESL students read 13 sentences. For each sentence, students choose the best verb form, either present perfect simple or present perfect continuous.
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The Present Simple or Continuous Exercises
In this online grammar worksheet, students read the sentences and use the verb in present simple or present continuous form to complete the 11 sentences.
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A VIP - Present Perfect Simple and Continuous
Here is an interesting way to teach the present perfect and present perfect continuous. Individuals practice these verb tenses as well as the simple past by asking a partner questions about an imaginary biography. The biography...
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Present Simple or Present Continuous
In this ESL verb forms instructional activity, students complete 10 sentences by inserting the correct present simple or present continuous form of each verb given in parentheses.
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ESL: Verb Tenses
In these verb tenses worksheets, students complete the fill in the speaking and writing activities on the worksheets to enhance their understanding of the present continuous verb tense and the rules for adding -ing to verbs. Students...
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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...
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Present Continuous: Negatives and Questions
In this present continuous sentences learning exercise, students change each sentence to a negative sentence. Students change 7 sentences to negatives.
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ESL Verb Tense:Simple/Continuous
In this ESL verb tense instructional activity, students fill in blanks in sentences using either the present simple or present continuous form of verbs given.
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Troubling Tenses-- Past Simple Vs. Present Continuous 2
In this language arts worksheet, students learn to differentiate between "yesterday" and "tomorrow" by filling in the blanks in 15 sentences with the correct word.
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Beginning Daily Activities Unit
Begin each day with a warm-up that has ELLs focusing their minds on a skill that will be taught that day. Focusing on verbs, each daily lesson reinforces study and self-management skills, helps learners become proficient in working with...
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Places in My Town
Introduce language learners to the present continuous tense with a series of activities that ask them to answer the question, "Where are you going?"
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Present Perfect Simple or Continuous Exercise
In this online grammar worksheet, students read the sentences and complete them with either present perfect simple or the present perfect continuous forms. Students complete 10 exercises.
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Active & Stative Verbs
For this active and stative verbs worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with present simple and present continuous verbs and correct the mistakes they find in sentences. Students complete 2 activities.
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Expressing the Future
In thisfuture tense worksheet, students read the differences between expressing the future through present simple and present continuous verb forms.
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Talking About the Future
Learners investigate how to communicate about the future using the proper verb tense. In this communication about the future lesson, students talk to a partner about future plans. They fill in an associated chart about the present simple...
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Grammar Games and Activities
Thirty pages of grammar activities? Your young grammarians will be well versed in the parts of speech, basic verb tenses, and much more after completing even a handful of these exercises.
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Present Simple vs. Present Continuous
In this ESL verb tenses instructional activity, students examine 7 pictures and the sentences with present simple verbs. Students change the sentence to the present continuous form and choose the correct sentence from 4 choices.
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Present Perfect Simple or Continuous?
In this present perfect simple or continuous learning exercise, students first read about these 2 tenses, then decide on use and fill in blanks with the correct tense, using a given verb.