Present Continuous

Help your upper-intermediate and advanced English language learners tell stories of their past with this document. First they read example sentences, and then they complete two exercises. In exercise one, they complete a few paragraphs...

What is something you always do? Help your intermediate English classes express their habits, facts they know, and actions in progress by studying the present simple and continuous tenses. Several rules and examples are given before...

What were you doing when you found out you got the job? Intermediate English speakers learn the difference between past simple and past continous. On page one, they read brief explanations of each verb type, and then they study the...

A short practice opportunity is given after English pupils review the present simple and present continous tenses with a series of sentences detailing some daily and weekly habits. In the practice exercise, learners have to decide which...

When were you living in the United States? This two-page document reviews the past continuous tense with your intermediate English language learners. Page one provides several examples with positive, negative, and question formations....

How can you describe something that happened if you don't know the past simple and continuous tenses? You really can't! Develop these tenses with your intermediate English classes, so they can better communicate with their peers. On page...

In this ESL activity, students pick a present continuous card and draw what they read to elicit the sentence. Students word in groups of four or five.

In this ESL instructional activity, students will each get an itinerary for the trip they will take the next day. Each itinerary has gaps and students will need to talk to a partner in the present continuous tense in order to fill the gaps.

For this present continuous worksheet, students will focus on verb usage. Using the words and pictures provided, students will write 8 sentences about the photos using the present continuous tense.

Explore the different conjugations for the passive voice. Teach your writers to use present simple or present continuous forms of verbs. They are prompted to use a given verb in either present simple form or present continuous form. You...