Present Continuous

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...

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...

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...

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...

In this present continuous activity, 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.

In this ESL worksheet, 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.

In this ESL instructional 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 English grammar worksheet, students focus on the usage of present tense. Students complete 20 fill in the blank questions using the interactive drop down menu for each.    

In this ESL worksheet, students focus on the past tense.  Students complete 16 exercises choosing to use either the simple past or past continuous tense and using the interactive key when finished.  

Students discuss and analyze the differences between the present perfect simple and present perfect continuous forms from a clear context and develop the skill of noticing word stress, weak forms of auxiliaries.