English Grammar Corner - English Tenses

Read Elizabeth's description of her daily routine and answer the questions below....

Complete the following sentences with the correct auxiliaries for the Present Tense....

Complete the following sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets in the Present Simple or Continuous, and Present Perfect Simple or Continuous....

Complete the following sentences. Choose an appropriate verb from the box below and transform the verb to the present continuous form....

Look at the people below. What are they doing? Create sentences with the correct use of the present continuous tense....

This is a fun practice on hobbies and Present Simple. Once the activity is completed, it can be used for speaking purposes....

Here some verb cards to practice the "going to" future with your ESL students....

Your ESL students have to write sentences following the example in the "going to" future tense....

This is a fun activity to practice the simple present. Students look at the images and talk about what Mick does. Later, you can use this worksheet to introduce other tenses, too. ...

This is a fun activity to practice the simple past. Students look at the images and talk about what Harry did on holiday. ...

This is a fun activity to practice the simple past. Students look at the images and talk about what Daisy did last Saturday. You can also have them figure out where Daisy forgot her umbrella....

This is a great worksheet to practice the difference between simple present and present continuous....

This worksheet is great for practicing the past continuous tense. Students need to use a verb in the simple past and a verb in the past continuous....

This is a fun worksheet to practice the present perfect tense. Students look at the pictures and describe what has just happened....

Here's a fun worksheet to practice the present continuous tense with your ESL students....

This game is to practice the Present Simple Tense questions and short answers. Students draw the ships on their boards and then they start shooting, trying to guess, where their partner's ships are....

This is a fun ESL printable writing activity worksheet for learners of English to practice the past simple tense with both regular and irregular verbs....

This is a fun board game for teaching or revising the past simple tense. Students advance on the board with dice, when they land on a square they are asked to make a sentence using the picture clue and the verb provided....

This is a simple worksheet for drilling the verb to be....

This is a fun worksheet to have your ESL students practice the Present Simple tense....

Have your students practice the present simple with this fun ESL worksheet with the Simpsons!...

This is a fantastic worksheet to practice the question words, present continuous, has got, prepositions, colors, and shapes....

This is a fun worksheet to practice the present continuous tense with your ESL students....

This is a fun worksheet to practice the present continuous tense. Students have to look at the pictures and write what the people are doing....

Look at the ship. What are the pirates doing? Fill in the gaps with the verbs in brackets. Use the Present Continuous. Then match the descriptions to the numbers in the picture. ...

This is a fun worksheet to practice the Past Simple or the Past Continuous. Students look at the pictures and fill in the gaps with one of the linking words in the box in order to complete the story....

This is a fun worksheet for beginners to practice the present simple tense for he/she/it words by adding an -s....

This is a helpful worksheet for ESL students to practice the present continuous tense in English....

Here is a fun Christmas activity to practice the structure BE GOING TO positive and negative to express future plans on the theme of Christmas....

Here is an overview of all the different verb tenses in the English language....

Here's a useful worksheet with exercises to practice the present, past and future tenses. ...

Here is a fun worksheet to practice recognizing the different tenses in English with your young students. Students simply have to color by past, present or future tense....

Are you learning or teaching the future perfect? This worksheet will teach you how the tense works. ...

Here's a fun English ESL worksheet to practice the past simple tense for ESL students....

Here is a collection of dialog cards to practice the correct usage of the past simple tense....

Here's a fun past simple Wh questions ESL game to help you teach your students how to make questions in the past simple tense....

Here is a crazy picture, with lots of things going on which are just not right! The task is for the students to match up the sentence parts....

This is a guided speaking activity where students talk about routines or things happening right now. The pictures and sentences help them to use the correct tense....

This board game is a great speaking practice on some past simple irregular verbs....

Here's a useful infographic showcasing the different verb tenses in the English language. ...

Past perfect tense indicates the finished or completed actions of the past. For example, I had taken eaten two pieces of cake before my friend finally showed up....

Let's explore the present continuous tense in English with useful examples! Learn the definition and how to form the present continuous tense with this infographic....

The simple past tense is used to talk about a completed action in a time before now. It indicates an action which is completed at a definite time in the past....

When to use "will" and when to use "going to" for expressing the future is a very confusing concept for some English learners. Both of these terms refer to the future but there is a slight difference between them. Let's take a look at the differences in the infographic below....