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Learners spend a lot of time studying different tenses so Busy Teacher has collected 2659 excellent worksheets on tenses and even sorted them into subcategories to make your search for the perfect worksheet even easier. Many teachers have devoted preparation time to this topic so that you do not have to. It is hard to choose a worksheet to examine but here is one that seems to be quite popular. The board game is designed to be a review of tenses and can therefore be used in any class. Students play the game in groups and must make a new sentence every turn. Other worksheets focus on specific tenses so one of them may be more appropriate if you are not currently in a review stage.
Where to begin? There are a lot of tenses that students need to learn during the course of their English studies. Their native language may determine how difficult students find this particular topic. Some languages are more similar to English than others and students who speak those languages will therefore have an easier time in your class. Tenses are almost always taught in the same order. Beginners start with present simple before learning the simple past and then simple future. As students progress they are introduced to more and more tenses until they have mastered them all.
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GRAMMAR TIP: What Is Tense?
A tense is a grammatical category that locates a situation in time, to indicate when the situation takes place. Some typical tenses are present, past, and future. Tense can make finer distinctions than simple past-present-future; past tenses for example can cover general past, immediate past, or distant past, with the only difference between them being the distance on the timeline between the temporal reference points. Such distinctions are not precise: an event may be described in the remote past because it feels remote to the speaker, not because a set number of days have passed since it happened; it may also be remote because it is being contrasted with another, more recent, past event. This is similar to other forms of deixis such as this and that.
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Song Worksheet: What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger ( Present Simple)
Song Worksheet: What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger ( Present Simple)
This song is almost new and I think it's good to practise  present simple with teens. This worksheet includes pre-listening activities, while-listening activities and post-listening activities.
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
Present Simple vs Present Continuous Presentation
Present Simple vs Present Continuous Presentation
Clear, direct and simple powerpoint presentation to introduce the subject. Slides with the main topics.Recommended for beginners or elementary students.
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Complete Beginner Elementary
Reading Comprehension: If I Listened to my Parents, I Would Never Lose my Leg.
Reading Comprehension: If I Listened to my Parents, I Would Never Lose my Leg.
This is a readig comprehension text about a fifteen-year-old boy who disobeyed his parents. After reading the text my learners are asked to do some activities. It is suitable for intermediate stud ...
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Elementary Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
Movie Worksheet: Ang Lee's Life of Pi ( Group Follow up Activities)
Movie Worksheet: Ang Lee's Life of Pi ( Group Follow up Activities)
This is a selection of fun activities that you can do after watching Life of Pi. I've used this with 5th and 6th graders with great success. They can put themselves in Pi's shoes, they can cut a ...
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Elementary Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
Daily Routine
Daily Routine
To use the present simple. It's a worksheet where they have to use the correct form of the verbs and write correct sentences about someone's daily routine. It has pictures,  verbs and they ha ...
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Elementary
Simple Present: Verb Conjugation Exercises
Simple Present: Verb Conjugation Exercises
The exercise is made for a beginner spanish speaking student It is for drilling and practicing simple present tense. 35 questions in total:20 conjugating present tense verbs,15 looking for conjug ...
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Complete Beginner
Pick out the Right Tense
Pick out the Right Tense
It's time for some fun and educational worksheets. Identifying tenses in the given sentences! Watch this video to gather hints to complete the worksheet on changing TENSES! Learn more about Tenses ...
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All levels
Composition about Grandparents
Composition about Grandparents
It was created in order to encourage young students to write a composition about their grandparents, with five simple questions as a guide. It may also reinforce the use of, he-she, his-her, can, ...
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Complete Beginner
Song Worksheet: Don't tell me by Avril Lavigne
Song Worksheet: Don't tell me by Avril Lavigne
A song to work with the Simple Past. Students work with the past forms of certain verbs and also with some questions in that tense. They complete a chart with the correct form of the verbs.You can ...
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Elementary Pre-Intermediate
Mixed Exercise: Past and Present Tenses
Mixed Exercise: Past and Present Tenses
This worksheet contains one mixed exercise based on the present and past tenses of English. The tenses are not specified in the instructions, therefore the students have to decide on their own whi ...
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Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced Exam Level
Play Cinderella
Play Cinderella
A simple play for Primary school children between nine and eleven years old. The play is for seven to nine characters and is mainly in the present simple, though there are some uses of the future. ...
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Elementary
Passive Voice Test
Passive Voice Test
This is a test on Passive voice and Present Simple vs Present continous. Basicaly it is a test aimed to evaluate grammar, but there's also  an exercise on grammar and reading at first. You ca ...
rated by 3 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
Past Perfect Continuous Intermediate Worksheet
Past Perfect Continuous Intermediate Worksheet
This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching or revising the past perfect continuous.There are 4 different activities in which students are asked to complete the sentences with the correct form of the ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
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