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Learners spend a lot of time studying different tenses so Busy Teacher has collected 2700 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: Don't Go Breaking My Heart by Elton John
Song Worksheet: Don't Go Breaking My Heart by Elton John
Song worksheet  for simple past tense. One of the most famous songs from Elton John. It's a filling in the blank worksheet using simple past verbs. When teaching simple past our students need ...
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Pre-Intermediate
Song Worksheet: Lemon Tree
Song Worksheet: Lemon Tree
I used this worksheet with 6th grade students to practise present continuous and activate some vocabulary items. Students have to listen to the song and fill in the gaps with the correct form of t ...
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Elementary
What Time Do You...?
What Time Do You...?
This is a worksheet I use for beginners to review the present simple, verbs related to everyday activities, and time. Each student asks three others about their daily activities, and then makes se ...
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Complete Beginner
Present Continuous Chart
Present Continuous Chart
Present continuous chart and examples which help children understand faster the usage and form of the present continuous. It helps children understand the word order of affirmative and negative s ...
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Complete Beginner Elementary
Gotcha! Game - Past
Gotcha! Game - Past
This is a very nice activity to be done in pairs and it takes around 20 minutes. One student gets the "A" and the other one gets the "B" part. They ask each other the questions using the Simple Pa ...
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Elementary Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
Everyday Activities & the Clock
Everyday Activities & the Clock
This handout concerns everyday activities and reading the time. It is prepared for the primary school. The learners have to fill the gaps with structures: I wake up, I go to schoo, I do the shoppi ...
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Elementary
Simple Past- Past Continuous
Simple Past- Past Continuous
I used this worksheet with students who have shown a weakness in understanding the two tenses and were really confused when confronting them in activities. It proved to be very useful. It contain ...
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Pre-Intermediate
Everyday Bingo
Everyday Bingo
An activity for forming present tense questions and sentences in the 3rd person. First tell the students to guess which things you do every day. If they think you DO this, they must colour the sta ...
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Elementary
The History of Surfing
The History of Surfing
This text contains vocabulary connected with the history of surfing. It`s good for a team work where two teams in turns try to guess the exact word for each gap from the sentence context. If ...
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Elementary Pre-Intermediate
Song Worksheet: I Knew You Were Trouble (Simple Past )
Song Worksheet: I Knew You Were Trouble (Simple Past )
I used the song I Knew You Were Trouble to help my students with some irregular verbs in the Past Simple Tense. In this worksheet, students first complete the Past Simple Tense of the verbs in b ...
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Elementary Pre-Intermediate
Everyday Actions Picture Dictionary
Everyday Actions Picture Dictionary
This is a picture dictionary which can also be used as a classroom poster for revising action verbs at elementary level. The picture dictionary is available in both colour and black and white version.
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Elementary Pre-Intermediate
Sunday Plan : Going To...
Sunday Plan : Going To...
Talking about Sunday plans from lecturer : A. Maitree Jeremy. Look at the table and talk about the activities each student is going to do next Sunday. Example :  Question : What is Amanda ...
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Pre-Intermediate
What Time?
What Time?
Worksheet about daily routines / telling time / present simple.This is a simple worksheet for beginners or intermediate students. Students just have to answer  questions about themselves or a ...
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Complete Beginner Elementary Pre-Intermediate
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