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Learners spend a lot of time studying different tenses so Busy Teacher has collected 1929 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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Beyonce's Success Story Beyonce's Success StoryI made it a couple of years ago but you can still use it to demonstrate differences between present perfect and past simple and try a similar exercise about Rihanna. It can also be used simply as ...
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Pre-Intermediate
 
Song Worksheet: Song Worksheet: "Haven't Met You Yet" by Michael BubleFill in the blanks activity. Great song, people of all ages like it. Good to work Present Perfect Tense and Phrasal Verbs. I gave it to my Teen students and they sang along. Goog vocabulary with m ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Video Worksheet: God Created The DJ Video Worksheet: God Created The DJThis test is to be used with the very nice video called "Spin" which I found on "busyteacher.org". Thanks to Hass. There are three different exercises, the first to check the students know the dif ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Past Simple Presentation Past Simple PresentationPast simple presentation.You can use it for grammar lesson.There are some rules about Past simple, some examples of irregular forms in the Simple Past. Notice that you only use the irregular verbs ...
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Elementary
 
Song Worksheet: Killing Me Softly by The Fugees Song Worksheet: Killing Me Softly by The FugeesTEACHER’S NOTESLEVEL : PRE/UPPER- INTERMEDIATE GRAMMAR: PAST SIMPLE/PASSIVE /ADJECTIVESNOTES: QUITE A SIMPLE LISTENING ACTIVITY WITH THE PAST SIMPLE 1. BEFORE LISTENING: STUDENTS READ THE ...
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Elementary Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Guess The Animal Game Guess The Animal GameThis worksheet helped me with a group of quiet students, I'm teaching English in Mexico and I have a hard time finding activities like this one so that's why I am sharing this with all of you, I h ...
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Complete Beginner Elementary
 
Stages Of Life: Past Experience Worksheet Stages Of Life: Past Experience WorksheetThis worksheet covers the topic of stages of human life in the perspective of past experience. It mainly focuses on vocabulary and grammar practice. The tasks start from the easiest one to the mos ...
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Pre-Intermediate
 
What Do You Do Every Day? What Do You Do Every Day?This is a two page worksheet for teaching the present simple tense and frequency adverbs.Students are asked to complete the text with the correct form of the verbs given and complete sentences wit ...
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Elementary Pre-Intermediate
 
Present Simple vs Present Progressive Worksheet II Present Simple vs Present Progressive Worksheet IIThis is a 2-page worksheet contrasting the present simple and the present progressive tense.There is a complete grammar guide followed by a activity in which students are asked to fill in the gaps ...
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Elementary Pre-Intermediate
 
Movie Worksheet: The Proposal Movie Worksheet: The ProposalThe Proposal is a great movie starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, then your students will have fun while they are trying to get some specific information from the film. This worksheet will ...
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Elementary
 
Connect 4 - Tenses Connect 4 - TensesConnect 4 Game. The students chose a verb, then have to say a correct sentence using that verb. You can use what ever tense you have taught in that lesson or use it for revision.For higher levels ...
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