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In this section, you can find worksheets that combine the past simple and present perfect tenses. Once students learn a new tense, in this case probably the present perfect, review other tenses that might be confused with it so that students can learn the subtleties of each tense that they may not have noticed the first time around. These worksheets can help you conduct such reviews more efficiently and also save you time planning lessons. There are currently 33 worksheets in this section. Let’s take a look at one of them. This popular worksheet has sixteen sentences that students have to complete with either a past simple or present perfect verb. It is creatively organized and includes subject matter that students may be interested in such as facts about famous people. For even more ideas on how to teach the difference between these tenses, take a look at the article posted on this page.
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What Tense? Revision of Four Basic English Tenses What Tense? Revision of Four Basic English TensesThese exercises will help you check the knowledge of the different uses of four basic grammatical tenses in English (present simple, present continuous, past simple and present perfect) so frequen ...
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Pre-Intermediate
 
Irregular Verbs Mnemonic Rhyming Groups Irregular Verbs Mnemonic Rhyming GroupsIRREGULAR VERBS: A REFERENCE LIST Mnemonic Rhyming Groups By: Hani Al TahrawiLearning can be fun with Mnemonics! When we were kids, rhyming songs and phrases were some of the gimmicks us ...
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Past Simple vs Present Perfect Worksheet II Past Simple vs Present Perfect Worksheet IIThis is a worksheet contrasting the present perfect and the past simple tense.Recommended for elementary students who are asked to fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs in brackets ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Distinguishing Between Past Simple and Present Perfect Distinguishing Between Past Simple and Present PerfectStudents sort functions and uses of past simple and present perfect into two columns. Helps students to choose when to use the simple past and when to use the present perfect. This worksheet is d ...
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Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
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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rated by 16 teachers

Pre-Intermediate
 
Simple Past or Present Perfect? Simple Past or Present Perfect?This is a worksheet contrasting the simple past and the present perfect simple tense.There are clear explanations followed by an activity in which students are asked to complete different sentence ...
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rated by 12 teachers

Elementary Pre-Intermediate
 
Past Simple or Present Perfect Past Simple or Present PerfectThis worksheet consists of 4 exercises torevise the use of the simple past and the present perfect. The students have to choose the correct tense (ex. 1); put the verb in the coreect tense (ex. 2) ...
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rated by 10 teachers

Elementary Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Past Simple and Present Perfect Worksheet Past Simple and Present Perfect WorksheetA worksheet contrasting the present perfect simple and the past simple tenses.There are 3 exercises in which students are asked to use the prompts to write present perfect sentences using the adve ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Present Perfect Vs Past Simple Present Perfect Vs Past SimpleThis is an exercise in the form of a dialogue between a detective and a Mr.Peterson whose wife has been found dead. Though tragic as it might seem there is some point of humor in it! My students r ...
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rated by 8 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
The Present Perfect vs. The Simple Past The Present Perfect vs. The Simple PastShould be fairly easy for intermediate or upper-intermediate students. Contains 20 sentences with the infinitives in brackets to be used either in the Simple Past or Present Perfect tenses. The do ...
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Intermediate
 
Present Perfect vs. Past Simple Present Perfect vs. Past SimpleSome sentences to practise both the structures and the uses of the present perfect and the simple past. The students have to fill in the blanks with the correct form (affirmative, negative or inte ...
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rated by 19 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Occupy Wall Street Occupy Wall StreetAn ESL worksheet for Intermediate students, to learn more about the Occupy Wall Street Movement and simple past/present perfect. This worksheet refers to an article taken from the New York Times. ...
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rated by 8 teachers

Intermediate
 
For and Since Worksheet For and Since WorksheetTwo simple exercises that help understand the difference between FOR and SINCE and the use of the correct verb tense.In the first exercise you just have to choose the correct alternative, in the s ...
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rated by 11 teachers

Pre-Intermediate
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