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While some aspects of a new language are fairly easy to teach, tenses can pose a challenge because they vary so much from one language to another. ESL teachers - particularly new ones - tend to struggle a little with teaching tenses, because it’s not always easy to explain exactly how a given tense works in English; or how it contrasts with other, similar tenses. Throw in the problem of teaching tenses in ways that keep students active, interested, and learning, and you’ve got a recipe for a difficult lesson on your hands.

Not all teachers handle these issues in the same ways. The classic approach would be simply to drill students on grammar until they get it right - but that approach has fallen out of use, in favor of a more integrated teaching method that combines speaking, reading, activities, and other forms of learning. The challenge for the modern ESL teacher, then, is to find ways of presenting each tense that enable the students not only to learn it correctly, but also to be able to produce it and use it dynamically in sentences.

That’s exactly where BusyTeacher.org’s 4,456 verb tense worksheets come in. They’re designed by real ESL teachers to help students see how each tense is used, see examples of different applications for it, and practice using it in all kinds of different exercises. With these worksheets, teaching tenses turns from a dull repetitive process into an engaging series of learning activities, that’ll inspire your students to take what they’ve learned out of the classroom and use it in their actual English conversations.

Our 4,456 tense worksheets cover each tense in the book, from present simple to future perfect continuous - and all things in between. They cover singular and plural verbs, irregular verbs, active and passive verbs, positive and negative verbs, and every other form of a verb you want to teach. In combination with the more rigorous rules laid down in your school’s textbook, these worksheets will give students the practice they need to understand every way in which English verbs can be formed.

In addition to all the verb forms our worksheets cover, they’ll also help you introduce variety into your classroom in another way: by giving you a wide variety of different exercises for practicing verbs in various situations. Some of our worksheets, for example, include simple examples and fill-in-the-blank exercises - while others will help your students organize little drama presentations, play games like “pronoun dice” or a quiz show, or read silly stories and lyrics to popular songs - all targeted at teaching the rules for using one particular verb tense or set of tenses.

These worksheets have been proven to work in classrooms of ESL teachers around the world - and in fact, that’s exactly who contributed them to this site. They’re all free to download and use without any registration, and you’re even free to submit your own worksheets if you’d like - just click the “Submit a worksheet” button at the bottom of this page, and join our international community of English teachers helping English teachers!

All our worksheets can be previewed in thumbnail view before you click and download them - so just take a scroll down this page, see what catches your eye, and try out anything that looks interesting in your classroom. We guarantee you’ll love the results!

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Space Is A Big Place: Simple Past Worksheet

Space Is A Big Place: Simple Past Worksheet

This is a worksheet for teaching or revising the simple past tense. It includes 2 different activities in which students are asked to fill in the gaps with the simple past of the verbs in bracket ...
18 Views 13,572 Pre-IntInt
Videogames Reading

Videogames Reading

This worksheet has an interesting topic for 8th grade (videogames) and also high school. You will need to look for those keywords which are in the text ... I showed them in a ppt presentation. B ...
7 Views 11,264 Pre-Int
Actions Worksheet

Actions Worksheet

There are 3 activities: - find the actions in the wordsearch, - complete the sentences using the verbs from the pictures and write them in the simple present form, - complete the sentences usin ...
9 Views 13,853 BegElemPre-Int
Giving Directions - Shops

Giving Directions - Shops

Worksheet to practice different skills: speaking - giving directions, vocabulary - shops and place prepositions, reading - definitions. First, as an individual activity, make students read the def ...
44 Views 64,135 Elem
Simple Past vs Past Perfect:Worksheet

Simple Past vs Past Perfect:Worksheet

This is a simple worksheet contrasting the past simple and the past perfect tense. It includes explanations and example sentences at the top of the page followed by 2 exercises in which students ...
39 Views 75,596 Pre-IntInt
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Evian Roller Babies Worksheet

Evian Roller Babies Worksheet

A little introduction to the "star interview" theme, here's an oral comprehension for intermediate EFL students, linked to a video available on Youtube "evian roller babies interviews". The kids l ...
2 Views 7,582 Pre-IntInt
Picture Adapted From Asterix in Britain: 2-Page Worksheet

Picture Adapted From Asterix in Britain: 2-Page Worksheet

This is a 2-page worksheet with Asterix and Obelix. The first page is an opportunity to practise present continuous/present BE-ING with the description of a picture (adapted) from the comic book A ...
16 Views 13,977 ElemPre-IntInt
Used To: True/False Worksheet

Used To: True/False Worksheet

This worksheet is about the use of "used to ", so students read the sentences & decide if they are true or false. This activity could also be used as a feedback to check ss' understanding. so ...
8 Views 24,714 ElemPre-Int
Irregular Verbs Game Board

Irregular Verbs Game Board

This is a simple game for lower level students. Make sure to have dice, and place markers for students (I used small stickers cut with the backing still on them). It can be adapted for many uses. ...
18 Views 26,671 BegElemPre-Int
Present Perfect Tense: Elementary Worksheet

Present Perfect Tense: Elementary Worksheet

This is a short worksheet for elementary students on present perfect tense. There are 3 different exercises where students are asked to write the irregular past participles of the verbs given, fi ...
25 Views 50,058 ElemPre-Int
Simple Past Tense Worksheet

Simple Past Tense Worksheet

This is a 3-page worksheet for teaching or revising the simple past tense. It includes a study sheet with detailed explanations and example sentences followed by several exercises in which studen ...
25 Views 76,803 ElemPre-Int
Was/Were Practice

Was/Were Practice

A simple worksheet in which students need to compare how some famous people were in the past and how they are now. Practice present and past forms of verb To Be. May be used to present the structu ...
28 Views 40,684 ElemPre-Int
Song Worksheet: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For by U2

Song Worksheet: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For by U2

A song worksheet to practice Present Perfect. First, students give the Past Participle of the verbs contained in the lyrics, then they listen to the song and fill in the blanks. It`s also a g ...
37 Views 114,237 Pre-IntIntAdv
Song Worksheet: The Only Exception by Paramore

Song Worksheet: The Only Exception by Paramore

A simple song worksheet to practice the past form of verb To Be. Students need to fill in the blanks in the lyrics with present or past forms of verb To Be. For complete beginners and elementary: ...
5 Views 14,271 BegElemPre-Int
Present Tense Gap Filling Activity

Present Tense Gap Filling Activity

It is a simple present tense grammar practice for young learners.This gap filling activity will help your students to understand present tense better. There are four exercises. Also, the students ...
14 Views 17,385 Elem
Past Simple or Continuous

Past Simple or Continuous

It is a worksheet that provides a lot of practice in using these two tenses. There are 17 sentences, most of them are complex sentences, in which one part is in Past Simple and the second - in Pas ...
22 Views 16,947 Pre-IntIntAdv
Our Family In The Country: Picture Description

Our Family In The Country: Picture Description

This is another picture description about this family. There are 2 exercises. This time there are also true or false questions, and the second exercise is about inserting some basic prepositions. ...
20 Views 18,812 Elem
Past Continuous Tense Worksheet

Past Continuous Tense Worksheet

This is a simple worksheet to provide further past continuous practice. It includes explanations of the tense to use, example sentences and two exercises where students are asked to fill in the b ...
17 Views 36,779 ElemPre-Int
Past Simple vs Past Continuous: Elementary Worksheet

Past Simple vs Past Continuous: Elementary Worksheet

A 2-page worksheet contrasting the past simple and the past continuous. It includes a brief explanation followed by 4 different exercises in which students are asked to look at the picture and wr ...
19 Views 39,495 ElemPre-Int
Natural Disasters with Present Perfect

Natural Disasters with Present Perfect

This activity will help your students practice the present perfect and vocabulary related to natural disasters. This worsheet contains exercises where your students will choose the best answer, d ...
12 Views 29,489 Pre-Int
There is / There are: Elementary Worksheet

There is / There are: Elementary Worksheet

Here is a two-page worksheet with a variety of written exercises about there is, there are, prepositions, bedroom related vocabulary, some and any and describing places. The worksheet is suitable ...
36 Views 54,079 ElemPre-Int
Occupations: Professions and Jobs

Occupations: Professions and Jobs

This is a power point activity that I used with my beginner students when they were learning the vocabulary about occupations. Before anything we talked about professions and the characteristics n ...
39 Views 60,782 BegElem
Past Simple: Irregular Verbs Wordsearch Puzzle

Past Simple: Irregular Verbs Wordsearch Puzzle

This is a wordsearch puzzle, suitable for elementary students, for teaching or revising the past simple tense, irregular verbs. Students are asked to complete the infinitive form of the verbs wit ...
28 Views 78,449 ElemPre-Int
Nessie's Diary

Nessie's Diary

This is a reading comprehension about Nessie's daily life. After the text you'll find some questions. The text is in Past Simple and is suitable for pre-intermediate and intermediate learners of ...
20 Views 16,349 Pre-IntInt
The Mysterious DJ [WITH VIDEO]

The Mysterious DJ [WITH VIDEO]

This worksheet combines all the skills through watching a video about a mysterious dj who fell from the sky! In the warm-up phase of the lesson, students practice their speaking skills through som ...
14 Views 10,599 IntAdvExam

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