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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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Song Worksheet: When I Needed You by Erasure

Song Worksheet: When I Needed You by Erasure

This is a nice song for elementary students. It is especially good to practise the past tense of "be". Students are asked to fill in the blanks, put the lines in order, choose the correct option o ...
4 Views 8,271 Elem
Irregulars in Past Simple: Flashcards [2]

Irregulars in Past Simple: Flashcards [2]

This is the second part of the set. Here you will find some other irregulars. The way of playing is the same. The first part can be found here. The level is Pre-Intermediate.
14 Views 13,544 Pre-Int
Irregulars in Past Simple: Flashcards

Irregulars in Past Simple: Flashcards

Here is the first set of flashcards created with the focus on grammar (irregular verbs in Past Simple). You can cut and mix them up, then your SS get one of the cards and read the whole sentence, ...
23 Views 24,908 Pre-Int
In the Evening (Picture Description)

In the Evening (Picture Description)

Here is the next picture description worksheet. There is a big picture and two tasks - 1) answer the questions, and 2) choose true or false. The exercises are not difficult. Present Continuous ...
31 Views 39,411 Elem
Our Family at Home (Present Continuous, Prepositions and Writing)

Our Family at Home (Present Continuous, Prepositions and Writing)

This worksheet contains four different tasks which are all related to the picture description: 1) complete the sentences with Present Continuous 2) True or false, 3) Insert the correct prepositio ...
22 Views 32,412 ElemPre-Int
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Question Tags

Question Tags

This worksheet provides good exercises to practice question tags. Present Simple (do/does/to be/can are included). It is for those who have just started to practice this grammar topic and know Pr ...
32 Views 60,248 ElemPre-Int
Song Worksheet: Blue Moon by The Marcels [WITH VIDEO]

Song Worksheet: Blue Moon by The Marcels [WITH VIDEO]

This is a great worksheet to teach simple past. There are writing exercises, speaking and listening. There is a song called BLUE MOON by THE MARCELS, it's a good song to work on simple past with e ...
3 Views 6,918 Elem
Simple Past of Verb To Be Worksheet

Simple Past of Verb To Be Worksheet

This is a 3 page worksheet with detailed explanations and several written activities on past simple of verb to be. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to study the grammar guide and ...
17 Views 30,796 ElemPre-Int
Pop Quiz: Present Simple and Present Continuous Revision

Pop Quiz: Present Simple and Present Continuous Revision

it is a revision pop quiz for the present progressive and present simple tenses. You can use it with elementary and low intermediate students. It works with large groups. It is going to be a revis ...
12 Views 30,872 ElemPre-Int
Past Simple or Continuous (quiz)

Past Simple or Continuous (quiz)

Here you can see a quiz which will help you to check if your students understand these two English tenses. The material is not difficult, you can use it, for example, when you have just explained ...
13 Views 24,663 Pre-IntInt
Simple Past Tense Elementary Worksheet

Simple Past Tense Elementary Worksheet

This is a very simple worksheet suitable for elementary students, to provide past simple tense practice. There are two exercises in which students are asked to complete the sentences with was, we ...
11 Views 21,691 ElemPre-Int
Have You Ever: Speaking Cards

Have You Ever: Speaking Cards

This is a speaking activity which will help you to make your lesson more captivating and rich and your pupils - to speak about themselves using The Present Perfect Tense correctly. It can also be ...
25 Views 50,298 Pre-IntInt
There is - There are (elementary level)

There is - There are (elementary level)

The following worksheet is aimed at elementary learners of English and deals with topic there is-there are. The exercise is very simple, your pupils will need to put down the sentences using this ...
22 Views 18,841 Elem
Verb Tense Structure

Verb Tense Structure

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This is an explanation sheet about tenses in English. Here you will find the structure of the tenses, simple, progressive and perfect tenses. You can use it to explain reported speech, pas ...
6 Views 4,639 BegElem
Who is Who? Present Continuous Worksheet

Who is Who? Present Continuous Worksheet

This is a simple 2 page grammar worksheet to provide further present continuous tense practice. Students are asked to complete, write affirmative sentences and ask and answer questions using the ...
8 Views 15,158 ElemPre-Int
Song Worksheet: Holding On To A Hero

Song Worksheet: Holding On To A Hero

The song is based on the idea of the hero. We can have more types of exercises with this, including what is the idea of the perfect boy... it includes a pre- talk about the features that are neede ...
7 Views 14,845 Adv
Song Worksheet: I Wish I Was a Punkrocker by Sandi Thom

Song Worksheet: I Wish I Was a Punkrocker by Sandi Thom

It is a song I wish I was a punkrocker by Scottish singer and song writer Sandi Thom. I use it when I teach past simple. The song is simple and students like it. Follow up activity - students wri ...
5 Views 9,760 Pre-IntInt
Picture Description

Picture Description

This material is aimed at elementary and pre-intermediate learners of English. There are two tasks - to say whether the statements are true or false, and to answer the questions (using the Presen ...
15 Views 45,534 ElemPre-Int
Present Tenses: Posters for the Classroom

Present Tenses: Posters for the Classroom

You can use these posters as a visual aids for kids for a short period of time until they get present tenses accurately.... it's like a feedback. Personally my kids did it better with this aid. Ho ...
31 Views 47,722 BegElemPre-Int
Starter Unit Test

Starter Unit Test

Test for beginner students with exercises like practicing the verb be, possessive pronouns, present simple, numbers, this/that, these/those, names of countries and nationalities. Exercise types: ...
10 Views 21,370 Beg
Starter/Elementary Practice & Revision Exercises

Starter/Elementary Practice & Revision Exercises

I've got a mixed group this year with very unequal competenced students in it, so we decided to give an extra lesson to the slowest ones every week. We've just started using the book Snapshot and ...
11 Views 13,661 BegElem
Past Simple vs Present Perfect Worksheet

Past Simple vs Present Perfect Worksheet

A worksheet contrasting the past simple and the present perfect tense in which students are asked to complete different sentences with the correct form of the verb. This is a pdf document availab ...
13 Views 26,822 Pre-IntInt
Future Tenses Worksheet

Future Tenses Worksheet

This is a powerpoint presentation created by one of my students. It contains exercises and uses of future tense. It also contains the future simple, future continuous, and the future perfect. At t ...
35 Views 48,346 Int
Grammar Revision Boardgame

Grammar Revision Boardgame

This is a colorful boardgame which is aimed to review some important grammar topics: verb tenses, reported speech, degrees of comparison, plural nouns, some / any, adverbs, modal verbs, etc. Suit ...
15 Views 40,068 ElemPre-Int
Past Simple Worksheet 2

Past Simple Worksheet 2

It's a great tense worsheet for intermediate students to pactice past simple, regular and irregular verbs. Students have to read a text and complete sentences using verbs in past simple form. The ...
12 Views 16,968 ElemPre-Int

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