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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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Verb to Be: Present Tense Negative Form

Verb to Be: Present Tense Negative Form

This is a worksheet suitable for elementary students on verb to be, negative form. There´s a brief explanation on the top of the page and 3 different exercises in which students are asked to ...
9 Views 30,806 ElemPre-Int
Have Got Worksheet

Have Got Worksheet

It's an easy worksheet. It consists of a few pictures with sentences underneath that students should fill with the appropriate words. The vocabulary isn't complicated so elementary pupil can do it ...
4 Views 12,071 Elem
Daily Routines Boardgame

Daily Routines Boardgame

Games are so popular with language learners so here's a board game designed for elementary students who are studying daily routines. Students work in pairs with dice and counters. When they land ...
31 Views 85,284 ElemPre-Int
Verb to Be: Present Tense, Affirmative Form

Verb to Be: Present Tense, Affirmative Form

This worksheet focuses on verb to be (affirmative form). It includes five different exercises in which students are asked to fill in the blank spaces with is, am and are, choose the correct alter ...
25 Views 64,962 Elem
Diagnostic Test

Diagnostic Test

I would llike to share this diagnostic test I've prepared for my 3rd-year English students at my High School. There is a Grammar section with exercises of present simple and continuous, past simpl ...
28 Views 54,519 Pre-Int
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Simple Past vs. Present Perfect

Simple Past vs. Present Perfect

Worksheet contrasting the present perfect and the simple past with grammar rules, examples and exercises in which students are asked to complete the sentences using either simple past or present ...
8 Views 17,117 Pre-IntInt
Shall, Will or Going To?

Shall, Will or Going To?

This is a worksheet designed to help elementary or pre-intermediate students to get more comfortable with the usage of shall, will and going to. Students are asked to complete 20 different senten ...
18 Views 25,142 ElemPre-Int
Personal Identification: Writing Activity

Personal Identification: Writing Activity

Here is a simple and enjoyable writing activity for the younger students on personal identification. The activity is pretty easy, students are asked to write a small composition using the informa ...
9 Views 15,273 Elem
Song Worksheet: I'll Always Love You by Tito Nieves [WITH VIDEO]

Song Worksheet: I'll Always Love You by Tito Nieves [WITH VIDEO]

SONG TO CONTRAST PAST AND PRESENT PERFECT We use the Present Perfect to say that an action happened at an unspecified time before now. The exact time is not important. You CANNOT use the Present P ...
4 Views 9,700 Pre-Int
Reading Worksheet

Reading Worksheet

Reading and questions for comprehension worksheet for the younger classes. Students are asked to read the text, mark the sentences as true or false, correct the false ones, and answer the questio ...
26 Views 24,409 Elem
Reported Speech Worksheet

Reported Speech Worksheet

This is a worksheet suitable for elementary students on reported speech. Students are asked to look at the picture, read what people are saying and report it, and put statements, questions and co ...
11 Views 6,481 ElemPre-Int
School Rooms / There Is/Are Worksheet

School Rooms / There Is/Are Worksheet

This is a worksheet for elementary students, which is aimed to practice the verb there is/are, school rooms and school subjects vocabulary. It has 3 different exercises in which students are asked ...
18 Views 40,220 ElemPre-Int
Present Simple or Present Continuous?

Present Simple or Present Continuous?

Here is a simple but effective worksheet to teach the differences between these two present tenses. It has explanations and examples at the top and 3 different exercises to go with it. Recommende ...
10 Views 8,318 ElemPre-Int
Last Summer Holidays Worksheet

Last Summer Holidays Worksheet

The worksheet can be used to review the use of the Past Simple Tense. Students, working in pairs or in groups, are supposed to complete the story in the Past Simple Tense using the pictures. One m ...
48 Views 54,183 Int
TO BE: Tense Review

TO BE: Tense Review

A cheat sheet perfect for students to review tenses of the verb 'to be'. Beside each tense it shows a timeline, which is excellent for students who are visual learners. The sheet includes present ...
11 Views 11,282 ElemPre-Int
Tom's Daily Routine

Tom's Daily Routine

Complete the questions in the 3rd person about Tom's daily routine. Students have to fill in the gaps following the instructions of the tips bellow the gaps like "Questions Words", "Auxiliary Verb ...
16 Views 14,668 Elem
Simple Present Negative and Interrogative Presentation

Simple Present Negative and Interrogative Presentation

Powerpoint presentation to introduce and/ or review Simple Present in Negative and Interrogative, all persons. Use the first slides for grammar presentations instead of writing the info on the b ...
9 Views 21,687 ElemPre-Int
Past Simple Irregular Verbs: Picture Crossword

Past Simple Irregular Verbs: Picture Crossword

This picture crossword focuses on past simple tense, irregular verbs, and it´s pretty easy to do. Students are asked to look at the pictures and complete the crossword with the simple past ...
30 Views 47,810 ElemPre-Int
Verb To Be Through Reading

Verb To Be Through Reading

Two pages filled with activities for the younger learners. It includes a little reading, questions for comprehension, gap filling and grammar activities to familiarize the students with the verb ...
9 Views 13,550 ElemPre-Int
Dinosaur Quiz

Dinosaur Quiz

This is a general knowledge activity for kids to practice different question forms about the past in a fun way. It includes "wh-" questions (which, what), the past of "can" (could), "how long" and ...
20 Views 17,104 Pre-IntInt
Your Perfect Vacation! Simple Past Review

Your Perfect Vacation! Simple Past Review

This is a pair work activity to review simple past tense where students ask a friend about his/her latest vacation, and he/she answers based on their imagination of the perfect vacation, be it a ...
7 Views 16,688 ElemPre-Int
Video Worksheet: Bee Movie

Video Worksheet: Bee Movie

Video activity to practice the Present Continuous/Progressive. First you have the movie plot to read, after that while watching the movie students complete the dialogues and write sentences accord ...
12 Views 23,287 Elem
Charlie Chaplin: Past Simple Worksheet

Charlie Chaplin: Past Simple Worksheet

This is an easy way to practise past simple with our students during past simple classes. I am sure you will love to use it and your students will learn easily and having some fun... Also they wil ...
11 Views 13,979 ElemPre-Int
Song Worksheet: Because You Loved Me by Celine Dion [WITH VIDEO] Alternative 2

Song Worksheet: Because You Loved Me by Celine Dion [WITH VIDEO] Alternative 2

A nice song, I use it when I teach past simple and it has always worked better with adults =)) There are four activities to work with: complete with a suitable verb in the past, (then check while ...
6 Views 8,551 ElemPre-Int
Video Session: Wallace and Gromit – The Wrong Trousers

Video Session: Wallace and Gromit – The Wrong Trousers

This is a worksheet to use with Wallace and Gromit – The Wrong Trousers. There's a matching exercise to teach vocabulary before watching, and yes-no questions to check comprehension after e ...
18 Views 24,358 Elem

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