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 120 worksheets in this section. Lets 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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This worksheet is meant for revision classes at intermediate level. By correcting mistakes and explaining differences between various grammar forms students will learn more about simple and contin ...
Teachers should replace thenames in the worksheet with the names of the students in the class. Students must find each student and ask them what they did (at a finished time) or what they ha ...
This grammar worksheet will help your students revise the tense forms such as present simple, continuous and perfect, and also past simple and continuous. There are four exercises where learners w ...
Teaching grammar through speaking is one of the most difficult things to do for a teacher. With this worksheet you will be able to help your students use time adverbs such as already/yet/since/ago ...
This is a song by an Australian singer Natalie Imbruglia. The aim of it is to practice irregular verbs of different forms: infinitive, past simple and past participle. The lyrics are quite c ...
This worksheet is intended for general revision of grammar: students read the sentences and decide if they are correct and if they aren't, they have to correct the mistakes. Then, they bid on the ...
There are two main exercises on this worksheet. First the pupils have to decide whether to use since or for. Then they must insert either the simple past form or the present perfect. The worksheet ...
This is a test based on the extensive reading "The Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde.(level 2 or 3) It includes reading comprehension and vocabulary exercises and it can be used after the study of it ...
This is a presentation based on a text in coursebook Project 3 to illustrate the use of Present Perfect and the difference from Past Simple. I used it with my 13-year-old students and it worked re ...
This is a worksheet contrasting the past simple and the present perfect tense. There's a brief explanation followed by a simple activity in which students are asked to complete the sentences with ...
A worksheet about the topic: disease. Polly has been sick and decided to write a letter to a friend. As follow up exercises, students are asked to answer some questions about the text. Then they w ...
The worksheet contains sentences with infinitives in brackets. Students must read the sentence and decide whether they should use present perfect or past simple tense in those contexts. Some sente ...
It's a multiple-choice test in 10 variants to check your students' knowledge of different verb tenses. It enables the teacher to avoid cheating during the test. The test gives students the opportu ...
This is a powerpoint presentation which you can simply use to show the distinction between Past Simple and Present Perfect Tense. All you need is a overhead projector! Because it shows one distinc ...
This worksheet provides examples as well as tables for present simple/ continuous, past simple/ continuous, present perfect simple, future simple, and be going to. It provides examples to find th ...
I use this worksheet to help student practice the difference between the present perfect and simple past. Activity 1: Speaking Activity. I cut up part 1 and 2, and just pass out 1. a) First I ...
It's a powerpoint presentation that gives a general idea in distinguishing Present Perfect and Past Simple tenses followed up by 2 small exercises in Past Participle form of verbs and practising P ...
This is a worksheet I use to revise present tenses, past tenses, present perfect simple and future simple, that means the tenses with which pre-intermediate students should already be familiar. I ...
How long...? Getting kids use to asking questions using " How long...?" Having fun measuring things. Getting the kids to ask each other How long questions and a couple questions that you cant use ...
Four activities to practice the difference between simple past and present perfect.
1. Fill in the gaps with the correct tense,
2. Complete a text with the correct tense,
3. Choose the correct ...
I've created a test which consists of present, past and future tenses. It is suitable for pre-intermediate and intermediate students who would like to practise tenses. For some students it is ver ...
This worksheet is for revision purposes. It covers the following tenses: Future time clauses, Past simple, past perfect simple and past perfect continuous, Present Perfect and modals, present con ...
In this worksheet there are 14 pictures, 14 sentences & a list of verbs. The students have to fill in the blanks with the suitable verb from the list. They have to write the correct form of th ...
It's a worksheet with sentences to be transformed using different patterns, based on Present Perfect - Past Simple. The transformation patterns are repeated with a few examples of each pattern. A ...
There are two exercises in this worksheet. First one is about ´past simple and present perfect´ and the second one is about´past simple and past perfect´. This is a useful ...
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