Some verb tenses, like the present simple, are easy to teach - which is why most ESL teachers cover them first, at the very beginning of level one. But soon you and your class will move on to the next few verb tenses - and eventually, you’re going to have to teach the present perfect. This tense can be a little hard for students to grasp at first - and it can also be tricky to distinguish from the past simple. Still, it’s crucial for your students to learn how to use it correctly.
Many ESL teachers start to run out of ideas for present perfect-related activities after the second or third class spent focusing on this tense. And that’s understandable - sometimes it seems like there are only so many ways to approach the present perfect before both you and your students start to tune out. Making sure your students learn to understand and produce present perfect verbs correctly means providing a steady supply of new, interesting, and challenging activities - and that can be tough to manage.
That’s exactly why BusyTeacher.org offers 299 present perfect worksheets - all of them tested and student-approved in real ESL classrooms all over the world. Whether you’re looking for simple fill-in-the-blank worksheets for introducing your students to the present perfect tense, or searching for new games and activities that’ll inspire your students to use the present perfect in creative ways, BusyTeacher.org has got you covered.
Our 299 worksheets cover all aspects of the present perfect, from regular verbs to irregular ones; from pronunciation to proper construction. And they teach these concepts in a diverse variety of ways, from board games and rhyming activities to listening activities with popular songs and online videos. These worksheets will do a lot more than just drill your students on the present perfect tense - they’ll encourage your class to think about how and where the present perfect is used, and start to produce it on their own.
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This worksheet is intended as a speaking exercise to recap and use present tense grammar including present perfect tenses, mostly in the third person. It includes a graphic organizer for the stude ...
Learning irregular verbs one by one with their translation can often be frustating and rather boring. I suggest to use this poem to learn and understand irregular verbs in context. Students could ...
This is a power point presentation with eleven useful question beginning with have you ever. The presentation has a lot of pictures related with each question. The aim of this is ...
This power point presentation is very easy to understand and share with your students for them to understand well the uses of the present perfect tense.
Easy and understandable text talking about experiences. It is about the present perfect simple and past simple structures. This text contains comprehension activities and grammar activities in whi ...
This is a reading comprehension exercise in which students are required to look for specific information. The grammar content of the reading is the present perfect tense, so that ss practice writi ...
This is a speaking activity that you can use to ask your students when teaching them wh-questions. It can be used from beginner onwards but is best suited for pre-intermediate. It would helpful fo ...
This worksheet can be used at pre-intermediate and intermediate levels when revising and practicing present perfect. As an introductiory exercise revise with students some of the time adverbials t ...
Present tenses practice with vocabulary topic - festivals and holidays. There are some exercises on present tenses and there are some words on festivals and holidays in order to know if students k ...
This is a song worksheet to practice the present perfect tense, students have to complete the lyrics while listen to the song, and then decide if some sentences are true or false according to th ...
Conversation activity that practices the present perfect tense, while also teaching vocabulary associated to extreme sports. Presentation contains an example of how to form the tense as well as pi ...
Print and cut the cards. First, I asked the students to match the infinitive and past participle of the verbs (small groups). Then, we used the cards to play Memory. Each student gets a turn ...
This is a simple activity which can be used as a warm up. In this case, we are working with Argentina's map. But you can adpat it to your own context. Ask your students to colour in the map the pl ...
A simple bingo game using present perfect. Particularly suited to Japanese students in middle school. I usually ask the students to stand up and speak to one another. They cannot use a name ...
Useful explanations and some examples about the use of since and for in present perfect tenses. Provides plenty of examples of different times markers taken from English Grammar in Use. A the end ...
It's a pairwork activity where two pupils have to work together. Fold up the sheet, one pupil says the sentence - the partner checks and corrects if necessary. You can do it as a speaking activity ...
This is a worksheet for teaching or revising the differences between the present perfect and past simple tense. There's a brief explanation and example sentences at the top of the page follow ...
This is a worksheet for teaching the present perfect tense at pre-intermediate level. There's a brief explanation followed by an activity in which students are asked to complete the sentences give ...
This is a worksheet for teaching or revising the present perfect tense at intermediate level. There's a brief explanation at the top of the page followed by a simple activity in which students are ...
This is a worksheet for revising the present perfect tense at pre-intermediate level. There's a brief explanation followed by 3 different activities in which students are asked to write the c ...
This worksheet can be used to practice the present perfect simple tense. The cards are cut out and the students should mime the activities on the cards. The other students should guess and make co ...
This bingo-like activity deals with the present perfect tense in a communicative way, using the communicative approach. The learners are supposed to glean signatures from those pupils who have don ...
The present perfect worksheet makes it clearer and easier for students to distinguish between the different forms, uses and time expressions of the present perfect tense. Each part in this workshe ...
A song worksheet using Colors of the Wind from Disney's Pocahontas as a means to practice listening for verbs and in particular for the past participle form used in 'have you ever?' This son ...
This worksheet is a revision of tenses: present simple, present continuous, present perfect, past simple and future. There are 2 exercises: The first one is to put the verbs in the correct column ...
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