Ahh, the present simple verb tense. For the first time, your level-one students are stepping out of the world of basic vocabulary, and into the much wider world of English grammar. It’s an exciting stage in any class - and it’s also one of the most important stages to get right. After all, your students’ grasp of simple present tense singulars and plurals is the foundation on which they’ll build their understanding of English grammar in general. That means it’s crucial to give them views of this tense from all angles, using every kind of activity and exercise at your disposal.
Different teachers use different tactics to get their students familiar with the present simple tense. Some start with worksheets, then work their way up to listening and speaking exercises. Others kick things off with some board work, then ask their students to try to use the present simple tense in a sentence. Still others like to keep things relaxed with games - and you probably want to use at least some of all these approaches. All that’s left is to find a variety of teaching resources focused on the present simple tense.
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In this worksheet you will find the main rules of four tenses used in the English language - Present Simple, Present Continuous Past Simple and Past Continuous. You could use this worksheet as a h ...
In this worksheet you can find 13 short exercises concerning the use of Present simple, prepositions (at, on, in, under, next to, etc.), all kinds of pronouns, articles, etc. This worksheet could ...
Students should have some knowledge about question words and the present simple tense before doing this activity. Watch the film and then give this worksheet as take home homework. I do one film ...
Students have a perfect example of present simple sentences in the affirmative, negative and interrogative form. They have to read the sentences and then underline the uses of the present simple ...
A set of cards with vocabulary concerning hobbies and interests (including verbs like, love, enjoy, prefer). You can use them in different ways: 1) As a simple exercise: students make sentences co ...
To practice the use of "have got" and "has got" with elementary students after explaining the verb "have got". I used it with my pupils as a test. It contains two exercises, in the first one they ...
Oral activity in which students have to explain what they see in the picture they have in their worksheets. There are two different worksheets, and they will also be expected to ask their partners ...
This is a reading worksheet for teaching the present simple tense at elementary level. Students are asked to read the text, mark the sentences given as true or false, and answer the questions. Th ...
I find that ESL learners often get confused between the present simple and the present continuous. They learn "skateboarding", "swimming", and "playing football" at school, but rarely the infinit ...
This is a great activity to get students using the simple present and simple past tense (depending on who they have to make 5 clues about). Students are given one of the 10 famous people featured ...
Present Simple worksheet designed for beginners. Have your students practice the present simple in affirmative sentences and make questions with 'do' and 'does'. This may be used after a previous ...
This is a very simple worksheet for young learners which is aimed to practise there is/ there are. There are 3 activities in which students are asked to circle the correct word, complete the sent ...
The worksheet helps student learn new vocabularies through a simple reading exercise. The vocabularies are highlighted in each reading exercise. This will not only help student remember the vocabu ...
This is a 3-page worksheet for teaching or revising the present simple. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to circle the correct option, complete the sentences with do, does, don't ...
This is a practice of three pages. First of all you will find a part where children need to complete the sentences with the right auxiliary verb. Then you will find a part where they need to circl ...
This is like a general exam that has excersises of verb to be, describing, prepositions and simple present. Also you can downloaded and take the excersises you need. Here you can describe people, ...
I made this using the text that goes like this "English is the most widely used language in the history of our planet...". I used pictures and dictionary definitions to make comprehension easier f ...
With this game, students will work in a group of four to find out where various shops and people are placed on a imaginary town. Divide the class into groups of four students. Give them the blank ...
Hello again, this worksheet will help you while practicing Present Simple Tense. It includes pictures and time for each picture. You can ask your students questions. For example " What does Jonny ...
A great teacher-friendly speaking activity for low levels working on Time/ Questions/ 3rd person singular Simple Present. Teachers can choose the best question formation to suit. Expand by havin ...
As you can see, I love series! This worksheet is about physical appearance: height, build, hair and eyes... Also the usage of verbs TO BE and TO HAVE to describe people. It is based on NEW GIRL, S ...
Students have to find mistakes in given sentences and pictures help them understand any unknown words (the words I thought would be unknown are in bold). Then they can practice questions in pairs. ...
In this worksheet you find pictures and some short texts. Students read them and match to the pictures. Vocabulary of colours and clothing, Present simple and continuous are practised. As a follow ...
This worskeet is based on the book NEF for beginners. Students practise asking questions about the basic things as name, surname, country, where in the country, what room number they have. It is f ...
There is a text describing a village and three exercises about it. In 1 the students are asked to say if the sentences are True/False and correct the false ones. In 2 they have to tick the buildin ...
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