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.
You’ve come to the right place. BusyTeacher.org’s 1,400 present simple verb tense worksheets will make sure you never run out of new and interesting ways to help your students practice the present simple tense. Whether you’re looking for simple fill-in-the-blank and multiple-choice exercises, listening and writing examples, role playing activities, or flash cards and board games, BusyTeacher.org has all the resources you need.
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This power point presentation aims to present the different forms of this tense (affirmative, negative and interrogative). It also provides somes rules about spelling and pronunciation. There are ...
Analysing the shots and the character. Morning routine vocabulary, a progressive discovery of who Dexter really is. A series most of the students like. This activity is always appreciated and they ...
This is an easy worksheet for revising the present simple at elementary level. There are 3 activities in which students are asked to answer the questions, complete the sentences with have got or ...
This can be given as a game. A student is a cook, he needs to cook one of the dishes. There are some ingridients there. He gets a card of a dish and five cards of products. They are not suitable f ...
Not just for listening to the song, one of my favourite songs, but also for speaking time, we can start by showing some photographs of people, one person in each photograph, and we can use that qu ...
This worksheet is for intermediate or upper-intermediate where the students can know the vocabulary of the different types of doctors. The students will learn different vocabulary by means of read ...
For low level learners working on calendar and/or holidays I hope this reading will provide a reasonable challenge. The main focus is reading comprehension using WH questions as well as Yes/No qu ...
The worksheet contains a short article about Halloween and two exercises on reading comprehension. It is good for low elementary students, just present simple was used. Vocabulary is included on ...
Slovak ppt about fairy tale about Chicken Licken and her friends. It can be used for practicising must. It includes crossword, wordsearch and talking about pictures. There are animated pictures. I ...
This worksheet can be used for pair work. It will be a great tool for revising daily routine words. Your students will practice how to ask and answer questions in English using daily routine words ...
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This worksheet is meant for elementary teenagers working with the present simple, time and routine. It's got a true or false too. First they have to match the pictutes to the activities. Later the ...
It's a reading and speaking activity.There's a text with some information about Kate Perry; right after there's a text comprehension activity. Ater the teacher has corrected it, he/she can go thro ...
This is a 2-page worksheet for revising the present simple tense at elementary level. There's a brief explanation followed by 5 simple activities in which students are asked to fill in the blank ...
This worksheet can be used at the moment of teaching the routines. Teacher can implement it and at the same time can make students interact while asking activities to their partners. They asociate ...
Note expansion for students to write sentences to tell about the time for some events. Students are given cues to write sentences using present simple to describe an event. Students change the p ...
This worksheet has The Simpsons family tree which is helpful to create sentences using possessive nouns. This worksheet is really easy to undestand and for sudents to practice simple present and v ...
Slovak ppt about festivals, which can be used on English, it contains wordsearch and crossword about festivals.Students will learn about holidays and festivals in Great Britain, new vocabulary abo ...
It's a fairly simple grammar worksheet, where you can observe some examples and then students have to write and answer questions also. It's time saving and totally grammatical. It can be done as r ...
This is a creative writing worksheet that practices descriptive adjectives and simple present verbs. You have to create a new flavor of jellybeans. Using the simple present tense, you can practic ...
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