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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This is a multiple choice game with audio to practice Present Simple Tense. Students are asked to click on the correct option to complete the sentence. Recommended for elementary students but it ...
A set of exercises for there is there are. it includes such lexical topics as My room/food/zoo and animals. Suppoosed to be used by students of elementary and preintermediate The positive, negati ...
This is a test for students who are in their 1st year of English ( A1 level). The test includes reading and comprehension, present simple gap filling exercise, personal pronouns and possessive ad ...
This worksheet could be used as a review or a test for simple present, it includes activities to practice present simple affirmative, negative and question, every day use questions, task to descri ...
It's a speaking and reading activity for our students. It's a little bit difficult for my students to use have got and to be when they describe people. That's why I've made this ppt for them. They ...
It's a new speaking activity for your students. They can work in pairs and ask each other using have got or has got. They will need to look at the pictures and make affirmative and negative senten ...
This is an activity on the verb to be and wh-question words. Students are asked to join both beginnings and endings to form a correct question.
Great for elementary students.
How to use the ca ...
This material contains a grammar guide and three types of exercises - one on present simple, another on present continuous, and one on both tenses.
Hope you find it useful!
Read about a day in the life of Arnold. Number these pictures in the correct order. It is an interesting activity where your students will need to match the pictures after reading the text. You c ...
This worksheet is an easy way to improve your students' accuracy with Present Simple negative and affirmative forms. Students are asked to complete the sentences according to their own opinion. E ...
This boardgame is a great way to review the verb to be and wh-question words. Every square provides an answer. Students are asked to make the correct question for the answers. It can be played in ...
You will find some activities based on the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. You will be able to work on grammar (Present simple & present continuous, can/can’t), vocabulary (the ...
Worksheet to provide further practice and to help elementary students understand the use and formation of the verb to be (affirmative, interrogative and negative forms), including 7 pages with se ...
This worksheet explores topics such us youth, music and urban tribes. It contains lots of excercises to work with young students. In the first part, students will explore different music styles a ...
A set of cards to help students memorize the structure ´How often do you...?, leisure activities vocabulary and to practice adverbs of frequency. Procedure for playing the game: 1. Copy an ...
This is a set of speaking cards to get your students to talk about themselves and to help them to develop their communication skills. Cut out the cards and give them to your students, they must lo ...
A worksheet on the verbs to be and have got for elementary level. Students read the text on personal identification and complete it with the Present Simple of the verbs to be and to have got, ans ...
Bookmarks to help your students memorize the simple present of the verb to be. Laminate for long-lasting use, cut them out and give to your students as a present. Recommended for beginners or elem ...
Exercises on the present simple, past simple, present continuous and past continuous. How to identify these tenses, make these tenses, make different sentence structures (negative and interrogativ ...
This is a worksheet about bedroom furniture, there (to be), some / any and prepositions. Includes several tasks in which students ask and answer questions about the picture, complete the sentences ...
A fill-in-the-gaps song worksheet, with a matching activity to check some vocabulary from the song and a question to check comprehension. Here's a link to the official youtube video:
This card game is designed to teach the basic structure of simple English sentences. It is great to use with elementary students to demonstrate how they can make many different interrogative, nega ...
It's a small quiz about questions with simple present: WH- and yes/no. You can use it to reinforce the word order of questions and it is suitable for beginners. It contains 2 parts: the firs ...
It's an easy reading comprehension for 3rd form pupils. It includes present simple and present continuous. Pupils must complete the comprehension exercise with one, two or three words. The aim of ...
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