Past Perfect Continuous
This worksheet contains the explanation of the past perfect contionuous tense and some exercises for its drilling (which I prefer to be done in pairs) like matching, completing/finishing the sentences...
View ArticleJeopardy (New Matrix Intermediate)
This is Jeopardy-style presentation based on the New Matrix course book for Intermediate ESL learners. Themes: Body language, Present Perfect / Present Perfect Continuous / American vs. British English...
View ArticleSt Patrick's for Teens and Young Adults
Here you'll find some cards including information about St Patrick's day. All of them are taken from history sources. It is very useful should you prepare a history and culture class about Ireland. It...
View ArticleGap-fill Story with Vocabulary and Verb Tenses
In this worksheet learners are asked to fill in a story about Tom, with illustrations to facilitate them write the words needed and also to put the verbs in brackets in the the right past tense. It can...
View ArticleReview of Past Tenses
A thorough revision of past tenses and narrative tenses, with concept checking and practice. Here, students revise their knowledge of past tenses (simple, continuous and perfect), check functional and...
View ArticleMovie Worksheet: Krampus
The pre-intermediate kids whom I teach absolutely hate fantasy movies and comedies, so I decided to engage them into the conversation and learning by offering a movie "Krampus: the Christmas evil"....
View ArticleLook back
30 minutes activity for groupwork. Present Perfect Simple and Continious, Past Simple. To play a board game by talking about given topics.
View ArticlePresent Perfect Continuous Activity
Students use the pictures to make Present Perfect Continuous sentences
View ArticlePast Perfect vs Simple Past vs Past Perfect Continuous
It's a great exercise to see if students can distinguish the uses of the simple past, past perfect and past perfect continous. It is a kind of mixed past tenses exercises. Hope other teachers find it...
View ArticleTest on Past Tenses and Present Perfect
A short test consisting of 15 sentences with words in the brackets, that have to be changed into suitable tenses.
View ArticlePast Tenses Practice
This worksheet was created to check your students' knowledge in the usage of Past Tenses. There are 22 sentences - some are short and rather easy, others are quite long and difficult and therefore...
View ArticlePast Perfect Continuous Exercises
This worksheet is aimed at intermediate students who have just learned this tense and need some exercises to practice it. Here are 15 sentences. Hope the exercise will be useful.
View ArticlePast Simple & Past Perfect Continuous Worksheet
This is a grammar worksheet aimed at practising the use of Past Simple and Past Perfect Continuous. It includes two exercises. First, students have to make up a sentence using the given expression in...
View ArticlePast Perfect Speaking Activity
There are a number of bizarre situations that your students are involved in that they have to explain what happened and why they were in this situation. For example ''Tom was seen running down the...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: Freelove by Depeche Mode [with VIDEO]
A famous song by Depeche Mode can be used to illustrate the usage of Present Perfect Continuous or Past Perfect Continuous. After listening, filling in the gaps and some singing, give the students a...
View ArticlePast Perfect vs Past Perfect Continuous Worksheet
This is a worksheet contrasting the past perfect and the past perfect continuous tense. There are 4 pages with different activities in which students are asked to fill in the blank spaces with the...
View ArticleMovie Worksheet: Knowing + Writing activity
This is a 15 question activity about the movie Knowing, starring Nicholas Cage. Its main topics are the paranormal, the Apocalypse, the end of the world, etc. The questions are designed to get the...
View ArticleTenses: Grammar Exercise
Students have to fill in the blanks with correct answer based on the questions given.They also must rewrite the following affirmative statements as questions, negative statements, negative questions...
View Article7 Communicative Activities to Review the Past Perfect Progressive: Poster
Looking for new fun activities to review the Past Perfect Progressive? Here's our latest reference poster from the 'Grammar' series that contains 7 short activities that your students will adore!...
View ArticleA Ghost Story
It's Halloween season. If your students are fed up with pumpkins and costume parties, maybe they will be interested in reading a spooky story. However, they will have to complete it by choosing the...
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