30 minutes activity for groupwork. Present Perfect Simple and Continious, Past Simple. To play a board game by talking about given topics.
30 minutes activity for groupwork. Present Perfect Simple and Continious, Past Simple. To play a board game by talking about given topics.
Students use the pictures to make Present Perfect Continuous sentences
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 useful.
A short test consisting of 15 sentences with words in the brackets, that have to be changed into suitable tenses.
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 require considerable thinking to choose the correct te ...
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.
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 Past Perfect Continuous. Second, they have to make ...
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 street with a crazy look on his face. What had happene ...
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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 few minutes to come up with a story about what happe ...
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 correct form of the verbs, combine sentences by using ...
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 students' attention on the most important information ...
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 without contractions, negative questions with contra ...
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! Click the image to view the full-size HI-RES poster for ...
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 correct past tense. This multiple choice cloze test i ...
It's a multiple-choice test in 10 variants to check your students' knowledge of different verb tenses. It enables the teacher to avoid cheating during the test. The test gives students the opportunity to be honest during it. The most suitable level is ...
This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching or revising the past perfect continuous.There are 4 different activities in which students are asked to complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs, correct the mistakes and say if the actions are ...
This PPT contains rules of usage of all the past tenses including examples for each situation. With the help of these sentenses you can elicit these rules from your students if they are upper-intermediate or advanced. Changing some settings of this PP ...
This is a worksheet for revising the past perfect continuous at intermediate level. There are 3 activities in which students are asked to put the verbs in brackets into the past perfect continuous, order the words given to form sentences and writ ...
This is a worksheet for teaching the differences between the past perfect and past perfect continuous at pre-intermediate level. There are 3 different activities in which students are asked to choose the most suitable verb tense, put the verbs in ...
This worksheet has different types of exercises such as a cloze text, finding mistakes, actives or passives as well as an answer key in the end. It covers all tenses and students have spend time on it to find the most proper ones. I used it with my st ...
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 and the one for speaking following the model (took ...
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 / Phrasal Verbs / Logical conclusions. Works perf ...
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 also explains the Irish influence in other countri ...
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 also serve as a model story for students to write ...
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 structural rules and focus on writing/telling a na ...
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". It's not a very scary story, so it can be used as an ...
This grammar guide contains the most frequently used time expressions through tenses at the intermediate/upper-intermediate level. It's ordered by time (Present, Past, and Future) and by category (Simple, Continuous, Perfect simple, and Perfect ...