Present Tense Worksheets

This new worksheet looks at common questions about jobs that every student needs to be able to answer - whether you're teaching business English or not! The worksheet begins with students matching pictures to job titles. This is followed by a gap-fill conversation and comprehension questions. There's a mix-and-match exercise with eight common work-related questions, followed by the chance for your students to personalise the language. After these activities, your students will be confident enough with the language to interview a partner about his / her job.

How confident are your students with the Present Simple? This worksheet provides lots of opportunities to gain fluency (and confidence) with the target language. There's a short gap-fill reading, question/answer exercises, preposition work, and a personalisation section. This worksheet is written for elementary-level learners. [Re-released with updates March 2012.]

Families make a great topic for speaking practice. This theme worksheet is aimed at low level students, and provides good conversation practice. There's also the chance to review possessives, family member vocabulary and Present Simple questions.

It's important that students are able to discern between 'do you' and 'are you' type questions. However, some find this quite a challenge. This worksheet looks at the difference, and provides extra practice for anyone finding it a struggle. For elementary-level students.

This card game is designed to demonstrate to students how they can make many different questions using the Present Simple. It's a great motivating exercise, with students understanding how much they can already say in English. These cards are designed for elementary-level students.

This information gap exercise is an easy way to improve your students' accuracy with Present Simple question forms. The students each have half the information on Peter's day. They need to form questions correctly to find the missing information. ** This worksheet has been updated with a question-writing section for students who need additional practice of the target language. ** For elementary-level students.

This worksheet gives lots of practice of the Present Continuous (Present Progressive) tense. There's a conversation, plus lots of different exercises, teaching the target structure as well as common vacation collocations. Your students will also get lots of chances to speak. This worksheet is for elementary students.

If you have low-level business students, you'll be able to use these cards again and again! They can be used to teach everyday activities at work, tenses, collocations and much more. There are twelve different images available in either black and white, or in colour. You can choose from either half-page size, or six-per-page.