The Tenses (12-Book Bundle)
- Grades
- Grades 5–12
- Pages
- 113
- File type
- Answer key
- Included
- Subject
- ELA, Grammar
- Topic
- English verb tenses, Grammar exercises
- Resource types
- Worksheets
- Answer key
- Included
- Standards
- L.5.1
Product description
From the author
This ebook is a 12-book bundle of the Practical English Grammar series. It includes all the tenses of the English language, namely:
•Present Simple
•Present Continuous
•Past Simple
•Past Continuous
•Present Perfect
•Present Perfect Continuous
•Past Perfect
•Past Perfect Continuous
•Future Simple
•Future Continuous
•Future Perfect
•Future Perfect Continuous
Each ebook contains enough information on how the tense is formed, when and how it is used, and plenty of examples. At the end, there are many practical exercises for your students to practice and master using the tenses. And of course the relevant answer key to the exercises.
The tenses are an integral part of any language. They are the backbone of the English language as well. Using them correctly is a must for any language learner, whether English is their first language or a foreign one. This ebook makes it really easy and simple to understand the tenses and assimilate them in a natural way.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Form affirmative, negative and question sentences using the targeted tense pattern.
- Select verb forms to suit a stated time or context.
- Rewrite sentences using a specified tense.
Teaching tips
Assign one tense chapter per lesson or homework set — each is self-contained with its own explanation, exercises, and answer key.
Use the usage-rule notes for the selected tense at the start of its chapter as a short mini-lesson before assigning that tense's exercises.
Save the perfect and perfect-continuous chapters for more advanced learners — choose examples and exercise lengths suited to students’ current grammar knowledge.
Skills covered
Verb tense formation — students supply the correct present, past, or future form (simple, continuous, perfect, or perfect continuous) in fill-in-the-blank exercises across all twelve tenses.
Tense conversion — students rewrite given sentences into a specified tense, such as converting present continuous statements into present simple form.
Tense selection in context — students choose between similarly spelled verb forms (e.g., “work/works”) to match subject-verb agreement and the correct tense.
Good to know
Questions teachers ask about this resource
How is practice organized across the twelve tenses?
Each tense gets its own chapter with usage notes, formation rules, and its own set of exercises and solutions, so a class can work through tenses in any order or focus on just one at a time.
Do the exercises get more advanced as the tenses progress?
The tense forms and task formats vary. Later sections include more complex constructions, but there is no fixed progression in sentence length; select exercises that fit the class.
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Curriculum
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Standards
Standards
- L.5.1
Core concepts
Core concepts
Verb tense
English grammar
Sentence formation
ESL/EFL grammar practice
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