Present Simple and Continuous games, worksheets, stories and songs

About 73 mixed present tenses PDFs and teaching ideas. If you find anything useful here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.

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Present Simple and Continuous songs

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Lemon Tree by Fool’s Garden (although most verbs could just as easily be in the other tense – link to lyrics and video with lyrics on YouTube)

All of Me by John Legend (good mix of tenses, but not all logical choices so I wouldn’t get students to try and guess… – link to lyrics and official video)

Thing’s I’ll Never Say by Avril Lavigne (probably quite difficult for students to understand – link to lyrics)

Updated 7 August 2022

1 Response to Present Simple and Continuous games, worksheets, stories and songs

  1. yanti94 says:

    well, i’m a tutor of speaking class. i teach EFL. even the purpose or the main goal of my class is making the students able to speak english but i think that i’ve to take grammar as the consideration since it will be shame for my trainee if they speak gramatically iincorret. in the other hand. i wary if i’ll teach or evaluate their grammar that they will be doubt to speake english. do u have any suggestion on my problem?

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