A selection of English ESL present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense printables with grammar exercises with picture, grammar practice

This engaging ESL / EFL printable worksheet and corresponding interactive quiz helps learners practise the difference between the present simple and the present continuous through 15 autumn-themed multiple-choice illustrated sentences. Each task includes a colourful manga-style illustration, a gapped sentence, and two verb options, making grammar practice clear, visual, and enjoyable. It is ideal for elementary to lower-intermediate students who need extra practice choosing the correct present tense form in context.


Autumn - Present Simple or Continuous

Can your students spot what's wrong in these nine surreal cartoon scenes? From a girl feeding a shoe to a rabbit to a chef frying an alarm clock, this entertaining ESL/EFL worksheet encourages learners to describe surreal situations (in the present continuous tense) and explain why they are unrealistic (in the present simple tense.)

Students examine each picture and write two sentences: one describing the unusual action and another explaining why it doesn't make sense. The first picture includes an example to help them get started.

Page 2 contains the KEY with example answers for all nine pictures.

An interactive quiz complements the printable worksheet. Students type their answers into open-ended response boxes. These answers are not automatically corrected or scored during the quiz; instead, example solutions are displayed for comparison.

The colourful, comic-style illustrations make this activity ideal for speaking practice, creative writing, pair discussions, and developing fluency through humour.

Language goal: Developing picture-description skills, expressing opinions, explaining unusual situations, and practising using the present continuous (describing the scene) and the present simple (explaining why the scenes don't make sense) in English.

Grammar: Present continuous for describing actions, present simple for stating general facts, negative statements, and sentence structures for giving explanations.

Theme: Funny and surreal situations, everyday activities, spotting mistakes, and explaining what is wrong.

Intended age group: Teenagers and young adults (14–25).

CEFR level: A2–B1 (Pre-intermediate to Intermediate).

What is wrong? Explain the Absurdities. Present continuous vs present simple practice

This worksheet contains some sentences about Halloween. Students must fill in the gaps with the present simple or the present continuous of the verbs given. A2 level.

Present simple / Present continuous - Halloween

Would you like to give students interesting lessons keeping educational aims? Students will definitely hurry up coming for the lessons with Wednesday worksheets. There are favorite characters from the series, important grammar and a bunch of new words. The materials will fit the lessons easily, because it’s in the circle of interests of teenagers and adults which means that learning will be fun.

Worksheets pack is suitable for middle school students (12+), teenagers, adults and everyone who likes Wednesday series or other Netflix series. 

Grammar Topic:
1.Present Simple vs Present Continuous singular 
+ a bunch of new lexics

The 1st episode is the easiest one made to slightly slide into the Wednesday series world full of new words and basic grammar to revise.

Format: PDF

FULL WORKBOOK with 8 episodes here:

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Wednesday series Netflix show Episode 1 Worksheet: Grammar/Vocabulary for A2-B1 DIGITAL

The cat destroyed the sentences. The kids need to make a sentence using the verb below. The  worksheet helps to practise the difference between present simple and present continuous

Present simple VS present continuous

Can elephants fly? Can you walk a fish? Can a train travel through the sky? This funny, colorful worksheet challenges students to spot absurd and impossible situations in nine cartoon illustrations and explain what's wrong with each scene.

Students look at the pictures, describe the unusual actions, and explain why they are wrong or impossible. One completed example helps them understand the task. The activity encourages creativity, logical thinking, observation skills, and speaking and writing practice.

Page 2 contains the ANSWER KEY, with example solutions for all nine pictures.

Interactive quiz: An interactive version complements the printable worksheet. Students type their answers into open-ended answer boxes. These answers are not automatically corrected or scored; instead, example solutions are provided.

Language goal: Describing pictures, identifying absurd situations, explaining mistakes, expressing logical reasoning, and discussing what is possible or impossible.

Grammar: Present continuous for describing actions, present simple for stating general facts, negative sentences, and modal verbs (can/can't) for expressing ability and possibility.

Theme: Funny situations, absurdity, everyday activities, animals, imagination, and humor.

Intended age group: 8–13 years old, but also suitable for older beginners.

CEFR level: A1–A2 (Elementary-Pre-intermediate).

Skills: Speaking, writing, picture description, critical thinking, and vocabulary development.

What’s Wrong #2 - Write What’s Ridiculous or Absurd

Grammar exercises with picture

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

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Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

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Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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