A selection of English ESL present perfect present perfect continuous printables

Hey  Teachers!



I recently published a mini-lesson plan on Fluentize based on short, 60 second documentary on a grandma who is into video gaming.



I would say this lesson plan is probably most suitable for pre-intermediate (A2) - intermediate (B1) students.



In order to view the video, please visit the lesson page on Fluentize via the link below.



https://app.fluentize.com/lesson/grandma-gamer



I have attached the lesson materials in this post. You can also download the lesson directly from Fluentize when logged in (it's free on Fluentize until August 1, 2021).



As you'll see in the lesson plan, students discuss topics and questions related to video gaming and ageism. Students also learn some of the words they'll hear in the video such as "adventure", "pick", and "majestic".



There is a short grammar activity on present perfect continuous included, based on a quote from the grandma...



"I've been playing video games since the mid 90s."



You can follow everything up with additional discussion material based on the following topics...



- Senior Citizens & Technology

- General problems senior citizens have

- Grandchildren / Grandparents

- The best age to be

- Imaginary task — Describing the grandma gamer from the perspective of her grandson



From the creator’s standpoint, my favorite part of the lesson is the discussion topics included at the end of the Viewing Activity (Part 3 & 4), where students are instructed to voice their opinions about older people and playing video games, as well as their own grandparents' hobbies.



For teachers who are conducting lessons in an online environment, I recommend trying out our interactive lesson plan for it (which is attached in this post), an it's basically a digital version of the lesson materials that comes equipped with interactive fields for your students to write answers within.



I hope you have a great lesson exploring the grandma gamer and ageism with your students!



Thanks!



Jake from Fluentize

The Grandma Gamer - ESL Lesson Plan

A worksheet to practice some new vocabulary. You can use it with teenagers and adults, or in Online Conversational group like I do.. It's a great well-known song by Queen to practice. Enjoy it! 

Song Don´t stop me now (by Queen) worksheet

you should cut up the cards and students should match the tense, the signal words and the way we make the correct tense. If you want you can make sentences for them to add in the correct tense.

All tenses. Grammar game

This is an easy reading comprehension activity. Students read a short passage about the Simpsons, answer the questions, do a true and false exercise and revise the present continuous tense with the last exercise.

Reading - Sunday with the Simpsons

Worksheet  to  review the present  continuous tense. Pupils write  correct sentences using  the given  words. Hope you have good  time and sts  enjoy it. Thanks.

PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE

A series of activities for the mixed-level classroom surrounding clothing and colors, including handwriting worksheets for students to color, grammar exercises on present continuous and simple present, and a conversation on clothing.  I sometimes pair it with an "I spy" game.  "I am thinking of someone in the class." "Is she wearing blue?" 

Clothing/Colors/Present Progressive

It is an activity to practice the simple present and present progressive tense. Very easy to fulfill and understandable. The dynamic of the activity is competitive, whoever gets more muppets will be the winner. 

Learning with Muppets

This free ESL lesson about sleep provides activities, PDF worksheets, and digital materials designed for intermediate B1-B2 students. In this lesson, students will:

- Talk about some habits that have a positive/negative impact on sleep
- Discuss a variety of questions about sleep
- Learn some vocabulary and phrases related to sleep
- Watch a video with tips on how to improve your sleep
-Study and use the present perfect continuous tense form to talk about lifestyle habits and problems
- Talk about lifestyle problems and suggest tips how to solve or improve them

ESL Lesson Plan — Tip For Better Sleep

Vocabulary about the topic People and Society taken from Destination B2.
With the list of the words, phrasal verbs and various collocation, it is a good source for practice.

B2 - U10 - People and Society

This is a dialogue. It's a conversation between a dance teacher and a student. She is worried about her practice, but 

the teacher helps her not to feel bad and encourages her to keep practicing for good results. There is also vocabulary practice. With this practice, your students will be encouraged to make their own dialogue using the present perfect continuous.

I Need to Improve

Students watch the video clip and fill in the missing words. Mostly they are progressive verbs (~ing) Only a few blanks. Designed as a listening exercise for EFL teenagers with fairly low vocab level.

Harry's escape from the Dursley house

Please upvote if you like this.  This table summarises verb tenses up to the stage where PERFECT tenses are introduced.  An explanation of how I use this table is given on the second page.  It gives students a global vision of how verbs change when questions, affirmations and negatives are formed, and how they change in order to indicate past, present and future. 

3 x 3 VERB TENSE TABLE  + EXPLANATION

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

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

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)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

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Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

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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483 Present perfect present perfect continuous English ESL worksheets pdf & doc