Teaching ESL to Adults Verb Tense List
Teaching ESL to Adults Verb Tense List gathers the twelve English tenses with the alternative names each one is known by and a full conjugation of a single verb in every tense. Published by Teaching ESL to Adults, a site written by the teacher Debra for tutors of adult learners, the page presents the tenses in a common teaching order, then repeats them in a grid arranged by time frame and aspect.
100% Free (unlimited): the whole list, every conjugation and the summary grid are on the open page, readable with no account, no registration and no payment. The author also allows the material to be used in class, asking only that the site address appear on any handout.
How It Helps Your Business English
The page lists the twelve tenses one after another, beginning with the simple present and ending with the future perfect progressive. Each entry gives the other names the same tense goes by in different grammar books, then conjugates one verb through all six persons so the full paradigm can be read at a glance. The simple future entry shows both the will form and the going to form. A short passage explains that the order used is the one many tutors follow in class, and a grid at the end lays the same twelve tenses out by time frame and aspect, with a note on a grammar textbook used for teaching them.
You can settle a question of naming here when two sources call the same form by different names, since each entry lists the labels in use side by side. Reading a complete paradigm through all six persons shows you where the auxiliary changes and where it does not, which is the detail most often missed in a chart that gives only one example. The grid at the end gives you the same twelve tenses in a shape you can copy out for your own notes or for a class handout.
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