Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Verb Tense Exercise
Complete the exercise that tests your understanding of past or present tense.
Other
Adele's Esl Corner: Past Tense Regular Verbs
Change the verbs to past tense in each of the ten sentences in this exercise.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: The Present Perfect Tense
Review examples and then complete three online exercises dealing with the present perfect tense. English translations are provided for some of the examples. The first exercise provides verb infinitives as cues for the present perfect...
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Past Perfect
Excellent explanation of the formation of the past perfect tense. Free, interactive activities include an online quiz and test for mastery. The printer friendly page makes a nice review master for students keeping a notebook.
English Club
English Club: What Is Tense?
Notes and examples of verb tense including past, present, future, progressive, and perfective.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Antes Del Viaje (Peterite Tense)
This review of regular and irregular Spanish verbs features charts for the preterite tense, including stem-changers and spelling changes.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Verb Tense
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart revises work on verbs and investigates verb tense: (past, present and future); compare sentences from narrative and information texts, e.g. narrative in past tense, explanations in...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Grammar Verb Tense
[Free Registration/Login Required] Help students to use verb tenses with increasing accuracy in speaking and writing, e.g. catch/caught. Use past tense consistently for narration. Help students to use the term 'verb' appropriately.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Verbs: Past Perfect Quiz
Choose the correct past perfect tense verb to complete each of the ten sentences in this Quiz. Answers can be checked upon completion.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Verbs: Past Simple Quiz
Choose the correct past simple tense verb to complete each of the ten sentences in this Quiz. Answers can be checked upon completion.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Verbs: Past Continuous Quiz
Choose the correct past continuous tense verb to complete each of the ten sentences in this Quiz. Answers can be checked upon completion.
Languages Online
Languages Online: El Imperfecto
A great explanation of the imperfect tense introduces thirteen multiple choice, matching, and gap-fill exercises that provide plenty of practice with regular and irregular conjugations. The "vosotros" form is also used. A great way for...
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: El Preterito Formas (Part 3)
These Colby College exercises provide a very extensive review of irregular verbs, stem-changers, and spelling changes in the preterite tense. Change present tense conjugations to preterite tense. Answers may be checked and corrected.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: El Preterito Formas (Part 4)
These exercises provide a very extensive review of irregular verbs, stem-changers, and spelling changes in the preterite tense. Provides practice in the third person plural form in preparation for the imperfect subjunctive. Answers may...
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Preterites Irregular Meanings
Practice using verbs that change their meaning in the preterite tense: conocer, saber, querer, tener, and poder. Complete translations from English to Spanish by choosing the correct form of a verb in the preterite or imperfect. Answers...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Irregular Verbs
An extensive look at verbs in all their various forms and uses. A very valuable and easy to understand resource with many examples.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Verbs With Helpers
An explanation of how to use helping words with verbs, depending on the conjugation of the verb and the tense.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Study Zone: Simple Past: Regular Verbs 1
In this 10-question exercise, students select the past tense of regular verbs. View questions individually or all at once.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Verb Conjugation Grammar Rules
This page explains verb conjugations including persons: first, second, and third person; number: singular and plural; and tenses: present, past, and future and simple, continuous, and perfect. It provides examples of verb conjugations.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Sequence of Tenses
This Purdue University tutorial covers active and passive voices through simple examples.
Other
Isabel's Esl Site: Past Simple Tense
The English past simple is presented clearly, with examples and exercises. ESL students could use this site on their own. Some guidance in Spanish.
Other
Isabel's Esl Site: Past Continuous Tense
The past continuous is introduced by a little story which demonstrates its use. Examples and exercises follow. Some guidance in Spanish.
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Verb Forms
This interactive provides the base words of irregular verbs and asks students to type the past and past participle tenses of them in boxes.
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Preterite vs Imperfect Part Ii
Great lesson for identifying words and phrases that indicate which past tense to use, preterite or imperfect. Though not meant to be a comprehensive lesson on the application of these two past tenses, the two lists of time expressions...