Present perfect and Past simple contrasted

Here you have some activities which contrast the present perfect and the past simple.

Remember!!!

Present perfect (facts that occur in the past but affect or continue in the present)
Past simple (facts that occur at some definite point in the past and are already finished!)

Exercises 1

Exercises 2

Exercises 3

Exercises 4

Exercises 5 (this website is very useful! It has got videos, songs, etc. Enjoy it!)

Past perfect vs Past Simple

Here you have a brief explanation of Past Perfect and Past simple.

http://www.aulafacil.com/Ingejerc/Lecciones/Lecc22.htm

And here there are some exercises to practice what you've just learnt.

http://www.aulafacil.com/Ingejerc/Lecciones/Ejerc22.htm

there is/are + some/any/a/an

If you click on this link, you'll get the chance to practice this structures with plenty of activities! Give it a try! Good luck!

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2920

1 - Present simple vs Present continuous

Hi everyone. In order to give you more chances to practise what we do everyday in class, I've decided to post useful activities on this blog so you can do them yourselves online or after printing them.

PRESENT SIMPLE vs PRESENT CONTINUOUS (or PROGRESSIVE, as the Americans say).

There are many websites to practise the difference between what we DO EVERYDAY and what WE ARE DOING NOW. Here are some of the most useful for you (in my opinion). Enjoy!

- http://www.inglestotal.com/present-simple-and-present-continuous-diferencias-y-ejercicios/ (basic theory + exercises)

- http://englishforsecondary.blogspot.com/2009/04/present-simple-vs-present-continuous.html (exercises posted by another teacher on the differences between these two presents).

-http://www.hueber.de/shared/elka/Internet_Muster/Red2/3-19-002886-9_Muster.pdf (more basic practice & theory).

- http://moodle.citylit.ac.uk/file.php/1/Study%20skills%20work%20sheets/grammar/intermediate/Microsoft%20Word%20-%201.13%20FUTURE%20action%20-%20%20Present%20continuous%20Exercises.pdf (present continuous for future actions).

- http://www3.planalfa.es/anunciata-leon/departamentos/lenguasextran/ejeringles/THE%20SIMPLE%20PRESENT%20AND%20THE%20PRESENT%20CONTINUOUS%20%202.pdf

( exercises to distinguish between Present Simple and Present Continuous).