Kim Oliver ESOL Web Links
Tech up your teaching! Every good teacher knows that the resources outside the classroom are as important as those inside for students to improve their mastery of the English language! The internet is now a gold mine of resources, but some are more helpful than others! So I have created a page with the best of the best web resources available for ESL teachers and students.
My Top Favorites:
These are sites that I go back to over and over again!
English Page
https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html
My very favorite. It has great explanations, with really good verb tense contrast exercises.
Study Zone
https://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/elc/studyzone/grammar.htm
You'll need to navigate into "Verbs" and then "Tenses", but this is another site with not only explanations and exercises, but good verb tense contrasts.
Perfect English Grammar
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/verb-tenses.html
This site has three different pages for each tense: making, using and practicing. It also has some nice tense contrast explanations and exercises.
My English Pages
https://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar.php
Very wide variety of grammar topics with brief explanations and an exercise to an exercise for each.
ESL Lounge
https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar-exercises.php
More Great Resources
Tes
English Grammar with Jennifer
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEEA0D5FA42DB4C58
Many of you know Jennifer from her pronunciation site, but she has some very gentle, well-explained grammar videos as well.
Fraze-It
This is an interesting site in which you can type a verb, then choose the tense you'd like to have exemplified, and it will give you real results pulled from news sites all across the web. You can even edit the results within a topic, i.e. business, food, education.
Test English
https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/contents/
Lots of good exercises here; when you first choose a topic, you're directed to the quiz and then can choose another tab for "Explanation". Be aware that it tends to be more British!
ESL Tower
http://www.esltower.com/grammarteachers.html
This link is the same as above, but printable grammar worksheets oriented to teachers--a wide variety of subjects.
Learn English Feel Good
http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/esl-english-grammar-exercises.html
OnlinePrintable
This website may not have explanations, but such a wealth of exercises--great for when your students need extra practice--great upper level resource!
http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/esl-printables-worksheets.html
English 4 U
http://www.english-4u.de/grammar_exercises.htm
Many, many online exercises, graded in easy, medium or difficult.
English Hilfen
https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/zeitformen.htm
Lots of links to verb tenses, with contrasts. For the explanations, visit another page: https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar_list/zeitformen.htm
ESL Blues Trivia Grammar quizzes
http://espace.cegepmontpetit.ca/prof/epritchard/doubleql.htm
This is a fun set of trivia quizzes based on different verb tenses and voices