Worksheet on Verb Forms

(TESOL Worksheets--Verb Forms, Teacher Training)
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[Notes: This was designed for a teacher training course I was working on.  The purpose of this worksheet was to teach new teachers about the various forms a verb can take.  (This is not the verb tenses and aspects--those come in the next session.  This is just the different forms of the verb that can be combined with auxiliaries to make various tenses and aspects.)   As such, it is currently designed to be teacher facing.  But it can easily be adapted to be student facing.]

he ate pizza he eats pizza

pizza was eaten pizza is eaten

he was eating pizza he is eating pizza

pizza was being eaten pizza is being eaten

he had eaten pizza he has eaten pizza

pizza had been eaten pizza has been eaten

he had been eating pizza he has been eating pizza

pizza had been being eaten pizza has been being eaten

I can eat pizza.

I could eat pizza.

I might eat pizza.

I have to eat pizza.

I must eat pizza.

I might eat pizza.

I should eat pizza.

I shall eat pizza.

I will eat pizza.

I would eat pizza.

Irregular verbs

base form	eat	go	take	run	make
past simple	ate
past participle	eaten

regular verbs

base form	walk	cook	dance	listen	climb
past simple	walked
past participle	walked

A teacher is explaining a grammar structure to the class.  “I have walked.  This is have + the past simple.”  What mistake has the teacher made?  How could the teacher have avoided this mistake?

eat, walk

	Regular verb	Irregular verb
infinitive
base form
present simple
past simple
past participle
present participle

Auxiliary Verbs

	be	have	do
infinitive
base form
present simple
past simple
past participle
present participle

Auxiliary Verbs

	be	have	do
infinitive	to be	to have	to do
base form	be	have	do
present simple	am, is, are	have, has	do, does
past simple	was, were	had	did
past participle	been	had	done
present participle	being	having	doing