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English grammar through play

A Tense Situation

An English tenses and aspect board game for language learners and teachers. Read a situation, choose the verb form, and find its place on the board.

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Open Beta: free to play · Registration required · No payment needed during Beta

A Tense Situation: a board with future, present and past rows; simple, progressive, perfect, perfect progressive and aspectual columns; and sentence cards below.
The game board brings sentence situations, verb forms and scoring together. Bobby is a fictional example player.
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See how tense changes the story.

Every sentence presents a situation. In A Tense Situation, you explore how English verb forms express time and meaning while building your score.

The board groups future, present and past forms into columns for simples, progressives, perfects, perfect progressives and aspectual tenses.

Your first visit

From a situation to a place on the board

How play begins

  1. Read the situation on a sentence card.
  2. Choose the verb form that fits its meaning.
  3. Find its place on the board and build your score.

Use the in-game Rules for the full instructions.

What you will explore

  • English past, present and future forms
  • Simple, progressive, perfect and perfect progressive forms
  • Planned future and habitual forms in the aspectual column
  • The connection between a situation and the verb form it calls for
Take your place at the table

Play during Open Beta

A Tense Situation is free to play during Open Beta. Registration is required, with no payment needed during Beta. The play button takes you to the game’s existing account-protected entry.

For the best experience, use a computer or larger tablet. Allow time for the opening film and sound to load on your first visit.

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