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The purpose of this paper is to propose a more effective teaching method of tense in elementary school English. Recently, English education in Korea has focused on improving students' communicative competence based on fluency and accuracy. Due to this trend, the values of English grammar education are underestimated in schools. However, grammar still plays an important role in English acquisition and learning. Among the various grammatical categories, tense is one of the most important and difficult topics for Elementary students, due to the differences between Korean and English tense systems. This study deals with the present, present progressive, past, future tense only, which are similar to the Elementary school curriculum in terms of their forms and meanings. In this paper, we have suggested many teaching activities, making use of scripts, real objects, stories, and charts to teach present tense, short texts for teaching past tense and pictures for teaching the present progressive. Also, we have proposed interesting situations and conversation contexts to teach, will and are going to. The advantage of our proposal lies in checking the student's understanding of English tenses and giving longstanding explicit knowledge of grammatical elements to student.