Click on the underlined gaps and type your answer. When you have finished, either press Enter to go to the next gap, or click on another gap with the mouse.

Click on the options below a question to choose your answer. Click on any other option in the same question if you change your mind.

Click on the underlined gap (next to the little arrow). Select the correct answer from the list.

Click on any word(s) that you think are wrong. You may be asked to correct the mistakes. If you click in a place where there is no mistake you will lose a mark.

Click in the box at the top of the screen and type a word that you think is in the text. Press Enter or click "Guess". If you are right, the word will appear in the text everywhere that it is used. The statistics list on the right will show you how many times the word was used.

Click on one of the words that the exercise says to drag, keep the mouse down and drag to a gap. When the mouse cursor is over the gap let go. You can drag a word many times so if you change your mind, just drag another word over the wrong one.

In some exercises you will see "As I work" or "At the end" next to the Marking button. Click to change the type of marking. With "As I work" marking, your first choice is the one that sets your score. With "At the end" marking, your score is set when you click Marking and not before.

In some exercises you can get a hint by holding down the CTRL key when you click on an option or a gap.

In some exercises you can see feedback after marking by clicking the Feedback button or by clicking on the answers.

Hold down the CTRL key and click on any word in an exercise (except a gap or an option in a multiple choice), to look the word up in an online dictionary.

When a sound, animation or video is playing you can pause or rewind it by clicking on the media controller on the screen. This controls whichever is the latest media to run.

This is a mini-notepad that will be saved for you between uses. You can type in it or cut and paste text. You can print it out or email it (if this is set up on your webserver). So long as you use the same login details each time you use Tense Buster, it will remember everything that you type.

So long as you use the same login details each time you use Tense Buster, the Progress function will remember all your scores. You can get a list of all your scores by clicking the Progress button. The menus also show you how much of a unit you have done with the indicator at the side of each menu item.

Clarity will be pleased to help you with any technical problems. However, please check with the technical support of your institution first as they may have a quicker answer.

Email support@clarityenglish.com with a description of your problem and the URL of your course (if you are running online).


Clarity Language Consultants Ltd
PO Box 163, Sai Kung, Hong Kong
tel: +852 2791 1787, fax: +852 2791 6484

Tense Buster is built using Adobe's Flash. This is very easy to download to your computer and we recommend that you install the latest version of the Flash player.

The first time that you run Tense Buster online you will have to wait for a few minutes for the program to download. But after this you will be able to run quickly. This is because your browser stores the programs in its memory. Some time later you might clear out your memory and after that you will again get a slow download the first time you use it.