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The past continuous, also called the past progressive, is the focus of this section. Right now, there are 80 Past Progressive worksheets listed with more being added regularly by busy teachers just like you. Some worksheets combine more than one tense while others focus solely on the past continuous. This worksheet for elementary students is for practicing the past simple and past continuous tenses. There are some comprehension questions, fill in the blank exercises, and even a section devoted to word order. Each page has its own image and story that students use to complete the exercises. This could be done individually or in pairs but should be check or reviewed as a class so that students have some speaking practice as well. If you do not want to spend too much class time on this, just choose one page of the worksheet. Look at the main tense section for all tense related worksheets or another tense subsection if you want to narrow your search.
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GRAMMAR TIP: What Is Past Continuous?
Past continuous describes actions and states continued in the past period of time. The construction of a past continuous is similar to the present continuous tense, in that it has a past simple form of 'to be' instead of a present simple form preceding the present participle. An example of a past continuous inside a sentence is 'I was painting the house.' There's the past simple form of 'to be' in the finite position (was), with the present participle of 'to paint' (painting) following it.
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When Spiderman Arrived When Spiderman ArrivedThis is a 2-page worksheet contrasting the simple past and the past continuous.Recommended for pre-intermediate students who are asked to write sentences according to the picture and fill in blank ...
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rated by 2 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Michael Schumacher: the 'Red Baron' [Test on Past Simple, Past Continuous and Present Perfect] Michael Schumacher: the 'Red Baron' [Test on Past Simple, Past Continuous and Present Perfect]This worksheet is a test in which you have a reading comprehension activity, use of english and writing, where students have to use the three tenses, past simple, past continuous and present perfe ...
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rated by 6 teachers

Intermediate
 
Explain Yourself: Past Continuous Speaking Activity Explain Yourself: Past Continuous Speaking ActivityThe worksheet contains a number of situations your students were presumably involved in a day before. Hand each student one situation, give the class some time time to think it over and ask each o ...
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rated by 2 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Song Worksheet: Until the End of the World Song Worksheet: Until the End of the WorldThis is a song worksheet. Your students have to open the brackets and complete the song by U2. You can provide them with audio afterwards so they can hear and remember their mistakes.It can also b ...
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rated by 2 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Movie Worksheet: Wallace & Gromit - The Wrong Trousers Movie Worksheet: Wallace & Gromit - The Wrong TrousersThis is a great activity to do with Elementary/Pre-intermediate students, but can also be adapted for higher levels. Watch The Wrong Trousers with your students and pause the film in four places, ...
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rated by 8 teachers

Elementary Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Revising Verb Tenses: Past Continuous Worksheet Revising Verb Tenses: Past Continuous WorksheetThis is a worksheet for revising the past continuous tense.There are simple explanations followed by a simple activity in which students are asked to complete 20 different sentences with the corre ...
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rated by 4 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
PowerPoint Presentation on Forming the Passive PowerPoint Presentation on Forming the PassiveA comprehensive Passive Voice PowerPoint Presentation that has animation and a lot of various exercises on different tenses and forms. Tenses covered are the simple present, the present perfect, t ...
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rated by 12 teachers

All levels
 
Revision Worksheet Revision WorksheetHi!! I used this before starting with the book to check how much the students remembered. It can also be used as revision before a test. It includes matching exercises, choosing the correct option ...
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rated by 10 teachers

Pre-Intermediate
 
Interrogation: Past Continuous Role Play Interrogation: Past Continuous Role PlayI found this worksheet once on a language learning portal.It is a great role-play for practising the past continuous in a communicative, fun way. Make sure you first teach the past continuous ...
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rated by 5 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Past Simple and Past Continuous Worksheet Past Simple and Past Continuous WorksheetThis is a worksheet, suitable for intermediate students, contrasting the past simple and the past continuous tense.There are 2 activities in which students are asked to circle the correct verb for ...
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rated by 13 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Video Worksheet: God Created The DJ Video Worksheet: God Created The DJThis test is to be used with the very nice video called "Spin" which I found on "busyteacher.org". Thanks to Hass. There are three different exercises, the first to check the students know the dif ...
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rated by 3 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Where the Wild Things Are: Guided Writing Worksheet Where the Wild Things Are: Guided Writing WorksheetThe activity combines different activities. I start with having the students watch a part of the film (00.20-00.45) and ask them to tell me what they have learnt about Max. Then I distribute the w ...
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rated by 4 teachers

Pre-Intermediate
 
Past Continuous: When-While Past Continuous: When-WhileThis is my first worksheet:) there may be some mistakes but I hope you will find it useful! This worksheet mainly focuses on past continuous and uses of ''when and while''. This is a classic open ...
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rated by 9 teachers

Pre-Intermediate
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