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The past continuous, also called the past progressive, is the focus of this section. Right now, there are 83 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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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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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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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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Pre-Intermediate
 
Nicky Was Mugged: Past Continuous Practice Nicky Was Mugged: Past Continuous PracticeHow to introduce the past continuous to your students?Here is a MP3 file and the worksheets that go with it. It's a complete lesson. Your student will hear a text, will discuss it, will add detail ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Past Continuous Snakes and Ladders Boardgame Past Continuous Snakes and Ladders BoardgameHello!!!! Another Snakes and Ladders but this time to practice Past Continuous. Students have to finish the sentences using their creativity. Sometimes the beginnings of the sentences are given an ...
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Elementary
 
Past Continuous Worksheet II Past Continuous Worksheet IIThis is a 2-page worksheet for teaching the past continuous tense.There simple explanations and example sentences at the top of the page followed by 4 different activities in which students are as ...
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Elementary Pre-Intermediate
 
Past Simple & Past Continuous Past Simple & Past ContinuousThe ws consists of 4 exercises to revise the use of the past simple and the past continuous. The students have to 1) put the verbs in the correct past simple form; 2) put the verbs in the correc ...
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Elementary Pre-Intermediate
 
Past Simple vs Past Continuous Elementary Worksheet Past Simple vs Past Continuous Elementary WorksheetA worksheet contrasting the past simple and the past continuous tense.There are 3 different activities in which students are asked to complete different sentences using the past simple or the pas ...
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Elementary Pre-Intermediate
 
Past Tenses (for high school / bachillerato) Past Tenses (for high school / bachillerato)Useful worksheet, it includes the following: PAST SIMPLE, PAST CONTINUOUS, PAST PERFECT SIMPLE, USED TO. Explanations, examples and differences between each past tense. Useful for students to prep ...
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Intermediate Exam Level
 
Past Simple vs. Past Continuous Past Simple vs. Past ContinuousSome sentences to practise the past simple and the past continuous of both regular and irregular verbs. Students have to fil in the blanks with the correct affirmative, negative or interrogative f ...
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Elementary Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Past Simple vs Past Continuous Past Simple vs Past ContinuousThree simple exercises that help understand the difference between the PAST SIMPLE and PAST CONTINUOUS tenses.In the first exercise you just have to choose the correct alternative, in the second a ...
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Pre-Intermediate
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