The past continuous, also called the past progressive, is the focus of this section. Right now, there are 216 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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This power point presentation has a lot of sentences to be completed based on pictures. The sentences must be finished in the past simple, continuous or perfect. Very good to practice imagina ...
There are 2 sheets, the first is a multiple choice fill-in-the-blanks of the lyrics, the second sheet consists of comprehension questions, a grammar section (including the past simple, past contin ...
I used this worksheet with students who have shown a weakness in understanding the two tenses and were really confused when confronting them in activities. It proved to be very useful. It contain ...
This is a readig comprehension text about a fifteen-year-old boy who disobeyed his parents. After reading the text my learners are asked to do some activities. It is suitable for intermediate stud ...
I thought this video would be fun to show the students. It could be used to talk about informal speech, discussions about communication, teenagers...lots of things! Also, it should hopefully make ...
Verbal tenses: simple past and past continuous (complete the charts). With this activity, students will be able to practice the simple past and the past continuous tenses in English. They will con ...
This is a 2-page worksheet contrasting the past simple and the past continuous tense. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to look at the picture and write sentences, correct mistake ...
Team writing. Use the pictures and write a story "Happy to be alive". Make a plan, think about linking words. Use past tenses. Don't forget to use : first, then,after that, next, just then, finall ...
It's a multiple-choice test in 10 variants to check your students' knowledge of different verb tenses. It enables the teacher to avoid cheating during the test. The test gives students the opportu ...
People doing different things on the beach. The worksheet is meant to help pupils practsing the past progressive using three forms. the activity can be done as a pair work: Pupil A asks a question ...
This is a powerpoint presentation which I made for an effective presentation of the past continuous tense grammar rule. I think it is useful because the presentation of the grammar rule is followe ...
This worksheet provides examples as well as tables for present simple/ continuous, past simple/ continuous, present perfect simple, future simple, and be going to. It provides examples to find th ...
This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching the past continuous tense and adverbs: quite, rather and very. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to complete the sentences with the past con ...
This worksheet allows students to practice the simple past and past continuous with activities. Activities include written exercises and a role play. The file contains everything you need for the ...
This Teacher's resource pack contains 16 songs to study (and - I hope - to speak) English. I used them during my lessons, made some corrections and finally decided to share.
The structure of the ...
A test about simple past and past continuous tenses. There are four questions:
1. Write the simple past of the following verbs,
2. Translate the following sentences and write the interrogative a ...
This worksheet addresses the Valentine's Day topic with revision of past tenses and Passive Voice. It offers three activities: choosing the correct answer, putting verbs into the correct tense and ...
This is an easy worksheet contrasting the past simple and past continuous tense. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to complete the sentences with the past simple or the past contin ...
This is a worksheet for teaching the past continuous tense. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to complete the sentences with the past continuous of the verbs in brackets,complete t ...
There are two tasks: in the first sts have to choose the correct option and in the second exercise students complete the sentences using the verb given in brackets using the past continuous tense. ...
This worksheet has a lesson on Past Progressive and Past Simple with exercises. The teacher can explain the lesson based on the given examples and the time lines, which makes the students understa ...
This is a writing activity which leads to a speaking activity using the Past Continuous Tense. A teacher is found dead at his own house and nobody knows who has killed him, so the students are sup ...
A class mingle in the 'Find someone who' format. Topic covers activities students may have done during the summer holidays. Each line has a picture and the topic. Students ask the question, and th ...
In this worksheet you will find the main rules of four tenses used in the English language - Present Simple, Present Continuous Past Simple and Past Continuous. You could use this worksheet as a h ...
This is a worksheet contrasting the past simple and the past progressive tense for elementary students. There are 3 easy activities in which students are asked to fill in the blank spaces with th ...
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