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 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 ...
The 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 ...
This 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 ...
This 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, ...
This 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 cor ...
A 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 ...
Hi!! 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 ...
I 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 continuou ...
This 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 f ...
This 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 ...
The 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 ...
This 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 ...
How 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 deta ...
Hello!!!! 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 ...
This 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 ...
The 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 ...
A 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 p ...
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 ...
Some 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 ...
Three 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 ...
This worksheet contains some grammar explanation and there are 4 activities:
1-complete the sentences using the simple past
2-complete the sentences using the past continuous
3-complete th ...
A worksheet for teaching the past continuous tense. There are simple explanations at the top of the page followed by 3 exercises in which students are asked to complete the sentences using the c ...
It is a worksheet that provides a lot of practice in using these two tenses. There are 17 sentences, most of them are complex sentences, in which one part is in Past Simple and the second - in Pas ...
This is a simple worksheet to provide further past continuous practice. It includes explanations of the tense to use, example sentences and two exercises where students are asked to fill in the b ...
A 2-page worksheet contrasting the past simple and the past continuous. It includes a brief explanation followed by 4 different exercises in which students are asked to look at the picture and wr ...
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