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 combines all the skills through watching a video about a mysterious dj who fell from the sky! In the warm-up phase of the lesson, students practice their speaking skills through som ...
Here you can see a quiz which will help you to check if your students understand these two English tenses. The material is not difficult, you can use it, for example, when you have just explained ...
A cheat sheet perfect for students to review tenses of the verb 'to be'. Beside each tense it shows a timeline, which is excellent for students who are visual learners. The sheet includes present ...
With this board game students will practice the most common tenses while playing! They are asked to make affirmative, negative or interrogative sentences with the correct form of the verb (presen ...
Worksheet to practise the most common tenses: present simple, present continuous, past simple, past continuous, future, present perfect and past perfect. There are 24 different sentences in whic ...
Dictogloss is a classroom dictation activity where students are required to reconstruct a short text by listening and noting down key words, which are then used as a base for reconstruction. It ...
This worksheet can be used to practice the continuous tenses. I used it for past continuous specifically. I handed each student a card and then called on two students at once to perform their acti ...
This is a boardgame to consolidate the differences between past simple and past continuous. It includes verb cards and instructions. The students are asked to complete sentences with the correct ...
I use this worksheet as a follow-up for teaching the past continuous. The first day I present the grammar point and practice along with the book exercises, and we play the board game "Clue." The ...
A worksheet on the simple past tense and past continuous tense. The worksheet is divided into 2 parts. Part I is composed of 10 questions in which the gaps in conversations are asked to be filled ...
This is a PowerPoint presentation on the Past Continuous Tense. It contains a very detailed explanation of the form and uses of this tense, including examples, some important notes and audio. Exc ...
Song to work with pre intermediate level. Sts have to listen and tick the word as they hear it. They also work with prepositions after verbs completing lines. They identify verb tenses in differen ...
Exercises on the present simple, past simple, present continuous and past continuous. How to identify these tenses, make these tenses, make different sentence structures (negative and interrogativ ...
This is a writing exercise, revising the Present Simple and Continuous, the Past Simple and Continuous and the Future Simple. There are affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences to be form ...
Worksheet to practise Past Continuous Tense for elementary students Including 16 different and ilustrated sentences in which students have to complete the sentences with the correct form of the v ...
The song Tom’s Diner by Suzanne Vega gives a great opportunity for both teenagers and adults to practice all Past Tense Forms. At first, students may be asked to listen to the original song ...
A good way to present, practise or consolidate grammar. This is a PowerPoint game on Past Simple and Continuous. First, students have to fill in the gaps with a proper form of Past Simple or Past ...
A worksheet about the difference between the past simple and the past continuous containing two different tasks: 1. Use the words to complete the sentences. 2. Complete the sentences with the co ...
A page and a half of sentences divided into three tasks. Each task has gaps that need to be filled, and the last one requires students to make yes/no question out of the sentences they have comple ...
Form and use of the past continuous followed by three different tasks: A) Imagine you arrived at the Hotel yesterday at 3 o’clock. What were these people doing? (The picture will help stud ...
A worksheet about the difference between the past simple and the past continuous containing two different tasks: 1. Use the words to complete the sentences. 2. Complete the sentences with the co ...
A worksheet to practice the Past Continuous in a quick and simple way, providing five different tasks, with different levels of complexity but all very simple such as fill in the blanks with the ...
This material can easily be combined with any coursebook. The worksheet will help your students to be more confident when using these two tenses, to recognize and apply them easily. It's good for ...
Here's a nice practice worksheet where your learners will practice past simple and past continuous. This activity may be used as a part of homework or as a form of a test in class. Happy teaching!
Several exercises to practice past simple / continuous / perfect / perfect continuous. Created based on the materials from the book Total English Intermediate and Upper-intermediate (student's boo ...
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