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Past Continuous Worksheets
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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.
The past continuous, also called the past progressive, is the focus of this section. Right now, there are
173 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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A past continuous test: a test to revise this verbal tense. There are two questions. The first question is to complete the blank spaces with past continuous of the verb in brackets. The seco ...
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Simple past and past continuous test: a test to revise these two verbal tenses. There are three questions. The first question is to complete the blank spaces with the past continuous of the verbs ...
The worksheet is a simple children's story for young learners to practice the past simple, past continuous and past perfect simple tense. It is illustrated and each illustration shows a word that ...
One of the things I love about using Mr. Bean videos is the varied topics that can be covered using them. We used this one for both past and present continuous, but it can also be used for the sim ...
It is a worksheet for learners to practice the use of past simple and past continuous through misfortunes they had during their last last holiday. There are pictures and cues so that the writing c ...
Cut out the layout and tape the sides together to make a 3DTense Cube. Students can practise the most common tenses by rolling the cube and saying a sentence with the given time expression. You ca ...
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Provides a simple explanation of past continous ans tpast continous mixed with simple past. Deals with how to use past continous to describe actions happend in a specific time in ...
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A reading lesson around the article published online about an American teenager attacked by a squirrel as he was trying to make a selfie with the animal. Contains comprehension questions, grammar, ...
You can use the worksheet to give your students more chances to practice past continuous. Make your students work in pairs, which creates more opportunities for the students to use English i ...
You will find a complex explanation of past continuous with many examples, interactive sentences (so your students would practise even during the presentation, not only at the end) and a short exe ...
This presentation contains 3 basic rules for using past continuous. It includes lots of pictures and examples. There is no exercise, but there are interacive sentences you can use with your studen ...
I try to smuggle some literary texts into my classes to make my students familiar with some of the great English writers and their work. This one is a grammar worksheet which I brought my students ...
These slides show the differences between tenses and how they are formed and used. Past simple, past continuous, present perfect. The last slide of the presentations contains an exercise on findin ...
This is a conversation grid activity designed to encourage the correct use of simple past and past continuous verb forms in a relaxed conversational setting. Students walk around the room asking ...
This is a worksheet which is aimed to revise and practise the differences between the past simple and past continuous tenses. Students are asked to complete 35 different sentences putti ...
Unit 4 test concentrates on testing of past continuous and past simple, matching the halves of the sentences according to their meaning with past simple and continuous, making questions according ...
This has been one of my favorite activities since childhood. A group of ss work in a group to create one story. But each time a student writes something, he/she folds the paper so that the others ...
Any kind of “Alibi” game is perfect for practicing past tenses (esp past simple and past continuous). Make up any story that something was stolen at the party at 10 pm last night. You ...
There are 12 slides in this PPT on past tenses. Students have to look at the pictures and decide which tense to use: past simple or past continuous. The PPT is good for revising and practising the ...
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