Students english file students site preintermediate grammar file 2 lesson b past continuous 1 grammar. Amusing ways of giving students intensive practice of the past progressive tense 1. It includes a suggested leadin activity, several classroom activities, a game and a collection of specially selected esl resources from around the web. Click here to download this exercise in pdf with answers. Worksheet 2 past continuous i using my mobile phone you listening to music he eating a sandwich at 8pm. This is not only a classic activity for the past continuous, but also an all time classic tefl game.
Click on the worksheet image or the link to download the pdf file. The activities, what were they all doing when i opened the door and you were standing in a post office when a robbery took place from play games with english. Past continuous interactive and downloadable worksheet. Divide the students into groups of 14 and give each student a sentence card. Continuous aspect activities ways of combining the present continuous, past continuous and future continuous so that students can get a feel for the links between those three tenses. Teaching english activities the past continuous students. Save hours of lesson preparation time with the entire busyteacher library. The activities and exercises to practice this tense cover the different uses. A police officer is interviewing a witness to a bank robbery. In this challenging past continuous activity, students put a ghost story in order by saying and listening to sentences. This is an activity designed to deductively teach adult learners how to use the simple present and the present continuous. Students are given a list of strange actions and ask their partners to come up with innocent reasons why they were doing those things, e.
We often use the present continuous for things happening right now. If you fall on a forward or backward sign, you move in that direction. This worksheet is for intermediatelevel students, but can be easily adjusted for other levels. English esl present continuous worksheets most downloaded. Practise the past continuous tense by landing on a space and creating the other. He asked me how i liked it, and i had to admit it was great. Past continuous mixed exercise 2 make the past continuous choose positive, negative or question. Thats 4,036 pages filled with thousands of practical activities and tips that you can start using today.
What was she doing on friday afternoon and evening. Past continuous exercise 1 perfect english grammar. The action that caused the interruption is in the past simple. No sir, i was not talking on my cell phone i was watching a tv show on my ipod past continuous.
As i was walking in the streets of holland, i met an old friend of mine. The past continuous is used for an action in progress in the past and that was interrupted. Jul 30, 2018 on the other hand, the past perfect continuous is rarely used by native speakers in their daily activities. Lesson b past continuous 1 english file students site. Tell students they are going to write a newspaper article about a robbery in a public place. The grammar focus is on the past continuous and past simple. Using the present continuous tense to talk about activities you are doing now. An a2 level esl lesson plan for teaching the past simple and past continuous. A few hours later i encountered a short explanation of the same grammar by, and i realised that i wanted to share both with my friends on the internet. Do the students need to understand the past perfect continuous for use on exams such as the toefl or cambridge exams, or is the focus of. Use the cue cards and model dialog to practice speaking using past simple.
When and while signal the use of the past simple and past continuous. Put the verb in the present perfect progressive tense. Exercise 1 write the present participle of these verbs. Esl kids world interactive past continuous esl video games. We were playing volleyball with mary when you called me. Write several past times on small slips of paper and put them in a hat. Miniconversations past continuous this is a fun, communicative grammar activity for the entire class. Miniconversations past continuous all things grammar. Complete the following text with the past simple of the past continuous forms of the verbs in brackets. The first person should make a question with when did you last. Present continuous esl games worksheets activities teach this. One of the best ways of explaining the future continuous and past continuous is to say that they are just like the present continuous but shifted in time. Present perfect progressive present perfect continuous choose the correct verb from the list below to complete the following sentences.
We use the past progressive when we talk about something which was happening around a period of time in the past. Past continuous bluffing card game rules of the game deal out the cards so that each person in your group has about the same number. Present perfect progressive present perfect continuous. We watching tv they swimming was 2 write questions.
The choice whether to teach this tense should, therefore, be made based on a student needs analysis. Grammar board game past continuous 36 squares, each asking about what that person was doing at a specific time speak for at least 1minute per roll. Past simple and past continuous efl esl activities and games. Students then write the story down in a group dictation. Using the present continuous tense to talk about activities you are doing now structures.
Microsoft word past continuous all forms mixed exercise 2. Present perfect simple or present perfect continuous exercise 2 1. It is a very structured activity in which students write a short newspaper article about a robbery. Past continuous and past simple what is their function. Past simple or past continuous worksheet 1 answers. Register for free and gain access to additional teacher handouts. Efl esl activities and games for past simple and past continuous. This lesson introduces the past continuous tense through a grammar formula along with a brief description of its uses. Heres a free online exercise about making the past continuous positive and negative. The past continuous indicates an action in progress the past simple indicates an action which interrupts the past continuous now look at this timeline and write a sentence 3. You can look at all your cards, but dont show the other people. We use the past progressive blue together with the simple past pink.
Jun 22, 2015 yesterday a friend sent me a song hed written that uses only the past simple and past continuous tenses. In general, we use the past simple directly after when and the past continuous after while. Past continuous pdf esl games, activities, and interactive and printable worksheets for teachers in class or online with a1, a2 and b1 level students. We can use the present continuous for future arrangements. There is a conversation, grammar exercises, and plenty of speaking practice. Here are three great activities to practice past continuous tense to get your wheels turning. Present continuous interactive and printable pdf esl games, worksheets and activities for teachers to use in class or online with a1 and a2 level students. When the teacher came in, they were studying english. Students are given a list of strange actions and ask their partners to come up with innocent reasons why. By the end of the lesson, students will have been familiar with the uses of past continuous tense been familiar with the form of past continuous tense asked and answered questions in past continuous tense orally. Have your students visit a public area for their homework, preferably an area with a lot of people. Past continuous games esl activities worksheets teach this.
These esl lesson plans and worksheets are in pdf format, which you will need to download adobe reader if you dont already have it installed. When i saw you, you were painting over your windows. The past progressive is used for the action in the past which was in progress when a new action simple past. Have students draw a time from the hat and then tell what they were doing at that time using the past progressive. How to teach the past perfect continuous thoughtco.
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