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PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE
Some exercises about past continuous tense. Thenks.
Level: elementary
Age: 9-14
Type: worksheet

 


 
What were you doing...? NASTY QUESTIONS
Are your students usually unresponsive? Do they tend to "switch off" halfway through a lesson? I�ve got a group of 10-year-olds whose concentration span is comparable to that of a frozen squid ring! I�ve learnt that ugly, dirty things often call their attention. Here�s a fun way to teach Past Continuous, hope it�s not too offensive!
Level: elementary
Age: 4-100
Type: activity-card

 


 
Past Simple and Continuous Practice
Students complete affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences with past simple and continuous.
Level: elementary
Age: 9-100
Type: worksheet

 


 
Past Simple and Past Continuous
Affirmative sentences joined by "when", or beginnining with "when". Students complete with PS and PC and then match to the corresponding picture.
Level: elementary
Age: 9-100
Type: worksheet

 


 
past progressive
using past cotinuous
Level: elementary
Age: 9-12
Type: worksheet

 


 
Past Continuous writing
Past Continuous writing. First, children have to make sentences using the past continuous. Then they have to complete a diary.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-100
Type: worksheet

 


 
Finding Function of Past Continous Tense
This helps students to understand how or when to use PAst Continous tense.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-16
Type: worksheet

 


 
The past continuous tense
This worksheet is about the past continuous. I hope you find it useful.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-16
Type: worksheet

 


 
when with past simple and continuous

Level: elementary
Age: 8-16
Type: worksheet

 


 
Past Progressive Interactive News
This is a a great way to get your students to interact with what they are watching. A great way to use it is have them watch it and fill it out first, then watch it again.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-100
Type: worksheet

 


 
past continuous

Level: elementary
Age: 8-14
Type: worksheet

 


 
Present Continuous Fathers
A worksheet to practice the present continuous.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-100
Type: worksheet

 


 
past continuous
a first explanation worksheets on past continuous
Level: elementary
Age: 8-16
Type: worksheet

 


 
Past Continuous, Nature, Natural disasters, text about natural disasters
complete using Past Continuous, vocabulary connected to nature and environment
Level: elementary
Age: 9-16
Type: worksheet

 


 
Past continuous Connect 4 Pairwork
Explanation It�fs a pair work activity based on the game, Connect 4. I like to print the grid on both sides of the paper so they can play multiple times if time permits. Drill the vocab depicted in the grid. Also make sure the students are confident with saying the time. The students play paper/scissors/rock to see who starts and then take turn...
Level: elementary
Age: 8-15
Type: activity-card

 

 


past -present simple
this is a review of past tense and present tense I hope you like...thanks
Level: elementary
Age: 5-17
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


detective stories (part3): memory game
Third part of this lesson. We end the lesson with a memory game: the pupils now practise the past continuous
Level: elementary
Age: 9-17
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


detective stories (part2): oral work to practise the past continuous
Now the children practise the structure thanks to another situation (the 1st ppt showed them an example)
Level: elementary
Age: 9-17
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


detective stories (part1): drawing game to introduce the past continuous
The pupils first play, then we recap and study the past continuous
Level: elementary
Age: 9-17
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


Quiz to practice was and were
Ss are put in teams and asked to construct simple sentences about each picture using past tense. Uses vocab and grammar from English world 2 unit 8
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


The Past Continuous
Good presentation of past continuous with a correct the mistakes exercise at the end.
Level: elementary
Age: 3-17
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


SNOW WHITE AND THE FOREST
It is a funny PPT where you can teach some forest animals and what they are doing ( present continuous ). I add the song of Snow White - "A Smile And A Song"- Walt Disney ... and of course the movie ! Enjoy it !
Level: elementary
Age: 3-17
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


English tenses
I hope this work helps you to teach English.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


present continuous tense with animated pictures
very funny with animated pictures... you will like it...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-17
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


The Past Continuous - 8 page grammar guide
A step by step grammar guide on the form and use of the past continuous.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-17
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


What was Wally doing when ...?
Practice of Past Continuous in context. Reuploaded after being reported for contaning watermarked cliparts. Hope it�s O.K. now.Best wishes.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-14
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


Present Continuous. Animated.
There are animated pictures inside. Students� task is to look and say what is happening in the picture. Kids and adults love this ppt.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-17
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


what were they doing? (2)
Use Past Continuous to describe what was happening / what they were doing in the pictures.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


what were they doing?
Look at the (interactive) pictures and say what the people were doing or what was happening. Have fun.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-17
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 


The Little Mermaid (Penguin Readers for Young learners)
the worksheet is designed for the final discussion of the Reader (Penguin Readers for young learners). Based on the material of beginner students) fully editable
Level: elementary
Age: 7-9
Format: PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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