Past Continuous ESL Games, Activities and Worksheets

I was doing this worksheet

Pre-intermediate (A2) 30 minutes
ESL Past Continuous Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Matching, Identifying, Gap-fill, Error Correction, Writing Sentences

This free past continuous worksheet helps students distinguish the past continuous from the past simple and practice forming past continuous sentences... read more

It was a cold dark night...

Pre-intermediate (A2) 30 minutes
ESL Past Continuous Activity - Grammar, Reading and Listening: Memorising and Reciting Sentences, Ordering, Dictation

In this challenging past continuous activity, students put a ghost story in order by saying and listening to sentences. Students then write the story down in a... read more

Park Life

Pre-intermediate (A2) 25 minutes
ESL Past Continuous Game - Grammar: Memorising, Writing Sentences

In this fun past continuous memory game, students study a picture for three minutes and then write past continuous sentences about what was happening in the picture. Students try to remember details... read more

Past Continuous Chat

Pre-intermediate (A2) 25 minutes
ESL Past Continuous Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Forming, Asking and Answering Questions - Group and Pair Work

This insightful past continuous speaking activity helps students practice forming, asking and answering conversation questions in the past continuous tense... read more

The Time Machine Challenge

Pre-intermediate (A2) 30 minutes
ESL Past Continuous Game - Grammar and Speaking: Sentence Completion, Guessing, Asking and Answering Questions

In this productive past continuous game, students guess what classmates were doing and ask questions to check if their guesses were right. For each correct... read more

What was everybody doing?

Pre-intermediate (A2) 30 minutes
ESL Past Continuous Game - Grammar: Miming, Forming and Writing Sentences - Group Work

Here is an entertaining past continuous game for students to play in class. One team member leaves, others mime actions, and the student returns to guess... read more

What were you doing?

Pre-intermediate (A2) 20 minutes
ESL Past Continuous Game - Grammar and Speaking: Memorising, Forming Sentences

In this engaging past continuous game, students use the word while and the past continuous to make sentences about what they and others were doing at certain times in the past. Choose a time in.... read more

Convince Me

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
ESL Past Continuous Game - Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Group Work

In this free past continuous game, students ask and answer questions about what they were doing at certain times yesterday and give explanations with... read more

Dream World

Intermediate (B1) 40 minutes
ESL Past Continuous Activity - Grammar and Writing: Forming Sentences, Collaborative Story Writing - Group Work

In this imaginative past continuous activity, students practice making sentences from picture cards and then write a story about a dream using the past... read more

Past Continuous Practice

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
ESL Past Continuous Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Gap-fill, Changing Word Forms, Categorising, Matching

This useful past continuous worksheet helps students learn and practice three ways the tense is used. First, students complete sentences with the past... read more

When, While and As

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
ESL Past Continuous Game - Speaking: Forming Sentences from Prompts, Freer Practice - Group Work

In this creative past simple and past continuous game, students practice forming sentences in the past continuous and past simple with when, while and as... read more