Past Continuous ESL Games, Activities and Worksheets
I was doing this worksheet

This free past continuous worksheet helps students distinguish the past continuous from the past simple and practice forming past continuous sentences. First, students match sentence halves together... read more
It was a cold dark night...

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 group dictation. First, students read and memorize... read more
Park Life

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. For three minutes, students look carefully at... read more
Past Continuous Chat

This insightful past continuous speaking activity helps students practice forming, asking and answering conversation questions in the past continuous tense. First, in two groups, students complete... read more
The Time Machine Challenge

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 guess, students put a tick in the last... read more
What was everybody doing?

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 what everyone was doing when they came in... read more
What were you doing?

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 the past and tell the students to think about what... read more
Convince Me

In this free past continuous game, students ask and answer questions about what they were doing at certain times yesterday and give explanations with because, in order to and so that. The first student... read more
Dream World

In this imaginative past continuous activity, students practice making sentences from picture cards and then write a story about a dream using the past continuous and past simple. The first student... read more
Past Continuous Practice

This useful past continuous worksheet helps students learn and practice three ways the tense is used. First, students complete sentences with the past continuous form of the verbs in brackets. Next... read more
When, While and As

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. In groups, students take turns turning... read more