Past Continuous ESL Games, Activities and Worksheets
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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. First, students match sentence halves together...
It was a cold dark night...

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

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

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. First, in two groups, students complete...
The Time Machine Challenge

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

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

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

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 'because', 'in order to' and 'so that'. The first student...
Dream World

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 continuous and past simple. The first student...
Past Continuous Practice

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 continuous form of the verbs in brackets. Next...
When, While and As

ESL Past Continuous Game - Speaking: Forming Sentences, 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. In groups, students take turns turning...