Past Perfect Continuous ESL Worksheets, Games and Activities

Cause and Effect

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Past Perfect Continuous Worksheet - Grammar and Writing Exercises: Gap-fill, Matching, Writing Sentences

This comprehensive cause and effect worksheet helps students learn how to use the past perfect continuous to communicate cause and effect. First... read more

How does it end?

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
ESL Past Simple and Past Perfect Continuous Game - Grammar and Speaking: Matching, Forming Sentences - Group Work

In this free past perfect continuous game, students race to match sentence halves together and put them in the past perfect continuous form. In groups... read more

Michael had been wondering...

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Past Perfect Continuous Worksheet - Grammar and Reading Exercises: Gap-fill, Error Correction, Writing Sentences, Reading Comprehension Questions

Here is a productive past perfect continuous worksheet for intermediate students to use in class. First, students complete... read more

Past and Past Perfect Continuous

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Past Perfect Continuous vs. Past Continuous Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Binary Choice, Sentence Completion, Ordering, Writing Questions

In this insightful past perfect continuous vs. past continuous worksheet, students learn how the past perfect continuous... read more

Past Perfect Continuous Practice

Intermediate (B1) 20 minutes
ESL Past Perfect Continuous Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Matching, Identifying, Gap-fill, Sentence Completion

This useful past perfect continuous worksheet helps students to identify and practice the past perfect continuous tense. Students begin by matching... read more

Combinations

Upper-intermediate (B2) 20 minutes
ESL Past Simple and Past Perfect Continuous Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences, Freer Practice - Group Work

In this free past perfect continuous activity, students combine past perfect continuous and past simple sentence halves together with when to make logical... read more

Death of a Millionaire

Upper-intermediate (B2) 25 minutes
ESL Past Perfect Continuous Activity - Grammar: Running Dictation, Gap-fill, Changing Word Forms - Pair Work

In this creative past perfect continuous activity, students take part in a running dictation about a mysterious death and then complete relative clause... read more

Past Perfect Continuous Review

Upper-intermediate (B2) 25 minutes
ESL Past Perfect Continuous Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Sentence Completion, Gap-fill, Comprehension Questions, Paragraph Writing

In this past perfect continuous worksheet, students review the past perfect continuous tense and how it is used with.... read more

Past Perfect Continuous Sentence Flip

Upper-intermediate (B2) 25 minutes
ESL Past Perfect Continuous Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences, Controlled Practice - Group Work

In this engaging past perfect continuous game, students listen to sentences and race to change them into past perfect continuous sentences with time... read more

Sentence Half Stories

Upper-intermediate (B2) 25 minutes
ESL Past Simple vs. Past Perfect Continuous Activity - Grammar and Writing: Writing Sentences, Freer Practice - Group Work

In this fun past simple and past perfect continuous activity, students create short stories by writing sentence halves using the past perfect continuous and... read more