Past Simple vs. Past Continuous ESL Activities, Games and Worksheets
Past Tense Exchange

ESL Past Simple and Past Continuous Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Writing, Asking and Answering Questions - Group and Pair Work
This past simple vs. past continuous speaking activity helps students practice forming, asking and answering conversation questions in the past simple and past...
Accidental Inventions

ESL Past Simple and Past Continuous Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Gap-fill, Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Group Work
In this engaging past simple and past continuous activity, students take on the role of famous inventors and find out about accidental inventions in order...
Alibi

ESL Past Simple and Past Continuous Activity - Speaking: Role-Play, Asking and Answering Questions - Group Work
In this intriguing past simple and past continuous activity, students solve a murder by listening to people talk about what they were doing at particular times in the past and looking for inconsistencies...
Past Simple or Past Continuous?

ESL Past Simple vs. Past Continuous Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Categorising, Gap-fill, Matching, Writing Sentences
This free past simple or past continuous worksheet helps students learn and practice how and when to use the past continuous, in contrast with the past simple...
What were you doing when...?

ESL Past Simple vs. Past Continuous Game - Grammar and Speaking: Gap-fill, Guessing, Asking and Answering Questions - Group and Pair Work
This fun past simple vs. past continuous game helps students practice forming and answering questions with the past simple and past continuous. First, in two...
When and While

ESL When and While Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Gap-fill, Binary Choice, Identifying, Sentence Completion
In this useful when and while worksheet, students learn and practice three rules associated with using 'when' and 'while' with the past simple and past continuous. Students begin by completing two...
A Tense Match

ESL Past Simple and Past Continuous Game - Grammar: Matching, Gap-fill - Pair Work
This enjoyable past simple and past continuous game helps students review sentences containing past simple and past continuous clauses. In pairs, students take turns turning over one sentence beginning card and one ending card...