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About the Past Continuous worksheets
This free grammar pack has 12 printable A4 pages: what were you doing at that moment? You can edit the words on every page, print it or save it as a PDF, and there's a matching PowerPoint lesson to teach it with. It's made for English teachers in Korea and works for kindergarten and elementary classes, hagwons and tutoring.
The rule
We use the past continuous for an action that was in progress at a moment in the past.
What's inside
- Learn It: Past Continuous
- Past Continuous: Fill In 1: Write the correct form of the verb in brackets.
- Past Continuous: Fill In 2
- Past Continuous: Fill In 3
- Past Continuous: Circle It 1: Circle the correct verb.
- Past Continuous: Circle It 2
- Past Continuous: Negatives: Make each sentence negative.
- Past Continuous: Questions: Change each sentence into a question.
- when or while?: Circle the best word.
- Past Continuous: About You: Answer the questions in full sentences.
Example sentences
- At 8 p.m. last night, I was watching a movie.
- It was raining when we left school.
- Were you sleeping when I called?
- They were carrying the box when the phone rang.
- My sister was playing computer games at noon yesterday.
- Tom was doing the dishes at this time yesterday.
How to use it in class
Teach the rule page first, ideally with the matching PowerPoint lesson, then work from easy to hard: fill in the blanks, choose the right word, then rewrite whole sentences. Go over the answers together so students hear the correct sentences out loud.
