Live worksheets english english as a second language esl past simple and past continuous past simple vs past continuous past simple vs past continuous read the store and fill in the verbs. Past simple and past continuous interactive worksheet. More past tenses including the past continuous and used to. The past simple shows us that an action was in the past, not in the present. Use simple past to focus on the completion of an action. Guide to past simple and past continuous verb tenses. I was walking down the street when i saw the sale sign. Preintermediate level grammar worksheets students choose either past simple or past continuous for each space past simple or past continuous worksheet. In this video, we take a look at the past continuous tense and suitable teaching ideas for this tense. Past continuous past continuous past continuous i was talking to our teacher. Students then write the story down in a group dictation.
It was eight oclock and after that i couldnt even finish my homework. Live worksheets english english as a second language esl past continuous past continuous past continuous students have different activities to practice past continuous affirmative, negative, questions. Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets into the correct tense past simple or past continuous. The past continuous and simple past tenses are commonly used together. The past continuous is one of the tenses used to tell stories as it describes multiple actions and events. Elissa and the mysterious stalker past continuous vs. Grammar, vocabulary, reading, listening and much more. These questions can be used with students seated in pairs or in small groups, or with students standing. Past simple or past continuous worksheet esl lounge. Answers to past simple or past continuous exercise 2 1. Past tense simple is used to describe actions that happened in the past. Heres another exercise to practise the verb tenses. Tell students they are going to write a newspaper article about a robbery in a public place. Janet chris mary paul liz john susan victor wrote a letter read a book ate an apple drank some milk drew a house made a model plane took some photos found a toy where.
To introduce them to past progressive tense, form meaning and use, while participating in interactive activities c. You can do the exercises online or download the worksheet as pdf. A collection of english esl worksheets for home learning, online practice, distance learning and english classes to teach about past, simple, reading, past s. It includes a suggested leadin activity, several classroom activities, a game and a collection of specially selected esl. I was working in the garage the past continuous and simple past tenses are commonly used together. There are 3 different activities in which students are asked to choose the most suitable verb tense, put the verbs into the past perfect simple or continuous and complete a dialogue. An a2 level esl lesson plan for teaching the past simple and past continuous. Past simple and past continuous efl esl activities and. Past continuous and past simple grammar beginner to. To be past worksheets pdf, handouts, printable exercises. It is a very structured activity in which students write a short newspaper article about a robbery. There are two principal past tenses used to make general statements about the past. Complex test simple present or present progressivecontinuous. Home grammar verb tenses simple past and past progressive exercise about we are dedicated to creating and providing free, highquality english language learning resources.
Download and print handouts, exercises and quizzeseslk12. To refresh learners understanding of past simple tense b. Students are given a list of strange actions and ask their partners to come up with innocent reasons why they were doing those things, e. Past simple and past continuous efl esl activities and games. Write various examples on the board of sentences combining the past simple and past continuous to illustrate the idea of an. They had already left already leave the village before the sun rose rise. English esl past simple past continuous worksheets most. Give each group of three or four a set of past perfect continuous cards and a set of past simple cards. Past or past perfect simple and progressive complete the following sentences with the correct form of the verb.
Present simple and present continuous fichas interactivas. Complete the following sentences using appropriate simple past or past continuous forms. Point out that the past continuous focuses on a specific moment in the past. Finally, click here to download this exercise in pdf with answers. Go over differences in usage between the past simple and past continuous. Download or print free pdf english teaching handouts, classroom activities and homework material for teachers. The action may be interrupted by a shorter action past simple or by a specific time, for example. Past simple and past continuous cambridge university press. Live worksheets english english as a second language esl past simple and past continuous past simple and past continuous past simple and past continuous fill in the gaps with the past simple or the past continuous of the verbs in brackets. There are some other tasks to reinforce the use of the past continuous an. Gramatica da lingua inglesa teaching resources grammarnet. Past simple or past continuous worksheet 1 grammarbank. This is a reference page for merge verb forms in present, past and participle tenses.
Here are three great activities to practice past continuous tense to get your wheels turning. The activities and exercises to practice this tense cover the different uses. It is used to talk about two actions in the past that happened at the same time and were continuous. We use the english past simple tense for something that happened and finished in the past. The structure of this worksheet was inspired by a similar worksheet by redmiky. Simple past vs past continuous exercises to learn english. In this lesson, students study and practice the differences between simple past and past continuous tenses.
Heres another interactive exercise about the past simple and past continuous tenses choose the correct tense. Learning english online simple present or present progressive test 2. Displaying past simple and continuous activities and answers. This worksheet contains a reading passage, in which you will find past tenses and some activities for comprehension. The past continuous and the past simple help us to show how two past actions or situations are connected.
Instructions play the video in class after delivering a warmup activity first. Past continuous is used to describe action that were in progress still happening not finished at a certain time in the past. Past continuous and past simple grammar principiante a. Hier you find a lot of simple past worksheets, exercises free and help function, teaching materials and grammar rules.
This lesson introduces the past continuous tense through a grammar formula along with a brief description of its uses. Past simple and past continuous inspiration macmillan. To help them accurately use past simple and past progressive tenses in reporting events. Students often get confuse in past continuous tense that whether they have to use waswere or isamare. Past continuous fichas interactivas liveworksheets. To talk about a shorter action that happened in the middle of a longer action, we use the simple past. I looked out of the window and saw that people were walking in the park. Past continuous games esl activities worksheets teach this. Divide the students into groups of 14 and give each student a sentence card. See more ideas about english grammar, english grammar worksheets.
The car came out of the side road and then the van drove into the back of it. Our collection is growing every day with the help of many teachers. To talk about a temporary activity taking place over a limited time. When i was walking walk through bologna i thoughtwas thinking think about the wonderful times i had spent spend there as a student. Past continuous board game cards page 2 past continuous past continuous past continuous i was riding a horse. Esl past perfect and past simple worksheet reading and writing activity intermediate b1 30 minutes. A collection of english esl worksheets for home learning, online practice, distance learning and english classes to teach about past, simple, past, continuou. Past simple vs past continuous interactive worksheet. In this engaging past perfect continuous activity, students play a pelmanism style game where they combine past perfect continuous and past simple sentence halves together with when to make logical sentences. Peter visited his friends in florida two months ago. The worksheet is suitable for both classroom practice and selfstudy. Efl esl activities and games for past simple and past continuous. Elissa and the mysterious stalker script story on a cold, dark night, elissa was working late at the of.
Heres a helpful pdf worksheet to consolidate or revise past simple and past continuous tenses together. Past simple past continuous live love learn english. Some internet abbreviations are also used, which will attract some students attention a lot. Students begin by completing sentences with the past. Past simple and past continuous 6 minute grammar youtube. Fill each gap with a verb in either the past simple or past continuous tense. The flatmates quiz past continuous and past simple interrupted activities answers 1. Grammar quiz past continuous decide if each question or statement is correct or wrong.
This past perfect worksheet helps students learn and practice how to use the past perfect with the past simple and sequence words. A cloze activity where you drag and drop words into blank spaces within a text teaching resource 1. We use it when we say or know the time when something happened. Introduction the past continuous is used to describe a continuous action in the past the action starts and finishes in the past. Use the past simple to talk about an event which happened at some point in time in the past. Past perfect continuous worksheets esl games activities. When we use these two tenses together, it shows us that the past simple action happened in the middle of the past continuous action, while it was in progress. E34, present simple completing the sentences with the correct form of the present simple for consolidation, eexe34. The past continuous tense is used to talk about actions or events that were going on around a particular point of time in the past.
The grammar focus is on the past continuous and past simple. Its excellent for a checkpoint after introducing past simple and past continuous tenses. As i was walking in the streets of holland, i met an old friend of mine. Yesterday i went to the post office, bought some fruit at the supermarket and read a book in the park in the afternoon. So by just knowing past continuous tense formula one cannot just understand the differences between both these tenses. The past tenses past continuous teaching ideas youtube. This video is part of our series on the past tenses in english. When the teacher came in, they were studying english.
Fill in the blanks with a correct form, the past simple or the past continuous. I was talking to my friend while i was washing the dishes. This is a worksheet for teaching the differences between the past perfect and past perfect continuous at preintermediate level. I was sitting in maxis cafe and watching the people there. When while simple past tense or past continuous tense. In this challenging past continuous activity, students put a ghost story in order by saying and listening to sentences. While i was doing my homework, my cousin visited us. Past continuous tense is very important and past continuous exercises are as important as it is. We were playing volleyball with mary when you called me. Past simple vs past continuous consolidation worksheet.
The past continuous describes an action that was already in progress. Present simple, present continuous or past simple 1. Past simple or past continuous worksheet 1 answers. Past continuous pdf esl games, activities, and interactive and printable worksheets for. To illustrate the difference between past simple and past progressive tense use d. We often use these tenses to show an action interrupting another action. This is my blog where i give english grammar lessons and worksheets. It includes a suggested leadin activity, several classroom activities, a game and a collection of specially selected esl resources from around the web. When we use the past perfect we are already talking about the past and we want to make clear that something had already happened at the time. This is a question and answer worksheet to help students understand how to use the past continuous tense.