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Language Focus and Vocabulary Unit 4.1: Past Continuous and Prepositions
Study verb tense, prepositions, and geographical features from around the word in one activity. After choosing between was and were in several sentences, as well as deciding whether they should use the past tense or past continuous...
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What You Were Doing Yesterday-- Use of Different Verbs And Past Continuous Form
In this language arts activity, students use the past continuous form in completing 15 sentences. Students read the time given and tell what they were doing yesterday at the time. Example: At 3:23pm.....(I was at school).
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Simple Past or Past Continuous
In this interactive grammar worksheet, 4th graders fill in each of the 30 sentences with the correct simple past or past continuous form of the given verb.
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Using Past Continuous Tense
In this grammar worksheet, students learn to use past continuous verb forms by reading a digital time and thinking about what they were doing yesterday at that time. Students write the answer using the proper verb form. Example: At 4pm--...
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Past Simple or Past Continuous
In this verbs instructional activity, students fill in the blanks to sentences with the correct form of the verbs, either the past simple or past continuous forms. Students complete 12 words.
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Past Continuous Tense - Questions
In this online/interactive creating interrogative sentences worksheet, students use groups of words that include the subjects, present tense verbs, and prepositional phrases to create questions with past continuous tense verbs. Students...
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Simple Past or Past Continuous- A Dialog
In this verbs learning exercise, students complete a 20 question on-line interactive exercise about simple past or past continuous verb forms. The learning exercise is in the form of a dialog.
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Using the Past Continuous Verb Tense
In this using the past continuous verb tense worksheet, students read the explanations and examples, then interactively complete 6 sentences with the correct verb form, with immediate online feedback.
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Past Simple and Past Continuous
In this past simple and past continuous worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences by choosing the correct word or filling in the correct tense. Students complete 6 exercises.
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English Exercises: Past Continuous Tense
In this English exercises:Â past continuous tense worksheet, 7th graders interactively fill in 19 blanks to complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb that is given, with immediate online feedback.
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Simple Past and The Past Continuous
In this simple past and past continuous worksheet, students fill in the blanks with the correct form of verbs in sentences. Students complete 24 groups of sentences.
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Past Simple or Past Continuous
In this past simple and past continuous worksheet, learners fill in the blanks to sentences with the correct form of each word given. Students complete 10 sentences total with either past simple or past continuous words.
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Telling a Story
Writers explore storytelling and focus in on verb tenses. They will work with a partner to generate a story and then switch partners and retell the story. They also complete past perfect continuous and past continuous verb tense worksheets.
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English Exercises - Past Continuous Verb Tense
In this past continuous verb tense online worksheet, students fill in 12 blanks in sentences. They use the proper past continuous form of the verb that corresponds to the clip art picture and makes sense. They submit their answers using...
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Dialogue Practice with the Continuous Tenses
Students work with a partner to write dialogues using the present continuous, past continuous, future continuous and present perfect continuous tenses about an real situation. They perform the dialogues in front of the class.
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The Past Continuous Exercise
In this verb tenses worksheet, students explore the past continuous and the past simple verb tense. Students determine the correct form of the verb to complete each of the nineteen sentences.
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Past Continuous
In this past continuous form worksheet, students analyze 8 pictures and read a question about each one. Students write the answer to each. This is intended for ESL use.
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Past Continuous and Past Simple
In this verb forms worksheet, students complete a 20 question online interactive exercise pertaining to the correct use of the past continuous and past simple verb forms.
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Past Continuous Tense
For this past continuous tense worksheet, learners choose the correct form of the past continuous tense in ten multiple choice sentences.
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Past Continuous Gap Fill
In this ESL grammar activity, students read 10 sentences that have missing phrases. Students fill in the blanks with phrases from the box.
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ESL: Past Continuous or Simple Past?
In this tense worksheet, students use a given verb and re-write sentences using its correct form: continuous or simple past. Links to additional resources are given.
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Jazzing Up Grammar
Students explore various tenses to use proper grammar. They practice tenses using random objects to describe events. They create timelines to examine different tenses. They role-play situations to practice the correct structure of grammar.
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Verb Tense Practice Worksheet
Reinforce the indicative, negative and interrogative verb tenses with this straightforward worksheet. Middle schoolers use three parts of a sentence to construct new sentences in each verb tense. A reference section provides exmaples of...
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Structure Practice: The Passive Voice
Use this online interactive worksheet in an ELD class or for younger native speakers. They practice using simple past tense verbs in the passive voice. Many of the constructions are not straightforward, nor often used by early speakers,...