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Interactive
Curated OER

Past Simple or Past Continuous

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this verbs worksheet, 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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Interactive
Curated OER

Past Simple or Past Continuous

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this past simple and past continuous activity, students put the verbs in the brackets in sentences in the correct tense. Students complete 2 activities.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Past Perfect Simple and Continuous Tense

For Students 3rd
In this interactive grammar worksheet, 3rd graders replace the given verb with the past perfect simple tense or the past perfect continuous tense. There are 10 sentences to complete.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Past Continuous 1

For Students 5th - 10th
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 6 fill in the blank questions regarding the use of past continuous verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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PPT
Curated OER

Verbs - Present, Past and Continuous Tense

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Practice the use of present and past tense verbs in sentences. Learners identify the correct verb for use in each of the provided examples. They have to decide which word, such as read or reads, would correctly finish the sentence. It is...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Simple Past Or Past Continuous?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this simple past or past continuous worksheet, students choose which verb tense, simple past or past continuous, that completes ten sentences grammatically correct.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Past Continuous Tense

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this past continuous tense worksheet, students choose the correct form of the past continuous tense in ten multiple choice sentences.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dialogue Practice with the Continuous Tenses

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Pupils 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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Worksheet
Curated OER

What You Were Doing Yesterday-- Use of Different Verbs And Past Continuous Form

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, 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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Interactive
Curated OER

Simple Past/ Past Continuous

For Students Higher Ed
  In this verb worksheet, students focus on simple past and past continuous tense.  Students complete 15 fill in the blank statements, with he ability to self check using this online interactive worksheet.    
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Past Continuous Exercise

For Students 5th - 6th
In this verb tenses worksheet, learners 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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Worksheet
Curated OER

Total English Advanced: Stories...

For Students 8th - 11th
In this narrative tenses worksheet, students practice past simple tense, past continuous tense, past perfect simple tense, and past perfect continuous tenses as they complete 4 paragraph starters by following instructions.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Total English Pre-intermediate: Simple or Continuous

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this past simple and past continuous verbs worksheet, students answer 14 questions that require them to complete sentence starters and respond to short answer questions regarding verb tenses.
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Handout
St. Louis Community College

Verb Tenses

For Teachers 5th - 12th Standards
Help your pupils keep their simple, perfect, and progressive tenses straight with a reference page. Each verb tense is paired with a definition and at least one sample sentence.
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Activity
English With Jennifer

Conversation Pieces: A Verb Tense Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Teach your English language learners about conversations by inviting them to participate in a conversation about an interesting object. Through this conversation, learners will naturally use various verb tenses and practice asking and...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Simple Past or Past Continous?

For Students 4th - 6th
In this simple past or past continuous learning exercise, students choose the correct words in the correct tense to complete the sentences. Students complete 8 sentences.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Past Continuous Tense - Negative

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this online/interactive past tense worksheet, students use verbs in parenthesis to fill in the blanks and change the sentences to the negative past tense. Students fill in 10 blanks and check their answers by clicking on the "Check...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Past Simple/Present Simple/Present Continuous

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this sentence completion worksheet, students complete the sentences by filling the blanks with verbs in the past simple, present simple, and present continuous tense. Students complete 21 sentences total.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Past Perfect Continuous

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this past perfect continuous tense worksheet, students listen to sentences and put the words into the past perfect continuous tense as well as choosing the correct words for the sentences. Students complete 3 exercises.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Past Continuous and Past Simple

For Students 3rd - 4th
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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Interactive
Curated OER

English Exercises: Irregular Verbs

For Students 3rd - 8th
The twinkling and movement in this online interactive activity might make your head spin, but I bet your young grammarians will enjoy it and be engaged. They type in boxes the past tense and past participle of irregular verbs given and...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Past Perfect Continuous Exercise

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English grammar skills activity, students answer 16 fill in the blank questions regarding the use of past perfect continuous verbs.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Troubling Tenses--Past Simple vs. Present Continuous 1

For Students 4th - 5th
In this language arts worksheet, students explore the past simple and present continuous verb tenses by completing 15 sentences with the word "tomorrow" or "yesterday."
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Lesson Plan
British Council

Letters Home

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
When you're writing historical fiction, the past really can become the present — especially if you're writing in the present continuous tense! Cover World War I, verb tenses, censorship, and letter writing with one informative lesson and...