Past Continuous Tense. Grammar Conversational Worksheet
I. First of all students should memorize all the actions that are on the cards. A teacher names an action and pupils show it. When they’ve learnt all phrases a teacher may start the game. One student should be chosen. This student leaves the classroom. All other students get cards with actions, they do their actions and teacher asks the student outside to come in. This student has only a few seconds to memorize what everybody is doing. Then pupils stop miming and showing their actions and a student who was outside describes what everybody was doing.
E. g. Masha was blinking her eyes. / Masha was blinking her eyes when I came in.
II. Chain
The first student says what he/she was doing at five o’clock yesterday (I was walking my dog at five o’clock yesterday). The next student repeats the information that his/her neighbor said and says what he/she was doing at five o’clock yesterday using construction with “while” (I was riding a motorbike while Ann was walking her dog). Then one by one students name previously mentioned actions making up own sentences.
sing a new song | stamp your feet | paint | play the guitar |
sleep | clap your hands | read a book | talk to your friend |
dance | climb a tree | fly a kite | play snowballs |
fight | have breakfast | blink your eyes | clap your hands |
rub your eyes | pick up flowers | cut your finger | look at yourself in the mirror |
cry | smile friendly | bite your nails | drink |
walk a dog | go jogging | put on your clothes | hop |