Past Continuous: Complete the Sentences
Focused past continuous sentence practice with generous writing space and a separate answer key for quick checking.
What’s in the worksheet?
- Focused sentence-completion practice
- Generous answer spaces
- Separate answer key on page 2
- Printable student and teacher pages
Practise was / were + verb-ing in 20 past-continuous sentences. Fixed times and accompanying events provide contexts for cooking, travelling and other activities in progress.
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A simple way to teach it
Before the lesson
Print the practice page and withhold page 2. Review subject agreement and the longer background action before beginning.
- Model cooking at eight last night and driving when the storm began. Identify the activity already in progress.
- Complete the gaps, checking plural subjects and -ing forms such as having, shining and writing.
- Compare full answers with the key. Explain why was or were matches each subject before practising a short past-time exchange.
Support and extension
Support with a subject-to-auxiliary chart. Extend with a negative or question; do not imply that every occurrence of when requires past continuous.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
