Past Simple or Past Continuous - Grammar Question Practice
Practise past simple or past continuous through personal questions and paired speaking at A2 level. Includes a model exchange, follow-up support and a communicative task; answers are open-ended.
What’s in the worksheet?
- Model exchange
- Topic-based partner questions
- Follow-up support
- Communicative pair practice
Combine a past background action with an event and reaction.
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A simple way to teach it
Before the lesson
Use the single learner page in pairs. Personal or imagined answers can vary; there is no fixed answer key.
- Read the broken-glasses model and distinguish cleaning from dropped.
- Discuss messages, visitors and noises, separating the ongoing action from what happened next.
- Build a story beginning I was walking home when… and add two details.
Support and extension
Offer background/event/reaction notes. Extend with other people in the scene; choose tense by meaning, not a rigid when/while formula.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
