About 38 Past Progressive pdfs and other teaching ideas for was/ were + verb+ing. If you find anything useful here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.
Teaching Past Continuous articles and blog posts
15 fun Past Continuous activities (with game ideas)
Teaching continuous tenses (more theoretical article including how to show the similarities between Past Continuous and other continuous tenses)
A nice personalised activity for Past Continuous (finding a time when you were doing something more unpleasant than your partner)
Photocopiable Past Continuous classroom activities
Past Continuous comparing experiences boasting game
Good and taboo Past Continuous questions
What were people doing? Past Continuous trivia quiz
Was were past times warmer cooler guessing game
Past continuous bluffing card game
Past continuous games and remembering/ forgetting
Vocabulary revision Past Continuous accusations game
Advanced Past Continuous accusations game
Business Past Continuous accusations
Business Past Continuous personality accusations game
Feelings Past Continuous guessing
Bad habits Past Continuous (including the much rarer meaning of Past Continuous for complaints)
Creativity at work Past Continuous accusations game
EAP/ Studying abroad Past Continuous accusations
Past Continuous and Used to bluff
Travel English Past Continuous mimes
Xmas past tense mimes (Past Continuous and then past tenses review)
Past Continuous stories
Suddenly by Colin McNaughton (link to read through on YouTube)
Past Continuous songs
Jealous Guy by John Lennon (lyrics and official video on YouTube) – LINKS FIXED
Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen (lyrics)
Related pages
Narrative tenses main page (for worksheets mixing Past Continuous with Past Simple and/or Past Perfect)
Updated 20 June 2026
