Past simple and past continuous games

I don't care what you were doing, I want to know why she was stealing my makeup. David tripped and fell while they were dancing. Timothy got a black eye while he was fighting with his girlfriend last night. Emiy painted her room green because it's her favorite color.

Sun went to Busan last month. She cut her foot on the beach and had to get stitches. Joseph was driving too fast, that's why he had a car accident. When, While and As. In this imaginative past simple and past continuous game, students connect the past continuous and past simple together with the words 'when', 'while' and 'as'. Students take it in turns to turn over an activity card and picture card and make a sentence in the past continuous and past simple with 'when', 'while' or 'as', using the two cards as prompts, e.

The other students in the group judge each sentence. If the group members agree that a sentence is correct, the student who made the sentence keeps the two cards.

If a student is unable to make a sentence or the sentence is incorrect, the two cards are turned back over and play passes to the next student. The student with the most cards at the end of the game wins.

Convince Me. In this free past continuous game, students ask and answer questions about what they were doing at certain times yesterday. This activity also helps students to practice asking for and giving explanations with 'because', 'in order to' and 'so that'. The first student picks up a time card and asks the player on their right what they were doing at that time yesterday, e.

If the answer is appropriate for that time of day, the player discards their picture card. If the answer is doubtful, e. If the player can provide a reasonable explanation, the picture card is discarded. If not, the player keeps the picture card. The next student then picks up a time card and so on. The first player to get rid of all their picture cards wins the game. Dream World. In this past continuous activity, students practice making sentences from picture cards.

The students then write a story about a dream using the past continuous and past simple. The first student in each group starts by asking the second student what they were doing at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon.

The second student picks up the top picture card from their pile and responds by making a past continuous sentence using the card as a prompt. The student does this by thinking of an activity associated with the picture. The second student then asks the third student the same question and so on until all the cards have been used.

When the groups have finished, they write a story about a dream by completing a text in the past continuous and past simple by choosing three picture cards.

Each group must include all the things in the pictures in their story. The groups then write their stories and read them out to the class. Activity Students ask and answer questions using the past simple in order to move along the board and reach the end.

Organization Group work. Preparation Make a copy of the board game for each group of three or four students. Past Continuous activities. Past Continuous Alibi Game.