How do you explain past continuous tense?

The past continuous tense is used to describe actions that began in the past and often continued for a short period of time after the action started. This tense describes actions or events that happened at a specific time in the past.

How do you review past continuous?

1. To describe a longer situation that is interrupted by another action. The long situation is in past continuous and the action that interrupts it is in past simple: “I was watching TV when you rang.”

What is the question form of past continuous tense?

To make questions in the Past Continuous, put ‘was’/’were’ before the subject and add the ‘-ing’ form of the verb: What were you doing when you broke your leg? I was snowboarding.

How do you explain past continuous interrupted?

Use the past continuous to indicate that a longer action in the past was interrupted. The interruption is usually a shorter action in the simple past. Remember this can be a real interruption or just an interruption in time.

How do you introduce tenses to students?

Introduce the present continuous tense first, then the present simple.

1. The present simple (“I drink coffee,” “You listen to my lectures,” etc.) is also fairly intuitive and can be the second verb tense you introduce.
2. As you introduce verb tenses, locate them along your past-present-future timeline.

How do I make my teaching tense interesting?

20 Clever Ideas and Activities for Teaching Verb Tenses

1. Sort sticky notes by ending or helping verb.
2. Match up LEGO bricks.
3. Travel in time with printable armbands.
4. Roll helping verb cubes.
5. Use timelines to explain verb tenses.
6. Line up for human sentences.
7. Make simple tense mini-books.
8. Play Zip, Zap, Zop.

What is the correct sentence structure for past continuous tense?

Subject + BE ( was / were ) + NOT + Verb-ING.