In this lesson, students will explore the use and form of the past continuous tense through guided discovery and communicative activities. The lesson begins with a short warm-up where students recall the past simple tense and compare it with the past continuous. Then, students analyze examples from a short story or dialogue to identify the structure “was/were + verb-ing” and its functions, such as describing actions in progress at a specific time in the past or setting the background for another action.

After that, students complete controlled practice exercises, including sentence transformations, gap-filling, and matching activities to consolidate their understanding. They then move to freer practice tasks, such as describing pictures, retelling stories, or creating role-plays about what people were doing at a certain moment. Finally, students complete a short writing or speaking task that encourages them to use the tense naturally in context, followed by peer feedback and teacher correction.

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the past continuous tense

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Let's do English ESL sentence transformation, rephrasing. In this lesson, students will explore the use and form of the past continuous tense through guided dis…