I used this activity with my advanced adult class to practice the past continuous, they had to take a slip of paper and tell the other students for 45 seconds or a minute why they were doing this and what was going on focusing on using the grammar. They really enjoyed it. You might like to change some of the phrases as some might offend some students

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Past Continuous why speaking activity

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I used this activity with my advanced adult class to practice the past continuous, they had to take a slip of paper and tell the other students for 45 seconds o…