PAST TENSES - GRAMMAR - INTERMEDIATE 2

Past Perfect / Past Simple

PAST CONTINUOUS - INTERMEDIATE 1

Watch a clip about someone going to hospital. Then make sentences using past simple and continuous.

Carry on Doctor - Practising the past continuous 

PAST SIMPLE / PAST CONTINUOUS - INTERMEDIATE LEVEL 1

A funny story that helps students to practise using both past simple and past continuous.

Storytelling

PAST SIMPLE AND PAST PROGRESSIVE - INTERMEDIATE 1

Two teachers tell us about a scary situation when they were walking home late at night. This gives us the opportunity to see the way they talk about past situations and the way they combine the use of the past continuous (for longer, background situations) and the past simple (shorter actions that interrupt the action in the past continuous).

Self-study activity: Listen as often as necessary until you feel you've got the grasp of what really happened to them. Then retell the teachers' anecdotes in their own words. Make a point of using the past simple and past continuous all the time, and don't jump to the present.

Finally, can you think about a scary situation in your life? Retell the anecdote using the past continuous and past simple.

PAST TENSES EXERCISES - INTERMEDIATE LEVEL 2

These are sites to practise some grammar on past tenses in English.

1. Past perfect exercises - Perfect English
2. All past tenses - English Page
3. All past tenses 2 - Agenda Web
4. Past Perfect - Ego4you

NARRATIVE TENSES - ADVANCED

This blog will help you with narrative tenses before writing down your stories. It has a lot of gap-filling activities to practise.

Random stories