The Past Tenses - Past Continuous - Teaching Ideas
This video is part of our series on the past tenses in English. In this video, we take a look at the past continuous tense and suitable teaching ideas for this tense. The past continuous is very conducive to using pictures and talking about actions. We give our group of students cards with images and ask them to create sentences for what the people in the picture were doing at a certain time in the past.
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Authentic materials can include almost anything, but they can often be hard for students with limited abilities to understan.
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Since so much is available there is a wide variety of materials from which to choose materials appropriate to the student needs and interest.
Created materials have been designed specifically to provide exerciszes appropriate to topics and levels of skill.
There are many sources from which they may be obtaine.
Several printable and useable examples are provide.
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