Past Progressive

uses of the past progressive

1. to talk about two actions that were in progress at the same time in the past

I was eating dinner while they were playing.

2. to talk about an action that was in progress when another action interrupted it

I was eating dinner when the telephone rang.

3. to talk about an action that was in progress at a specific time in the past

I was eating dinner at 7 o'clock yesterday.

practice with the past progressive

Practice with Past Simple and Past Progressive on Wordwall:

• Past Progressive - Maze Chase

• Past Progressive - Random Wheel

• Past Progressive - Unjumble

• Past Progressive 1

• Past Simple vs Past Progressive 1

• Past Simple vs Past Progressive 2

• Past Simple vs Past Progressive 3

Exercises on Past Progressive (ego4u.com)

• Exceptions in Spelling when Adding ing

• Was or Were

• Positive Sentences

• Negative Sentences

• Questions

• Questions with Interrogatives

• Mixed exercise on Past Progressive

Tests (ego4u.com)

• Past Progressive: Level 1, Level 2, Level 3

Exercises on Simple Past and Past Progressive (ego4u.com)

• one after another or at the same time: Exercise 1, Exercise 2

• new or already in progress: Exercise 3, Exercise 4

• just mentioning or emphasizing progress: Exercise 5, Exercise 6

• mixed exercises: Exercise 7, Exercise 8

• Simple Past – Past Progressive

Exercises with Past Simple and Past Progressive from EnglishPage.com

• Verb Tense Exercise 3

• Verb Tense Exercise 4