Past Continuous Worksheets
These free past continuous tense worksheets give students practice forming positive, negative, and question sentences in the past continuous. Activities include fill-in-the-blank exercises, changing verbs from present to past continuous, and making yes/no questions. If you’d like a refresher on how to teach this tense, check out our guide on how to teach the past continuous tense.
Fill-in-the-Blank Past Continuous Practice (Set 1)
This worksheet has 15 sentences for students to complete by writing the correct past continuous form.
Change Affirmative to Negative (Past Continuous)
Students rewrite 15 past continuous sentences from affirmative to negative (e.g., I was listening → I was not/wasn’t listening).
Changing Present Continuous to Past Continuous
Students rewrite sentences from the present continuous into the past continuous, practicing both positive and negative forms.
Make Past Continuous Yes/No Questions
Using the prompts provided, students form yes/no questions in the past continuous.
More Past Continuous Practice
If you’d like extra activities to go along with these worksheets, try our interactive Past Continuous Quiz, which students can complete online or as a class review. You can also check out our page of Past Continuous Examples for ready-made sentences to use in lessons or to help learners see the tense in context.