Past Progressive Ideas
A member of staff emailed me over the weekend to ask about the past progressive.....
(With anything grammar related (with the tests in mind) its great to use a define, play/practise, nail approach. Ensure that the children understand the term-give them a hook-use a fun song/video, image etc. Play around and practise- use a variety of physical/ verbal games, indoors and outdoors, pop songs, movie clips etc. before nailing it with a question/questions akin to the test format).
Define:
Play/Practise:
How about......
Using a film clip/cartoon is great for this-watch a short clip in which two things are happening. When Belle was.... what was the Beast doing? When Tom was.... what was Jerry doing?
Mischief
Mischief and 'mini crimes' can work well and be lots of fun- Put them into groups -one person plays the detective whose job it is to learn who pinched the biscuit from the biscuit barrel. They ask questions of their group to identify the mischief maker/thief, and they give their alibis using the past progressive. 'It couldn't be me because I was doing my homework' 'It couldn't possibly be me because I was breaking the record for the number of Maltesers in the mouth at one time' 'At that precise moment in time I was busy dueting with Ed Sheeran' etc!
'Why didn't you ...?
Things they didn't do can be fun too. Use pairs to list some things they didn’t do. One of them asks the second why they didn’t do a particular activity 'Why didn't you tidy your bedroom?' The other answers using the past progressive- using imagination- 'I was skateboarding while juggling jelly!'
'When I saw you...... '
One person asks someone why they were doing some kind of strange activity and they must explain that strange activity . 'When I saw you, you were eating worm sandwiches!' The answer might be something like 'I was filling up on a well known rich source of healthy protein!' Encourage them to be imaginative and play around with the progressive.
Activities like this are also good exercise for the imagination-a great muscle to flex!
Fingers crossed you children will nail it!
Have fun:)
(With anything grammar related (with the tests in mind) its great to use a define, play/practise, nail approach. Ensure that the children understand the term-give them a hook-use a fun song/video, image etc. Play around and practise- use a variety of physical/ verbal games, indoors and outdoors, pop songs, movie clips etc. before nailing it with a question/questions akin to the test format).
Define:
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The past progressive form is made by taking the past tense of the verb ‘to be’ (eg. I was/they were etc.) + the present participle of the actual verb (eg. laughing/joking etc.) The past progressive form tends to describe an unfinished or incomplete action from the past. |
How about......
Using a film clip/cartoon is great for this-watch a short clip in which two things are happening. When Belle was.... what was the Beast doing? When Tom was.... what was Jerry doing?
Mischief
Mischief and 'mini crimes' can work well and be lots of fun- Put them into groups -one person plays the detective whose job it is to learn who pinched the biscuit from the biscuit barrel. They ask questions of their group to identify the mischief maker/thief, and they give their alibis using the past progressive. 'It couldn't be me because I was doing my homework' 'It couldn't possibly be me because I was breaking the record for the number of Maltesers in the mouth at one time' 'At that precise moment in time I was busy dueting with Ed Sheeran' etc!
'Why didn't you ...?
Things they didn't do can be fun too. Use pairs to list some things they didn’t do. One of them asks the second why they didn’t do a particular activity 'Why didn't you tidy your bedroom?' The other answers using the past progressive- using imagination- 'I was skateboarding while juggling jelly!'
'When I saw you...... '
One person asks someone why they were doing some kind of strange activity and they must explain that strange activity . 'When I saw you, you were eating worm sandwiches!' The answer might be something like 'I was filling up on a well known rich source of healthy protein!' Encourage them to be imaginative and play around with the progressive.
Activities like this are also good exercise for the imagination-a great muscle to flex!
Fingers crossed you children will nail it!
Have fun:)
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