Once students are familiar with simple forms, it's a good idea to begin teaching continuous tenses. Start by teaching the present continuous and make sure that students understand the difference between stative and active verbs. Teaching the past continuous can be a little tricky so I prefer to introduce the idea of interrupted action early on. A fun way to do this is to use a flowery examples such as:
Jeremy was walking through the park. The birds were singing, the sun was shining and children were laughing and playing when he saw Anna. It was love at first sight.
This is silly example, but it helps students recognize the past continuous as a tense that paints a picture of what was going on when something important happened.
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Exelent! Now I’m really understand what its past continuous. Tank you Kenneth
Dear Beare,
Thank you for your valuable tips and excellent illustrations…..I’ve been reading all of your lessons and feel you are doing a great job…Please keep on doing the same…
Sreenivaas raav
Thank you for teaching us. Keep the good job.
Shirley
Your lessons are important for me because I´ve been improving in my knowledge, thank you very much.
thanks K.B.this is very helpful for learning english speciallly TENSE’S CHART