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B1 · Intermediate

Past Continuous — practice exercises

Interactive fill-in-the-blank, sentence-building, word-sorting, and error-correction exercises with instant feedback.

6 exercises

  1. Past Continuous - A Day at the Beach

    Past Continuous - A Day at the Beach

    Fill in the blank

    Complete the sentences using the past continuous. Choose the correct answers from the dropdown and think about what people were doing at the beach when different events happened. Some sentences may have more than one blank, so be sure to complete all of them.

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  2. Past Continuous - At the Office

    Past Continuous - At the Office

    Fill in the blank

    Complete the sentences using the past continuous. Choose the correct answers from the dropdown and think about what people were doing at the office when different events happened.

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  3. Build Past Actions and Speaker Focus

    Build Past Actions and Speaker Focus

    Build the sentence

    Tap the words in the correct order to build each sentence. Notice background actions, temporary situations, simultaneous activities, repeated habits, and completed events. One word does not belong.

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  4. Build Process, Repeated Habits, and Speaker Focus

    Build Process, Repeated Habits, and Speaker Focus

    Build the sentence

    Tap the words in the correct order to build each sentence or question. Contrast process with result, notice annoying repeated behaviour, and avoid continuous forms with stative verbs. One or two words do not belong.

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  5. Sort Past-Continuous Clues and Uses

    Sort Past-Continuous Clues and Uses

    Sort into columns

    Place every tile in the column where it belongs. Use the grammar clue in each tile. A board only counts when all of its tiles are in the right place.

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  6. Past Continuous - Find and Fix

    Past Continuous - Find and Fix

    Find the mistake

    One word in each sentence is wrong. Tap it, then choose the correction.

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Put Past Continuous into practice with 6 interactive fill-in-the-blank, sentence-building, word-sorting, and error-correction exercises at B1 (Intermediate) level. Every question is checked instantly, so you can catch mistakes, see the correct answer in context, and build confidence using Past Continuous in real English sentences.

Work through the exercises above in order or jump straight to the one you want. You can retry any exercise as many times as you like, and your score updates as you go. When you want to review the rules first, head back to the Past Continuous lesson.

  • Fill-in-the-blank questions with multiple-choice answers
  • Sentence-building questions: tap the words into the correct order
  • Word-sorting questions: tap each word into the column it belongs in
  • Error-correction questions: spot the wrong word, then choose the fix
  • Instant feedback and scoring on every attempt
  • Unlimited retries to reinforce Past Continuous
  • Suitable for B1-level English learners