Past Continuous Interrupted Ppp Lesson Plan. Ask students to complete the activity by providing an appropriate response with the past continuous to describe an action that was interrupted. The following english lesson plan targets past continuous tense in english language and is suitable for esl efl teachers working with students of a2 level.
Describe an important past event and then fill in the details as a painter would fill in background details by using the past continuous form. Next have students first conjugate verbs in the past simple to complete the story. At the end of this lesson students should know how to form and when to use past continuous progressive tense.
You can bring it to life with images e g someone preparing dinner or having a shower and a phone ringing or someone knocking on the door.
You can bring it to life with images e g someone preparing dinner or having a shower and a phone ringing or someone knocking on the door. To teach interrupted past actions you need two actions a continuous one that was happening and a past simple one that interrupted it. Next ask them to insert past continuous clauses into the appropriate place in the story. Here you can download all of the exercises described in the video.
