Objective: The primary learning objective is the mastery of the English Past Continuous tense (also known as Past Progressive). Students aim to understand its function in emphasizing continuing or incomplete actions in the past, simultaneous events, or actions interrupted by another past event. The worksheet provides a structured approach to identifying signal words and correctly conjugating the auxiliary verb "be" with the "-ing" form of the main verb.

Contents and Methods: The worksheet employs a variety of pedagogical methods to reinforce grammatical structures:

• Theoretical Foundation: Clear definitions of usage scenarios and the rule for conjugation (was/were + verb-ing).
• Identification Tasks: Recognizing signal words such as "while" and "as long as" within a narrative text.
• Application Exercises: Multiple-choice questions to select the correct verb forms and fill-in-the-blank panels for active production.
• Syntactic Training: Sentence unscrambling (scrambled sentences) to practice the correct word order and structure of past continuous sentences.

Competencies:

• Grammatical Competence: Proficiency in forming and using the Past Continuous to describe chronological relationships in the past.
• Reading Comprehension: The ability to identify specific linguistic cues (signal words) and comprehend narrative sequences.
• Syntactic Accuracy: Skill in constructing grammatically correct sentences by arranging components in the proper sequence.
• Analytical Thinking: Differentiating between completed actions (Past Simple) and ongoing actions (Past Continuous) based on context.

Target Audience and Level:

English learners at A1 level