Finally, each group chooses the best or most amusing long sentence and reads it to the class. Students then unfold their cards and take it in turns to read their long sentences to the group. This process is repeated with students writing past perfect continuous and past simple sentence halves alternately until the card is complete. '.they had been looking for one for an hour'. Next, students fold their card so that only the sentence half they wrote appears and pass it to the person on their right who writes a past perfect continuous sentence half, e.g. 'They had been riding camels through the desert for half a day.' Students then write a past simple sentence half underneath to continue the sentence, e.g.
Click on the thumbnail preview to view the full worksheet which you can then print. Look at the worksheet and the description and decide which one to print. Students read the past perfect continuous sentence half at the top of their card, e.g. This page has grammar exercises related to teaching past tenses & perfect tenses- present & past perfect, past simple and more. In this fun past simple and past perfect continuous activity, students play a long sentence game where they write sentence halves using the past perfect continuous and past simple alternately.
